Dharamsot tells officers to get cracking; implement welfare schemes

Chandigarh, March 30 : Sadhu Singh Dharamsot, Minister for Forests, Printing and Stationery and Welfare of SCs/BCs, on Thursday directed the officers of the Welfare Department to roll up their sleeves to ensure the benefits of welfare schemes to the needy. After presiding over a high-level meeting of officers of the department, Dharamsot said the […]

Parliamentary secys next on Capt agenda

Chandigarh : Barely a week after taking oath as Chief Minister and inducting nine ministers, Capt Amarinder Singh today not only announced the expansion of his ministry “before the Budget session in June”, but also said he would introduce a Bill in the Punjab Assembly to appoint MLAs as parliamentary secretaries, a clear indication that […]

Khaira: Appoint neutral observers from Delhi

Says Sanjay, Durgesh should withdraw from state affairs Jalandhar : Aam Aadmi Party MLA Sukhpal Khaira said today that the party rank and file has demanded that the Delhi leadership, including Sanjay Singh and Durgesh Pathak, should withdraw from the affairs of the state. Having already said that the absence of CM face in Punjab […]

No problem with Sidhu’s TV show if it’s permissible: Punjab CM

NEW DELHI : Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Wednesday said his party had no problem with Navjot Singh Sidhu working in a TV show if it is constitutionally permissible. Asked about Sidhu’s comment that he will keep on working in TV show ‘The Kapil Sharma Show’, Singh, who was in the national capital […]

State prunes security of 46 leaders, aides

Chandigarh : The Punjab Police have started pruning the security cover of VVIPs beginning with MPs and MLAs and their special officers even as a report by the committee formed for the purpose is to be submitted on March 24. In the first list of downsizing of security, the state police withdrew security men from […]