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…]
Chandigarh: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday apologised to former Punjab Minister Bikram Singh Majithia for alleging the latter’s involvement in drug trade in the state, following which the SAD leader said he will withdraw his defamation suit. The Chief Minister withdrew his allegations and an application regarding the same[Read More…]
Amritsar: Underlining the significance of the large and influential Sikh and Punjabi community settled in his country, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, accompanied by his wife and children, offered prayers at the Golden Temple on Wednesday. Dressed in traditional Indian clothes and their heads covered, the Trudeau family bowed before the[Read More…]
New Delhi: Both the low sex ratio and child sex ratio in Punjab have improved over the last decade due to sustained civil society efforts to change the mindset, Food Processing Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal said on Friday. Inaugurating the One Globe Forum on the digital economy, Badal said that besides[Read More…]
Chandigarh: Punjab’s powerful cabinet minister Rana Gurjit Singh has submitted his resignation from the Congress government in the state led by Chief Minister Amarinder Singh following allegations of corruption and money laundering against him. The resignation is yet to be accepted by the Chief Minister, sources in the government said. Rana[Read More…]
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh will on Sunday formally launch the farm debt waiver scheme, which will benefit 5.63 lakh farmers in the initial phase. Additional Chief Secretaries D.P. Reddy and Viswajeet Khanna told reporters here that the government had identified 5.63 lakh farmers, who had taken loan of nearly[Read More…]
The parliamentary constituency of Gurdaspur in Punjab is all set to go to polls on Wednesday. The seat was vacant following the demise of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and actor Vinod Khanna. The polling will begin at 8 AM and conclude at 5 PM today. The results of[Read More…]
In yet another incident of train mishap, a railways driver was reported dead after a train collided with a cement mixer truck in Punjab on Saturday afternoon. It reportedly happened at the Firozpur-Fazilka rail section, near Sukhera village. The deceased was identified as Vikas, a resident of Uttar Pradesh. Following[Read More…]
Punjab State Aids Control Society (PSACS) has said in its pamphlet that AIDS can be transmitted by shaking hands and also through using utensils used by an infected person in a shocking case of spreading misinformation. The Society has published a pamphlet that is meant for spreading awareness about AIDS.[Read More…]
The Haryana government was highly criticized by the Punjab and Haryana High Court, a day after 31 people were killed and more than 250 were injured in violence started by supporters of Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh after he was found guilty of rape. The court had even said that the[Read More…]
The states of Punjab and Haryana have been put on high alert ahead of the CBI court’s verdict in Dera Sacha Sauda chief, Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh rape case of 2002. Singh will appear in a court for judgment in Panchkula. Several of Ram Rahim’s followers have descended on the[Read More…]
