Chandigarh, September 30 -Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has trashed BJP state unit president’s ridiculous comments on his and his government’s functioning, accusing Shwet Malik of resorting to cheap tactics to divert the people’s attention from his own party’s failure at the Centre. The people of Punjab had electedRead More

Chandigarh: Punjab Police’s cyber cell on Saturday, registered a case after a fake video of Chief Minister Amarinder Singh went viral on social media, a spokesperson said. “Preliminary inquiry into the case has revealed that the “malicious” video was uploaded and “doctored” by an unknown person with the user nameRead More

Chandigarh, September 30 -Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee President and MP from Gurdaspur Mr. Sunil Jakhar today said that former Union Minister Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa has sacrificed his political career due to misdeeds of Badals towards the Punjab state in general and Sikh panth in particular. In a statement issued hereRead More

Chandigarh, The Punjab government led by Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has decided to appoint nodal officers in 8000 paddy growing villages in a move to check stubble burning.   The villages have been identified by the Agriculture Department as those where paddy stubble is traditionally being burnt, according toRead More

CHANDIGARH,  In a bid to nip the potential outbreak of dengue and Chikungunya in the bud and to put the health paraphernalia on high alert mode to check the virus in its early stages, the Health and Family Welfare Department today issued instructions to the Indian Medical Association, Punjab andRead More

Chandigarh, Former finance minister Parminder Singh Dhindsa today said his family was committed to the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and that he on his part would take this legacy forward after the retirement of his father S Sukhdev Singh Badal from active party work. In a statement here, Mr ParminderRead More

Chandigarh, Sep 28 : Punjab’s Additional Inspector General of Police (AIG) Randhir Singh Uppal was booked on the charge of rape following a complaint by a 26-year-old married woman studying law in Amritsar, police said on Friday. Uppal, posted in the Crime Branch, has denied the allegation. The woman, whoRead More

Chandigarh, Sept.28: Wary of the success and fall out of the scheduled “Anti-repression Rally” of the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) slated for October 7 at Patiala, the Punjab government is hell bent on creating obstacles through district administration in its preparations.   In a hard hitting statement, party’s secretary generalRead More

Patiala, September 28: Punjab Health Minister Brahm Mohindra today recorded his statement in the defamation case filed by him against Lok Insaaf party MLA Simarjit Singh Bains in the court here. The next hearing has been fixed for October 31. He rejected the allegations against him as baseless.

Chandigarh, September 28: Tourism in the region is all set to get a big boost with the governments of Punjab and Himachal Pradesh signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to set up a Ropeway between Sri Anandpur Sahib and Naina Devi ji. The MoU signing, which coincided with the 111thRead More