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The Punjab Vidhan Sabha on Tuesday passed a resolution condemning Congress legislator Sukhpal Singh Khaira for his alleged "derogatory" comments on social media about women celebrating the ₹1,000 monthly financial assistance announced by the AAP government under the "Mukh Mantri Mawan Dhiyan Satikar Yojna" in its fifth and final budget two days ago. The condemnation resolution was moved by AAP MLA Saravjit Kaur Manuke and seconded by finance minister Harpal Singh Cheema during zero hour, follo ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Mar 11 (PTI) The ongoing Budget Session of the Punjab Assembly saw heated exchanges between ruling AAP and opposition legislators on Wednesday over Congress MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira's alleged derogatory remarks on women. Unruly scenes unfolded in the House after Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema raised the issue of Khaira's alleged comment. As chaos continued, Speaker Kultar Singh Sandhwan adjourned the House for 20 minutes. Khaira had come under fire from AAP MLAs for some rem ...Read More >
CHANDIGARH: A portion of the frontal section of Congress MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira's house in Bholath, Kapurthala, was demolished on Monday by the office of the Block Development and Panchayat Officer (BDPO). Khaira, a strong critic of Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, condemned the move, calling it the dangerous introduction of "bulldozer (Pila-Panja) politics" in Punjab by Mann under directions from AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal, aimed at silencing criticism and democratic dissent. As the de ...Read More >
Chandigarh: CBI sleuths conducted a search at the residence of former Ropar range DIG Harcharan Singh Bhullar at Sector 40 here on Thursday. Bhullar was arrested in a bribery case by CBI and has been lodged in Burail jail since Oct 17. Around 2.30pm, a team of CBI officers arrived at Bhullar's residence and started the house's search. Bhullar's family members were were present in house at the time. CBI also videographed the proceedings.CBI had filed an application in the special CBI court on Thu ...Read More >
Chandigarh: Senior Punjab Congress leader Sukhpal Singh Khaira alleged that the recent arrest of senior officer DIG Harcharan Singh Bhullar by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in a major corruption case once again exposed what he termed as the "complete collapse of governance and accountability" under the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) govt in Punjab. Khaira said that as the home minister of Punjab, the responsibility lies squarely with chief minister Bhagwant Mann, alleging that he "failed mise ...Read More >
Chandigrah (Punjab) [India], September 15 (ANI): Congress MP and leader of the Opposition, Rahul Gandhi, after reaching Punjab, visited Baba Budha ji Samadh Astan Gurudwara in Ramdas, Amritsar on Monday. During his visit, Rahul Gandhi offered prayers at the Gurudwara. The leader of the opposition also visited a house in Bhonewal village before proceeding to pay respects at the samadhis of Baba Budha Sahib. Following his visit to Gurudwara, Rahul Gandhi is set to visit the flood-affected areas o ...Read More >
Chandigrah (Punjab) [India], September 15 (ANI): Congress MP and leader of the Opposition, Rahul Gandhi, after reaching Punjab, visited Baba Budha ji Samadh Astan Gurudwara in Ramdas, Amritsar on Monday. During his visit, Rahul Gandhi offered prayers at the Gurudwara. The leader of the opposition also visited a house in Bhonewal village before proceeding to pay respects at the samadhis of Baba Budha Sahib. Following his visit to Gurudwara, Rahul Gandhi is set to visit the flood-affected areas ...Read More >
Amritsar (Punjab) [India], August 11 (ANI): Continuing the war against drugs "Yudh Nashian Virudh" waged by Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann to eradicate drug menace from state consecutively for the 163rd day, Punjab Police conducted raids at 335 locations on Monday leading to the arrest of 104 drug smugglers after registration of 74 first information reports (FIRs) across the state. According to an official release, the total number of drug smugglers arrested has reached 25,524 in 163 days.Th ...Read More >
Cheema credited the Bhagwant Mann government with taking such efforts as 55,000 government jobs and sports event 'khedan watan Punjab diyan' to wean away the youth from drugs. He also lauded the state government's anti-drug drive, 'Yudh Nasheyan Virudh.' After Cheema sought permission from Deputy Speaker Jai Krishan Singh Rori to play old videos of some Congress leaders in which they had criticised Akali leader Bikram Singh Majithia, and Bajwa took an exception to it. "Under what rules of the ...Read More >
New Delhi: The death sentence of Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya, who was sentenced to death in Yemen, has been postponed for the time being. She was to be executed by shooting today, July 16. According to media reports, activist groups and influential religious leaders intervened in the matter, after which the death sentence of Nimisha Priya was postponed. Earlier, many efforts were also made at the diplomatic level to save Nimisha from the death penalty. There is also news that the victim's family ...Read More >
