Moga, 13 Jan 2018 A 25-year-old man, Sukhjeet Singh, shot himself with pistol in Hariya village of Baghapurana in Moga in the early hours of Friday. The reason, according to the complaint with the police, is that his wife refused to facilitate his migration to Canada, where she went inRead More

Jalandhar, January 13 Even as the Supreme Court has set up a new SIT for investigating 186 cases of the 1984 riots, Cabinet Minister Rana Gurjit Singh said the Congress was not responsible for the riots. “If our party was in power at that time in Delhi, we cannot treatRead More

Amritsar, January 13 Former Technical Education Minister Anil Joshi said here today that former Punjab Technical University (PTU) Vice Chancellor Dr Rajneesh Arora had paid the price for breaking the back of the “education mafia”, which had been operating on a large scale in distance education till 2012. The BJPRead More

Chandigarh, Jan 12: Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee President and Gurdaspur MP Mr. Sunil Jakhar today dared SAD (Shiromani Akali Dal) to come clean on their stand over waiving of farmers’ debts. Referring to SAD delegation meeting Governor on farmers’ debts waiver scheme, Jakhar questioned what prevented Akalis from waiving offRead More

Chandigarh, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday issued formal orders to the Department of Power to bear the Rs 748 crore power subsidy for the industry for 2017-18, with variable cost to be fixed at Rs 5 per unit. Following the orders, the Deputy Secretary, Power, has written toRead More

Chandigarh,  Child right protection commission of Punjab today issued instructions to all the district child rights protection officers for the strict compliance of the Punjab Prevention of Beggary Act, 1971 so that inhuman act of begging could be eradicated from the state. Disclosing this here a spokesperson of Child rightRead More

Chandigarh, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has welcomed the Supreme Court decision to order fresh probe, by a new SIT, into 186 cases of the anti-Sikh riots of 1984, with the hope that justice would finally be meted out to the innocent victims. Talking to select mediapersons here onRead More

Chandigarh, The Shiromani Akali Dal will launch “pol khol lehar” in Punjab in the first week of February to “expose the Congress government’s massive fraud with the beleaguered farmers, khet majdoors,dalits and Backward Classes on loan waiver. During this Lehar, the SAD will take the issue of the Congress toRead More

Chandigarh, Over five months after he was arrested for stalking and attempt to abduct the daughter of a senior IAS officer, Vikas Barala, the son of Haryana BJP president Subhash Barala, was on Thursday granted bail by the Punjab and Haryana High Court here. A single judge bench of JusticeRead More

CHANDIGARH,  Mr. Brahm Mohindra, Health & Family Welfare and Medical Education Minister today held a press conference to flag the notable achievements of the department within a time span of 10 months. The Minister also rolled out the vision document of Health and Medical Education Department. He said that theRead More