AMRITSAR: Deputy Chief minister Sukhbir Badal threw open to public Amrit Anand Park (Rose Garden) in the local Ranjit Avenue area here on Friday. Although the project was planned to be executed under two phases, one of its phases of 16 acres was opened on Friday. The ambitious project has an ...

JALANDHAR: Baba Ramndev would visit Dera Babe Jaure at Rampur Rasulpur village on Saturday. The visit assumes political significance as the dera head Numal Dass met deputy chief minister Sukhbir Badal on Friday. Dass, along with the head of Dera Kahnan Dhesian (Gorayan), Surinder Singh Babla, met Sukhbir at a local hotel. Dera ...

BATALA: Deputy chief minister Sukhbir Badal has said Punjab Congress president Capt Amarinder Singh has to apologise to the people for working against the interests of the state". Addressing five rallies in the favour of seven SGPC candidates of the Shiromani Akali Dal and Sant Samaj at different places, Sukhbir criticized ...

CHANDIGARH: The People's Party of Punjab (PPP) chief Manpreet Badal, on Friday dared the father-son duo of chief minister Parkash Singh Badaland deputy chief minister Sukhbir Badalto declare their constituencies for the assembly elections. "Let them declare constituencies from where they would be contesting if they are so strong (in Gidderbaha)," ...

JALANDHAR: Canadian parliamentarian Ruby Dhalla would meet 200 victims of fraudulent marriages by NRIs, at Ramoowala Nava in Moga on January 14. She told HT she wanted to understand the issue in the right perspective before taking it up at forums in India and Canada. The venue is the native village ...

CHANDIGARH: With the BJP demanding new districts, chief minister Parkash Singh Badal on Thursday announced a cabinet subcommittee comprising deputy chief minister Sukhbir Badal and industries minister Manoranjan Kalia. Kalia and state BJP chief Ashwani Sharma, on Wednesday, had demanded carving out of Pathankot and Fazilka districts. The sub-committee has been formed ...

JALANDHAR, The "anti-Punjab" propaganda unleashed by certain politicians is an attempt to scuttle investment and in turn, development, in the state, deputy chief minister Sukhbir Badal said on Thursday in a veiled reference to estranged cousin Manpreet Badal. "As part of a government, if you start projecting the state in a ...

PATIALA: Making a headstart, given that there are barely 13 months to the assembly election, deputy chief minister Sukhbir Badal who was in Patiala on Monday made an appeal for votes. "Leave aside grudges and vote for the SAD-BJP alliance," he told a gathering of party workers and others. "Our government ushered ...

FARlDKOT: On November 24, ousted finance minister Manpreet Badal will launch his 'Jago Punjab' yatra from Faridkot. In a bid to stay a step ahead, the SAD on Monday held a rally in town and galvanised workers for an anti-UPA campaign. Deputy chief minister Sukhbir Badal urged workers to fan out ...

CHANDIGARH: Party cadres from across the state converged at the Punjab Congress Bhawan on Friday as former chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh formally took charge as Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) president. People want change; said Capt. "I take over (as PPCC chief) with barely a year to the state election." He ...

CHANDIGARH: Ignoring the assertion by ousted finance minister Manpreet Singh that the rich and prosperous farmers could, and should, pay for power, deputy chief minister Sukhbir Badal on Sunday stuck to his guns on the debate on subsidies. The contention that big farmers be made to pay for power, got ...

CHANDPUR RURKI (NAWANSHAHR): It was a gathering as any other, only the rhetoric instead of being anti-Congress was dedicated to Manpreet Badal. Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal, who was here to lay the foundation stone of the Rs 126-crore Kandi canal project on the birth anniversary of Baba Gurditta Singh on ...

JALANDHAR: Local bodies minister Manoranjan Kalia on Friday hosted deputy chief minister Sukhbir Badal for lunch at his home in Jalandhar. But food was not the only thing on the menu. As it was Sukhbir's first visit in a long time to Kalia's residence, there was a lavish garnish of welcome ...