The ruling Congress in Punjab on Saturday won the most seats in the Zila Parishad and Panchayat Samiti elections and headed for a landslide victory as counting was underway. The main opposition AAP in the state assembly faced a humiliating defeat. Out of 113 Zila Parishad seats — out of[Read More…]
The ruling Congress has swept the zila parishad and panchayat samiti polls in Punjab, according to the results declared Sunday. The Congress won 331 of the 335 zila (district) parishad seats, while the Shiromani Akali Dal got 18, Bharatiya Janata Party secured two and the Aam Aadmi Party none, the[Read More…]
A consumer disputes forum in Amritsar ordered IndiGo Airline to pay a total of Rs 1.20 lakh compensation for 3 passengers who were troubled by mosquitoes in the flight from Delhi in April this year. In its ruling, the forum took note of the complaint filed by three city lawyers that[Read More…]
Accusing the state’s Congress government of encouraging radical elements, former Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Sunday claimed there was a plot to assassinate him and his son Sukhbir Badal. “I have been informed by the police about a plot to assassinate me and my son. But we neither[Read More…]
In an effort to tackle the stray dog menace in the city, a proposal has come up to allow residents to adopt two stray canines. As per the agenda, a Chandigarh resident can now pet four dogs provided, the two of them should be community dogs, defined as non-breed stray[Read More…]
Punjab Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu on Thursday released CCTV footage that he said showed police action against peaceful protesters and subsequent firing leading to the death of two youths in Kotkapura in October 2015 following sacrilege incidents. Sidhu demanded action against then Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and Shiromani Akali[Read More…]
SFS candidate Kanu Priya is elected president of Panjab University students’ council. She is the first woman to win the top post. Daler Singh of the SOI alliance has won vice president’s post. Daler Singh of the SOI alliance has won vice president’s post in Panjab University students’ council election. There were[Read More…]
Chandigarh Traffic police has issued challan o as many as 128 women for not wearing a helmet while riding two-wheelers on the first day of the challan drive on Wednesday. The traffic police will continue their awareness campaign for another 10 days while also issuing challans to the offenders. While[Read More…]
The Punjab cabinet, led by chief minister Amarinder Singh, today approved modifications to the existing dispute resolution and litigation policy. The Punjab Dispute Resolution and Litigation Policy, 2018 aims at quick disposal of ongoing litigation and the minimising of institution of new court cases, so as to reduce the financial and administrative burden on the government,[Read More…]
A sedition case was filed against Punjab minister Navjot Singh Sidhu in a Bihar Court on for ‘insulting India Army’ after he hugged Pakistan’s Army Chief Qamar Javed Bajwa at the swearing-in ceremony of Imran Khan as Pakistan’s prime minister. Lawyer Sudhir Kumar Ojha filed the case in Muzaffarpur’s Chief[Read More…]
CHANDIGARH: Terming a rally held by a Sikh organisation in London as a “no-show and a damp squib”, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh said on Monday that the event has “exposed total lack of ground support for (pro-Khalistan) Referendum 2020 even outside India”. Dismissing the event as a “futile exercise[Read More…]
Chandigarh: Amid reports suggesting that the Congress could go in for an alliance with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) at the national level, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Tuesday made it clear that the party did not need an alliance to fight the 2019 Lok Sabha elections in the[Read More…]
Chandigarh: Taking a serious note of the issue, Punjab Assembly Speaker Rana K.P. Singh said on Tuesday that he will take up the matter of two state legislators being sent back from Ottawa airport by Canadian authorities. The legislators, Amarjit Singh and Kultar Singh, both from the Aam Aadmi Party,[Read More…]
Chandigarh: Punjab Police arrested a priest and self-styled healer from the Delhi international airport following a complaint from a woman in Zirakpur that he had raped her, said an official on Thursday. Zirakpur station house officer (SHO) Pawan Kumar said the priest, Bajinder Singh, was nabbed from the Delhi airport[Read More…]
Chandigarh: Around 60 development projects of the various government departments are stuck up due to fund shortage of upto 400 crore. The work on these projects, which was initiated by the previous SAD-BJP regime, is pending since April last year. The PWD is executing most of these projects, which includes[Read More…]
Chandigarh: In a meeting on Tuesday, Local Bodies Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu , expressed his anger on a Group of Ministers here while questioning the rationale behind bringing in a draft of The Punjab Laws (Special Provisions for Regularisation Authorised Colony) Bill, 2018, which, he claimed, would benefit only colonisers[Read More…]
Bathinda: The Rs 1,000-crore AIIMS project granted to Punjab in 2016 is held up because the state government has not been able to chip in its share of Rs 16.28 crore. Due to this, the groundbreaking ceremony for the project, which was scheduled for Monday, has been postponed again. From[Read More…]
Chandigarh: On an average, for the past two months one person dies every day due to drugs. As per the records accessed by The Tribune since May 15 drugs are being mentioned as the cause of death in the post-mortem reports of more than 60 young men at government hospitals across[Read More…]
Chandigarh: Buprenorphine, a substitute to treat narcotic addicts and psychotropic substances are being sold at price range of Rs 20-100 while the same is sold at a price as low as Rs 4.38 in the government hospitals. As many as 96 private de-addiction centres are under the lens to keep[Read More…]
Indian Women’s T20 captain Harmanpreet Kaur’s graduation degree turned out to be fake. The Punjab government may decide to demote her as a constable in the Punjab Police, four months after she was appointed a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP). She had joined the Punjab police as a DSP on[Read More…]
Chandigarh: The Punjab Vigilance Bureau on Sunday registered a case of disproportionate assets against senior Shiromani Akali Dal leader Dyal Singh Kolianwali. A Bureau spokesman said that Kolianwali has been booked for amassing wealth beyond his known sources of income. He has been accused of allegedly misusing his official position.[Read More…]
Chandigarh: The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Saturday said that the Amarinder Singh-led Congress government in Punjab was protecting the owners of a sugar mill, who were close to the ruling dispensation, even after discharge from the mill had left thousands of fish dead and contaminated water in Beas river.[Read More…]
Chandigarh: The decks have been cleared by the Congress high command for the induction of nine new cabinet ministers in the Amarinder Singh government in Punjab. The new ministers will be sworn in at the Raj Bhawan by Governor V.P. Singh Badnore on Saturday evening. The ministers are Sukhjinder Singh[Read More…]
Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Wednesday announced waiver of the state government’s 50 per cent share in the goods and services tax on the community kitchen at the Darbar Sahib, even as the state assembly unanimously passed a resolution to seek total waiver from the Centre. The Chief Minister[Read More…]
New Delhi: Punjab’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Bhagwant Mann resigned on Friday saying his “fight against drug mafia and corruption will continue”. “I’m resigning as a president of AAP Punjab… But my fight against drug mafia and all kind of corruption in Punjab will continue as an ‘Aam Aadmi’[Read More…]