Chandigarh, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Friday urged the Railways to relieve international woman cricketer Harmanpreet Kaur so that she could join the Punjab Police as an officer. “I have already written to the Railways twice and hope that she would be relieved soon so that she could join PunjabRead More

Chandigarh, The Punjab Land Reforms (Amendment) Act 2017 covers two aspects. The first is an amendment in section 3(8) of Punjab Land Reforms Act, 1972. The definition of an orchard under this section the Act didn’t include land under guava, banana trees and vineyard as an orchard. In order to diversifyRead More

CHANDIGARH, “The draft of a comprehensive and uniform ‘Punjab Municipal Outdoor Advertisement Policy and Bye-Laws 2018’ has been readied by the Local Government Department with a view to accord a uniform look to all the cities/towns of Punjab as well as making the Urban Local Bodies self sufficient from economic pointRead More

Chandigarh, The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today asked AAP Convener and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal to stop playing blame games and accept the fact that he had committed a gross irregularity by appointing legislators to office of profit posts without amending the concerned State Act and be ready toRead More

New Delhi, The Supreme Court on Friday gave six weeks to the Punjab government to respond to state Leader of Opposition and AAP leader Sukhpal Singh Khaira’s plea against a Fazilka court order summoning him in a drug smuggling case. In a relief to Khaira, a Bench headed by JusticeRead More

New Delhi, The Delhi MLA Mr. Manjinder Singh Sirsa has welcomed the decision of the Election Commission of India (ECI) to recommend disqualification of 20 AAP MLAs for holding office of profit and urged the ECI to also disqualify Chief Minister Mr. Arvind Kejriwal who is solely responsible for appointmentRead More

Chandigarh: The Punjab government will appeal against the single-judge order of the Punjab and Haryana high court quashing appointment Suresh Kumar as principal chief secretary to chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh. Soon after the high court quashed the appointment on Wednesday, the chief minister had asked the state’s advocate generalRead More

Chandigarh,  “I have never ever seen a lady munshi. We are not given the role of investigators. How many murder cases in Punjab are being handled by women?” As Ludhiana assistant commissioner of police (ACP-headquarters) Rupinder Kaur Bhatti threw a volley of questions at the Women Police Conference on EmpowermentRead More

Chandigarh, January 18: Punjab Ministers, Brahm Mohindra, Tripat Rajinder Singh Bajwa, Aruna Chaudhry and Sadhu Singh Dharamsot have lambasted Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) spokesperson Daljit Singh Cheema for demanding the revocation of all decisions of the cabinet in view of the quashing of Suresh Kumar’s appointment by the High Court.Read More

New Delhi, January 18 Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has accepted the resignation of Power and Irrigation Minister Rana Gurjit Singh from the Council of Ministers. The Chief Minister disclosed this during a brief interaction with mediapersons after meeting Congress president Rahul Gandhi here on Thursday. Captain Amarinder saidRead More