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Chandigarh, Jul 4 (PTI) Sanjeev Arora on Friday assumed charge as Punjab Industries and Commerce, Investment Promotion and NRI Affairs Minister at Punjab Civil Secretariat here. After assuming the charge, Arora said he will perform his duty with utmost devotion and dedication and leave no stone unturned for the welfare of the people of Punjab. Also Read | PM Narendra Modi Conferred With 'The Order of the Republic of Trinidad & Tobago' During Ceremonial Event at President's House in Port of Spa ...Read More >
Nagpur: The Nagpur Metropolitan Region Development Authority (NMRDA) has almost completed the Rs 132.49 crore phase 1 of the Tajbagh renovation and beautification project and is now awaiting Rs 95.87 crore to start phase 2 of the project. Under the first phase, NMRDA strengthened and beautified the main dargah, constructed a shopping complex, a choti dargah, shops, and other structures, including marble flooring. According to NMRDA sources, Phase 1 of the project received Rs 132.49 crore adminis ...Read More >
Ludhiana: Sanjeev Arora, who was sworn in as industries minister on Thursday, became the first minister from Ludhiana in the current state cabinet. With this, the number of ministers from the district in the cabinet has risen to three. Last September, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government inducted five ministers, including two from the district -- Sahnewal MLA Hardeep Singh Mundian and Khanna MLA Tarunpreet Singh Sond.In the previous Congress government, Bharat Bhushan Ashu was minister till earl ...Read More >
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann bolstered his cabinet by inducting Sanjeev Arora, the newly elected MLA from Ludhiana West, as a minister. Governor Gulab Chand Kataria administered the oath at Raj Bhavan. Arora's inclusion brings the cabinet's strength to 17, fulfilling AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal's promise made during the bypoll campaign following Gurpreet Bassi Gogi's death.Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Thursday expanded his Cabinet, inducting newly elected Ludhiana West MLA Sanje ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Jul 3 (PTI) Newly elected Ludhiana West MLA Sanjeev Arora was inducted as a Cabinet minister on Thursday while Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal was dropped after Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann effected the seventh Cabinet reshuffle in the past three years. Arora's induction followed Dhaliwal's resignation from the Punjab Cabinet. His lone portfolio, NRI Affairs, was given to the newly elected MLA. Arora was also given the portfolio of Industry and Commerce and Investment Promotion, whic ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Jul 3 (PTI) Newly elected Ludhiana West MLA Sanjeev Arora was inducted as a Cabinet minister on Thursday while Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal was dropped after Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann effected the seventh Cabinet reshuffle in the past three years. Arora's induction followed Dhaliwal's resignation from the Punjab Cabinet. His lone portfolio, NRI Affairs, was given to the newly elected MLA. Also Read | Who Is Soham Parekh, Indian Techie Accused of Duping Multiple Companies? What' ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Jul 3 (PTI) Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Thursday expanded his Cabinet, inducting newly elected Ludhiana West MLA Sanjeev Arora as minister. Governor Gulab Chand Kataria administered oath of office and secrecy to Arora at a ceremony at the Raj the Bhavan here. Mann, Cabinet ministers and several other party leaders were present on the occasion. With Arora's induction, the strength of the Cabinet in the Mann government reached 17. The Punjab Cabinet can have 18 ministers, ...Read More >
Sanjeev Arora, Aam Aadmi Party's Ludhiana West by-election winner, is expected to join the Punjab Cabinet. Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann will reshuffle the cabinet this week, filling vacant positions and assigning new portfolios. Arora, a Rajya Sabha member, is recognized for his understanding of industry needs. Arvind Kejriwal had promised Arora a cabinet position if elected.Aam Aadmi Party's new poster boy, Sanjeev Arora, who won the Ludhiana West by-election, is likely to make his entry in the ...Read More >
Chandigarh, July 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) The AAP government in Punjab, led by Bhagwant Mann, will go for a Cabinet expansion, the seventh one in three years, on Thursday with the probable induction of newly elected legislator Sanjeev Arora. Along with the induction of Arora, who resigned from the Rajya Sabha seat after winning the Ludhiana (West) Assembly bypoll, the government may also induct Speaker Kultar Singh Sandhwan into the 16-member Cabinet. At present, two berths are lying vacant in the C ...Read More >
