WINNIPEG — Stephen Harper says he is confident a re-elected Conservative government will be able to speed up the pace of job creation, based largely on his past record, despite his dire warnings about the state of the global economy. Harper announced a jobs target Tuesday while leaning on whatRead More

MONCTON, N.B. — The NDP would freeze employment insurance premiums for the next four years and boost benefits, Tom Mulcair announced Tuesday as part of a plan his critics warned would kill jobs and hurt young people looking for work. The proposal draws a clear line differentiating the New DemocratsRead More

* AS PER SPORTS POLICY, JOBS BEING GIVEN TO SPORTSPERSONS Faridkot, September 22: Punjab Deputy CM Mr Sukhbir Singh Badal has said that Capt Amarinder Singh, who has been rejected twice by the Punjabis, is resorting to tantrums for saving his own existence in politics because he knows that theRead More

CHANDIGARH, September 22: Congress Deputy Leader in the Lok Sabha Capt Amarinder Singh today dismissed the claims and charges levelled by Partap Singh Bajwa against him as the “schizophrenic symptoms of a failed and frustrated man desperate about his own political survival”. “It is natural for a failed and frustratedRead More

CHANDIGARH, SEPTEMBER 22: Mr. Anil Joshi, Local Bodies Minister, Punjab today gave a call for adopting unique public-private-NGO participatory model to make Municipal Solid Waste Management of cities a success. Inaugurating one day national workshop on municipal solid waste management here today in which Mayors/Commissioners of Municipal Corporations and officialsRead More

* PARTNERSHIP TO CREATE RURAL BANKING INFRASTRUCTURE Chandigarh September 22: In continuation of the meeting of Deputy Chief Minister and Minister In-charge Department of Governance Reforms, Punjab with top notch banks in Mumbai to make investments in Punjab and provide financial services to the rural citizens , Mr. Sarvesh Kaushal,Read More

Bathinda, Dera Sacha Sauda followers today lifted their ongoing dharnas across the region after getting an assurance from Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal. The rail route was opened for over 60 trains and the 48-hour blockade from at least five major roads in Malwa was lifted.The SSPs concerned met theRead More

Chandigarh, September 21- Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal today expressed shock and dismay at the manner in which the opposition tried to downplay the bravery shown by the Punjab Police in tackling and eliminating the threat posed by Pak trained terrorists in Deenanagar on July 27, 2015. ReactingRead More

Chandigarh, September 21:The Punjab Congress Legislature Party leader Sunil Jakhar today refused to comment on the controversial interview of former chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh criticizing the functioning of party vice-president Rahul Gandhi. It may be mentioned that Capt Singh has been pressing the party high command to replace stateRead More

Chandigarh, September 21: Debunking the claims of Punjab being No. 1 state by citing a single parameter index, People’s Party of Punjab chief called upon Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal to stop misleading people at the cost of public exchequer as in over-all assessment in the same report, theRead More