PATHANKOT: The proposed visit of state Congress chief Capt Amarinder Singh to Pathankot on Monday to quell rebellion in the party was cancelled due to heavy rainfall. The party candidate from Pathankot, Raman Bhalla, and the Congress nominee from Sujanpur, Vinay Mahajan, had jointly organised a function where Amarinder was expected ...

AMRITSAR: A couple of days after allegations came from one Satinder Kaur that her husband Sahib Singh was allegedly beat­ en up and abducted by BJP workers in the presence of police, the city police have termed the abduction story concocted. Sahib Singh was instead found living at the residence of ...

AMRITSAR: A total of 228 candidates are left in the fray in the 25 assembly segments of the Majha belt after scrutiny of nomination papers on Friday. Nomination papers of all the candidates of main political par­ties-Congress, SAD, BJP and Sanjha Morcha-were found in order during the scrutiny. Now, 110 candidates are ...

GURDASPUR: Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee member Raman Bahl, while addressing a meeting of party workers at Halla village near here on Sunday, condemned the BJP leadership for carving out the new district of Pathankot, causing a 'communal divide' in the Gurdaspur district. He said that the BJP was wrong in ...

GURDASPUR: Intensifying their tirade against Gurdaspur Improvement Trust chairperson Ravinder Verma, five disgruntled trustees, including one from SAD and four from BJP, on Wednesday demanded his suspension besides seeking a probe into the trust deals during his tenure. The members, including Paramjit Singh, Anil Chander Nanda, Sudhir Kumar, Devinder Kumar and Renu Bala, ...

FAZILKA: Buoyed over the creation of Fazilka as a district, the BJP on Thursday sounded the poll bugle by organising a show of strength in the presence of senior party leaders. The state BJP unit sent out a message to the ruling alliance partner, the Shiromani Akali Dal, that despite bickering ...

LUDHIANA: Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Captain Amarinder Singhon Thursday condemned the silence of chief minister Parkash Singh Badaland deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal following the death of a farmer during a police lathi charge on protesters in Mansa on Tuesday. Addressing a press conference after meeting workers of Jagraon, ...

PATHANKOT: The announcement of corporation status for Pathankot has evoked a mixed response in political circles of the town. The existing Municipal Council has 21 Congress councilors and 11 from the BJP. No wonder, the Congress criticized the decision, while the BJP hailed it. State BJP president Ashwani Sharma claimed that it ...

PATHANKOT: Finally breaking his silence on the treatment meted out to him by the BJP leadership, former Gurdaspur MP and Bollywood veteran Vinod Khanna said on Tuesday that He was pained by how senior, party leaders had been "sidelining" him over the years. Khanna, who was a part and parcel of ...

CHANDIGARH: All shops and commercial establishments in Punjab will remain closed on July 4 up to 1pm to protest the recent increase in fuel prices. This was decided at a joint meeting of the core committees of the SAD and the BJP on Thursday under the chairmanship of chief minister Parkash ...

PATHANKOT: The renaming of the Chakki Bank railway station has triggered a new battle for credit among old rivals, the Congress and BJP. Even a senior citizen, HR Khera, has claimed to be the force behind the change. Partap Singh Bajwa, Congress member of parliament from Gurdaspur, has come out with ...

BATALA(Punjab News): A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) councilor on Thursday resigned as member of the local Improvement Trust in protest against the suspected hand of chairman Dev Raj Chachowalia in selling off trust land cheap. "The way in which the trust chairman sold off land worth more than 10 crore to ...

JALANDHAR: A group of religious leaders registered their protest with Akal Takht jathedar Gurbachan Singh on Sunday over the rising pollution in Kali Bein, saying the discontinuation of supply of fresh water into the rivulet by a BJP legislator near If Terkiana could be "part of a deep-rooted conspiracy of ...