Ludhiana, Independent MLA brothers Simarjit Singh Bains and Balwinder Singh Bains today slammed Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal for allegedly pocketing crores of rupees per day through illegal sand and gravel mining.The MLA brothers, who were arrested yesterday along with nearly 200 activists for protesting against the sand mafia, wereRead More

Chandigarh, Congress Deputy Leader in the Lok Sabha Capt Amarinder Singh today asked Partap Singh Bajwa to mind his own business and not to distort his stand on leadership issue in the party by spreading rumours and disinformation. “Bajwa is trying to be more loyal than the king without actuallyRead More

Panniwala (Sri Muktsar Sahib), Envisioning the Crop Insurance Scheme as the remedy of all the ills faced by the farmers, the Punjab Chief Minister Mr. Parkash Singh Badal today said that the Union Government must introduce this scheme at the earliest for protecting the peasantry from the vagaries of the weather.Read More

Amritsar, Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader Sunil Jakhar today lambasted the SAD-BJP coalition government for delay in announcing relief package to farmers whose standing crops got damaged due to untimely rain. Talking to the media, he said crops such as wheat, vegetable, fodder, cereals over 3 lakh hectares of land wereRead More

Vancouver, Anticipation of an Indian prime minister’s first visit to Canada in 42 years is building as fans and foes of Narendra Modi see him as either a rock star of economic development that could benefit both countries or a suppressor of minority rights. Modi’s three-day trip starting Tuesday isRead More

Chandigarh,New Delhi- Congress Deputy Leader in the Lok Sabha and former Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh today made a strategic move by coming out in support of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The issue is the outright purchase of 36 Rafale jets for the agreement regarding which was inked byRead More

Ottawa, As much as Mike Duffy’s personal journal depicts a social butterfly who relished rubbing shoulders with politicians and power brokers, it also shines a spotlight on the gossip-fuelled, glad-handing circles in which he moved. The journal — entered as evidence this week as part of Duffy’s criminal trial onRead More

Toronto — The last two candidates for leader of Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives, and the province’s Official Opposition, square off today in their first head-to-head debate. Barrie MP Patrick Brown and Deputy PC leader Christine Elliott are holding their first debate since the field was narrowed to just the two ofRead More

Washington, Hillary Clinton will announce her second run for the presidency on Sunday, starting her campaign as the Democrats’ best hope of fending off a crowded field of lesser-known Republican rivals and retaining the White House. The announcement will mark Clinton’s return to the campaign trail seven years after losingRead More

Dhuri, With SAD (Amritsar) candidate Surjit Singh Kalabula managing to secure considerable support during campaigning, the Dhuri Assembly bypoll is likely to witness a triangular contest between the SAD, Congress and the SAD (Amritsar). The campaigning for the April 11 byelection, necessitated after the resignation by Congress MLA Arvind Khanna, concludedRead More