Chandigarh, ‘There is dire need of framing the education polices exclusively based on the needs of the academic institutions’. It was appealed by Dr. Daljit Singh Cheema, Education Minister, Punjab while inaugurating the 29th academic conference of All-India Federation of University and College Teachers Organisations (AIFUCTO) at S.D. College, SectorRead More

Chandigarh, A seven member delegation headed by the Mrs. Baroness Verma, Parliamentary Under Secretary for United Kingdom met Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Mr. Sukhbir Singh Badal at his residence last evening and emphasised that they were focusing on 3 states namely Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan to cooperate and improve initiativesRead More

Chandigarh, The Punjab Congress would launch massive ‘Save Punjab’ anti-drug awareness campaign from tomorrow in the state to combat this menace which has spread like a virus afflicting particularly the youth. Announcing this here today, the state party chief Mr Partap Singh Bajwa said the programme had ben chalked outRead More

Chandigarh, South Carolina Governor Niikki Haley today said her State would like to support Punjab in establishing aero space, Pharma, tourism and agro processing industries while visiting Deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal here. Ms Haley, who called on the Deputy CM at his official residence here, said South CarolinaRead More

NEW DELHI: Paving the way for implementation of trade facilitation pacts at WTO, India and the United States have resolved an impasse over food security-related issues while safeguarding interest of Indian farmers. With the US agreeing to support India’s proposal on public stockpiling of food, it would now go forRead More

Chandigarh/Jamshedpur, The All India Sikh Students Federation (AISSF) on Tuesday said it had filed a public interest litigation (PIL) in connection with the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in this part of the country. The PIL, filed by Satnam Singh Gambhir, president of the AISSF’s Bihar-Jharkhand unit, and Balwinder Kaur, a riotRead More

Hoshiarpur/Chandigarh, The Punjab Congress President, Mr Partap Singh Bajwa, today called upon the Parkash Singh Badal government to focus on governance which had become a casualty in the competitive politics between the alliance partners, the Akali Dal and the Bharatiya Janata Party which were trying to appropriate each other’s supportRead More

Chandigarh, The Punjab Government would soon sponsor the students keen to undertake four-year Bachelor Degree or three-year Master Degree program in fisheries from China’s leading institute Freshwater Fisheries Research Center (FFRC) at Wuxi This decision was taken by Punjab Chief Minister Mr. Parkash Singh Badal during his meeting with theRead More

Chandigarh, The political dynamics of Punjab which is prone to cyclical violence can ill-afford yet another polarisation after the bloody turmoil of the eighties which cost several thousands of lives, including the life of a prime minister and a chief minister. Not that there is imminent threat of eruption ofRead More

  Nay Pyi Taw, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday invited Malaysian companies to come to India as part of his “Make in India” initiative during talks with his Malaysian counterpart Najib Tun Razak. “I am giving lot of emphasis to @makeinindia & want to invite Malaysian companies toRead More