It is a chilly winter morning in Chandigarh. Pramod Kumar is in deep discussion with retired judge KS Grewal and Additional Director General of Police SK Sharma at a roomy office in the Institute for Development and Communications on how to stop harassment of women in public places. "Perhaps," he suggests, "we should suspend driving licences of those who harass women, or deny police verification for passports." Justice Grewal says...
12:28 PM, Jan 18, 2013
New Delhi: After committing support to the UPA, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav on Saturday ruled out his involvement in formation of Third Front before the next Lok Sabha polls even though he had an intriguing meeting with Sukhbir Badal, President of NDA's key constituent Akali Dal. Yadav went to the residence of Badal, son of Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, and is understood to have discussed the...
07:51 PM, Sep 22, 2012
Condemning the gurudwara shooting incident in the US, Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal said that he would write to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to take up the issue with the US government. ...
12:44 PM, Aug 06, 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
Chandigarh: It was an election fought in the name of one Badal but led from the front by another, a two-pronged strategy that propelled the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) to a record consecutive term. The million-dollar political question now is - which Badal will be the next chief minister of Punjab? The Akali Dal sought votes from the electorate in the name of four-time chief minister Parkash Singh Badal. But...
12:21 PM, Mar 07, 2012
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
Chandigarh: A Chandigarh court has ordered an inquiry against Punjab's Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal on the complaint of an IAS officer Vijay Kumar Janjua. The officer claims he was implicated in a false corruption case after he allegedly refused to pay Badal a bribe of Rs 1 crore. The court has ordered Chandigarh Police to submit its inquiry report by March 3. "I didn't oblige him (Badal), I told...
06:46 AM, Jan 17, 2012
Sukhbir Badal, Kalmadi contenders to become Hockey India chief. ...
11:35 AM, Jan 04, 2010
The Punjab govt is headed by his father, CM Parkash Singh Badal. ...
10:50 PM, Aug 10, 2009
Former Punjab deputy chief minister now can take up his post again. ...
01:30 PM, Aug 06, 2009
Badal quit as he could not get himself elected to the Punjab Assembly. ...
07:31 PM, Jul 01, 2009
