Chandigarh, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) today kicked off a mass contact programme in Punjab to expose the “bad and faulty” policies of successive governments in the state to all sections of the society. The state-wide mass contact programme with a slogan of “Haal Punjab Da, Dard Punjab Da” was launchedRead More

Chandigarh, Former Chief Minister and senior Congress leader, Rajinder Kaur Bhattal here on Saturday deplored the Modi government for presenting lacklustre and directionless budget. She said that Modi government which had made enticing promises to people of country before coming to power has disappointed the people by presenting a generalRead More

Chandigarh, Finance Minister, Arun Jaitley rightly observed that instead of small steps, India needs a quantum leap. But unfortunately, far from a gigantic leap, his budget did not even comprise any small steps. It was more a case of one step forward and two steps back. The Economic survey releasedRead More

* Thanked Arun Jaitely for allotting AIIMS to Punjab & Declaring Jallianwala Bagh as heritage site Chandigarh, Punjab Unit of the BJP has showered all praise on Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitely who presented first full-fledged budget of the BJP led NDA Union Government. In a press statement issued fromRead More

Chandigarh, The Punjab Congress President, Mr Partap Singh Bajwa, today assailed the budget presented by the Finance Minister Mr Arun Jaitley as the one in which the common man had been completely ignored. It was listless and direction less and represented sectoral bias. In a statement, Mr Bajwa said theRead More

* Advocates new AIIMS allocated to Punjab should come up in Bathinda Bathinda, Union Minister for Food Processing Industries Harsimrat Kaur Badal today congratulated Union finance minister Arun Jaitely for unveiling a historic budget aimed at making the common man part of the growth story of the country. In aRead More

Chandigarh, Congress Deputy Leader in the Lok Sabha Capt Amarinder Singh today said that there was nothing in the budget for the common man to cheer about. “There has not even been some token relief for the working middle classes as the income tax slabs remain unchanged”, he pointed outRead More

* Punjab to witness unprecedented growth in health, agriculture, heritage and tourism fields Chandigarh,Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal today described the Union Budget presented by finance Minister Mr. Arun Jaitley as a positive pro development, pro poor initiative which would catapult growth and strengthen the nation’s economy. InRead More

Chandigarh, Expressing gratitude to the Union Finance Minister Mr. Arun Jaitley for giving severa; important projects to the state, the Punjab Chief Minister Mr. Parkash Singh Badal today said that it was in furtherance of the agenda of NDA to emerge Punjab as a leading state by ending a longRead More

Jalandhar, A Pakistani national was today arrested by BSF officials after he inadvertently crossed into the Indian side of the border and was later handed over toPakistan Rangers after interrogation. BSF’s (Punjab frontier) Deputy Inspector General R P S Jaiswal said Rizwan, 25, resident of Pakistan’s Nankana Sahib district, mistakenly crossedRead More