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. ...

BATHINDA: Member of Parliament (MP) Harsimrat Kaur Badal has said the Congress was deliberately keeping the prime minister out of the Lokpal's ambit to save the 'PM-in-waiting' Rahul Gandhi from future prosecution. Harsimrat added that the Congress-led UPA government was using the honesty of Manmohan Singh as a shield to protect ...

AMRITSAR: Leader of opposition in the Rajya Sabha and senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley has claimed that divergent views of allies within the UPA on allowing FDI in retail and other issues led to the stalling of Parliament proceedings. “There is a lack of consensus on FDI and other issues in ...

LUDHIANA: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari claimed on Sunday that among the three members of Parliament (MPs) whose names figure in the list of 700 people who have stashed funds in Swiss banks, one is from the Punjab Congress. "Who is he (the MP from Punjab with money in ...

HOSHIARPUR: Former Punjab chief minister and senior Congress leader Amarinder Singhon Monday said the Prime Minister could not be summoned to the Akal Takht, the highest temporal seat of Sikhism. "With all respect to the sanctity and authority of Akal Takht Sahib, the Prime Minister cannot be summoned there," he told ...

LUDHIANA: "We will withdraw from the SGPC elections if the Punjab and Haryana high court takes a decision in favour of Sehajdharis." This was announced by Paramjit Singh Sarna, president of the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC), while addressing reporters here on Friday. Holding chief minister Parkash Singh Badal guilty of ...

CHANDIGARH: Shiromani Akali Dal president and Punjab deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal on Thursday lashed out at the Congress-led UPA government, describing the withdrawal of the notification on the eligibility of Sehajdhari Sikh voters as an attempt to avoid a rout of the anti-Panth and Congress­ backed Panthic Morcha ...

GURDASPUR: PPCC's Flagship Programme Monitoring Committee member Kanwal Bakshi announced the district unit of the committee at a function organized at Congress Bhawan here on Friday. DCC president Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa explained why the PPCC had formed the committee in Punjab. He alleged that the state government was not properly implementing ...

CHANDIGARH: The Congress said on Monday that the 16 flagship programmes of the UPA government started in the state belied the claims of the SAD-BJP government that the Centre was discriminating against Punjab by denying it grants. Speaking at a meeting of the UPA flagship programmes implementation monitoring committee, party in ...

CHANDIGARH: PPCC president Capt Amarinder Singh on Tuesday dared chief minister Parkash Singh Badal to name a single development project exclusively conceived and financed by the Akali-led government. The state Congress chief said the Badal government was trying to claim "false credit" for various development projects that were part of 16 ...

GURDASPUR NEWS: District SAD workers staged a rather unmotivated sit-in against corruption outside the deputy commissioner's office here on Thursday following party president Sukhbir Singh Badal's instructions with most leaders harping on the "achievements" of the state government. Ironically, Punjab agriculture minister and district SAD president Sucha Singh Langah, who led ...

CHANDIGARH: Former minister and BJP leader Balramji Dass Tandon on Tuesday condemned the central government's action against Baba Ramdev on the intervening night of June 4 and 5. Tandon said the action reminded him of the situation that built up in the country before the Emergency in 1975, imposed by ...

ROHTAK(Punjab News): All-India Krishak Khet Mazdoor Sangthan (AIKKMS) organised a state convention against agriculture land acquisition, increase in petrol prices and electric tariffs, and re-imposition of house tax in rural and urban areas, at Chhotu Ram Park here on Sunday. Anoop Singh Matanhail presided over the convention. Two resolutions were ...