Chandigarh,  The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) – Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today blasted finance minister Manpreet Singh Badal for engineering a fake loan waiver which does not give any relief to poor farmers even as it asked him to tell Punjabis why he had played a cruel joke on themRead More

Chandigarh, Punjab Congress president Sunil Jakhar on Saturday accused the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) of playing a fixed match before the polls and now again in the state assembly, which they had reduced to a battleground due to their inter and intra party power struggles.Read More

Sangrur/Moga/Ropar, Aam Aadmi Party workers today burnt effigies of Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh and Speaker Rana KP Singh across the state in protest against the misbehaviour with the party’s women MLAs and tossing of turbans of Sikh legislators. In Sunam, AAP workers gathered at Agarsain chowk and raised slogans againstRead More

Chandigarh, In a major relief to the farmers, the Assembly today scrapped “kurki”, a practice under which mortgaged land is auctioned to recover loans, by abolishing Section 67-A of the Punjab Cooperative Societies Act, 1961. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Brahm Mohindra said the Congress government had fulfilled a major poll promise byRead More

Chandigarh, Protesting against yesterday’s incident of tossing of turbans and manhandling of Opposition MLAs, the SAD-BJP and AAP MLAs trooped out of the Assembly minutes after the session resumed today. The SAD-BJP MLAs wore black robes to protest against the turban tossing incident. Even non-Sikh MLAs were seen sporting turbans.Read More

Chandigarh, Punjab Local Bodies Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu today egged Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on to act against business cartels allegedly allowed to flourish under the Akali-BJP rule, claiming his department had uncovered tax evasion worth Rs 684 crore by Fastway Transmission Private Limited. The multi-system cable operator (MSO)Read More

Chandigarh,  The Punjab assembly on Friday amended an excise law to allow hotels, restaurants and clubs within 500 metres of national and state highways in the northern state to serve liquor. The amendment to Section 26-A of the Punjab Excise Act, 1914, comes in the wake of a Supreme CourtRead More

Chandigarh, A student from Punjab’s Muktsar town has topped in the NEET entrance examination for admission to medical colleges. Navdeep Singh, son of the principal of a government school in a village near Muktsar, secured first rank in the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET). This comes just days after Sarvesh Mehtani,Read More

Chandigarh,  Upset over the treatment meted out to legislators by assembly staff on Thursday, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Shiromani Akali Dal members on Friday walked out of the Punjab assembly on the last day of the budget session. The AAP and Akali Dal legislators sought an apology from assemblyRead More

Chandigarh, June 22 Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has assured of a thorough probe into any irregularities in the distribution of sports kits to youth clubs under the erstwhile SAD-BJP rule. The assurance came from the Chief Minister in the Vidhan Sabha on Thursday in response to a questionRead More