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Union Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment, Vijay Sampla today advised the Congress leaders not to play politics over the issue of setting up of AIIMS at Bathinda. Reacting to the dharna staged by the workers of the Congress party led by former MP Mohinder Singh KP and PPCC spokesperson Sukhpal Khaira, Sampla said it shameful that…[Read more]

Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee today staged a dharna against the shifting of All India Institute of medical Sciences (AIIMS) from Doaba belt to Bathinda. Former MP and ex Punjab minister Mohinder Singh KP, PPCC spokesperson Sukhpal Singh Khaira and DCC president Rajinder Berri led the protest. Congress workers in hundreds participated in the…[Read more]

The Shiromani Akali Dal strongly condemned the statement of former Chief Minister Capt. Amarinder Singh issued after Bhadson rally today against Punjab Chief Minister S Parkash Singh Badal and said that such false, baseless and irresponsible utterances reflect the frustration of the Congress leader. In a statement issued from the party head…[Read more]

Senior Congress leader and Kapurthala MLA Rana Gurjeet Singh today strongly condemned the brutal lathi-charge on protesting Punjab teachers and asked Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal to explain whether it was the only way to communicate with peaceful protesters. Reacting to the Sunday incident that happened in Bathinda, where EGS and AIESTR…[Read more]

District police on the complaint of Nirmal Singh (50), have booked mother-son duo Ramesh Kumari (48) and Deepak Kumar (26) of Maghu Patti under Baghapurana police station along with one Sanjiv Kumar resident of Jodhan under section 420 and 120-B of IPC act. According to police, the three allegedly duped Nirmal Singh on pretext of sending his son…[Read more]

A youth today allegedly tried to commit suicide in the office of Senior Superintendent of Police Batala while consuming some poisonous substance here today. Sushil Kumar, a resident of this industrial town had borrowed money from private money lenders who allegedly assaulted him . In the meantime, he went to SSP office to lodge a complaint…[Read more]

Punjab today launched a state-wide campaign to motivate people to pledge eyes and other body parts to benefit lakhs of visually impaired people also besides patients in need of organ transplantation. Ms Vini Mahajan, Principal Secretary Health and Family Welfare, Punjab, said that lakhs of people in the country suffer from corneal blindness every…[Read more]

Punjab Police has busted a Pakistan-Mumbai trans-border heroin smuggling network with the arrest of five people, including a BSF constable. Police have so far seized five kg heroin, two cars, Pak SIM card and Rs 68 lakh cash. Claiming this here today, Bathinda Zone IGP Paramraj Singh Umranangal told mediapersons that police arrested five people,…[Read more]

Punjab government has announced to honour 3,726 outstanding players, who have earned laurels to the state by bagging medals in various international and national sports events since 2011 to 2015, with cash prizes worth Rs 15 crore. A decision to this effect was taken in a departmental meeting held by Deputy CM Sukhbir Singh Badal, who also holds…[Read more]

Punjab govt is all set to introduce mobile app for the facilitation of farmers to give them to access to current and agriculture related market information and developments. Stating this here today, an official spokesman said that the farmers will be able to get information about agriculture development, including latest techniques to sow the…[Read more]

Union Minister for Food Processing Harsimrat Kaur Badal today said Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s efforts have led the country from Scam India towards Skill India making it grow by leaps and bound. “The Digital India campaign is yet another effort of the government to make India shine at the international level. Central Government is working tow…[Read more]

Punjab Cricket Association Joint Secretary G S Walia has been appointed as manager of the Indian team to tour Zimbabwe from June 10 as per the communication received from Board of Control for Cricket in India.
The team will assemble at Mumbai on June 6 and leave for Harare in the early hours of Tuesday. According to PCA spokesperson Sushil Kapoor,…[Read more]

President of Punjab Olympic Association president and Member Rajya Sabha Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa today thanked Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal for giving in principal approval to create a corpus fund for the welfare of sports stars in distress and crisis. In a statement, Mr. Dhindsa said the general body of Punjab Olympic…[Read more]

Punjab Chief Secretary Sarvesh Kaushal today said the state government had spent Rs 140 crore to strengthen dhussi bundhs along the rivers of Ravi, Beas and Sutlej. Chairing the meeting of deputy commissioners of 13 districts and senior officers and engineers of the drainage department to review the preparedness of the district administrations to…[Read more]

Punjab Chief Secretary Sarvesh Kaushal will chair the high level meeting of officers and deputy commissioners being held here tomorrow to review the arrangements made by the district administration of nearly 13 districts to control the floods during the rainy season. The state government had made elaborate arrangements to deal with the flood like…[Read more]

Commissionerate police have booked a paramour for hacking his girlfriend to death. Palwinder Singh, SHO, PS Rama Mandi said the police achieved success in cracking the blind murder of Promila Puri, whose body was found in Shalimar Colony on April 19, this year. He said Vijay Kumar, husband of the deceased woman had revealed to the police that his…[Read more]

As monsoon is likely to hit Punjab in few days, the administrations of Gurdaspur and Pathankot, districts have been gearing up for flood control. The two districts have set up sub-divisional flood control rooms at Pathankot, Gurdaspur, Dera Baba Nanak and Batala which have started functioning round the clock from today. These control rooms have…[Read more]

Deputy Leader of Congress in the Lok Sabha Captain Amarinder Singh today ruled out the possibility of floating a new party. Interacting with the mediapersons after addressing a rally to begin with his mass contact programme at Jalandhar Cantonment, Captain Singh said he is a loyal member of the party and had never thought about leaving the party.…[Read more]

City and surrounding areas today experienced heavy rains after storm engulfed the entire city in dust. Sign boards, flex boards and roofs erected with tin angle irons blew in the air. Storm winds disrupted power supply and telephone services also in the city. The roads of the city and the low lying areas got inundated in the rainy waters flowing…[Read more]

Senior BJP leader Pradip Khullar, an aide of Union Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment Vijay Sampla, seems to have fled from India to evade arrest by the Commissionerate police in the Nishan Singh suicide case. Location of Pradip Khullar on his Face Book account had indicated his presence in the Saudi Arab. The Commissionerate…[Read more]