Chandigarh, March 24: Punjab Rural Development and Panchayats Minister Tript Rajinder Singh Bajwa today hailed the budget presented today by Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal as futuristic and realistic to take the state to higher developmental target. “This budget reflects commitment of Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh to every sectionRead More

Chandigarh Marcy 24 – The Shiromani Akali Dal president and former Deputy Chief Minister Sardar Sukhbir Singh Badal today described the Budget presented in the Punjab Vidhan Sabha today as “anti farmer, anti Dalit , anti Youth and anti-employees. The resource mobilization figures of Rs 9000 crores show that theRead More

Chandigarh, March 24: Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee President Mr. Sunil Jakhar has described the second budget of Punjab Government as a pro-farmer, balanced and growth oriented budget which would boost the overall development of the state. In a statement issued here today, Mr. Sunil Jakhar gave his reaction to theRead More

Chandigarh, March 24:  The opposition Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) walked out from the Punjab assembly as Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal presented a Rs 129,698 crore budget for 2018-19 on Saturday. Terming the budget as “directionless” and a “sham”, the opposition leaders said that theRead More

New Delhi, March 23 Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Sunil Jakhar along with party MPs held a protest in front of the Gandhi statue in Parliament, demanding that the Centre remove the GST on langar (community kitchen). The party MPs were Pratap Singh Bajwa, Ravneet Singh Bittu and Gurjit SinghRead More

Chandigarh, March 23 An unwell Sonia Gandhi left for Chandigarh from Shimla on Thursday night at 11 pm. The senior Congress leader along with her daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra reportedly refused to go to local Indira Gandhi Medical College for treatment and insisted on reaching Chandigarh to be able toRead More

Chandigarh, March 23: Describing the protest outside and inside the Vidhan Sabha by Shiromani Akali Dal as a political gimmick, the President of Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee Mr. Sunil Jakhar said that SAD supremo should stage such protests outside Lok Sabha to give a wakeup call to anti-Punjab Modi government.Read More

Chandigarh, Mar 23: A local court on Wednesday framed murder charges against nine policemen, including a sub-inspector (SI) and an assistant sub-inspector (ASI), in an alleged fake encounter of local Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Mukhjit Singh Mukha in June 2015. “On the order of additional sessions judge Jagmohan Singh,Read More

Chandigarh, Mar 23: Air India has not made any change in its existing flights or their timings in the summer schedule that will come into force at Chandigarh International Airport from March 26. With this the total number of flights has reached 33. Other airlines had released their schedule lastRead More

Chandigarh, March 23 – The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today said a constitutional crisis had erupted in Punjab with the leader of opposition party (LOP) Sukhpal Khaira surrendering before the Congress to save himself in a cross-border drug trafficking case and becoming the “B” team of the Congress party. AddressingRead More