CHANDIGARH, OCTOBER 4: Mr. Balbir Singh Sidhu, Labour Minister today instructed all the department to furnish the report on the cess collected by them under Punjab Building & Other Construction Workers’ Welfare, Act. Instructions in this regard were issued to the concerned department by the labour minister in a high levelRead More

Chandigarh, October 4 – Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal today while welcoming the relief in petrol and diesel rates given by the centre, asked the Congress government in Punjab to immediate reciprocate and reduce VAT on both petro products by Rs five per litre each keeping inRead More

Chandigarh, October 4: Leader of the Opposition in Punjab and Aam Aadmi Party leader H S Cheema was arrested along with his party activists and MLAs while proceeding towards the residence of Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh. They were staging protest march.

Chandigarh, October 4 – The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today the Congress party’s desperation to put up a face saving show at Lambi after getting unnerved by the SAD’s historic rally at Faridkot had paralyzed government functioning with seven ministers camping at Lambi to force people to come to itsRead More

New Delhi, October 4: Union Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Ram Vilas Paswan, on Thursday assured the Punjab Chief Minister of time-bound resolution of all the pending issues to enable timely release of Cash Credit Limit (CCL) for the ongoing Paddy procurement season in the state. TheRead More

Chandigarh, October 4: Fastway company in Ludhiana has been served Rs 309 crore notice for the recovery of service tax. This was disclosed here today by Punjab local bodies ministrer Navjit Singh Sidhu.

SAS Nagar (Mohali) October 2: Paying glowing tributes to the father of nation Mahatma Gandhi on his 149th birth anniversary, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Tuesday exhorted the people to follow the philosophy of peace and non-violence as propounded by Gandhi ji to carve out an egalitarian society.Read More

CHANDIGARH, OCTOBER 2: On the directives of Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh, the state government has deputed 10 senior Administrative Secretaries to effectively check the menace of stubble burning by sensitising and motivating all stakeholders against this harmful practice, besides taking stock of paddy procurement operation on daily basis. DisclosingRead More

Chandigarh/October 02: The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today received the wholehearted support of the Sikh Student Federation (Grewal) for its October 7 ‘Anti-Repression Rally’ at Patiala even as the SSF expressed full faith in the SAD’s leadership to lead the Sikh panth in its hour of crisis.   During aRead More

Chandigarh, October 2 – The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today urged Punjab Governor V P Singh Badnore to dismiss Cooperation minister Sukhjinder Randhawa for indulging in unconstitutional activity by openly announcing his intent to rig the forthcoming panchayat elections by not allowing any anti- Congress voter to exercise his franchise.Read More