JALANDHAR: Blaming the UPA government for the rampant corruption and price rise in the country, BJP president Nitin Gadkari said on Tuesday that the union government had lost its vision and the faith of the public. "The coming assembly elections in five states are a semifinal to the Lok Sabha elections. ...

JALANDHAR: The city police have booked four persons for allegedly raping a 14-year old girl on the intervening night of January 20-21. The mother of the victim had alleged that her daughter was raped at the poll campaign office of independent candidate from Jalandhar North constituency, Dinesh Dhall. Investigating Officer Jagdish ...

JALANDHAR: Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi will campaign for the BJP in the assembly polls as part of the party's efforts to rejuvenate its campaign. The party hopes to consolidate Hindu votes by bringing in Modi. Apart from Modi, who is known as face for his initiatives for development in Punjab, ...

JALANDHAR: In the Dalit-dominated Adampur assembly constituency reserved for scheduled caste candidates, both the Congress and Shiromani Akali Dal have opted for candidates with Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) background. Congress candidate Satnam Singh Kainth remained BSP MLA from Banga assembly constituency in 1992. He left BSP and contested, and won ...

JALANDHAR: The Adampur Bachao Action Committee will organise protest marches in the town on Sunday against the candidature of Pawan Kumar Tinu as Shiromani Akali Dal candidate from the Adampur assembly constituency. It has also appealed to other Sikh organizations to join the protest. The core committee of the organization will ...

JALANDHAR: Eight Congress councilors and seven former councilors on Friday revolted against the party's decision to field advocate Raj Kumar Gupta from Jalandhar (central) seat. Rajinder Beri, the leader of the dissident group, alleged that Gupta had deserted the party during 2007 assembly elections. "The party high command should replace Gupta and ...

JALANDHAR: The two youth, who recently came back India from the illegal detention of a company in Kuwait, have demanded the intervention of Indian embassy in rescuing the remaining 19 youth from the state still hostage with the company. Gurmel Singh (24) a resident of Phagwara and Kulwinder Kumar (23), resident ...

JALANDHAR: BJP candidates have decided on a schedule to file their nominations. Most leaders are learnt to have consulted their astrologers to decide on the date and time. Manoranjan Kalia (contesting from Jalandhar Central) and Tikshan Sud (contesting from Hoshiarpur) respectively, will file their nominations on Friday at a time, suggested ...

JALANDHAR: A food court employee, Raju Das, a native of Guwahati in Assam, was allegedly murdered in the basement of the premises. SHO police station Division Number 8 said that the owner of the Quality Food Court Satwinder Singh found Raju, 38, in a critical condition on Sunday morning. "I saw ...

JALANDHAR: A money exchanger has alleged police harassment in the name of following the election code of conduct. Chattar Singh Bhatia, who runs a money exchange shop in Cantonment area named of Babu Money Changers said the police illegally seized Rs 8.50 lakh from his employee Harpreet Singh. "Harpreet had withdrawn ...

JALANDHAR: Reiterating that development would be the poll plank of the SAD, Punjab deputy CM Sukhbir Badal said on Monday that the electorate of Punjab would have to choose between 'vikas' (development) and 'vinaash' (destruction) in the assembly elections. Talking to media persons at Dera Kahna Dhesian here, Sukhbir said former ...

JALANDHAR: Taking note of the problem of drug abuse, Anurag Verma, commissioner, Jalandhar Division, in a letter to the principal secretary, health, has pointed out that there were 232 cases where the drug controller has not taken any action. Talking about the sorry state of affairs in the office of the ...

JALANDHAR: Potato is selling at Re 1 to Rs 2.5 per kg as the mandis are flooded with new crop, while the old stock is yet to be cleared. While the stored potato is fetching a price of Re 1 to 1.5 for a kg, the fresh crop is being ...