With the assembly elections in Punjab only a fortnight away, the Muslim-dominated Malerkotla constituency is heading for an interesting poll battle where a former DGP and a serving ADGP are slugging it out through proxy candidates. Two-time Congress MLA Razia Sultana is pitted against SAD candidate Farzana Alam. While Razia is the wife of ADGP Mohammad Mustafa, Farzana is the better half of former... 

Kapurthala: Congress candidate Rana Gurjit Singh from Kapurthala constituency has been served a show cause notice for violating the model code of conduct during a road show on January 10. The Returning Officer has asked the Congress candidate to reply within 48 hours, failing which action would be taken against him, Assistant Returning officer Arvinder Singh said on Thursday. He said a video recording... 

Punjab Agriculture University (PAU) experts have laid emphasis on the judicious use of fertilisers, harmful effects of paddy straw burning, saving environment and use of ‘Leaf Colour Chart LCC for maize, rice and wheat crops. This was stated in an interactive meet of the farmers from different parts of the state and the PAU experts on resource conservation agricultural technologies namely LCC,... 

Chandigarh, Jan 11 (PTI) In a boast to the Congress in Punjab, the Sehajdhari Sikh Party today extended its support to it and announced withdrawal of all its 21 candidates. The decision to this effect was taken at a meeting held here, in which a delegation of Sehajdhari Sikh Party under the leadership of its national president P S Ranu and Punjab Congress Chief Amarinder Singh participated. SAD(Badal)... 

Eager to consolidate its base, the SAD is reaching out to include more non-Sikh candidates. Besides fielding the highest number of Hindu candidates (11 of the 94 seats the party is contesting) ever, the SAD is also counting on Sikh candidates with trimmed beards. They are hockey legend Pargat Singh, former Punjab DGP Paramjit Singh Gill, former IAS officer Darbara Singh Guru and trade unionist Malkit... 

Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal is apparently unaware of his actual age. In his nomination papers filed from the Lambi assembly constituency today, he claimed to be 84-year-old (as on January 10, 2012). However, in the 2007 assembly elections, he had stated that he was 76-year-old (as on January 22, 2007). Interestingly, the CM has even taken an oath on both the occasions, raising a big question... 

Commemorating Bhai Gurdev Singh Kaunke, Bhai Satwant Singh and Bhai Kehar Singh Ji Sunday 8th January 2012 At Gurdwara Nanaksar, Peterborough Road, Southampton, SO51 6BD Sehaj Paath Bhog – 10.am Kirtan, Talks, Dhaddi – 10.30am – 12.30pm  Read More »

Punjab Congress strongman Captain Amarinder Singh on Sunday justified nepotism in ticket distribution for the assembly elections. “We have gone entirely for ‘winnability’. We are very clear. We have to form the next government. If these people ( relatives) are capable of winning the seats, what’s wrong in giving them tickets?” Singh told Rahul Kanwal in Aaj Tak’s... 

Anti-incumbency is once again the buzzword with a twist in Punjab. As the state makes its run up to the Assembly polls on January 30, the phenomenon that has alternately brought the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and its partner BJP, and the Congress to power is this time applicable to both. The ruling SAD-BJP combine will be battling anti-incumbency in the state, while the Congress will be fighting a central... 

The financial worth of ruling SAD president and Punjab’s deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal has increased by more than Rs.50 lakh every month since April 2009. But he does not own a car or any other vehicle, except an old Massey Ferguson tractor. CM Parkash Singh Badal’s heir apparent, who filed the nomination papers on Monday to contest the assembly elections from the Jalalabad...