New Delhi/Chandigarh, Punjab Chief Minister Mr. Parkash Singh Badal today called on the Union Minister for Environment and Forest (MoEF) Mr. Parkash Javadekar for seeking upward revision in the rate of water cess to strengthen the financial position of the Pollution Control Boards in the respective states. The Chief Minister,Read More

Chandigarh, The Akali Dal would vigorously take up with the centre the implementation of the Swaminathan Committee recommendations for fixing minimum support price of farm produce ensuring 50 per cent profit over and above the cost of production. Addressing a news conference here today, party general secretary and MP PremRead More

Chandigarh, The Punjab Congress President Mr Partap Singh Bajwa today lashed out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal for ditching the farmers on the issue of implementation of the Swaminathan Committee report for the fixation of minimum support price for the farm produce. In aRead More

Ottawa, Justin Trudeau says Stephen Harper is pandering to fears about Muslims with his insistence that no one should be allowed to wear a veil while taking the oath of Canadian citizenship. The Liberal leader says Harper’s stance — which the Conservative party has enthusiastically embraced to rally support, raise moneyRead More

Chandigarh, Congress Deputy Leader in the Lok Sabha Capt Amarinder Singh today supported the novel protest lodged by the Punjab Spinners’ Association, the apex yarn manufacturing body of the state, against the indifference of the state government towards their plight that has led to massive exodus of the spinning industryRead More

Chandigarh, The Punjab Congress President Mr Partap Singh Badal today described Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal who talked of big ticket projects while the existing industry in the state was decaying with the state government having turned a deaf to its plight. In a statement, Mr Bajwa said itRead More

Chandigarh, Peoples’ Party of Punjab chiefManpreet Singh Badaltoday called upon Chief Minister S. Parkash Singh Badal to ensure the implementation of theSwaminathan Committeerecommendations on minimum support price in the context of the centre having backed out from it.   “The Swaminathan Committee has recommended 50 per cent profit to theRead More

* Move aimed at eliminating drug menace from state New Delhi, In a significant decision aimed at wiping out the curse of drugs from the state, the Union government today agreed to extend fulsome support and cooperation to the state government for the construction of Drug de-addiction and rehabilitation centers acrossRead More

* Ruddy calls on CM Badal at Kapurthala house New Delhi, Conceding the demand made by the Punjab Chief Minister Mr. Parkash Singh Badal, the Union Skill Development Minister Mr. Rajiv Pratap Ruddy today said that the Government of India (GoI) would prepare a master plan for emerging the state asRead More

Washington, Asserting that not religion but people are responsible for violence and terrorism, President Barack has declined to call the war against Islamic State terror group in Iraq and Syria as a war against a religion. “We are not at war with Islam, we are at war with those whoRead More