Newly appointed Cabinet Minister of Punjab Dr Vijay Kumar today assumed the charge at the Punjab Civil Secretariat. On this occassion, apart from Dr. Vijay Kumar’s family members, MLA Principal Budh Ram, Aman Arora, Manjit Singh Bilaspur, Gurpreet Singh Banawali, Jagdeep Kamboj, Kulwant Singh Pandori, Balkar Singh Sidhu, Gurdit Singh Sekhon, Narinder Pal Singh Savna […]
Harjot Singh Bains today assumed office as Punjab’s youngest cabinet minister at the civil secretariat here at Chandigarh sharp at 9 am. Bains took charge as Mines & Geology, Tourism & Cultural Affairs, Jails and Legal & Legislative Affairs minister of Punjab. After completing the formalities of taking a charge, Mr. Bains left for Vidhan […]
The third day of the Punjab Vidhan Sabha session began on Tuesday with obituary references as the House paid tributes to Gen SF Rodrigues; Ramesh Dutt Sharma, a former minister; Ajit Singh, a former MLA; Harbans Singh, a former MLA, besides eight freedom fighters and Parveen Kumar, actor and athlete. As announced by CM Bhagwant […]
The Aam Aadmi Party in Punjab on Monday announced the portfolios of the newly sworn-in ministers. Harpal Cheema has been allotted the Finance and Revenue departments while Gurmeet Meet Hayer has been given Education.CM Bhagwant Mann has retained Home, Vigilance, Personnel.Dr Baljit Kaur gets Women Welfare and Child Development.Dr Vijay Singla gets Health Department.Harbhajan Singh […]
IIT Delhi assistant professor Sandeep Pathak, Aam Aadmi Party’s Punjab co-in-charge Raghav Chadha and ex-spinner Harbhajan Singh are all set to file nominations for three of the five Rajya Sabha seats falling vacant from Punjab and set for elections on March 31. The five vacancies in Punjab are arising due to the term of the […]
In less than a week after an international kabaddi player was killed, Punjab Police have solved the high-profile murder case with the arrest of four accused persons involved in conspiring the crime. A prominent kabaddi player identified as Sandeep Singh alias Sandeep Nangal Ambia was shot dead by five unidentified assailants during an ongoing Kabaddi […]
The first meeting of the Punjab Cabinet headed by Bhagwant Mann has decided to present a Vote on Account for three months in the ongoing session of the Vidhan Sabha. The supplementary grants required by various departments in the ongoing fiscal, too, will be cleared in the ongoing session that ends on March 22.The meeting […]
Harjot Singh Bains takes oath as Cabinet Minister Brahm Shankar Jimpa takes oath as Cabinet Minister Laljit Singh Bhullar, a first time MLA from Patti takes oath as Cabinet Minister. Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal, who is MLA from Ajnala takes oath as Cabinet Minister. Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal, who is MLA from Ajnala takes oath as Cabinet […]
These are the profiles of five AAP MLAs who will be sworn in as Punjab ministers on Saturday. Harpal Cheema He is the MLA from Dirba, re-elected for the second term. An advocate by profession, he is considered close to Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann. He was the Leader of Opposition in the previous term of […]
After objection from the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), Pakistan has cancelled ‘Jashan-e-Bahar’ programme that was scheduled to take place from March 23 to 27 near Kartarpur Sahib Gurdwara. After learning about the event, SGPC president Harjinder Singh Dhami had raised a strong objection and SGPC secretary had written a letter to Muhammad Latif, Chief […]