Chandigarh, March 26: The Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee President and Lok Sabha member from Gurdaspur Sunil Jakhar has said that the central government should immediately come forward to provide all possible help to the families of Indians who had been killed in Iraq. Speaking to media after meeting affected familiesRead More

Chandigarh, March 26: Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal on Monday said the Rs 46 crore worth of pending dues of cane-growers would be cleared in the next 15 days. In the Assembly, Manpreet said the amount had been disbursed. SAD leaders Parminder Dhindsa and Gurpartap Wadala sought action against Local BodiesRead More

Chandigarh, March 26 The Bains brothers on Monday threatened to start an agitation after 10 days in case mining in the state was not streamlined. They were speaking outside the Punjab Assembly. They said the sand rates had skyrocketed to Rs 38,000 to Rs 45,000 per truck against the normalRead More

Chandigarh: Rawat group swept Chandigarh Press Club winning all seats. Barinder Rawat is new President, Jaswant Rana secretary general, Saurabh Duggal senior vice president, Neha Sharma and Rajinder Nagarkoti vice president, Sanjay Malhotra secretary, Umesh Sharma and Karnail Rana joint secretary, Ramesh Handa treasurer. Rawat was today elected the newRead More

Chandigarh, March 26 : State Vigilance Bureau (VB) during its ongoing drive against corruption in public life has been able to nab 14 officials red handed accepting bribes in 11 different trap cases during the last month which includes 5 police personnel, 5 revenue officials and 4 belonging to otherRead More

Amritsar, March 26 Former prime minister Manmohan Singh, along with his wife, paid obeisance at the sanctum sanctorum of the Golden Temple here on Sunday. Singh, accompanied by his wife Gursharan Kaur, reached the Golden Temple this morning. The couple were honoured at the sanctum sanctorum by the head priestRead More

Chandigarh/New Delhi, March 26 Seizure of narcotic drugs like opium, heroin and cannabis in the country has increased by more than 300 per cent in the last five years with 2017 witnessing an all-time high recovery of over 3.6 lakh kg of narcotics, according to the latest NCB report. ARead More

CHANDIGARH, MARCH 24: Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has ordered strict enforcement against transport cartelization during the upcoming wheat procurement season. The orders came during a review by the state cabinet of the arrangements made for procurement of wheat during the Rabi season commencing April 1, 2018. While directingRead More

Chandigarh March 24: Punjab government would provide debt relief to the tune of Rs. 200 crores to around 50,000 beneficiaries of six districts in the next phase and a state level function to be held in first week of April at Gurdaspur. The state government has also assured that allRead More

Chandigarh March 24 – The Five time Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Parkash Singh Badal today dismissed the budget presented in the Punjab Vidhan Sabha today as ““ directionless, meaningless and devoid of vision. It documents the government’s betryala of the farmers, the dalits and the poor, the youth, the employeesRead More