Chandigarh, At a gathering of experts from World Bank and United Nations, strong voices emerged against debt waiver as panacea for farm distress, in Zirakpur near here on Tuesday. At least two prime experts — Madhur Gautam, WB lead economist, and Shyam Khadka, representative of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)Read More

Chandigarh,  The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) patron and former chief minister S. Parkash Singh Badal will hold his scheduled fortnightly meeting with party leaders and workers at 11.00 AM in the party office on February 1 and 2, 2018. This information was given here today by the SAD spokesman andRead More

Chandigarh, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, requesting that the sharing pattern between Centre and States be reverted to 90:10 for various agriculture development programmes in order to avert the looming crisis in the farm sector. Stressing the serious need to revert toRead More

Moga, Two persons were killed when their car collided with a mini-truck at Moga by-pass here, police said today. The incident took place yesterday when they were going to Moga city from Butter village, police said. The deceased were as identified as Kulwant Singh (36) and his neighbour Balveer KaurRead More

Patiala, January 30 The FIR registered by the Rajasthan Police following the encounter of Vicky Gounder and his accomplices suggests that the Punjab Police had a tip-off and it was only minutes before the encounter that they got confirmation that Gounder and Prema Lahoria were hiding inside Lakhwinder Singh’s houseRead More

Chandigarh January 30 – SAD president and former Deputy CM Punjab Sukhbir Singh Badal today urged the  Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh to intervene personally to stop the closure of 1600 people centric Sewa Kendras in the state, saying that “These Kendras are meant to stop the harassment of the people inRead More

Chandigarh, Jan 30: Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president and Gurdaspur MP Sunil Jakhar has said that the President’s address normally reflects policies and programmes of the Central Government but today it was silent over the core issues and speaks volumes of non-serious/indifferent attitude of the NDA led government to resolveRead More

Chandigarh,  Even as he appealed to gangsters still active in the state to shun the path of violence, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Monday rejected allegations of a fake encounter against Vicky Gounder and his associates, saying the families of the deceased gangsters were obviously reacting from aRead More

Chandigarh/The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today announced that it will hold constituency-wise ‘Pol Khol rallies’ across the Punjab to highlight themisgovernance of the congress government and this exercise would be started with the first rally at Fazilka by the SAD president S Sukhbir Singh Badal. These rallies will be addressedRead More

CHANDIGARH, Vigilance Bureau today nabbed Reader of Naib Tehsildar Budladha, Bathinda red handed accepting bribe of Rs. 4,000. Disclosing this here an official spokesperson of the Vigilance Bureau said that Navjeet Singh, reader of Naib Tehsildar of Budladha, Tehsil Talwandi Sabo, Bathinda was caught on the complaint of Mr. Manjit SinghRead More