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... 

Chandigarh: Former Indian hockey captain Pargat Singh has taken the plunge into active politics, with ruling Shiromani Akali Dal fielding him from the Jalandhar Cantt seat for the 30 January Punjab Assembly polls. His name figured in the list of eight other candidates which the SAD announced today in the fifth list of the party nominees for the upcoming polls. Hockey Former Indian hockey captain Pargat... 

International Panthic Dal commemorates Sikh’s Mahaan Shaheed Bhai Gurdev Singh Kaunke. Bhai Sahib was a Chardi Kala Gurmukh, Diamond of Damdami Taksal. Bhai Gurdev Singh Ji was appointed Working Jathedar of Akaal Takhat Sahib in January 1986 and he did this sewa till his Shaheedi. He was the one who went out in Rural Punjab in that dark period and awakened Sikh masses by doing Katha of Guru... 

Singh Sahib Bhai Jasvir Singh Ji Khalsa and all members of International Panthic Dal (I.P.D) congratulate the Sikh Panth on the Gurpurb of Sri Guru Gobind Singh Ji. Guru Gobind Singh Ji was the tenth and last of the ten human form Gurus of Sikhism. He became Guru in 1675 at the age of nine, following in the footsteps of his father Guru Teg Bahadur ji. Guru Tegh Bahadur, the Ninth Guru, was traveling... 

SANGRUR: The number of farmer suicides in Punjab seems to vary according to the source providing information about that. An NGO, Movement Against State Repression (MASR), has stated that Punjab is a glaring example of neglecting the factor of farmer suicides when it comes to determining the amount of funds that should be spent on assisting agriculturists. MASR’s convener Inderjit Singh Jaijee... 

Punjab has been lagging, but it will slip further if the political class fails to set a positive agenda for the state. Political parties can continue to differ on ideologies and indulge in mudslinging if they wish to, but they should at least evolve a consensus on major issues in the larger interest of the state otherwise the coming generations will never forgive them. This is what emerged from the... 

CHANDIGARH: The Election Commission on Saturday announced single-phase elections in Punjab on January 30. The term of the assembly in Punjab, with 117 constituencies of which 34 are reserved, ends on March 14. The January 30 date for holding elections to the legislative assembly of Punjab may has left painfully less time for political parties to prepare for the big fight ahead, but leaders of all parties... 

Moga, Dec 24 (PTI) Former Punjab DGP P S Gill, who held the post of advisor to the State Department of Home and Justice, has resigned after the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal nominated him as a candidate from Moga constituency for the upcoming state Assembly polls. “I have resigned from the post (which he held in honorary capacity) after my name was announced as SAD candidate,” Gill told reporters... 

The city police seized 200 pro-Khalistan T-shirts from a manufacturing unit located in the Salem Tabri area here last evening. The incident has alerted the state police which had been expecting trouble from pro-Khalistan activists ahead of the assembly elections in the state. Senior police officials have said the intelligence wing has received inputs about pro-Khalistan activists getting active. The... 

In what will fulfil one of the long-pending demands of the Sikh community, the Union Home Ministry has given its nod to the Anand Marriage Bill, also known as the Anand Karaj Bill. This will allow Sikhs to get their marriages registered under the separate law. The next step will be the passing of the Bill in Parliament. Some fine tuning of the same is being done and it could be tabled in Parliament...