Sushma Swaraj lambasts Congress for creating ruckus in Lok Sabha

Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri and Punjab minister Navjot Singh Sidhu will receive Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at Sri Guru Ramdas International Airport in Amritsar tomorrow.Later on, Sidhu would also accompany the Canadian premier on a visit to the Golden Temple and the Partition Museum, said an official spokesman.On the directions of Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, Sidhu would receive the Canadian prime minister at both the places, he said.At the airport, Sidhu would be ...

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday appointed its Rajya Sabha MP Shwait Malik as the new president of its Punjab unit.Malik, a former Mayor of Amritsar, replaces Union Minister Vijay Sampla.The new state BJP President is considered close to Union ...

The hearing remained inconclusive and would continue on April 17 when Sidhu's counsel will give the rebuttal to state government's argument. Amarinder Singh-led Punjab government on Thursday favoured the Punjab and Haryana high court verdict convicting and awarding a three-year jail term to its minister Navjot Singh Sidhu in a 1988 road rage case. The cricketer-turned-politician, who deserted the Bharatiya Janata Party and joined the Congress days before the Punjab assembly election last ...

Debt waiver to farmers remains at the centre-stage of Punjab of politics and it will continue to be so at least till the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. The reason is that it was the Congress-led government under Captain Amarinder Singh that set the ball rolling last ...

Sporting a kurta imprinted with a demand for roll back of GST on the #39;langar#39;, a free community kitchen, at the famed Golden Temple, Congress MP from Amritsar Gurjeet Singh Aujla stood out in the Lok Sabha today

AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal 's sudden decision to apologise to Shiromani Akali Dal leader Bikram Singh Majithia may not have found support with the party's Punjab leadership, but the move suggests a sound strategy. Kejriwal sent a letter of apology to ...

The Congress on Wednesday said people across the country, angered by the Bharatiya Janata Party’s “arrogance and misrule”, were “showing it the door”, as was amply proved by the by-election results in the states. The Congress also claimed the BJP had “lost” its simple majority in the Lok Sabha. It said the BJP now had 271 members, minus the two rebel MPs, Kirti Azad and Shatrughan Sinha. However, according to the Lok Sabha secretariat, the BJP has 274 ...

It has been one year that the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) has been out of power in Punjab and it is only a year left for the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls. Sensing that there is little time left, the party under Sukhbir Badal has started getting its act together.

India is likely to take up with Canada the issue of the ban on its officials entry into some gurudwaras in the country, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi will host his counterpart Justin Trudeau later this month. New Delhi is likely to convey to Ottawa its ...