CHANDIGARH : The emerging consensus that there is a wave in favour of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Punjab is terrible news for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress, not because they will have lost the election but because the road ahead will become that much more difficult. The image of Narendra […]
Chandigarh : BJP National Secretary Tarun Chugh has welcomed the decision regarding subjecting Congress leader Jagdish Tytler to a lie-detector test and said that it would expose Congress conspiracy in 1984 killings. Chugh said that Punjab had suffered enough and that too for decades due to the anti-Punjab policies of Congress. He said Punjab witnessed […]
Chandigarh : The cash-strapped Punjab School Education Board (PSEB) has written to the state departments of Finance and Social Welfare and the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) authorities, seeking the release of dues. The government owes over Rs 186 crore to the board, which publishes books at subsidised rates for lakhs of government school students, conducts […]
Jalandhar : A day after accusing a Returning Officer (RO) in Ludhiana district of entering a strong room on the premises of Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), AAP leader and Dakha candidate HS Phoolka today visited the strong rooms in Jalandhar district. Later, he alleged that the standard operating procedure — laid down by the Election […]
Pathankot : Border Security Force (BSF) jawans gunned down a Pakistani infiltrator early this morning. The incident occurred around 8am, just 50 metres from the fencing on the international border in the Bamial sector. After the firing, BSF and Pakistan Rangers held a flag meeting near the border. Senior BSF officials were not available for […]