Chandigarh, A day after skipping the Dhuri byelection meeting called by Punjab Congress president Partap Singh Bajwa, the Captain Amarinder Singh group on Monday held the former responsible for the division in the party. The severe criticism comes from nowhere else but the home district of Bajwa, as Gurdaspur DistrictRead More

Chandigarh, A division bench of the Punjab and Haryana high court on Monday adjourned hearing in the Rs 6,000-crore Bhola drug racket case for April 6. The case was listed for hearing before the division bench of justice AK Mittal and justice Rekha Mittal. As the hearing started in theRead More

Jalandhar,  Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani today said that the Centre was in the process of amending the National Education Policy that was framed about 30 years ago. Irani, who was here for a convocation ceremony at KMV College, said the process of gathering online feedback from the public hadRead More

Hoshiarpur,  People’s Party of Punjab state secretary Sandeep Saini today said they would soon start a ‘Pol Khol Abhiyan’ to bring forth the alleged failures of the SAD-BJP government in the state. He alleged the Punjab Government had failed on every front, be it improving farmers’ condition, providing better opportunitiesRead More

Abohar,  The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scheme, hailed by the Centre as the largest and most ambitious social security and public works programme in the world, benefitted none in 6,104 of 13,054 villages in Punjab this financial year. The Centre had released Rs 189.48 crore toRead More

Chandigarh,  The Union Government has stepped in to offer help in rehabilitating drug addicts in the state. It has announced to fund the running cost of the 34 state-of-the-art rehabilitation centres for addicts coming up all over the state. Speaking at a conference on drug menace organised by the JoshiRead More

Amritsar, While the SGPC raised a string of demands before Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his recent visit to the Golden Temple here on Monday, it didn’t touch the crucial issue of the new SGPC House. It hasn’t come into existence even three-and-a-half years after the SGPC elections due toRead More

Rattan Khurd,  The BSF shot two drug smugglers dead and foiled their bid to sneak in contrabands in the Rattan Khurd border outpost area last night. The incident came a day after gunning down of a Pakistani smuggler in the Majhmian border outpost area and seizure of 24 kg heroin.Read More

Chandigarh, The division in the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) between the camps led by Arvind Kejriwal and Yogendra Yadav has also brought to the fore differences in its Punjab unit with the four Members of Parliament and other leaders toeing different lines. Patiala MP Dr Dharamvira Gandhi has sided with YadavRead More

Moga, Expressing concern over the “instability” prevailing in the newly elected Moga Municipal Corporation, former Punjab DGP and BJP leader Paramdip Singh Gill has claimed several rebel Akali and Independent councillors were willing to join the saffron party. Gill claimed a majority of the councillors were not in favour ofRead More