The opposition has attacked the government for lack of storage of foodgrain. ...
04:04 PM, May 09, 2012
Chandigarh: Punjab Agriculture Minister Tota Singh was found guilty in a corruption case by a trial court in Mohali adjoining Chandigarh on Saturday. He has been sentenced to one-year imprisonment and a fine of Rs 30,000. However, Tota Singh will not be arrested till July 2 by which time he can file an appeal in the superior court. Tota Singh is the second minister in the newly formed Akali Government...
07:21 PM, May 05, 2012
Chandigarh: Clashes have been reported from Patiala and some other regions of Punjab as tension escalates over the hanging of Balwant Singh Rajoana, convicted in the assassination of former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh. Sikh groups have also taken out protest marches in Jammu in support of Rajoana, putting pressure on the Punjab government. Security forces have been put on high alert across Punjab and 60,000 Punjab Police personnel along...
02:51 PM, Mar 28, 2012
Chandigarh: A day-long bandh called by radical Sikh outfits to protest the proposed execution of Balwant Singh Rajoana, convicted in the Beant Singh killing case, disrupted normal life in parts of Punjab on Tuesday. A report from Patiala said the call for bandh evoked a total response in the city where Rajoana is lodged in the local Central Jail awaiting his execution on March 31 as per the orders of...
10:43 AM, Mar 28, 2012
The government asked 15 paramilitary companies to be deployed ahead of Balwant Singh Rajoana's hanging on March 31. ...
02:52 PM, Mar 27, 2012
Chandigarh: Former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh's co-assassin Balwant Singh Rajaona has hit out at the Shiromani Akali Dal. In a letter written from his jail cell addressed to the Sikh community, Rajoana has refused help from the ruling party, saying it is trying to score political brownie points by supporting his clemency plea. Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal will meet the Prime Minister and the President to seek...
10:24 AM, Mar 27, 2012
Chandigarh: Punjab's ruling Shiromani Akali Dal on Sunday asked the state government and the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) to take all possible legal and other steps to secure clemency for Balwant Singh Rajoana, a Babbar Khalsa International terrorist, facing death sentence for former chief minister Beant Singh's assassination. At an emergency meeting here of the party's core committee, chaired by party president and Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal,...
10:13 PM, Mar 25, 2012
New Delhi: Eighty seven-year-old Parkash Singh Badal on Wednesday took oath as Punjab Chief Minister. This is Badal's fifth term as the Chief Minister. Badal's son Sukhbir will remain his deputy. Badal's 18-member cabinet includes 14 colleagues from his party, the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD). The remaining four are from its ally, the BJP. All the seventeen ministers are of cabinet rank, including Sukhbir. The Badal family has four members...
11:31 AM, Mar 14, 2012
New Delhi: A host of leaders across party lines are expected to descend in Chandigarh on Wednesday to attend Parkash Singh Badal's swearing-in ceremony. But Mamata Banerjee will not be among them. The Trinamool Chief had initially accepted Badal's invitation but changed her mind on Tuesday. This will be 87-year-old Badal's fifth term as Chief Minister. His son Sukhbir will remain his deputy. Badal's 18-member cabinet will include 14 colleagues...
06:16 AM, Mar 14, 2012
As talk of a Third Front gets underway, the question is how credible is the idea and could it lead to a coalition of coalitions. ...
09:18 PM, Mar 13, 2012
Chandigarh: Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh turned 70 on Sunday, but the euphoria of celebration was missing. Having just led his party to a second consecutive loss in the assembly elections in just five years, his failure was, no doubt, uppermost on everyone's minds. While the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal basks in the glory of its historic victory, having become the only party in over four decades to get a...
02:21 PM, Mar 12, 2012
Chandigarh: Akali stalwart Parkash Singh Badal will be sworn in as Punjab Chief Minister on March 14 for a record fifth time with Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) electing him as its Legislature party leader unanimously on Thursday, ending all speculation over the leadership issue. "I had declared it well in advance that Badal will be the Chief Minister," SAD President Sukhbir Singh Badal told reporters at the chief minister's official...
04:45 PM, Mar 08, 2012
Chandigarh: With SAD-BJP alliance retaining power in Punjab, Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal has called a meeting of the party's newly-elected legislators on March 8. The newly-elected MLAs of the party would meet at 10 am in Chandigarh on March 8 while the party's core committee would meet at 6 pm on the same day, SAD spokesman Daljit Singh Cheema said. Bucking the anti-incumbency trend, the SAD (Badal)...
06:21 PM, Mar 06, 2012
Chandigarh: The ruling Shiromani Akal Dal(SAD)-Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) created history in the Punjab Assembly by retaining power in Punjab belying history which has not seen the incumbent returning to power in the last 46 years. The SAD-BJP alliance won 68 seats, while Congress won 46 seats. The Others won three seats as results were declared for all 117 seats in Punjab Assembly. Following are the prominent winners and losers in...
05:50 PM, Mar 06, 2012
Chandigarh: Shiromani Akali Dal created history on Tuesday to become the first party ever to retain power in Punjab bucking the anti-incumbency factor with Parkash Singh Badal, the grand old man of the state politics, and his son Sukhbir Singh leading the charge. And Parkash Singh Badal, who his party says is 84 while his opponents put him on the wrong side of the nineties, will have another feather on...
04:58 PM, Mar 06, 2012
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