A chief ministerial face will decide whether 60 candidates are elected as MLAs or not, Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu said on Saturday, referring to the number 60, one more than 59 lawmakers needed to form government in Punjab with 117-member assembly. For the last several weeks, both Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi and […]
Congress MP Manish Tewari has broken his silence on being excluded from the party’s star campaigners list for Punjab polls. Sonia Gandhi, Manmohan Singh, and Rahul Gandhi among others are on the list that does not name Manish Tewari and Ghulam Nabi Azad. Tewari, who is the party’s only Hindu MP in Punjab, and Azad […]
An earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale jolted Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday, while no reports of any casualty or damage to property was received from anywhere so far. It sent tremors across parts of Jammu and Kashmir, Delhi NCR and other parts of North India. A statement issued by the India Meteorological Department […]
Fast track courts for sacrilege incidents, free power up to 300 units, 33 per cent reservation for women in the police force, debt waiver for farmers having up to five acres of land are among many promises made by the BJP and its allies PLC and SAD (Sanyukt) for the February 20 Punjab Assembly polls.The […]
A Jalandhar court has remanded Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi’s nephew Bhupinder Singh Honey to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) remand in the illegal sand mining case till February 8. Bhupinder Honey was produced in the Jalandhar court Friday afternoon. During this period, he will be able to meet his family for two hours everyday. […]
Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh will be among the star campaigners who will campaign in Punjab. The list released by the Congress includes Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Harish Chaudhary, Navjot Singh Sidhu, Charanjit Singh Channi, Ambika Soni, Meira Kumar, Ashok Gehlot, Bhupesh Baghel, Sunil Jakhar, Partap Singh Bajwa, Ajay Maken and Bhupindra Singh Hooda.Anand […]
The Haryana government moved the Supreme Court on Friday against the Punjab and Haryana High Court order staying the state’s law providing for 75 per cent quota to local people in private sector jobs. A Bench led by CJI NV Ramana agreed to take it up on February 7 after Solicitor General Tushar Mehta mentioned […]
The Enforcement Directorate arrested Bhupinder Singh alias Honey, a nephew of Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi, from Jalandhar on Friday, weeks after raiding his houses and offices in connection with money laundering allegations linked to a 2018 illegal sand mining case. Bhupinder Singh’s arrest comes around two weeks before Punjab votes in Assembly elections […]
A total of 33 people withdrew their nomination papers for the February 20 state assembly polls, Punjab’s Chief Electoral Officer S Karuna Raju said on Thursday.Raju said 1,645 nomination papers were found in order out of 2,266 nominations which were received for the 117 assembly constituencies of the state.He further said 588 nomination papers were […]