New Delhi, January 19 Ahead of the tenth round of talks between agitating farmers and union ministers, members of the Supreme Court-appointed committee to deliberate with stakeholders concerned the three contentious farm laws on Tuesday held their first meeting. The three members, Ashok Gulati (former CACP chairman) Anil Ghanwat (presidentRead More

Chandigarh, January 18 Condemning the issuance of NIA notices to several farmers and their supporters in the midst of the anti-Farm Laws agitation, Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Monday said such arm-twisting tactics would not weaken the resolve of the farmers to fight for their rights and theirRead More

Bathinda, January 18 The United Kingdom-based non-government organisation Khalsa Aid has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for its humanitarian work. Canadian MP Tim Uppal, Mayor of Brampton Patrick Brown and the MPP for Brampton South Prabmeet Singh Sarkaria have officially nominated Khalsa Aid for the Nobel Peace Prize.Read More

New Delhi, January 18 Two days before his scheduled meeting with unions, Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar again hailed various “pro-farmer/pro-agriculture” steps, including the three farm laws, taken by Narendra Modi government. He said the reforms will go a long way in improving living standard of farmers and the agricultureRead More

Chandigarh, January 18 The Samyukt Kisan Morcha, a joint forum of farmer organisations spearheading the ongoing protest against farm laws, on Monday disassociated itself from a meeting its constituent Gurnam Singh Chaduni had attended with some opposition leaders, and reiterated that the movement “will not have any direct engagement withRead More

Chandigarh, January 16 Punjab Election Commission announced the schedule for elections and bye-election of eight municipal corporations and 109 municipal councils and nagar panchayats on Saturday. Voting for local body elections is on February 14 from 8 am to 4 pm, State Election Commissioner Jagpal Singh Sandhu said. With theRead More

Mohali, January 16 Punjab joined the rest of the country In the historic roll-out of the Covid vaccine on Saturday morning, with five Health Care Workers (HCWs) getting the jab in the presence of Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh, who virtually kicked off the process to inoculate 1.74 lakh HCWsRead More

Chandigarh, January 15 The death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 5,485 in Punjab with 12 more fatalities while 242 new cases took the infection count to 1,70,191 on Friday. There are 2,739 active COVID-19 cases in the state as of now, according to a medical bulletin. Mohali reported 37Read More

New Delhi, January 15 The Samyukta Kisan Morcha said on Friday that “misconceptions” are being spread about the proposed tractor march on January 26 and that their “motive is not to harm the Republic Day parade”. “We are making it clear that we have no motive to harm the paradeRead More

New Delhi, January 15 The Supreme Court’s four-member committee on farmers’ agitation appears to be in limbo after the lone farmers’ representative and Bharatiya Kisan Union National President Bhupinder Singh Mann recused himself in view of criticism from his own union which sacked him from its primary membership. Legal expertsRead More