
Amritsar: Targeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, wife of deputy chief minister Sukhbir Badal Harsimrat Kaur on Wednesday said that Punjab had high hopes from him, but the PM did nothing for the state. "The last time he was here in Amritsar, we thought he would promise something big for the city but he turned out to be a hollow man," the SAD Lok Sabha MP from Bathinda said while addressing...

12:24 AM, Jan 26, 2012

New Delhi: Describing the Lokpal Bill that has been table in Parliament as useless and toothless, Shiromani Akali Dal MP Harsimrat Kaur said that the Bill should be trashed and a new Bill need to be introduced. During the Lokpal debate in Lok Sabha, Kaur said, "Tabled Bill should be trashed. Need a new Bill." Accusing the Centre, she said, "The Government wants to ensure that the Bill will not...

07:19 PM, Dec 27, 2011

Chandigarh: The Shiromani Akali Dal sarpanch who slapped a lady teacher was arrested on Tuesday, but was out on bail shortly after that on a bond of Rs 50,000. Teachers refuse to relent until satisfactory action is taken. Angry teachers took to streets after Varinder Kaur, a teacher from Gidderbaha, was assaulted in public by Shiromani Akali Dal sarpanch Balwinder Singh. Kaur was slapped and manhandled when she and other...

07:07 PM, Dec 06, 2011

New Delhi: An FIR has been registered against the Shiromani Akaali Dal sarpanch who slapped a woman teacher, who was demanding a permanent job, at a function in Muktsar district in Punjab. The lady Varinder Kaur was part of a delegation of teachers who wanted to meet Bhatinda MP Harsimrat Kaur Badal, the wife of Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal at the function on MOnday. A scuffle broke out...

10:26 AM, Dec 06, 2011

A sarpanch belonging to the Shiromani Akali Dal repeatedly slapped and manhandled a woman teacher in Gidderbaha in Punjab. ...

07:36 PM, Dec 05, 2011

New Delhi: In a shocking incident, a Shiromani Akali Dal Sarpanch Balwinder Singh of Gidderbaha in Punjab slapped and manhandled a woman teacher during the public visit program of Harsimrat Kaur Badal who is Member of Parliament and wife of Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal. A group of teachers from the education guarantee scheme teachers union had gone to the venue to put forth their demands for jobs....

01:25 PM, Dec 05, 2011

Finance Minister tells Lok Sabha he will speak to PM. ...

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