Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today recalled the contribution of Punjab farmers in transforming India from a food deficit to food surplus nation and said due to their hard work and dedication the state will soon emerge as frontrunner in “white and blue” revolution also. Addressing a gathering on the concluding day of Livestock Expo and National Championship here today, the Chief Minister... 

The body of Baba Ajit Singh Hansaliwale was immersed in Sutlej at Gurdwara Bhabhor Sahib in Nangal in Rupnagar district on Sunday evening. The body, placed in a glass box, was brought to Nangal from Fatehgarh Sahib in a procession attended by hundreds of people lined up on both sides of the road from Morinda to Nangal. Advertisement Takht Sri Keshgarh Sahib jathedar Giani Mal Singh and SGPC president... 

My brother (Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale) was born in the year of India’s independence in 1947. My father was a farmer and we were seven brothers and one sister in the family. Jarnail was the youngest. His childhood was normal, but he was religious from a young age. He was put into a school in 1953 but quit five years later. He then started helping my father tend the farm. It was my father who encouraged... 

After the SAD-BJP government suffered a jolt in the recently concluded Lok Sabha election, the Parkash Singh Badal government is planning a major administrative as well as police reshuffle in the state. Besides a major administrative rejig, Badal is also likely to expand his Cabinet. Sources said the Punjab government is trying to connect to the common man after the Akali Dal’s rout in the recent... 

On the eve of the Lok Sabha elections, at least 1,500 inmates at the Modern Jail Kapurthala started falling sick, complaining of acute abdomen pain, frequent sneezing and diarrhoea. The inmates were showing withdrawal symptoms as the regular supply of drugs to them inside the jail had been snapped following strict monitoring by the Election Commission. The problem of drugs and its rampant smuggling... 

CHANDIGARH: A couple of weeks after the Times Higher Education (THE) BRICS & Emerging Economies Rankings 2014 placed Panjab University (PU) at the 13th position, a delegation from China’s Henan Province has shown interest in tying up with PU for academic cooperation, including teacher and student exchange programmes. The delegation that was led by the deputy director-general, Foreign and... 

Mohali/ Chandigarh (December 6, 2013): It is learnt that an intense fight took place between the Sikhs and the police personnel in civil dresses on the intervening night of 5 and 6 December. The fight took place when a large group of police personnel who were in civil dresses attacked Sikhs staying with Bhai Gurbaksh Singh. Sikh Siyasat sources informed that around mid-night a large groups of persons... 

 Read More »

Patiala, Punjab: Kamaldeep Kaur, sister of Balwant Singh Rajoana, a Sikh Activist jailed innocently by Punjab Government, announced her candidature from Patiala for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Her move came a week after Rajoana had announced to field candidates in the elections. Rajoana had announced through a letter from the high security Patiala Central Jail, whrere he is lodged, that he would... 

PATIALA: To ascertain the exact count of farmer suicides in the state, the government has finally decided to conduct the second round of survey, which would reveal the number of farm suicides from 2010 up to March 2013. However, giving a cold shoulder to the demand for a fresh survey from various farmers’ organizations, who said that scores of cases were not recorded in the first survey conducted...