Chandigarh The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Tuesday issued notice to Congress candidate from Faridkot (reserved) parliamentary seat Mohammad Sadiq on a petition seeking directions to the returning officer against accepting his nomination papers for the 2019 General elections on the ground that he was ineligible to contest. DirectionsRead More

Muktsar Independent candidate Jagmeet Singh Jagga (38), who has filed his nomination papers from the Faridkot constituency, has been pitching for poppy cultivation in the state. He is head of Insaaf Team Punjab, an NGO. Jagga has held two rallies in the past in Muktsar and Ludhiana, raising the demandRead More

Chandigarh Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Tuesday reviewed the wheat procurement operations and directed the Food and Civil Supplies Department to facilitate the farmers and ensure that their produce is procured within 24 hours of arrival in the mandis. He also directed the department to expedite the pace ofRead More

Chandigarh Dalits constitute 31.9 per cent of Punjab’s population — the most anywhere in the country — but why a truly representative political entity has been unable to find feet in the state is a case study for political scientists. In post-Independence Punjab, mainly the Congress and the Left (CPIRead More

Chandigarh When it comes to medical diagnosis, Punjabis are more aware than their counterparts in the northern region, thanks to rapid urbanisation, improved health infrastructure and awareness. As per estimates, around 45% of population goes for diagnostic tests as compared to 30% nationally. Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu & KashmirRead More

Gurdaspur BJP candidate and actor Sunny Deol made the audience wait for nearly two hours in scorching heat for a two-minute speech in which he failed to take up even a single issue pertaining to the constituency, but nevertheless managed to engage the crowd with popular dialogues from his oldRead More

Ludhiana Four members of a marriage party, including the bride, were killed when the SUV in which the newlywed couple was travelling collided with a combine here this morning. The Mahindra Bolero was heading towards Tibba Road here from Jagadhri in Haryana after the wedding when it met with theRead More

Chandigarh Raja (35) of Jamsher Mohar village in Fazilka on the India-Pakistan border is married to his first cousin, who would address him as ‘Veera’ (brother) earlier. Trying to hide his embarrassment, his 70-year-old father explains: “Our village is surrounded by a barbed wire. Nobody wants matrimonial ties with aRead More

Chandigarh Congress Rajya Sabha MP Shamsher Singh Dullo on Tuesday accused the Punjab Congress leadership of “abandoning the traditional Congressmen” in favour of the “tainted and moneybags”. Dullo’s outburst comes a day after senior Congress leader Lal Singh asked him to resign for “not following the party’s diktat” to allRead More

West Chester (US) A Sikh family was found dead at an apartment complex in Ohio where multiple gunshots were fired, reports said on Monday. No suspect has been identified. A man called 911 around 10 pm Sunday, saying he had arrived at the complex in a northern Cincinnati suburb toRead More