CHANDIGARH: Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said the SAD-BJP alliance in Punjab retained power because of the development that took place in the state during five years of the coalition government". Modi, who faces assembly elections in his state later this year, was here to take part in Parkash ...

CHANDIGARH: SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Friday ridiculed Congress president Sonia Gandhi for "contradicting her government's and Planning Commission's official figures" on the utilization of central funds by the Punjab government and said her "high noon falsehoods" on the subject could only be the result of her realization that ...

FEROZEPUR: Punjab deputy chief minister and Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal submitted his nomination papers to the returning officer-cum-sub divisional magistrate at Jalalabad in Fazika district on Monday. Sukhbir's total assets are valued at more than Rs 76 crore. Prior to the 2009 by-election at Jalalabad, his total ...

TARN TARAN: The deputy com­ missioner's office is supposed to implement the code of con­duct. However, there is violation of the code right outside the DC's office with hoardings belonging to Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) banners contain pictures of Youth Akali Dal president Bikramjit Singh Majithia and SAD President Sukhbir ...

CHANDIGARH: SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal said on Monday that state Congress chief Amarinder Singh was "misleading" people by challenging the ruling party for an open debate - as the actual forum for political discourse was the assembly. "Instead of taking up issues concerning Punjab, the Congress has only been ...

CHANDIGARH: Four leaders of the Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) from Barnala joined the SAD here on Wednesday in the presence of SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal. The leaders, including Paramjit Singh Khalsa, Paramjit Singh, Roshan Singh and Gurdarshan Singh, said former MLA and SAD's Barnala area incharge Malkit Singh Kittu and ...

BATALA: District Congress committee president and former parliamentary secretary Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa blamed the ruling SAD-BJP government for "politicizing" the Punjab Police, on Sunday. Reacting to a photograph that appeared in Hindustan Times on July 16, showing a proclaimed offender, Sukhdev Singh, shaking hands with Punjab DGP Paramdeep Singh Gill, Randhawa ...

CHANDIGARH: SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal has nominated Harpreet Singh Brar, a lawyer, as the president of the party's legal cell. In a press statement, SAD spokesperson Daljit Singh Cheema said Brar would fill the post left vacant after Harish Rai Dhanda was nominated chair­man of the Punjab Public Service Commission. Brar, ...

CHANDIGARH: Two SAD legislators who have been openly siding with ousted finance minister Manpreet Singh Badal have failed to respond to the disciplinary committee of the party for their "anti-party activities". The five-member disciplinary committee headed by cabinet minister Ranjit Singh Brahmpura had sought explanation from SAD MLA from Jalandhar ...

KHANNA: Seeking to downplay the appointment of Capt Amarinder Singh as state Congress chief, Punjab deputy chief minister and SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Sunday said it was an "internal matter" of the Congress and would have "zero impact" on SAD in the elections. Badal was here to attend a ...

CHANDIGARH: Former finance minister Manpreet Singh Badal on Tuesday said there was no truth in the repeated assertions by SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal on subsides. His rejoinder to Sukhbir: ''Are you lying or are you just plain ignorant?" Refuting Sukhbir's claim that Punjab farmers would have to shell out 30,000 per ...

LONGOWAL (SANGRUR): Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Friday expressed concern over the pressure on Sikhs in Kashmir to convert to Islam, saying SAD and other NDA parties would stall the proceedings in Parliament to draw the attention of the government to the threat to the minority community. He said he ...

HOSHIARPUR: The court of Chief Judical magistrate Gurjant Singh, on Wednesday, issued bail able warrants for SAD secretary in a criminal case of forgery filed by Malta Boat Tragedy Probe Mission chairman Balwant Singh Khera. The court had summoned him on the last date of hearing and asked him to produce  ...