Chandigarh, Punjab Congress president Sunil Jakhar on Tuesday said the party would approach the Election Commission (EC) over the central government’s ‘cash for votes’ mega scam involving misuse of public money to influence the nearly 15 lakh people working at the 18000-odd petrol pumps around the country. In a statementRead More

Chandigarh, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal today urged union external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj to take up the issue of emerging hate crimes with the United States government as well as direct Indian embassies and consulates abroad to spread awareness about the Sikh faith and beliefs toRead More

Chandigarh, Stamp duty exemption on transfer of property among blood relations has come as a boon with the residents saving almost Rs 5000 crore on 1.5 lakh property transfer cases during the 2017-18 financial year. Giving this information Revenue Minister Mr. Sukhbinder Singh Sarkaria said that transfer of property in bloodRead More

Chandigarh,  The steps towards making the education qualitative bear fruit, when the students of Government Primary School, Tulewala (Patiala) have demonstrated of Abacus before Education Minister Mr. Om Parkash Soni. Under the guidance of the teacher Gurpreet Kaur, the performance of these children is unprecedented. Mr. Soni said that thisRead More

Chandigarh, August 6: State Vigilance Bureau today nabbed a Panchayat Secretary posted at Rajpura, district Patiala red handed for accepting bribe of Rs.1,10,000 and registered a corruption case against BDPO Rajpura also. Disclosing this here today a spokesman of Vigilance Bureau Punjab said Amrik Singh Panchayat Secretary posted at RajpuraRead More

Chandigarh, Aug 6: AAP leader and former leader of Opposition Sukhpal Singh Khaira said on Monday that his group was not trying to break the party unit in Punjab and was only trying to ensure that decisions related to the state are taken by Punjab leaders. Khaira said that misinformationRead More

CHANDIGARH, AUGUST 6: “The Punjab Government has made it an article of faith to promulgate all necessary measures for the welfare of differently abled people as well as ensuring full dignity to them in the government offices and the Chief Minister, Captain Amarinder Singh is according priority to this aspect.”Read More

Jalandhar/Chandigarh, August 06 – In a major crackdown, the Punjab Police and Counter Intelligence arrested two persons, who were smuggling poppy husk from Rajasthan to Punjab. Both accused have been identified as Dharamjit Singh s/o Surjit Singh resident of village Landeke district Moga and Gurbir Singh s/o Gurjant Singh residentRead More

Chandigarh, August 6 – The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today said the Congress party was playing with fire and repeating the mistakes made by former PM Indira Gandhi by supporting the dharna led by jathedars propped up by it at Bargari in Faridkot, saying now there was conclusive proof thatRead More

Chandigarh/ Ludhiana, August 4: The Legal Metrology wing of Food and Civil Supplies Department on the directions of Mr Bharat Bhushan Ashu, Food and Civil Supplies Minister Punjab conducted raids at the LPG distributors in Ludhiana. In the exercise that stretched over two days, the teams of Legal Metrology Wing conductedRead More