September 21 Days after the Supreme Court issued directions to former Punjab Director General of Police (DGP) Sumedh Singh Saini to join investigation in the Balwant Singh Multani murder case, the Special Investigating Team (SIT) on Monday summoned him to join investigation by September 23. Not finding Saini at hisRead More

September 21 A delegation of Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), an NDA ally, on Monday evening met President Ram Nath Kovind and urged him to withhold assent to the contentious farm Bills passed by both Houses of Parliament. Coming out of the meeting, SAD leader Sukhbir Badal, told the media: “WeRead More

September 18 Every story has two sides but the ongoing farmers’ agitation against the three agriculture-related legislations has more than that with farmers, middlemen or ‘arthiyas’, States and the Centre forming the various facets. Interestingly as agriculture expert Sudhir Panwar points, sides traditionally at odds (farmers and arthiyas) are togetherRead More

September 18 Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Friday slammed the farm legislations passed in the Rajya Sabha and described it as part of the ‘Kisan maaru, Punjab maaru’ (Destroy Farmers, Destroy Punjab) conspiracy of the BJP-led NDA, a press release by the state government said. “I don’t know whatRead More

September 17 The Punjab Cabinet on Thursday approved the waiver of fee for Change of Land Use (CLU) and several other charges for Satsang Bhawans established, or to be established in future, by Radha Soami Satsang Beas (RSSB) across the state, a press release by the state government said. ApartRead More

September 17 The Shiromani Akali Dal on Thursday night its fired first salvo within the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance by pulling out its lone representative in the Union Council of Ministers. The move signalled a fissure in the three-decade old association the regional party from Punjab has hadRead More

September 17 Union food processing minister and Akali Dal MP Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Thursday resigned from the Cabinet in protest against the farmers’ related Bills the government has brought in. Harsimrat Badal walked out of Lok Sabha this evening when the House was taking up discussion on the Farmers’Read More

September 16 Seventy-eight people died from coronavirus in Punjab on Wednesday as a record 2,717 fresh cases pushed the state’s infection tally to 87,184. According to a bulletin, the state has reported 2,592 deaths so far. The previous highest daily figures were reported on September 13, when the state recordedRead More

September 16 Farmers from Punjab and Haryana staged a protest at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi against bills on food and agriculture reform on Wednesday.Police detained the farmers while they were protesting. The Centre introduced the Bills on food and agriculture reform in the Lok Sabha on Monday. The proposedRead More

Attari As many as 350 Indians, who were stranded in Pakistan due to the coronavirus lockdown, returned home on Tuesday through the land transit route of Attari border here, officials in the Punjab government said. They belonged to Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Haryana, Punjab, Delhi and West Bengal, the officialsRead More