Chandigarh, April 13: Declaring a zero-tolerance approach with regard to road safety, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Friday constituted a three-member Lead Group to formulate a plan of action for targeted spending of the Road Safety Fund, to further reduce the accident rate in the state, where fatalitiesRead More

Chandigarh, April 13: Akali Dal leader and former minister Bikram Singh Majithia today said Punjab local bodies minister Navjot Singh Sidhu should have resigned after the stand of the state government in the supreme court on his conviction in the death in a road rage involving him. Majithia said itRead More

Chandigarh, April 13: Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has extended his greetings to the people on Baisakhi, the 319th Sajna Divas of the ‘Khalsa Panth’, even as he paid rich tributes to Dr. B. R Ambedkar on the occasion of Ambedkar Jayanti. In his message, the Chief Minister saidRead More

Rampura (Sangrur), April 13: The Punjab government’s farm debt waiver scheme took another leap on Thursday, with 73,748 farmers from six districts getting debt relief certificates worth Rs. Rs.485.69 crore at a major event here. Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal handed over debt waiver certificates to 14 farmers, as aRead More

Chandigarh, April 11 Leader of Opposition Sukhpal Singh Khaira on Wednesday said Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh had lost the will to fight the menace of drugs in Punjab. Addressing a press conference here, Khaira alleged that Amarinder was shielding the police officers who were shielding SAD leader Bikram Majithia.Read More

Chandigarh, April 11: AAP MLA H S Phoolka has launched affordable smart class room project in his Dakha constituency in collaboration with Canadian Indian businessman Sumit Singh Tuli. Tuli would cover primary schools in Dakha area at his own expense. The module has been prepared after working on the projectRead More

Chandigarh, April 11:  Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Wednesday that a dangerous and false binary between freedom and development was emerging in the country’s political discourse which could be a danger to the democratic system. Addressing the first Prof. S.B. Rangnekar Memorial lecture at his alma mater PanjabRead More

Chandigarh, April 11 – The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today asserted the Congress government had deliberately fielded a junior advocate to contest the State’s case against Local Bodies minister Navjot Sidhu to subvert the cause of justice and help Sidhu walk free in a homicide case. In a statement here,Read More

Chandigarh, April 11: The Government of India on Wednesday accepted the Punjab government’s proposal for setting up a Rs. 374.86 crore Government Medical College at SAS Nagar (Mohali), giving a major impetus to the Captain Amarinder Singh government’s programmes to improve healthcare facilities and address the critical shortage of medicalRead More

Chandigarh, April 11 – The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today asked finance minister Manpreet Badal and his brother in law Jaijeet ‘Jojo’ Johal to immediately apologize for degrading the dalit community failing which community members would ‘gherao’ them to effect this apology. In a statement here, senior dalit leaders GulzarRead More