Chandigarh, August 22 Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi MP (Slough, UK) described his meeting with Indian Minister Vijay Sampla MP in New Delhi as very positive. He presented to him the finalised proposal for direct Air India flights between London Heathrow Airport and Amritsar Airport. MP Dhesi said “Minister Sampla assured meRead More

Chandigarh, August 22 The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Tuesday set a four-week deadline for the special investigation team (SIT) to submit in a sealed cover a comprehensive status report on the probe carried out so far in the January 2017 Maur blast case. As the case came upRead More

Chandigarh, August 21: The Punjab Cabinet has approved amendments to CrPC and IPC to make sacrilege of all religious texts punishable with life imprisonment, thus taking a major step towards curbing such incidents and maintaining communal harmony in the state. The decision was taken at a meeting of the cabinet,Read More

New Delhi: Punjab Cabinet Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu said today that his visit to Pakistan was not “political” but just on a “warm invitation from a friend”, in a bid to clarify his decision to visit the neighbouring country and hug its Army chief. Slammed by opposition and earning displeasureRead More

Chandigarh, August 21: The Punjab Cabinet led by Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Tuesday observed a two-minute silence as a mark of respect to former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who passed away on August 16 in New Delhi. Remembering him as a true statesman, a gentleman politician, aRead More

Chandigarh, August 21: The Punjab Cabinet led by Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Tuesday paved the way for the enactment of the law to enable MLAs to hold several new categories of ‘Office of Profit.’ “The Punjab State Legislature (Prevention of Disqualification) (Amendment) Bill, 2018” will be tabled inRead More

Longowal, August 21 Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD)president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Monday alleged that both the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had ganged up to defame the SAD by blaming it for sacrilege incidents. He said the SAD would soon take a call in its core committee meetingRead More

Chandigarh, August 21: Taking serious note of the recent seizure of spurious milk and dairy products from a Patiala factory, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Tuesday directed the concerned officers to explore ways of amending the law on food adulteration to make it more stringent. The directive cameRead More

Chandigarh, August 21 – Five times chief minister and Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) patron Parkash Singh Badal today visited the residence of former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and expressed his deep condolences with the late PM’s family members and described the late leader as a friend of Punjabi andRead More

· REGIONAL CONFERENCE UNANIMOUSLY ACCEPTS CAPT AMARINDER’S SUGGESTION TO MEET EVERY SIX MONTHS AT CM-LEVEL Chandigarh, August 20 The Chief Ministers of the Northern States on Monday decided unanimously to set up a common/central secretariat, to be based in Panchkula, for data and information sharing, which was critical to theRead More