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Former Punjab minister Surjit Singh Rakhra joined the Aam Aadmi Party in Patiala in the presence of Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann. Rakhra cited the anti-sacrilege law as a key reason for leaving the Akali fold and aligning with the ruling party

Badal, who was sitting in a wheelchair, escaped unhurt as the bullet hit a wall

Political period drama was scheduled to hit theatres across the country on Friday, but makers are yet to get clearance from CBFC

Shiromani Akali Dal's Delhi unit says the movie has the potential to incite communal tension and spread misinformation

The SAD president was talking to the media after inducting former Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) legislator Avtar Singh Kalkaji and a large number of his supporters into the party

SAD also appealed to Governor to send an assessment of the damage caused to the Centre to avail enhanced relief for the state

The SAD leader told the media that Supreme Court had already noted that if Rs 1,100 crore could be spent on advertisements in Delhi, surely the government could make contributions for infrastructure projects

The state government has announced a public holiday on Thursday in honour of Badal, who will be cremated at his ancestral village Badal in Muktsar district on the same day.

Badal, who had not been keeping well for sometime, was admitted to Mohali's Fortis Hospital over a week ago after he complained of uneasiness in breathing

SAD claimed that radical preacher Amritpal Singh surrendered before the police as per the advice of Akal Takht Jathedar

Parkash Singh Badal, 95, has been undergoing treatment in Fortis in Mohali near here with complications of uneasiness in breathing

The same conspiracies were hatched and implemented by the Congress in the past and now the AAP govt is following their footsteps to set Punjab on fire, SAD chief Badal said

New Delhi/Lucknow/Agartala: Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha was among the victorious BJP candidates in the by-poll results announced on Sunday as the party bagged three out of four assembly seats in the eastern state and wrested the Samajwadi Party strongholds of Rampur and Azamgarh Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh, while the AAP lost Punjab’s […]

Chandigarh: After registering a landslide victory in Punjab Assembly elections, Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) Chief Minister-designate Bhagwant Mann and his Cabinet colleagues will be sworn-in on March 16, it was announced on Friday. The AAP recorded a thumping win in the Assembly polls by winning 92 of the 117 seats. The ruling Congress won 18 […]

Chandigarh: All the Badals, led by five-time Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, the eldest candidate at 94 in fray for the 117-member Punjab Assembly, as well as their kin, on Thursday lost to AAP’s greenhorns. The eldest Badal, who won the seat five times in a row since 1997, lost to Gurmeet Khuddian from Lambi […]

New Delhi: Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) is poised to return to power with a comfortable majority for an unprecedented second term in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is on course to a historic victory in Punjab, according to election results and trends on Thursday. In the other two states of Manipur […]

Chandigarh: Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu on Thursday congratulates the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) for sweeping Punjab Assembly polls and said that the voice of people (mandate) is the voice of God. “The voice of the people is the voice of God. Humbly accept the mandate of the people of Punjab. Congratulations to Aap […]

Unceremonious exit of Captain Amarinder Singh reflects a compelling self-destructive tendency of the Congress

The alliance comes 27 years after the 1996 Lok Sabha elections when both had bagged 11 out of 13 seats in Punjab.

The total rout of the saffron party in the Punjab municipal elections must be seen as an unequivocal repudiation of the NDA government’s controversial farm laws