Jammu (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], July 2 (ANI): Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha participated in a special aarti at the Jammu Tawi riverfront. Sinha also visited the Amarnath Yatri Niwas base camp on Tuesday evening. After inspecting the Yatri Niwas base camp, Sinha stated that the security arrangements for the Yatra are more robust than ever before. 'I have witnessed the last four Yatras. The arrangements are better than ever, as far as the security and convenience of pilgr ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 2 (ANI): Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Sanjeev Arora has resigned from Rajya Sabha after he was elected as the MLA from the Ludhiana West assembly constituency in the recently concluded bypolls. His resignation from the upper house was accepted by Vice President and Rajya Sabha chairman Jagdeep Dhankar on Tuesday with immediate effect, finding the same in conformity with Article 101 3(b) of the Constitution. Also Read | India Developing Its Own Bunker-Buster Missile? Rep ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 2 (ANI): Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Sanjeev Arora has resigned from Rajya Sabha after he was elected as the MLA from the Ludhiana West assembly constituency in the recently concluded bypolls. His resignation from the upper house was accepted by Vice President and Rajya Sabha chairman Jagdeep Dhankar on Tuesday with immediate effect, finding the same in conformity with Article 101 3(b) of the Constitution. This comes after Sanjeev Arora, the newly elected MLA from AAP ...Read More >
Chandigarh: Haryana chief minister Nayab Singh Saini on Tuesday said the state govt was consistently working to provide better resources to the doctors and quality healthcare services to the citizens.He mentioned that medical colleges were being established in every district.While there were only six medical colleges in 2014, the number has now increased to 15, and nine new colleges are under construction. As a result, MBBS seats in the state increased from 700 in 2014 to 2,185, at present. The ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 2 (ANI): Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Sanjeev Arora has resigned from Rajya Sabha after he was elected as the MLA from the Ludhiana West assembly constituency in the recently concluded bypolls. His resignation from the upper house was accepted by Vice President and Rajya Sabha chairman Jagdeep Dhankar on Tuesday with immediate effect, finding the same in conformity with Article 101 3(b) of the Constitution. This comes after Sanjeev Arora, the newly elected MLA from AAP ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Jun 28 (PTI) Sanjeev Arora, the newly-elected MLA from the Ludhiana West Assembly seat, was administered oath by Punjab Assembly Speaker Kultar Singh Sandhwan here on Saturday. Arora (61) defeated Congress candidate Bharat Bhushan Ashu by a margin of 10,637 votes in the Ludhiana West Assembly bypoll held on June 19. While Arora secured 35,179 votes, Ashu got 24,542 votes. Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Jiwan Gupta polled 20,323 votes and Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) nominee Parupkar S ...Read More >
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], June 28 (ANI): Sanjeev Arora, the newly elected MLA from Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Punjab, on Saturday took oath in the state assembly after winning the recently concluded bypoll from Ludhiana West assembly constituency. Punjab assembly speaker Kultar Singh Sandhawan administered his oath in Chandigarh. Also Read | Ujjain Unrest: Tension Flares in Madhya Pradesh City as Slippers Hurled at Religious Place Near Gopal Mandir During 'Rath Yatra', Case Registered (Watch ...Read More >
Ludhiana: A day after Congress accepted his resignation from the post of the working president of the party's Punjab unit, former MLA Bharat Bhushan Ashu on Friday took to social media to discuss the reasons for his loss in the Ludhiana West bypoll and his future course of action. A two-time MLA from the same seat, Ashu lost to AAP's Sanjeev Arora by 10,637 votes.Ashu wrote on his social media page that politics demanded accountability, but also honesty. "In public life, we are taught to own bot ...Read More >
Chandigarh: Congress high command has accepted the resignations of Bharat Bhushan Ashu as working president of Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee, and Pargat Singh and Kushaldeep Singh Dhillon as the vice-presidents of the state unit, after the party's defeat in the just concluded Ludhiana West byelection. Bupesh Baghel, AICC incharge of the party's Punjab affairs, took to X Thursday evening to convey the party's decision. He wrote, "The party expresses its gratitude for the services of all three ...Read More >
Payal.Dhawan@timesofindia.comLudhiana: Congress bypoll candidate Bharat Bhushan Ashu claimed that chief minister Bhagwant Singh Mann had lost control of government departments and should resign. Reacting to allegations of him having arranged the Vigilance summons himself using "his friend," VB SSP Jagatpreet Singh, to gain sympathy, Ashu said, "If that is really true, then don't you think Bhagwant Mann, who is the chief minister and heads the home and Vigilance departments, deserves to resign as ...Read More >
Ludhiana: With just 11 days left until the Ludhiana West byelection, political heat intensified on Sunday as Aam Aadmi Party's former MP Dr Dharamvira Gandhi accused its supremo Arvind Kejriwal of remote-controlling Punjab's govt and betraying the ideals of the AAP movement.Now a Congress member and sitting MP from Patiala, Dr Gandhi was in Ludhiana to campaign for Congress candidate Bharat Bhushan Ashu. At a press conference with senior Congress figures -- including legislator Rana Gurjit Singh ...Read More >
