Chandigarh, Nov.6- Senior Aam Aadmi Party(AAP) leader and Leader of Opposition Harpal Singh Cheema today demanded to relax the moisture limit for Paddy procurement to 23 percent and asked the center and Punjab government to change their attitude towards the farmers. Cheema said that it was gross injustice with theRead More

Chandigarh,  The state is reeling under serious threat of epidemic of dengue while the ministers of Punjab government are passing buck from one to another and doing precious little to combat the menace. Stating this here today, former minister Bikram Singh Majithia said that ironically that Health minister Brahm MohindraRead More

Chandigarh, The Housing and Urban Development Minister, Punjab, Mr. Tript Rajinder Singh Bajwa today directed the departmental officers to chalk out such housing projects keeping in mind the needs of the middle class so as to enable them to fulfill their dream of owning a house. He also said that theRead More

Chandigarh, The head and a teacher of the Government Girls School, Village Kundal, Fazilka, have been suspended on the directives of Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh, over the alleged stripping of girls following the discovery of a sanitary pad in the school toilet. The orders were issued late onRead More

CHANDIGARH, Giving a further impetus to ease of doing business in the state, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Tuesday launched the government’s unique `Business First Portal’, thus paving the way for further boosting industrial development, which has witnessed a massive leap since the new government took over in MarchRead More

Chandigarh,  Aam Aadmi Party(AAP) today strongly opposed another hike in the electricity tariff in Punjab. The state government has raised the fares third time in current year. AAP leader and MLA Aman Arora in a statement issued from party office here blamed Capt Amarinder Singh for putting burden of lakhsRead More

Chandigarh,  For Punjab farmers, it is” Black Diwali” this year..  They are anxiously waiting in Mandis to sell their paddy or have made a distress sale for peanuts. And this is the result of the faulty policy of Punjab government which had consciously delayed sowing of paddy just to saveRead More

CHANDIGARH, The Punjab government led by Captain Amarinder Singh on Tuesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with M/s QuarkCity India Private Limited to create state-of-the-art industrial parks, industrial model towns and integrated townships in the second phase of the project, to be spread over 5000 acres across the state. TheRead More

CHANDIGARH,  Acting on the directives of Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh, the Department of Home Affairs and Justice on Tuesday issued comprehensive guidelines for DCs, SSPs and Police Commissioners for the regulation and conduct of processions, assemblies, protests, demonstrations, dharnas and marches, as well as large crowds during theRead More

Chandigarh,  Punjab Chief Minister Capt. Amarinder Singh on Saturday condoled the sudden death, in a road accident, of senior Congress leader and the party’s State Secretary Gurkirat Singh Thuhi. The Chief Minister expressed shock at the death of Thuhi at the age of 61 and recalled his remarkable services toRead More