Chandigarh, October 24 Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh called SAD Chief Sukhbir Singh Badal’s recent allegation of his government colluding with the Centre over farmer protests “ludicrous, strange and senseless”. A press note issued on Saturday from the chief minister’s office said he dismissed Badal’s suggestion that his government hadRead More

Chandigarh, October 22 The release of purported chat between a district manager of the PUNSUP and a trader regarding allowing the sale of paddy procured at lower rates from outside Punjab to procurement agencies at the higher Minimum Support Price (MSP) has exposed the misuse of the MSP system inRead More

Chandigarh, October 21 The historic unity seen in the Vidhan Sabha yesterday while passing the three farm Bills did not last long as the Opposition came prepared to target the government over many issues on the last day of the special Assembly session. 7 Bills cleared Punjab Bhondedar, Butemar, Dohlidar,Read More

Chandigarh, October 21 The farmer bodies in Punjab on Wednesday announced the easing of their three week-long ‘rail roko’ agitation by allowing goods trains in the state. Farmer leader Satnam Singh said the decision was taken keeping in mind the shortage of coal and diammonium phosphate (DAP) fertiliser. “We haveRead More

Chandigarh, October 21 Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh said he was willing to be dismissed or would resign if the Centre felt his passing the Bills against the three central farm laws was an act of rebellion. Capt Amarinder was talking to the media after the three-day Assembly sessionRead More

Chandigarh, October 17 The COVID-19 death toll in Punjab rose to 3,999 on Saturday after 19 more people succumbed to the disease, while 427 new cases took the infection tally to 1,27,154, according to a medical bulletin. The places which reported new coronavirus cases include Jalandhar (73), Ludhiana (54) andRead More

Phagwara, October 17 Farmers under banners of different organisations held protests across Punjab and burnt effigies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi as they accused the BJP-led government at the Centre of maintaining a “stubborn attitude” towards the agitators’ demand of revoking the newly enacted farm laws. The opposition parties haveRead More

Chandigarh, October 15 Irate over the treatment meted out to them by the BJP government in Delhi yesterday, leaders of farmer unions in Punjab have vowed to intensify their stir in the coming days. The unions will be continuing their protests on the railway tracks till October 20, where RailRead More

Chandigarh With the Centre saying stubble burning contributed only 4 per cent to pollution in Delhi, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Thursday stressed the latest data has vindicated his government’s stance. Flaying his Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal, the Punjab chief minister asked him to “stop lying” to divert attentionRead More

Peshawar Two Sikh women in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province have filed a court case against alleged threats and harassment on social media. In the complaint, filed under 22A of Pakistan Penal Code on Wednesday, the plaintiffs alleged Shah Alam Masih and Manmeet Kaur from Christian Colony Shoba Chowk in PeshawarRead More