CHANDIGARH: After the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) legislator from Amritsar (North) Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh accused his own party of having failed to fulfill its promises on drugs and sacrilege, Leader of the Opposition Partap Singh Bajwa on Monday said now party leaders also started exposing the misdeeds of the party.

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab vigilance bureau (VB) during its ongoing campaign against corruption in the state, on Monday arrested Piyara Singh, revenue Patwari, posted at Abohar Sub-Tehsil and having charge of circle of Seeto Road Abohar, red handed for accepting a bribe Rs 5000.

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB), during its ongoing campaign against corruption in the state, on Monday has apprehended Assistant Sub Inspector (ASI) Nachattar Singh, posted at Police Station Ajnala Amritsar district for demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 5000.

DAMDAMA SAHIB: Baisakhi festival was peacefully ended with the khalsa mohalla procession according to the ancient tradition was organised by Budha Dal led by Baba Balbir Singh 96 crori here on Sunday.

CHANDIGARH: To ensure free, fair and peaceful upcoming Lok Sabha Elections-2024, Punjab Police on Sunday carried out a special operation ‘OPS Seal-VI’ aimed at checking all the vehicles entering or exiting the border state of Punjab to keep vigil around the movement of drug smugglers and bootleggers. The operation was conducted in a synchronised manner from 8 am to 2 pm on the directions of Director General of Police (DGP) Punjab Gaurav Yadav.

AMRITSAR: During the printing of the Holy Guru Granth Sahib by the Shiromani Committee, QR code was used according to the new technology. Counts and other information will be listed by applying the code. Along with this, efforts will be made to connect the holy figures already decorated in the Gurudwaras and present with the Sangats with this method.

PHAGWARA: A Pall of Gloom descended during hue and cry of the villagers when in a shocking tragedy two persons were electrocuted and three other sustained burn injuries while installing” Nishan Sahib” at a religious place of Shaheedan in Village Shankar near Nakodar on Baisakhi day today.

AMRITSAR: Sukhbir Singh Badal president of Shiromani Akali Dal has announced first list of seven senior leaders of party candidates for parliament election 2024..Choosing the historic occasion of Khalsa Sirjna divas as the most suited day the sound.

SRI DAMDAMA SAHIB: The inauguration of the Khalsa on Baisakhi Day by Dasam Patshah was a new revolution on this earth.

CHANDIGARH: Tens of thousands of devotees on Saturday thronged gurdwaras across Punjab and Haryana to celebrate Baisakhi, one of the biggest festivals that marks the foundation day of the Khalsa Panth (Sikh order) by the tenth Sikh Guru, Gobind Singh.

CHANDIGARH:  The Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB) during its ongoing campaign against corruption in the state on Wednesday, has arrested Gurmukh Singh, Block Development and Panchayats Officer (BDPO), Pakhowal, Ludhiana district for demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 30,000.

NEW DELHI: Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann will meet AAP National Convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in Tihar Jail on April 15, prison sources said on Friday.

PATIALA: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal today demanded a judicial probe into the Punjab liquor scam as well as misuse of State resources to fund Aam Aadmi Party’s election campaign in various States following the rejection of Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s petition challenging his arrest on charges of corruption.

A Jatha of Sikh pilgrims will go to Pakistan on Khalsa Sajna Divas. 

CHANDIGARH: In a coordinated effort by the BSF and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of Ferozepur in Punjab, a significant breakthrough was achieved in the fight against illegal drug distribution.

AMRITSAR: Bhagtanwala dump, which has been a problem for decades in the South Constituency,will be taken out of the city in any case.
This was promised by BJP candidate for forthcoming lok sabha elections Taranjit Singh Sandhu while addressing the Election rally here today.
Taranjit Singh Sandhu said that the garbage dump of will be removed from the city and people have welcomed with cheers.

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann has reiterated the firm commitment of state government to lift every single grain of the farmers during the Rabi marketing season 2024-25.

AMRITSAR: Five Sikh high priests have appealed to Sikhs on the completion of 325 years of Khalsa Sajna Day, on 13 April 2024, every Sikh should show Khalsai Jaho-Jalal by hanging the Khalsai sign on their houses. Along with this, there is a message to the whole nation that come! Come out of the spiritual darkness of ignorance and try to become a scholar of truth and religion.

