CHANDIGARH: On Republic Day, Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal would unfurl the National Flag at Ferozepur, while Sukhbir Singh Badal, deputy chief minister, would hoist the flag at Bathinda. Speaker Nirmal Singh Kahlon would unfurl the Tricolour at Tarn Taran, where­ as Chunni Lal Bhagar, deputy speaker, would do it ...

CHANDIGARH: Former chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Wednesday demanded that the Punjab Vidhan Sabha should hold one full session to discuss important issues of the state, including the "deteriorating economy", law and order and unemployment situation. The Patiala Congress MLA, who attended the Assembly after more than two years since ...

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab Government is mulling over a highly contentious legal tangle of challenging the CBI's decision of filing a chargesheet against Speaker Nirmal Singh Kahlon despite being denied the prosecution sanction, it is learnt. Before moving the Punjab and Haryana High Court, the Badal government has decided to seek legal ...

CHANDIGARH: The Vidhan Sabha on Thursday forgave Leader of the Opposition Rajinder Kaur Bhattal for denigrating the chair of the Speaker during the last session after the House unanimously requested him to take a lenient view. The committee of privileges of the House had indicted Bhattal for belittling the chair of ...

CHANDIGARH: It was a coming­ of-age moment for Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal in the Punjab Assembly on Wednesday as he delivered his maiden speech in the absence of his indisposed father, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal. In his 90-minute speech packed with facts and his trade­ mark passion, Sukhbir ...

CHANDIGARH: The Budget session began on a noisy note on Thursday with the Congress disrupting the Governor's address and staging a walk­ out, raising anti-government slogans and-dismissing the speech as "misleading". The Opposition, led by Congress Legislature Party leader Rajinder Kaur Bhattal, was on the offensive soon after Governor Shivraj V. ...