Chandigarh January 27 – The Shiromani Akali Dal president and Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sardar Sukhbir Singh Badal said here today the Congress party in Punjab “has fled the Khadoor Sahib field out of fear of certain and humiliating defeat.” “This is the most categorical admission of defeat by theRead More

Chandigarh, January 27- Punjab Chief Minister Mr. Parkash Singh Badal today urged the Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi to consider number of modifications in the recently launched Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojna (PMFBY) to make it far more farmer friendly and result oriented. In separate letters to Mr. Modi andRead More

Chandigarh, January 27: The Punjab Congress Legislature Party chief Mr Charanjit Singh Channi today extended full support to the party decision to boycott the Khadoor Sahib Assembly bye-election. Mr Channi said the reasons for which the sitting Congress MLA Mr Ramanjit Singh Singh Sikki had resigned from this seat pertainingRead More

Chandigarh: January 27:  Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Wednesday said it appeared Punjab Congress chief Captain Amarinder Singh has struck an overnight secret deal with the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) to withdraw from the Khadoor Sahib By-poll slated for February 13at the last moment. Otherwise what could have been the reason for the PunjabRead More

CHANDIGARH, January 27: Congress today decided to boycott the Khadoor Sahab bye-election necessitated after the sacrilege of the Holy Guru Granth Sahib at Bargadi in Kotkpaura, due to which the party MLA Ramanjit Singh Sikki resigned in protest. Talking to reporters at the ‘Meet the Press’ programme hosted by theRead More

Chandigarh, January 27, 2016: The former leader of opposition in Punjab Vidhan Sabha Sunil Jakhar has lambasted over the ongoing theft of natural resources in the form of illegal sand mining and recovery of illegal taxes by the self appointed unionists in Fazilka district. Sunil Jakhar blamed the state governmentRead More

*   Amarinder has lost control over party, will taste big defeat in 2017 polls Chandigarh, 27 January: Punjab BJP president Shri Kamal Sharma has said that Congress is no more a player in Punjab politics. In a statement issued after Congress officially announced that party would not be contesting theRead More

Chandigarh, January 27:  Senior Punjab Congress leader and former MP Jagmeet Singh Brar today accused state party chief Capt Amarinder Singh of betraying the people and the party within no time of the announcement about the boycott of the Khadoor Sahib Assembly bye-election. As Capt Amarinder Singh made the formalRead More

Chandigarh, January 27: Shiromani Akali Dal executive committee member and senior Akali Dal leader Karnail Singh Panjoli today expressed strong concern over the first time ever absence of Sikh army contingents from the Republic Day parade at Rajpath in Delhiand termed it as highly unfortunate. He said this shocking exclusionRead More

Mohali, January 27: The standing committee of the Parliamentary panel on Home affairs is visiting Punjab for two days beginning February 11 to understand the problems being confronted by the people in the border areas in the state. This was stated here today by Anandpur Sahib MP Prem Singh ChandumanjraRead More