AMRITSAR: Baba Hazara Singh, head of Karseva Samprada Guru Ka Bagh, former Jathedar of Takht Sri Kesgarh Sahib Sri Anandpur Sahib Giani Harcharan Singh Mahalon, Sangeet Mart and Padmasree Professor Kartar Singh and Martyrdom of Sahibzades Pictures of Alh Yar Khan Jogi, who recorded the narrative in poetic form, were decorated in Central Sikh Museum within Golden Temple complex here today.

CHANDIGARH: Bringing to the fore differences among party leaders, Phillaur MLA Vikramjit Singh Chaudhary on Monday resigned as Chief Whip of the Congress in the Vidhan Sabha.

CHANDIGARH: The Leader of Opposition (LoP), Partap Singh Bajwa on Sunday rebuked the Aam Aadmi Party-led Punjab government for making hollow claims about being power-sufficient. 

CHANDIGARH: The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today said chief minister Bhagwant Mann was trying to implicate senior Akali leader Bikram Singh Majithia in a false case and had even admitted that he was rewriting the file in an old false drug case registered against Mr Majithia by the erstwhile Congress government.

FAZILKA: To ensure a free and fair environment for ensuing Polls, the Fazilka Deputy Commissioner Dr. Senu Kapila Duggal on Saturday said that joint strategy has been developed by BSF and Civil Police to negate any likelihood of smuggling of arms and narcotics from across the International border.

AMRITSAR: "Now after completing a certain period of attaining knowledge, you have to give it a practical form. Here I would like to exhort that whatever you do, wherever you go, always follow the path of truth. As it is also said in Gurubani that Truth is supreme, if there is anything higher than that, then it is, the following the path of truthfulness (सत्य सबसे ऊपर है यदि उससे भी ऊपर कुछ है तो वह है सत्य का आचरण).

CHANDIGARH: Terming the Election Manifesto of the Indian National Congress as revolutionary, Punjab's Leader of the Opposition (LoP), Partap Singh Bajwa on Friday claimed that the party prepared the manifesto after a thorough research in all the sections of the society. 

CHANDIGARH: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal today constituted the Advisory Board of the Legal Wing of the party in consultation with wing president Mr Arshdeep Singh Kler besides appointing its secretary general and five senior vice presidents.

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB), during its ongoing campaign against corruption in the state, on Wednesday has apprehended Dr Kawaljit Singh, posted as Senior Medical Officer (SMO) at Civil Hospital Tarn Taran red handed while he was demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 50,000.

AMRITSAR: American companies are paving the way to invest in Amritsar. Today the ambassador of India in America was in Amritsar on the invitation of Taranjit Singh Sandhu, who is also the Bharatiya Janata Party candidate for the Amritsar Lok Sabha constituency, the President and Chief Executive Officer of the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum visited Guru Nagar for the first time.

AMRITSAR: The District Defense Services Welfare Officer informed that from 02 April 2024 to 5 April 2024, the Sikh Light Infantry Regiment will hear the pension problem of ex-servicemen of the Sikh Light Infantry Regiment and their widows at this office and their records to solve the problem.

CHANDIGARH: The Rabi Marketing Season (RMS) 2024-25 today began in the State and would last till May 31st, 2024.

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB), during its ongoing campaign against corruption in the state, on Monday has apprehended Patawari Yashpal, posted at revenue halqua village Kot, Pathankot district, red handed while he was accepting a bribe of Rs 2,000.

NAKODAR: The Nakodar Sadar police on Friday busted a fake de-addiction center and rescued 23 youths kept there.

CHANDIGARH: Every year the defaulting amount of PSPCL from government and non-government consumers is increasing despite a one time settlement scheme and free 300 units monthly free power for domestic consumers.

AMRITSAR: During today's general meeting of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, a budget of 1260 crore 97 lakh 38 thousand rupees was passed for the year 2024-25.

AMRITSAR: For the year 2023-24, a stipend amount of 1 crore 43 lakh 94 thousand rupees was given to the Amritdhari students studying in the educational institutions of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee.