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Chandigarh, July 21: Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh today announced Rs.42 crore as a dedicated fund for preservation of the state’s rich cultural heritage. The fund will be used for the upkeep and maintenance of various cultural projects across the state. Disclosing this here today, a spokesperson of theRead More
Chandigarh, July 21 – The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today asked chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh to intervene and stop Local Bodies minister Navjot Sidhu from taking whimsical decisions like locking up of the ultra-modern indoor stadium constructed at Ludhiana by the previous SAD-BJP government. In a statement here, formerRead More
New Delhi, Senior Congress leader Ambika Soni on Friday rubbished reports of resigning from the party, saying she had only requested the high command to reduce the load of duties as party General Secretary due to health reasons. “I totally deny the unfounded, unsubstantiated, farcical news which came on televisionRead More
Chandigarh, July 20: Satnam Singh and Tejinderpal Singh from Dal Khalsa, who had hijacked the first plane associated with the Sikh militant movement in 1981, were today granted bail by a Delhi court in the retrial. They had been convicted by a Pakistan court and sentenced. They are facing retrialRead More
New Delhi, July 20 Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday sought from the central government one-time settlement of the Rs. 6000 crore loans taken by the state’s farmers from the national and private banks. Such a settlement will benefit 4.5 lakh of the state’s beleaguered farmers, the ChiefRead More
Chandigarh, July 20 – The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today announced the first phase programme of the party’s Jabar Virodhi Lehar which will be observed across the State besides traditional political conferences. Disclosing this here today, former minister and party spokesman Dr Daljit Singh Cheema said the Lehar would beRead More
Chandigarh, July 20 : The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Thursday named Sukhpal Singh Khaira as Leader of the Opposition in the Punjab Assembly. The post fell vacant after senior lawyer and party legislator H.S. Phoolka resigned from the post to continue to fight cases of the 1984 anti-Sikh riotsRead More
Chandigarh, July 20: Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has directed the state’s Legal Aid Team to extend help to the two Sikhs faced with possibilities of ‘double jeopardy’ in the hijacking of an Indian Airlines plane to Lahore 36 years ago. While the hijacking was condemnable, any attempt toRead More
New Delhi, July 20 Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday met Union Minister of Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari to discuss the proposed Delhi-Amritsar-Katra Expressway as well as various pending Punjab road and highway projects. The discussion on the Delhi-Amritsar-Katra highway, which was also attended by Haryana ChiefRead More
Chandigarh, July 20 – The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today said Punjab finance minister Manpreet Singh Badal should be booked for abetting farmer suicides by backstabbing the peasantry through a bogus farm loan waiver promise made in the Congress party’s election manifesto headed by him. In a statement here, formerRead More
