New Delhi Supreme Court on Tuesday set aside conviction of 15 men held guilty of rioting and arson in a connection with anti-Sikh riots in East Delhi’s Trilokpuri in 1984. A Bench headed by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi said there was no direct evidence against these men andRead More

Chandigarh The Punjab Government has waived farm debt totalling Rs 4,000 crore and has announced to bail out landless agricultural labourers. Yet farm suicides continue. Even as the state government  has failed to do much, the Centre too has dithered on minimum support price (MSP) factoring in the increasing inputRead More

Gurdaspur Actor and BJP candidate from Gurdaspur parliamentary constituency Sunny Deol will fly back to Mumbai to cast his vote after filing his nomination and addressing a rally at PUDA ground, Tibri road, tomorrow. Deol, who reached Amritsar today, will be casting his vote in Mumbai North West segment. TheRead More

Bathinda Sitting on a cot at the grain market, Jagsir Singh, a farmer owning three acres of land, seems to be staring at an uncertain future. “Successive governments at the state and the Centre have left the farming community disillusioned,” he says, wondering who to vote for these coming elections,Read More

Chandigarh In a relief to Persons of Indian Origin (PIOs), mainly Sikhs, who have taken asylum in foreign countries, India has directed all its missions abroad to abolish local blacklists. This will help the asylum-takers avail of consular services. The development comes as campaigning in Punjab hots up. Abolition ofRead More

Sangrur Punjab AAP chief and Sangrur MP Bhagwant Mann late this evening alleged that Congress leaders offered Rs 10 crore and a plum post in the Congress to their party MLA and asked their leader to resign from the AAP. Mann did not disclose the name of his MLA. HeRead More

New Delhi Actor-turned-politician Sunny Deol, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate for the Gurdaspur parliamentary seat, met Prime Minister Narendra Modi here on Sunday. After his meeting with Deol, Modi shared a photograph of him with Deol and tweeted: “What struck me about Sunny Deol is his humility and deep passionRead More

Chandigarh Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Sunday trashed AAP’s allegations that opposition MLAs were offered money and plum posts to switch over to the Congress, saying the Arvind Kejriwal-led party was frustrated over its failure in garnering support in the state and indulging in gimmickry. He asked why theRead More

Bathinda Hitting back at Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh for calling her “arrogant”, Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal today, while thanking him for his comments, said she would pray to the almighty as she always did to grant her even more humility. Accompanied by SAD chief Sukhbir Badal, Harsimrat wasRead More

Chandigarh Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Saturday said the appointment of a wanted Khalistani terrorist to spearhead the Khalistan Referendum 2020 campaign had exposed the true motive and intent behind the separatist movement. He urged the Centre to press the global community to join India in cracking downRead More