CHANDIGARH: Punjab Vidhan Sabha speaker Nirmal Singh Kahlon on Tuesday directed six Congress MLAs to file their replies on May 10 to the notices issued to them for their alleged misconduct during the budget session. The speaker had asked the MLAs to give an explanation before the Privileges Committee. On March ...

RUPNAGAR: Congress Legislature Party leader Rajinder Kaur Bhattal on Tuesday asked Punjab deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal to stop dreaming about ruling the state again. Bhattal was here to console the family of District Congress Committee (legal cell) chairman Vishkaramjit Singh Rehal, who died recently. "Sukhbir is building castles in the ...

CHANDIGARH: Leader of the opposition Rajinder Kaur Bhattal on Sunday stated that Manpreet Singh Badal's move to form his party was the fallout of "a power tussle with his cousin (deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal)." "This Manpreet, who now vows to rout the corrupt regime, is the same who was ...

CHANDIGARH: Opposition leader Rajinder Kaur Bhattal on Thursday slammed the SAD­-BJP government for the police cane-charge on protesting unemployed linemen near Mohali on Wednesday, and demanded a probe into the police action. "The unemployed workers were protesting peacefully for their regularisation at a sangat darshan programme of the chief ...

PATIALA: SAD general secretary Prem Singh Chandumajra on Monday said return of Tamil Nadu governor Surjeet Singh Barnala to active politics in Punjab would make no difference. Claiming there was no scope for a third front in the state, Chandumajra told mediapersons: "Not only in Punjab, people across the country have ...

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab government on Monday constituted a 16-member state-level empowered committee to ensure implementation of the Punjabi language in all offices of the government, boards, corporations, subordinate courts and educational institutions. The committee has been sent up under the Punjab State Language (Amended) Act (PSLA)-2008. According to a government spokesman, the ...

CHANDIGARH: The Union government has in-principle agreed to waive off nearly Rs 35,000 crore debt of Punjab if the state curtailed subsidy, especially the free power to farm sector, Punjab Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal said on Friday. As the blame game over the rising debt - estimated to be over ...

CHANDIGARH: Following his acquittal in a corruption case, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Friday announced in the state Assembly he had decided to withdraw two separate cases of defamation he had filed against former chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh. Badal made the announcement on the floor of the House ...

CHANDIGARH: A high-level Central team of medical experts will visit cancer belt in the Malwa region from Thursday for an in depth study of the disease, the state Congress has said. In a press statement, the Congress said during its three-day visit, the team will study the problem of high incidence ...

SAS NAGAR: With less than a year and a half to go for the Vidhan Sabha polls, the Congress presented a united front here on Saturday. Former chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh and Leader of Opposition Rajinder Kaur Bhattal shared the stage with state Congress acting president Mohinder Singh Kaypee ...

CHANDIGARH: Leader of Opposition Rajinder Kaur Bhattal of the Congress on Sunday rubbished the assertions of Chief Minster Parkash Singh Badal on the Rajiv-Longowal pact, saying the issue was long dead, but was raked up by the Akalis with an eye on Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) elections. Talking to select ...

JALANDHAR: Accusing the state government of failing to provide even minimum relief to flood­ affected people, Rajinder Kaur Bhattal, Leader of the Opposition, has demanded a special Assembly session on steps taken to tackle the flood situation. "The plight of flood victims can be gauged from the fact that the authorities ...

LEHRA (SANGRUR): The mafia and bureaucracy are running the state, not the SAD-BJP, which is why the present state of law and order, Opposition leader Rajinder Kaur Bhattal said on Sunday. The elected representatives have no say in matters of governance, she told reporters at Lehra, her constituency. Bhattal said the bandh ...