Chandigarh, People’s Party of Punjab chief Manpreet Singh Badal today said the first three years of the Parkash Singh Badal government had been an “inexcusable failure on every front,” especially in economic and social sectors. To make matters worse, the Narendra Modi government had refused to grant a fiscal package toRead More

Chandigarh, Senior SAD leader and former SGPC president Bibi Jagir Kaur today called for an inquiry into the “unaccounted wealth” amassed by former Congress MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira. Addressing a press conference here today, she said the Enforcement Directorate should investigate allegations of drug trade against Khaira. Bibi Jagir Kaur, whoRead More

Khosa Kotla (Moga), The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) today said that it will not contest the Dhuri byelection. The seat fell vacant after the resignation of Congress MLA Arvind Khanna.Bhagwant Mann and Prof Sadhu Singh, MPs from Sangrur and Faridkot, addressed rallies at Badhni Kalan town and Khosa Kotla villageRead More

Sangrur, Barring SAD (Amritsar), no political party has announced its candidate for the Dhuri Assembly by-election. Its candidate Surjit Singh Kalabula is a member of the SGPC. The filing of nomination papers begins from March 17.Besides the SAD-BJP alliance and the Congress, AAP has also not announced its candidate. The LeftRead More

Sangrur, Celebrating the birth anniversary of BSP founder Kanshi Ram here today, state president Avtar Singh Karimpuri said the party needed at least 80,000 leaders at the village-level to form a BSP government in Punjab in 2017.Karimpuri said this could be done only by gaining political power for which the BSPRead More

Jalandhar,Shaheed-E-Azam Bhagat Singh’s village Khatkar Kalan will be adopted by the Union Government to develop it as an “Adarsh Gram” under the Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojna, as a special case.After becoming Adarsh Gram, Khatkar Kalan will be extended benefits under all Centrally-sponsored schemes on preferential basis, besides all basic amenities.ThisRead More

* Seeks fair deal for Punjab’s industry with a hope to end discrimination * Welcomes setting up of SIT to proble 84 anti-sikh massacre Chandigarh, Making a strong plea for early resolution of long pending territorial issues facing the state, the Punjab Governor Prof. Kaptan Singh Solanki today expressed hopeRead More

Chandigarh, Partap Singh Bajwa would continue to be the President of the Punjab Congress so long as he enjoyed the confidence of party chief Sonia Gandhi and vice-president Rahul Gandhi. This was announced here today by AICC General Secretary and incharge of Punjab affairs while addressing a news conference onRead More

Chandigarh, The BJP MLAs registered their resentment against the attitude of the alliance partner the Akali Dal by boycotting the joint meeting of the legislature party. The BJP leaders are irked over the delay in the action taken in the case relating to the assault on Raja Joshi, brother ofRead More

Chandigarh, Asserting that the integrity of Dr Manmohan Singh was highly above board, Congress Deputy Leader in the Lok Sabha Capt Amarinder Singh today expressed his complete solidarity with the former Prime Minister. In a statement issued here today, Capt Amarinder maintained that questioning the integrity of someone like DrRead More