CHANDIGARH: In the absence of the opposition Congress, the Punjab Vidhan Sabha on Wednesday adopted a resolution urging the Centre to allocate Rs 5,000 crore for green revolution states on the pattern of Bringing Green Revolution to Eastern India (BGREI) in the 12th Five-Year Plan. Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal moved ...

PATHANKOT: The tussle between supporters of the Congress and SAD-BJP alliance to paste pictures of their respective leaders on it has taken toll on the 108 ambulance service, as the vehicle, these days, has been stationed at the Sujanpur police station. The ambulance service had been hit as some Youth Congress ...

PATHANKOT: Though local orchard owners have succeeded in getting the attention of chief minister Parkash Singh Badal regarding defunct ‘kuhals' (natural water channels) as the latter has granted Rs 50 lakh to the irrigation department to revive these Water channels passing through the city, the department concerned is yet to ...

CHANDIGARH: The Khalra Mission Organization (KMO) and the Punjab Human Rights Organization (PHRO) have condemned chief minister Parkash Singh Badal for appointing IPS officer Sumedh Singh Saini as the state police chief. "Badal has proved in his fifth tenure as the chief minister that he is on the side of those ...

NADALA (KAPURTHALA): Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Tuesday lambasted Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal for rendering Punjab a backward state during the SAD­ BJP's five-year rule. Attacking the SAD-BJP government, Hooda alleged that Punjab government misused the central government funds meant for the poor. Addressing an impressive rally ...

LUDHIANA: The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Monday lost its prominent Muslim face, Mohammad Usman Rehmani, who resigned from the post of the Party’s joint secretary and' announced support to the Congress. Accusing SAD party general secretary Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa and the CM's close aide Daljit Singh Cheema of furthering policies ...

CHANDIGARH: Punjab chief electoral officer Kusumjit Sidhu, a senior state cadre IAS officer, has been bereaved with the loss of her mother, Pritam Kaur Sidhu. Pritam Kaur passed away here on Tuesday night following a prolonged illness. She was 85. She is survived by three daughters. Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badaland Punjab ...

AMRITSAR: Youth Akali Dal chief and sitting Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) MLA from Majitha, Bikram Singh Majithia on Thursday started his election campaign after paying obeisance at Baba Budha Sahib (Janam Ashthan) gurdwara in Kathunangal village in his constituency. However, the speech that he gave on Thursday from the premises of ...

BATHINDA: Chief minister Parkash Singh Badal on Thursday evening made an unplanned and covert visit to Dera Roomi Wala at Bhucho Mandi. For 15 minutes, the chief minister was in a closed-door meeting with dera head Sukhdev Singh. Badal had taken his personal helicopter to Bhucho Mandi and landed it on ...

BATALA: The Punjab roadways employees struck work for a day and protested against the state government at Batala in front of the roadways' depot on Friday and blocked traffic on Jalandhar road. A large number of employees of Punjab Roadways, including drivers and conductors, took part in the protest on the ...

GURDASPUR: Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee SC cell convener Joginder Singh Chhina has criticised the SAD-BJP alliance for not disbursing Central scholarship money to the tune of Rs 95 crore meant for about 3 lakh school students from minority com­ munities, as reported by Hindustan Times on Monday. Stating that the ...

CHANDIGARH: A Punjab empowered committee on Thursday approved 19 mega projects worth Rs 4,457 crore in the state. The decision that includes seven new manufacturing units came at a committee meeting on Thursday in Chandigarh, where chief minister Parkash Singh Badalled the proceedings. The seven new industrial projects will soak up ...

PATHANKOT: Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has said that Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee chief Capt Amarinder Singh came out in the public only in the election season. The CM, in town for the inauguration of the Guru Nanak Dev University College in Narot Jaimal Singh said, "Capt. Amarinder hardly talks of ...