Just six days after joining the BJP, Punjab MLA Balwinder Singh Laddi has parted ways with the saffron party and rejoined the Congress. Laddi on Monday said he returned to the Congress fold here on Sunday night in the presence of AICC in-charge of Punjab affairs Harish Chaudhary and Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi.Laddi, the […]
Advancing the race to lure voters with promises of freebies ahead of the upcoming state assembly elections, Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu on Monday promised Rs 2,000 per month for women homemakers if his party is voted to power. Sidhu also promised eight free cooking gas cylinders to homemakers every year. The state Congress […]
In the wake of the growing Omicron variant threat, star golfer Jeev Milkha Singh on Monday urged the people to follow all COVOD-19 related guidelines and not take things lightly. Singh, 50, who last year lost both his parents to Covid-related complications, said, “Covid is one such disease that some people still do not realise […]
Newly elected councillors of the Aam Aadmi Party left for New Delhi and those of the Congress for Jaipur, amid suggestions that they might switch over to the BJP ahead of the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation mayoral polls. An AAP leader, however, claimed that their Delhi visit was pre-fixed.Congress leaders could not be reached for comments. […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Ferozepur, Punjab on 5th January, 2022 and at around 1 PM, will lay the foundation stone of multiple development projects worth more than Rs 42,750 crore. These projects include Delhi-Amritsar-Katra Expressway; four laning of Amritsar – Una section; Mukerian – Talwara New Broad Gauge railway line; PGI Satellite Centre […]
The Haryana government on Sunday banned physical classes for students in schools, colleges, and universities in view of the rising Covid-19 cases in the state. CM Manohar Lal Khattar announced the decision via his Twitter handle. “In view of the increasing cases of Omicron, the Haryana government has banned physical classes in the universities of […]
Updating the status of the file regarding regularization of the services of contractual employees in Punjab Banwarilal Purohit, Governor Punjab in a press statement informed that information shared with media by Charanjit Singh Channi, Chief Minister Punjab, on January 1 is “factually incorrect”. He informed that the file regarding regularization of the services of contractual […]
Amid rising cases of coronavirus, the Haryana government on Saturday imposed lockdown-like curbs in the state and nearby areas to prevent further spread of the virus. In the fresh guidelines, the Haryana government shut the cinema halls in Gurugram. The restrictions have been imposed areas like Gurugram, Panchkula, Ambala. Part of the curbs, the sports […]
Four people were killed and around 15 to 20 others are feared trapped after a landslide at the Dadam mining zone in Haryana’s Bhiwani district on Saturday. So far, three people have been rescued while four bodies have been pulled out of the rubble. The wounded have been shifted to a hospital for treatment.About a […]
The Saturday stampede that killed 12 people occurred “due to a scuffle between two groups of pilgrims”, the Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board said in a statement, emphasising only 35,000 pilgrims were allowed to proceed for the yatra against the normal capacity of 50,000 in view of the pandemic. Yhe board said Lt Governor Manoj […]