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 ...

CHANDIGARH: Opposition Punjab Congress on Wednesday condemned the privatisation of five sugar mills and three distilleries under the build, operate, own and transfer (BOOT) basis that it claimed was contrary to the SAD-BJP's manifesto. The party criticised the SAD-BJP government's decision to privatise the sugar mills of Patiala, Tarn Taran, Faridkot, ...

RAMGARH (KAPURTHALA): Former chief minister and PPCC president Capt Amarinder Singh on Friday warned the SAD­ BJP government not to grant the Rs 18,000 crore concessions being sought by the Laxmi Mittal-owned Bathinda refinery, as the Congress would undo any such benefits ill case it-came to power. Capt Amarinderwas addressing a ...

CHANDIGARH: Congress MLA from Bholath, Sukhpal Singh Khaira on Wednesday called on Union Minister for Water Resources Pawan Kumar Bansal in Delhi, demanding the release of Rs 10.24 crore for flood protection works in Kapurthala district. In a related memorandum to the Union Minister, Khaira pointed out that the proposed grant ...

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab Congress has demanded that the SAD-BJP government should proportionately distribute Rs 800 crore among the small and marginal farmers. Congress MLA from Bholath, Sukhpal Singh Khaira said the Union Minister of State for Finance Namo Narain Meena informed him that the Union Government had released Rs 800 crore ...

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 ...