FOR ANOTHER 24 hours, Punjabis will be on tenterhooks, trying to read the straws in the wind to decipher how many of the 13 Lok Sabha seats the Congress will win, and how many will fall in the Shiromani Akali Dal's kitty.

Jalandhar, April 22: Lambasting Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his "highly irresponsible statement” on India’s nuclear arsenal, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Monday appealed to the people to support the Congress party’s ‘jung’ for protecting the future of the nation, which the BJP-led ...

Giving further boost to the Congress party ahead of the forthcoming Lok Sabha Polls, senior Akali leader Tejinder Pal Singh Sandhu on Monday joined the party in the presence of the Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh. 

Welcoming Sandhu into the party fold, Captain Amarinder Singh expressed ...

Chandigarh, March 20: The Monitoring Committee set up by the National Green Tribunal on Wednesday directed the state Government to effectively check the menace of river pollution in a time bound manner. The Committee also fixed a deadline of one month for the same and ...

PATHANKOT, MARCH 8: Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Friday warned Congress ticket aspirants rebelling against any of the official candidates of the party for the forthcoming parliamentary elections of expulsion from the party. 

In an informal chat with mediapersons after the ceremony to rededicate ...

Meeting a long-pending demand of the teaching community, the Punjab Cabinet led by Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has approved regularization of the services of 5178 teachers recruited by the Education Department, with full pay scales to be implemented from October 1, 2019.

The Cabinet has ...

To mark the commemoration of the 550th Parkash Purb of Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ji, the Punjab Cabinet has approved upgradation of the historic towns of Batala, Kapurthala and Abohar as Municipal Corporations, thus fulfilling a long-pending demand of the residents of these border areas.

The ...

The Punjab Cabinet led by Captain Amarinder Singh on Saturday gave in-principle approval to a debt relief scheme for farm labourers and landless farming members of PACS, to provide a major relief to 2.85 lakh people, of which around 70% are Dalits.

The scheme will benefit ...

Within days of Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh assuring full support for students from the Valley, Punjab Police has set up an exclusive desk for prompt redressal of complaints of people from Kashmir.

The desk is accessible on the toll-free helpline number 181 of the police, ...

CHANDIGARH, FEBRUARY 17: The Punjab Council of Ministers on Sunday cleared the presentation of the Budget Estimates for 2019-20, along with various accounts and CAG audit reports, in the ongoing budget session of the Vidhan Sabha.

A cabinet meeting, chaired by Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh, ...