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 ...

AMRITSAR: Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Sunday inaugurated 75-crore Bebe Nanki Mother and Child Care Centre at the Government Medical College. Badal said 28 crore had been sanctioned for setting up a state-of-the-art Guru Tegh Bahadur Diagnostic Centre at the medical college. During the last four years, the state ...

CHANDIGARH: Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Monday said seeking red beacon and security has become a "fashion" in the state. While approving the use of red beacon by chairman of Punjab and Haryana Bar Council Lekh Raj Sharma during a function at Law Bhawan here, Badal said, "Nowhere in the ...

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab government has constituted a committee to decide the amount of cash allowance in lieu of land allotment for gallantry award­ winners. A decision to this effect was taken by chief minister Parkash Singh Badal at a meeting with a delegation of The War Decorated lrIdia, led by its ...

NAKODAR: Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Capt Amarinder Singh on Thursday accused chief minister Parkash Singh Badal of patronizing a section of Punjab Police officers who allegedly engineered extra-judicial killings of innocent Sikh youths during the days of terrorism. Amarinder targeted Badal and other Akali leaders for defending police officers, including ...