Senior BJP leader and former Punjab minister Madan Mohan Mittal on Saturday joined the SAD in the presence of party chief Sukhbir Singh Badal here. Mittal was upset after his son, Arvind Mittal, was denied a ticket by the BJP from Anandpur Sahib assembly seat. The BJP has fielded Parminder Sharma from the constituency. Welcoming […]
Two high-end SUVs, watches worth Rs 44 lakh and residential properties worth Rs 35 crore are part of the total assets declared by Navjot Singh Sidhu, the Congress’ candidate from the Amritsar East assembly seat and its Punjab chief. The 58-year-old former India cricketer on Saturday filed his nomination papers before the returning officer in […]
Days ahead of assembly polls in five states, the Supreme Court has agreed to consider listing for hearing a 2020 PIL for debarring persons against whom charges have been framed in serious offences from contesting elections. A bench headed by Chief Justice N V Ramana told petitioner lawyer and BJP leader Ashwini Upadhyay that it […]
President Vladimir Putin told French counterpart Emmanuel Macron on Friday that the West was ignoring Moscow’s security concerns over Ukraine but added that Russia would hold off from taking action immediately. Putin and Macron spoke by phone amid deep fears that a Russian troop build-up on the Ukrainian border is a precursor to a Russian […]
Global gold demand rose 10 per cent to 4,021.3 tonnes in 2021 on account of a massive 50 per cent surge in year-on-year demand — a 10-quarter high — during the December quarter, a report by the World Gold Council (WGC) said.The overall gold demand during 2020, which was impacted following Covid-19 related disruptions, stood […]
Congress leader Sukhpal Singh Khaira was released from the central jail in Patiala on Friday, a day after the Punjab and Haryana High Court granted him bail. The Enforcement Directorate arrested Khaira in November in connection with its money laundering investigations.The Punjab and Haryana granted him regular bail on a personal bond of Rs 5 […]
The Delhi Police have made traffic arrangements for the Beating Retreat ceremony that will be held at Vijay Chowk in the national capital on Saturday. According to the advisory issued by the Delhi police, the traffic restrictions will be in place from 2 pm to 9.30 pm. During this time, the Vijay Chowk will remain […]
Days ahead of the Punjab Assembly elections, fresh controversy seems to be plaguing the Congress, and more specifically Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee President Navjot Singh Sidhu. NRI Suman Tur, who claims to be sister of Sidhu’s, described her brother as a ‘cruel person’ and alleged that he had deserted their old mother after their father’s […]
Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Punjab Dr S Karuna Raju on Friday disclosed that as per the data available on the encore software only 176 nominations were filed in the State on the third day. With 126 nominations filed on earlier days, now the total number of nominations filed in the state are 302. Dr Raju […]
Shiromani Akali Dal leader Bikram Singh Majithia on Friday accused Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu of having “failed” the people of Amritsar East as their representative as he filed his nomination papers from the assembly constituency here.Majithia also alleged that Sidhu, who is the sitting MLA from Amritsar East, has not done anything for […]