Chandigarh May 22, 2017 Aam Aadmi Party senior leader and leader of opposition Adv. H.S. Phoolka on Monday termed SAD leaders protest on dalit atrocities as hypocritical. He said that the protest is just a drama and Congress and Akalis both are equally responsible for the atrocities against the dalits.Read More

Moga, A local judicial court has issued non-bailable arrest warrants against Kamaljit Singh Brar, general secretary of the Punjab Youth Congress (PYC), for allegedly submitting a fake medical certificate to skip court hearings in a criminal case. Kamaljit is the son of senior Congress leader and Baghapurana MLA Darshan SinghRead More

CHANDIGARH, MAY 22: Acid attack on women is one of the gruesome forms of attack on the human body. Acid attacks have a catastrophic, psychological, social and mental effect on human body. It is the priority of Punjab Government to provide every possible help to the acid attack victims toRead More

Chandigarh, The state government has decided to release another 70 lakh tonnes of mining capacity to meet the demand for sand and bring its price under control. With the generation of a total capacity of 3 crore tonnes, the government is looking to fill the demand-supply gap, thus effectively decartelisingRead More

Chandigarh, With no funds in its kitty, the Punjab Mandi Board is worried over the repair of rural roads. As per rules, a rural road is to be repaired every six years. But most stretches of the rural road network have not been repaired for the past eight to nineRead More

Amritsar, A day after high drama at the police-public meeting presided over by the ADGP (law and order) yesterday, former Cabinet Minister Bikram Singh Majithia today threatened to launch an agitation if police officials failed to arrest the suspects involved in allegedly torturing Dalit Kashmir Singh and his family members.Read More

Ludhiana, Local Bodies Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu has accused the previous SAD-BJP government of not utilising the grants sanctioned by the Centre for upgrading the fire-fighting system. “Punjab was the only state in the country that failed to upgrade its fire-fighting system. All other states spent crores of rupees toRead More

Chandigarh, May 20 BJP President Amit Shah categorically said on Saturday that no AAP legislator in Punjab was in touch with his party. Meeting media persons here, Shah said that no Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) lawmaker was in touch with anyone in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). A BJP leaderRead More

Chandigarh, May 20 A two-day e-auction of sand mines culminated on Saturday with total bids worth a whopping Rs. 1026 crores secured for 89 mines – the highest ever earnings for the state government from the sand mining business, thus paving the way for release of supply pressure and stabilisationRead More

Chandigarh, May 20 – Former Punjab deputy Chief minister and Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal today said the shocking incident of a Moga Sarpanch shearing off his beard to protest against government apathy in cutting off water supply to his village was reminiscent of the complete paralysisRead More