Chandigarh,23 July : Former Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh today expressed grave concern over the alarming decline in fresh investments in Punjab saying it did not portend well for socio-economic situation in the state. “This is just because there is total policy paralysis in Punjab”, he remarked. “This is boundRead More

Chandigarh, 23 July : The Transport Minister, Punjab, Ajit Singh Kohar, today presided over a high level Punjab State Road Safety Council meeting. Discussing the ways and means to reduce the ‘Road Accidental Deaths’ in the state the Minister said that the reducing the increasing deaths due to road accidentsRead More

Toronto:Premier Kathleen Wynne is acknowledging that governments need to provide more money for housing but she is stopping short of promising to chip in the province’s one-third share of a 10-year, $2.6 billion plan to repair aging Toronto Community Housing buildings. Wynne met with Mayor John Tory at Queen’s ParkRead More

Chandigarh, July 22 After a “show of strength” staged by former Chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh in the name of his mass contact programme, the Congress leadership has initiated efforts with a renewed vigour to strike rapprochement between top state leaders – Captain and PPCC chief Partap Bajwa. The party,Read More

New Delhi, July 22 Jalandhar MP Santokh Chaudhary today met Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar to seek changes to the Cantonments Act 2006 which allows sweeping powers to bureaucrats and the Cantonment Board head. The Lok Sabha member from the Congress said the power of tax assessment of houses and shopsRead More

PATNA, BIHAR: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will release ‘Vision 2050’ for Indian agriculture prepared by the country’s premier agriculture research institute in Patna on July 25, said Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh today. This is also the first time that celebrations of the Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR)Read More

NEW DELHI: BJP today asked Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to stay within his “limits” taking strong exception to the latter’s repeated barbs at the Prime Minister even as it accused the AAP chief of playing “politics over corpses”. Describing Mr Kejriwal as a “marketing and packaging expert”, BJP saidRead More

Moga, July 21 Agriculture and NRI Affairs Minister Tota Singh has denied the reports that stones were pelted and shoes were hurled at a delegation of the Punjab government led by him during a function at a gurdwara at Richmond Hill in the Queens Borough area in the US. HeRead More

Dhuri, July 21 Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today put all speculation about the SAD candidate from Dhuri for the 2017 Assembly elections to rest. He said that neither Sukhbir nor he would contest from Dhuri and that sitting MLA Gobind Singh Longowal would be the SAD candidate at thatRead More

OTTAWA — Tom Mulcair is jumping the starting gun for this fall’s election, hitting the campaign trail this week in the crucial battleground of Ontario. The NDP leader is launching an eight-day tour today designed to showcase his team, his policies and his party’s momentum in the province. Ontario accountsRead More