Badal slams AAP, Cong; asks Punjabis to re-elect SAD-BJP alliance

Muktsar : Launching a scathing attack on the Congress and Aam Aadmi Party ahead of the 2017 Assembly poll, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Thursday exhorted the people to make a firm pledge to re-elect the SAD-BJP alliance to continue the development works in the state.Addressing the party’s political conference at Maghi Mela […]

They cry, stop, cry again. ‘Is there no way out?’

Sangrur : Jaspreet Singh is 10, and looks every bit like a boy his age as he walks in from school at 4 pm, though he is wearing chappals, not shoes, in the cold. His mother Jasvir Kaur, chachi and grandmother sit in the courtyard with the pictures of their dead husbands. Jasvir Kaur hands […]

Police withdraw order on blue turban

Chandigarh : The state police today withdrew its December 31 order regarding changes in the headgear saying some officers had misinterpreted the order. Following a report in The Tribune today on alleged “Akalisation” of the police headgear after the removal of red tassels, the DGP today said the tassels on the turban would stay.Blue is […]

Stir forces Akali MLA to cancel event

Moga : Akali leaders continue to face public outrage over the incidents of sacrilege of Guru Granth Sahib and the plight of the farming community. In one such incident, SAD MLA from Nihalsinghwala Bibi Rajwinder Kaur Bhagike was forced to cancel a function organised to distribute bicycles among students of Government Girls Senior Secondary School […]

No one cries in this house, the silence speaks

Chotiaan (Sangrur) : An old gout-ridden woman limps towards a wooden cot; a stone-faced septuagenarian gazes at the ground; there’s an untended chullah; three dark, empty rooms; there are “bhog pictures”, and there is a deafening silence. No one cries in this house, but no one really speaks too. Gurjeet Singh’s family is not given […]