CHANDIGARH: The SAD wants its alliance partner BJP to vacate Batala and Garhshankar seats for its candidates, but state BJP leaders are reportedly not keen on doing so. Jagdish Sawhney, the sitting BJP MLA from Batala, is not willing to move out, while for the Garhshankar seat, the party is contemplating ...

PATHANKOT: Taking exception to the allegations leveled by a former Congress MLA over the misuse of public funds in constructing a Samarak of Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, the BJP on Sunday said it will expose "irregularities" committed in land deals during the tenure of Ashok Sharma as the Punjab Tourism Corporation ...

PATHANKOT NEWS: PPCC chief Capt Amarinder Singh, on Tuesday, dared chief minister Parkash Singh Badal and deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal to "an open debate on any of the issues relating to Punjab of their choice at any place or time". Addressing a pres conference after addressing an impressive rally ...

TARN TARAN(Punjab News): The resignations of ministers have nothing to do with corruption charges, Tikshan Sud BJP's legislature party's leader, has said. The timing of submission of resignation by party ministers had led people to speculate that it was triggered by the corruption charges Sud told the press on Thursday Tarn ...

BATALA: Amid protest by hundreds of women from Gandhi Camp and Singhpura village, who were raising slogans against the prevailing mismanagement at the local civil hospital, health minister Lakshmi Kanta Chalwa on Monday inaugurated the newly constructed 30-bed ward at the local civil hospital. The women tried to stop the ...

PATHANKOT: Though many bridges around Pathankot are in a bad shape, the one at Madhopur, which links Punjab and J&K, is the most unsafe. The wobbly bridge on the Ravi, used by hundreds of Commuters everyday, can collapse anytime. Not only is the road surface crying for repairs, the railings are ...

CHANDIGARH: In its campaign to put the government on the mat, senior BJP leaders will hold a rally at Rohtak in Haryana against the "large-scale loot and corruption by the present government at the Centre". "Senior leaders, including LK Advani, Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley and Sharad Yadav, besides others will take ...

CHANDIGARH: The Union government has in-principle agreed to waive off nearly Rs 35,000 crore debt of Punjab if the state curtailed subsidy, especially the free power to farm sector, Punjab Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal said on Friday. As the blame game over the rising debt - estimated to be over ...

PATHANKOT: As many as 300 teachers blocked the Pathankot-Jalandhar National Highway for more than an hour on Sunday, causing traffic tailbacks winding down several kilometers. The teachers from Shiksha Karmi Teachers Union raised anti-government slogans and refused to vacate the road even after police high-ups invited them to the table for ...