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Coming out in full support of Goods and Service Tax (GST), Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal attacked the Congress party for blocking the tax reform legislation. The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president accused the Congress of having an agenda of undoing whatever BJP Government did without bothering whether it is in nation’s interest. “I a…[Read more]

Badal, during his meeting with the Union Minister Nitin Gadkari, urged him to immediately declare the balance 1786.12 km of Guru Gobind Marg, linking Sri Anandpur Sahib-Talwandi Sabo-Nanded, as National Highway (NH) besides undertaking four-laning of the remainder 1775 km of this route on the priority. Apprising Gadkari about the significance of…[Read more]

Union minister for water resources, river development and Ganga rejuvenation and senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Uma Bharti asked the Punjab government to take immediate steps to recharge the depleting groundwater level in the state before the situation turns critical in the coming years. She said the state was facing impending threat…[Read more]

The Punjab Congress launched a statewide protest demanding a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe against private sugar mills for not clearing dues of sugarcane growers. Leading the protest outside Wahid Sandhar Sugar Mill here, Punjab Congress chief Partap Singh Bajwa also asked chief minister Parkash Singh Badal to call an emergency…[Read more]

Punjab Medical Council (PMC) has expressed strong reservations over interference into its functioning by the state medical education minister Anil Joshi in the matter of “ghost teachers” working in various medical colleges. PMC president Dr G S Grewal has questioned the clean chit given to delinquent doctors by the minister and has decided to go…[Read more]

Heated arguments that followed an alleged insubordination led to a naik shooting dead his senior, a havildar major, at the army shooting range at Haripur village in Adampur near here afternoon. Sources said Malkit Singh, 38, who hails from Dera Bassi in SAS Nagar district, pumped two bullets from his rifle into the chest of havildar major Rajiv…[Read more]

The people of his constituency behind him, chief parliamentary secretary (CPS) and Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) MLA Inderbir Singh Bolaria seems to be in an upbeat mood, showing no signs of retraction to his opposition to the proposed Solid Waste Management Plant at Bhagtanwala in his assembly segment. As his dharna against the plant enters second…[Read more]

A private bank manager was killed in a collision between a truck and his Maruti Alto near Machiwara, 35km from here. Pramod Pallaha, all of 26, was headed for Hoshiarpur to pick up his pregnant wife, Neha, and her mother, Suchita, when the accident happened near Jadodi village, on Khanna-Nawanshahr road. Pramod was a manager at an ICICI Bank…[Read more]

The Punjab Government announced setting up of Postgraduate Institute of Horticulture Research and Education at Amritsar.With the establishment of this institute, Punjab is set to become a leading State in Horticulture Research and the crop diversification projects will scale new heights, an official spokesperson of the Horticulture Department…[Read more]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Punjab visit to Dhudike village in Moga to pay tributes to martyr Lala Lajpat Rai on his 150th birth anniversary has been called off. Hectic preparations had been on for the past three months and even tents had been put up at the venue. Lala Lajpat Rai Birthplace Memorial Committee secretary Ranjit Singh Dhanna and…[Read more]

At a time when the Congress high command in Delhi is keen to solve the leadership issue in Punjab so as to put an end to the Amarinder-Bajwa feud, the Amritsar MP is treading a cautious path to avoid any direct confrontation with the Punjab Congress chief.
This became clear when the former chief minister Amarinder decided against holding rallies…[Read more]

Days after the Centre sought Punjab Government’s opinion on handing over the Gurdaspur terror attack case to National Investigation Agency (NIA), Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal said that both the Central and State Governments are conducting a “parallel” probe on the issue.
“Let NIA do their probe, the State Government is conducting its…[Read more]

The Punjab government today issued transfer/posting orders of seven IPS officers on administrative grounds at Punjab Chandigarh with immediate effect. According to an official spokesman, Mr. Parmod Ban IPS has been posted as IGP/ Counter Intellegenc, Mr. A.K. Pandey, IPS promoted as IGP/Special Protection Unit, Sh. Ananya Gautam IPS promoted as…[Read more]

Bharti Kisan Union (BKU-Ekta) will launch a statewide agitation from August 24 to 28 in at least 12 districts of Punjab to check and stop the suicides by the farmers and agriculture labourers. Farmers and their families will participate in the agitation against the “anti-farmers policies” of the state government and will be held in front of…[Read more]

In a second case of “mistaken identity” in two months, six Punjab cops, allegedly in an inebriated condition, chased a Ford Figo car and indiscriminately fired at two photographer brothers, seriously injuring both, near Dhuri town in Sangrur district on Tuesday night.
According to officials, the cops mistook the duo for gangsters. An Akali leader…[Read more]

The factional war in Punjab Congress continued on Wednesday as Captain Amarinder Singh’s loyalists — five woman MLAs — slammed former chief minister Rajinder Kaur Bhattal saying she was “known to be winning from Lehragaga assembly segment only because of Akalis’ help.” The MLAs were responding to Bhattal’s reported remark that Amarinder had won…[Read more]

Even as the senior leadership of the Punjab Congress is preparing to outsmart one another over the issue of problems faced by the State’s sugarcane farmers, the Punjab Government released 90 crore towards payment to sugarcane growers of State cooperative sugar mills. The Government would “immediately” release90 crore and remaining 90 crore would…[Read more]

Even as the senior leadership of the Punjab Congress is preparing to outsmart one another over the issue of problems faced by the State’s sugarcane farmers, the Punjab Government released 90 crore towards payment to sugarcane growers of State cooperative sugar mills. The Government would “immediately” release90 crore and remaining 90 crore would…[Read more]

Continuing with his dharna for shifting of the landfill site at Bhagtanwala and the proposed Solid Waste Treatment Plant at the site, chief parliamentary secretary (CPS) and Akali MLA Inderbir Bolaria appealed to his party to join the issue in the interest of the residents and the Golden Temple. Bolaria, who has raised his voice against the SAD…[Read more]

Expressing deep shock and anguish over the tragic accident at Gurdwara Manikaran Sahib in Himachal Pradesh, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal announced Rs1 lakh ex-gratia grant each to the next of kin of the deceased, Rs25,000 for seriously injured. Besides, the Chief Minister announced that the State Government would bear the entire…[Read more]