Chandigarh witnessed a total of 364 Covid positive cases over the last 24 hours, a health bulletin from the district administration said on Wednesday.This is higher than 156 Covid cases recorded on Tuesday. The UT’s positivity rate stands at 9.12 per cent, higher than Tuesday 5.41.The union territory’s active cases stand at 2,590, the bulletin […]
The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Wednesday said the statement of former Pradesh Congress president Sunil Jakhar that he had not been made chief minister even though party legislators had supported his claim overwhelmingly had exposed the “electoral fraud committed by the Congress high command in the name of inner party democracy”. In a statement […]
Ahead of the Assembly elections, Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu on Wednesday visited Mata Vaishno Devi shrine atop Trikuta hills in Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said. The cricketer-turned-politician reached base camp Katra in the afternoon and straightway flew to the ‘Bhawan’ (sanctum sanctorum) to offer prayers at the revered shrine, they […]
Weeks ahead of the Punjab Assembly elections, the Supreme Court is scheduled to re-examine on Thursday the sentence awarded by it to cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu in an over 32-year-old road rage case. Sidhu is presently the Punjab Congress President and voting in the state assembly election is scheduled for February 20.The apex court had […]
SAD leader Bikram Singh Majithia on Wednesday said the fight for Amritsar East seat is a fight for restarting development projects in the constituency. He said the work in the constituency completely stalled during the last 18 years of Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu’s administering it.Majithia is contesting from Amritsar East seat from where […]
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday targeted Samajwadi Party, saying if Akhilesh Yadav becomes the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, his government will show “red light” to development and green light to “mafia and musclemen”. “There was ‘Bahubali’ (musclemen) in every district under the previous regime, but in the present Yogi Adityanath’s regime, there […]
Senior Punjab Congress leader Sunil Jakhar has claimed that 42 MLAs wanted him to be the chief minister of the state after the unceremonious exit of Amarinder Singh last year. Only two legislators favoured Charanjit Singh Channi, he said.Jakhar is heard saying this in a video, which has surfaced online, while addressing a gathering in […]
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday attacked the government alleging that two Indias, one for the rich and one for the poor, have been created and the gap between them was widening, even as he claimed that the country was at risk both internally and externally. Speaking first from the Opposition side in Lok Sabha […]
Former Punjab minister and Congress leader Jagmohan Singh Kang and his sons Yadvinder Singh Kang and Amarinder Singh Kang join Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). Kang had a few days back threatened to contest as Independent from Kharar after being denied ticket by the Congress.On Thursday, he had said that his son Yadvinder Singh Kang would […]
The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed Punjab police not to arrest till February 3 the Lok Insaf Party MLA, Simarjeet Singh Bains, who is facing an arrest warrant in connection with a rape case. Initially, the apex court was of the view that the accused MLA be permitted to remain out till February 23 for […]