Congress MP from Punjab’s Anandpur Sahib has once again attacked Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi and state party president Navjot Singh Sidhu on reports that both are pushing to be named as the Chief Ministerial candidates. Tewari on Wednesday said, “Punjab needs serious people”, and took potshots on both Channi and Sidhu and dubbed […]
With polls in Punjab a month away, Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi feels that the Congress should declare its chief ministerial candidate, pointing out that doing so in the past has favored the party to reap electoral gains. Channi’s statement has come at a time when opposition parties have targeted the Congress, saying it has […]
The Election Commission of India Wednesday issued a notice to the AAP for allegedly violating the model code of conduct as its leaders and workers approached people in groups of more than five for door-to-door campaigning. The poll panel issued the notice shortly after the Aam Aadmi Party national convener Arvind Kejriwal launched the door-to-door […]
Just a month away from the Assembly polls in Punjab, the Sanyukt Samaj Morcha (SSM), a group of farm organisations, in its maiden electoral foray after getting the Central agricultural laws revoked, on Wednesday released its first list of 10 candidates out of 117 seats. SSM leader Balbir Singh Rajewal contested from Samrala, and Prem […]
The last date to file Income Tax Returns has been extended to March 15, 2022. In a circular issued on Tuesday, the Ministry of Finance said that the due date to file income tax returns for assessment year 2021-22 had been extended “on consideration of difficulties reported by taxpayers and stakeholders due to Covid and […]
The Khelo India Youth Games Haryana 2021, scheduled to be held between February 5 and 14 this year, stands postponed owing to the current Covid-19 pandemic situation in the country. Fresh dates of the Youth Games will be announced after reviewing the Covid situation.India logged 1,68,063 new coronavirus infections taking the total tally of COVID-19 […]
Health services in government hospitals in Haryana were hit on Tuesday as doctors suspended OPD work in support of their demands, prompting the authorities to declare their stir as illegal by invoking the Essential Services Maintenance Act. The doctors are demanding the creation of specialist cadres for them and stopping the direct recruitment of senior […]
Former Punjab MLA Arvind Khanna and several other politicians from the state joined the BJP on Tuesday as the party asserted that it will write a new chapter in the region’s electoral history with its success. Khanna, a businessman and two term former MLA, had not been much active politically after quitting the Congress some […]
Cold weather conditions on Tuesday prevailed in many parts of Punjab and Haryana. Hisar in Haryana reeled under intense cold recording a minimum temperature of 4.7 degrees Celsius, according to the Meteorological Department’s weather report here. Rohtak also experienced a cold night, recording a low of 6 degrees while Gurugram’s minimum settled at 6.9 degrees […]
SAD leader Bikram Singh Majithia on Tuesday said the recent breach in the prime minister’s security in Punjab was a conspiracy hatched by the Charanjit Singh Channi government to embarrass the BJP. He also accused the chief minister for trying to downplay the issue of security breach and refusing to own responsibility for the same, […]