Chandigarh: The Punjab assembly turned into a battleground on Tuesday as a fierce and deeply personal debate unfolded over the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) govt's war on drugs. What began as a discussion on the war against drugs led by finance minister Harpal Singh Cheema soon spiralled into a flurry of allegations, counter-allegations, and emotional outbursts, dragging in leader of opposition Partap Singh Bajwa, Congress MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira, and others.Cheema kicked off by delving into the roots ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Jul 15 (PTI) The Punjab assembly on Tuesday decided to constitute a committee to find out a missing portion of an action-taken report on the 1986 Nakodar sacrilege and police firing incidents. The matter was taken up by Punjab Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema on the concluding day of the special session of the assembly as members of the House discussed the Punjab Prevention of Offences Against Holy Scripture(s) Bill, 2025 here. During the then Shiromani Akali Dal regime, five s ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Jul 12 (PTI) A day after the Chandigarh police filed an FIR against him and another minister on a complaint of Leader of Opposition in Punjab Partap Singh Bajwa for alleged defamation and forgery, state Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema on Saturday said it has become clear that the Congress and the BJP are working "hand-in-glove." The police on Friday registered the case against an "unknown media handler" of AAP, and state cabinet ministers Harpal Singh Cheema and Aman Arora on th ...Read More >
Chandigarh: The Chandigarh cyber police registered an FIR against Punjab ministers Harpal Singh Cheema and Aman Arora for allegedly circulating a doctored video of Partap Singh Bajwa, leader of the opposition in the Punjab assembly.On the complaint of Bajwa, the cyber police registered a case under sections 336 (4) (forgery as making a false document or electronic record with the intention to cause harm, deception, or to facilitate fraud), 356 (defamation), and 61 (2) (criminal conspiracy) of BN ...Read More >
Noida: The Authority on Friday imposed a fine of Rs 10 lakh on Unitech Golf & Country Club, in Sector 96, for violating rules of bulk waste generators. The officials in an earlier inspection, found improper segregation, storage, and handling of solid waste management.Under the Solid Waste Management (SWM) rules, 2016, bulk generators are required to treat their wet waste on-site. The city generates nearly 800 tons of solid waste per day, of which nearly 30% comes from BWGs.SP Singh, general mana ...Read More >
Chandigarh: A heated war of words between finance minister Harpal Singh Cheema and leader of opposition Partap Singh Bajwa plunged the second day of a special Punjab assembly session into chaos, as accusations over doctored videos, gangster ties, and political collusion took centre stage.Tempers flared when Cheema addressed an FIR (first-information report) lodged against him and other Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) bigwigs over an allegedly manipulated video that purportedly showed that Bajwa supported ...Read More >
Srinagar- A local court in Jammu and Kashmir on Friday dismissed a case of Model Code of Conduct (MCC) violation filed against PDP leader and MLA Waheed-Ur-Rehman Parra in connection with a roadshow he held during last year's Lok Sabha elections in Pulwama district. The case, registered under Section 188 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), was dismissed by Additional Special Mobile Magistrate Awantipora, Muneer Ahmad Bhat, who ruled that no cognisance of the offence could be taken due to procedural ...Read More >
Jalandhar: While Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener Arvind Kejriwal recently alleged a secretive understanding between the Congress and the BJP in Gujarat -- calling it a "hidden romance" -- the Congress in Punjab has been bracketing AAP with RSS-BJP for over two years or accusing the Punjab chief minister of following the Centre's line on different issues.Even as the parties held a seat-sharing arrangement in Delhi, Haryana, and Gujarat, Punjab Congress leaders usually called AAP the 'B te ...Read More >
Jalandhar: Amritsar North MLA Kunwar Vijay Partap Singh, who has been shown the door by the AAP, played a crucial role in destabilising Capt Amarinder Singh's govt in 2021 over the 2015 sacrilege and police firing cases.The Aam Aadmi Party, which hit rock bottom in the 2019 parliamentary election, used the issue by inducting him into the party, marking the first step in their comeback.After becoming the main opposition by winning 20 seats in the 2017 assembly election, AAP did away with most of ...Read More >
The Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB) on June 25 arrested Majithia in a disproportionate assets case allegedly involving laundering of ₹540 crore of "drug money". Majithia, who is the brother-in-law of SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal, is learnt to have been taken to Mashobra in Himachal Pradesh for verification of property allegedly linked to his family. Though Majithia does not own any property in Himachal, his wife Ganieve Kaur Majithia, an Akali MLA, owns a residential property in the hill sta ...Read More >
Chandigarh, June 6 (UNI) The SSP Vigilance Ludhiana, who issued summons to Bharat Bhushan Ashu, a Congress leader and party's candidate for Ludhiana West bypolls, in school land misuse case, has been suspended, Punjab government sources said on Friday. Sources said SSP Jagatpreet Singh and Ashu were in touch and Ashu might have orchestrated summons to gain sympathy ahead of the by-elections. Earlier, Congress MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira had written on X that with the summoning of a candidate in ...Read More >
Candidates for the Gidderbaha bypoll have preferred to hold door-to-door meetings and conduct small gatherings in the constituency over large election rallies. Apart from this, the contestants have also tapped digital tools significantly for aggressive electioneering in the predominantly rural assembly segment of Muktsar district. Gidderbaha will go to polling on November 20, where 1.66 lakh registered voters will exercise their franchise. The segment has 173 polling booths. Political analyst ...Read More >
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