Hoshiarpur Hitting out at Congress Overseas chief Sam Pitroda’s three-word remark “hua toh hua” yesterday over the 1984 massacre, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today that it came like sprinkling acid on a three-decade-old wound of Sikhs and Punjabis. Modi made an all-out effort to strike an emotional chord withRead More

Gurdaspur Veteran actor Dharmendra on Saturday held campaign and sought support for his actor-turned-politician son and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate for this parliamentary constituency in Punjab Sunny Deol. “I have come here not to deliver political speeches as I am not a politician. I am a patriot and IRead More

Moga Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal said he had full faith in divine justice and prayed that the Almighty may wipe out those indulged in the sacrilege of Guru Granth Sahib and those playing cheap politics over this sensitive issue. He said this while addressing a public gathering inRead More

London Prime Minister Theresa May has repeated the UK government’s deep regret over the Jallianwala Bagh massacre to mark the 100th anniversary of the British colonial era attack in Amritsar on Baisakhi. The massacre took place at Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar (undivided Punjab) during the Baisakhi festival on April 13,Read More

Jalandhar Rajya Sabha MP and NDA spokesperson Naresh Gujral today said he personally felt that the mudslinging attacks and counter-attacks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and AICC chief Rahul Gandhi were distasteful and should not have happened. “Both must realise they are not enemies. They are just opponents. Tomorrow theyRead More

Patiala More than eight persons were injured, two of them seriously, when workers of the SAD and the Congress clashed at a rally at Kalara village in Shutrana. The clash was triggered after some villagers showed black flags to Congress candidate Preneet Kaur. Irked over the protest, Congress activists counteredRead More

Patiala Hitting out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for targeting the Congress and the Gandhi family over the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Friday said what if someone linked the Prime Minister with the 2002 riots in Gujarat’s Godhra. “It is wrong of Modi to connect (formerRead More

Kartarpur The desecration incidents are not an issue in Punjab during the Lok Sabha elections whereas Balakot is a huge issue, former Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal said here on Friday. In the city to address a rally in support of SAD-BJP’s Jalandhar candidate Charanit Singh Atwal, Badal said theRead More

Gurdaspur A video clip of BJP candidate and film star Sunny Deol, popularly known as “Balakot video”, has gone viral not only giving anxious moments to the actor’s election managers, but also sending across the message that he is “blissfully unaware” of what is happening at the national level. InRead More

Panjwar (Tarn Taran) “My husband was not a terrorist. He was a human rights activist,” emphasises Bibi Paramjit Kaur Khalra, the Punjab Democratic Alliance (PDA) candidate from Khadoor Sahib and wife of Jaswant Singh Khalra, who was allegedly killed by the Punjab Police in 1995. Addressing a public meeting inRead More