Ludhiana: Congress candidate Bharat Bhushan Ashu launched a sharp attack on the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and its leadership on Sunday, urging voters in Ludhiana West to judge the state govt on its past three years and six months in power -- not on promises made for the final year of its term.Addressing a public meeting in the Rishi Nagar area, Ashu, the Congress candidate dismissed AAP's campaign pledges as hollow and belated. "If you couldn't deliver in three and a half years, what miracles will y ...Read More >
Ludhiana (Punjab) [India], June 8 (ANI): Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Sunday addressed the public and urged voters to cast their franchise in the Ludhiana West bypolls "It only takes 10 to 15 minutes to cast a vote," the Punjab CM said. "Please take out at least 10 to 15 minutes for Punjab." Also Read | Delhi Horror: 9-Year-Old Girl's Body Found in Suitcase in Dayalpur, Family Alleges Sexual Assault; Paramilitary Personnel Deployed (Watch Videos). Mann said if the state gets an MLA ...Read More >
Ludhiana: Central ministerial council member Ravneet Singh Bittu on Saturday alleged while campaigning for BJP's Jiwan Gupta in Ludhiana West that industrialists' backing AAP and violating the byelection's model code of conduct by funding party events hinted at a quid pro quo relationship between them and the state govt. Urging voters to reject the Congress as well as the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), while throwing his full weight behind Gupta, Bittu argued that a victory for the AAP would just be its ...Read More >
Ludhiana, Jun 8 (PTI) Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Sunday urged voters to support AAP's vision for progress and development, as he campaigned for party nominee Sanjeev Arora for the June 19 bypoll to the Ludhiana West Assembly seat. Mann addressed two public meetings - one at Jawaddi village and the other in Ward No. 64. "Unlike other parties that bring people by paying money or with promises of favours, we just extended a simple invitation to which you all have responded in large nu ...Read More >
Ludhiana, Jun 8 (PTI) Punjab Congress president Amrinder Singh Raja Warring on Sunday asserted that his party will win the Ludhiana West assembly bypoll, scheduled to be held on june 19, with a "record margin". "Congress practically has no competition here", he claimed. Also Read | AP EAPCET Results 2025 Declared at cets.apsche.ap.gov.in, Know How To Download Rank Card. Warring, who is also the Ludhiana MP, said that the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) was badly mistaken that the Congress would ...Read More >
Ludhiana, Jun 8 (PTI) Punjab Congress president Amrinder Singh Raja Warring on Sunday asserted that his party will win the Ludhiana West assembly bypoll, scheduled to be held on june 19, with a "record margin". "Congress practically has no competition here", he claimed. Warring, who is also the Ludhiana MP, said that the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) was badly mistaken that the Congress would allow it to abuse power and misuse the official machinery for the elections. "First of all, we will no ...Read More >
JAMMU, June 7: Vehicle retail sales in Jammu and Kashmir witnessed a significant drop in May 2025, mainly due to ongoing geopolitical tensions in sensitive border areas. As per data shared by the Federation of Automobile Dealers Associations (FADA), most vehicle categories showed a decline. The data claimed the sales of commercial vehicles were hit the hardest, falling by 30.09% to 711 units, down from 1,017 units in May 2024. "Construction equipment (CE) sales dropped by 48.33%, while passen ...Read More >
Ludhiana: Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann campaigned for AAP candidate Sanjeev Arora in Ludhiana West, addressing crowded gatherings in Jawahar Nagar and Sarabha Nagar. In an impassioned address, he drew a sharp contrast between the AAP's message of "love and progress" and "arrogance" of opposition parties. Urging residents to vote for Sanjeev Arora, he said, "Ludhiana is the heart of Punjab. If you want to keep your heart healthy, choose someone who has Ludhiana in his heart." Taking a dig ...Read More >
Chennai: Hours before Union home minister Amit Shah was to arrive in Madurai, Thuglak editor and an associate of Shah, S Gurumurthy on Saturday met PMK founder S Ramadoss. The PMK leader, however, ruled out the possibility of meeting Amit Shah during his two-day visit to Tamil Nadu.Gurumurthy met Ramadoss for the second time amid reported tension within PMK regarding alliance strategies and insistence by Anbumani Ramadoss to remain party president. The hour-long meeting took place at the T Nagar ...Read More >
Ludhiana, Jun 7 (PTI) Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Saturday sought votes for AAP candidate Sanjeev Arora, who is contesting the June 19 assembly bypoll to the Ludhiana West seat. Addressing gatherings at Jawahar Nagar and Sarabha Nagar, Mann urged voters to secure Arora's victory, saying, "Ludhiana is the heart of Punjab. If you want to keep your heart healthy, choose someone who has Ludhiana in his heart." Taking a dig at Congress candidate Bharat Bhushan Ashu, Mann described the by- ...Read More >
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