Two persons and a minor girl were killed while 15 others injured in an explosion in a car at the site of an election meeting Tuesday in Bathinda district of Punjab. Police said a pressure cooker had been recovered from the site which had been cordoned off by BSF personnel. There[Read More…]
Tag: Punjab
Unstable govt in Punjab poses threat to India: Modi
MLA Preneet Kaur says Kejriwal brought outsiders to show his strength
Congress leader and MLA Preneet Kaur today slammed both AAP and SAD as organisations for having radical ideologies. He claims that AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal brought outsiders for his rally in Patiala district. Preneet Kaur, who is campaigning for her husband Capt Amarinder Singh and other party candidates in[Read More…]
Amarinder Singh is the Congress’ CM Candidate in Punjab declared Rahul Gandhi
Putting a rest to the confusion about the Congress’ chief ministerial candidate in the poll-bound Punjab, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi announced on Friday that Captain Amarinder Singh would head the government if the Congress is voted to power. Addressing his first political rally in the Akali Dal assembly stronghold[Read More…]
Punjab & Haryana high court advocates go on strike
Drug rehab centre turns in to BSF poll camp
Voters in Goa, Punjab buying AAP’s ‘education model’: Manish Sisodia
Delhi’s Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Wednesday rued that the focus in schools is on completing the syllabus and not enhancing knowledge even as he claimed the AAP government’s education model is being “bought” by voters in poll-bound states of Punjab and Goa. “The biggest drawback in our education[Read More…]
Cash, liquor and drugs seizures in UP and Punjab
As the pole dates comes closer, election Commission had appointed surveillance and expenditure monitoring teams which have recovered over Rs 64 crore in cash, including Rs 56.04 crore from Uttar Pradesh alone, and liquor and drugs. As per official data, Punjab has witnessed the maximum seizure of drugs worth Rs[Read More…]
Prisoner who escaped from Punjab’s Jail held in Indore
One of the six prisoners who had escaped from Punjab’s Nabha jail was detained together with another person, who is also an accused of monstrous crimes in Punjab, last night, said a senior police officer. The former carried a reward of Rs. 5 lakh. On 27 November 2015, a team[Read More…]
I cannot be Punjab CM, I am Delhi’s Chief Minister: Arvind Kejriwal
A day after reports surfaced about him being in reckoning for the Punjab CM post, Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal ruled himself out of the race for the top post in the state. “Whoever may be CM, I will ensure implementation of promises. What is wrong if Sisodia said that?[Read More…]
Poll ready? Aam Aadmi Party collects Rs 1.3 crore at fundraiser event
A day after Arvind Kejriwal said that his party doesn’t have funds to contest Punjab and Goa polls, it seems the Aam Aadmi Party has collected some money. According to a news report on the Hindustan Times, the Aam Aadmi Party raised Rs 1.13 crore at a dinner with city[Read More…]
Party has no money to fight Punjab, Goa elections: Arvind Kejriwal
Weeks ahead of assembly polls, Aam Aadmi Party convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday claimed that his “honest” party does not have money to fight the upcoming assembly elections in Punjab and Goa. “We don’t have a single penny to contest Punjab and Goa polls. Our bank[Read More…]
Election Commission announces assembly poll dates for five states
The Election Commission on Wednesday announced poll dates for elections to five state assemblies – Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Manipur, Goa and Uttarakhand. The Chief Election Commissioner Nasim Zaidi said Punjab and Goa will go to polls on February 4. In Uttarakhand, the elections will be held in one phase on[Read More…]
Sutlej-Yamuna link canal: SC rules against Punjab; Congress MLAs, Amarinder Singh resign
In a setback to the Punjab government, the Supreme Court on Thursday scrapped the 2004 Punjab Act that was passed to end all water agreements the state had with its neighbours. Congress leader Amarinder Singh quit the Lok Sabha and other party lawmakers resigned from the Punjab Assembly minutes after[Read More…]
Find solutions to the pollution problem: NGT to Delhi government
With Delhi facing the worst smog in 17 years, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Friday asked the Central Pollution Control Board and the Delhi Pollution Control Committee to take steps to control and curb the pollution. The environment secretaries of Delhi, Haryana, Punjab and Rajasthan were summoned and asked[Read More…]
Delhi pollution breaches normal-mark, Centre summons 5 northern states
The Centre on Tuesday summoned governments of Punjab, Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh over enforcing ban on stubble burning. The decision comes on a day the Central Pollution Control Board released its report on air quality of Delhi. As per the report, PM 2.5 levels on the day of[Read More…]
Sikh activists protest outside UN headquarters over Indo-Pak tension
The UN headquarters in New York was witness to several members of the Sikh community protesting outside the building, raising concerns over the escalating India-Pak tensions and its impact on the lives of the people in Punjab. The ‘Save Punjab Rally’, organised on Tuesday by rights group Sikhs for Justice[Read More…]
Patiala: 100-year-old woman murdered, rape suspected
In a shocking incident, a 100-year-old woman was murdered by unidentified persons outside her house near Patiala, Pujab. It is suspected that the woman was sexually assaulted before the murder. The victim used to sleep on a cot outside her house and her body was found a few metres away[Read More…]
Alleged sacrilege of Guru Granth Sahib in Jalandhar
Another incident of alleged sacrilege of the Sikh holy book, Guru Granth Sahib took place in Jalandhar, Punjab on Saturday. Torn pages from the holy book were found in a distributary of the Bist-Doab canal, near Sher Singh Colony. The Hindustan Times reports that even some pages of the Bhagvad[Read More…]
Akali Dal leader and son assault pregnant nurse in Moga
Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) sarpanch Daljit Kaur’s husband, Paramjit Singh and son Gurjit have been booked for assaulting a pregnant nurse in Moga, Punjab. The assault took place after the pair was asked to wait their turn. The nurse was slapped and pushed so hard by the two men that[Read More…]
Our ‘cleanest’ party will make Punjab farmers debt free by 2018: Kejriwal
Targeting a major vote bank in the agrarian state of Punjab, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convener and Delhi chief minister on Sunday promised to make farmers in Punjab debt free by end of 2018 if the party was voted to power in assembly elections early next year. Kejriwal, while[Read More…]
Man eats 40 knives because ‘he felt like it’
In a case that baffled everyone who heard about it, surgeons in Amritsar removed around 40 knives from a patient’s stomach. A 42-year-old police officer named Jarnail Singh was admitted to the hospital on Friday when he complained of stomach ache and weakness and subsequent endoscopy revealed that the guy’s[Read More…]
Dairy farmers take bull by the horns; issue ultimatum to Punjab government
A campaign started by Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) across the country is now choking the government itself. After the recent Dalit stir in Gujarat against self styled ‘Cow vigilantes’, now Punjab farmers have lashed out at the cow protection groups for hampering their cowbreeding business. The Punjab Progressive Dairy Farmers’[Read More…]
Only 1% drug addicts are in Punjab: State health minister
Punjab minister of health Surjit Kumar Jayani on Sunday said only 1% of the total population in the state is addicted to drugs. He said it is not a serious problem as it is being projected to defame the state. Jayani rubbished all claims made by the Opposition, saying that[Read More…]