KHATKAR KALAN: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) parliamentarian Sanjay Singh on Wednesday said that the party’s massive victory in Punjab will boost its strength in the Rajya Sabha and party MPs would not have to beg the chair for “a minute” to raise issues of public importance. At present, the AAP has three members, Sanjay […]
KHATKAR KALAN (PUNJAB): AAP leader Bhagwant Mann on Wednesday made an emotional appeal to all Punjabis not to leave the state to settle in foreign countries as he took oath as the 17th chief minister of Punjab at a grand function in Khatkar Kalan, the ancestral village of legendary freedom fighter Bhagat Singh. Addressing a […]
NEW DELHI: Punjab’s Chief Minister-elect Bhagwant Mann on Monday tendered his resignation as a member of Lok Sabha. He is all set to take the oath of office at a grand ceremony in Khatkar Kalan, the ancestral village of freedom fighter Bhagat Singh on March 16. Speaking to media persons outside his residence here, Mann said […]
SHIMLA: For the past several decades, never has any political party been able to repeat its government in Himachal Pradesh. Be it the BJP or the Congress, both have had to make way for their rival every five years. With the next Himachal Assembly elections due in December, the BJP and the Congress, traditionally ruling […]
CHANDIGARH: Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) sprang a surprise by registering a landslide victory in the Punjab assembly elections on Thursday, ousting the Congress party from yet another state. As per the Election Commission of India (ECI), the AAP was set to win 92 seats in the 117-member Punjab legislative assembly. AAP leader Bhagwant Mann, […]
That Prime Minister Modi concentrated on attacking the Congress in his public rally in Goa on Thursday clearly indicates that the ruling party sees its major challenge in that state from its traditional rival more than from the newer options. At least until the last week or two, the campaigns of major newer entrants, TMC […]
Amritsar: As the poll dates draw closer in Punjab, the voter expectation of the next government and the issues that they wish for it to tackle is gaining strength. In Amritsar’s Golden Temple area, locals are divided on the development and are keen to choose a party that will bring about the desired change. Having […]
CHAMKAUR SAHIB(PUNJAB): Poll promises are getting intense across party lines as the election fever peaks in Punjab. Making it clear that youth is its focus, Congress CM candidate and present Chief Minister of Punjab, Charanjit Singh Channi, said that if Congress is voted to power in the state again, his first task on the first day […]
In the middle of election campaigning, and at a time, when he has locked horns with his bete noire within Congress — in another sign of growing fissures and internal wrangling in the party leadership in Punjab, The New Indian’s Executive Editor Rohan Dua caught up with CM Charanjit Channi at his maternal home Makrauna […]
NEW DELHI: In the wake of rising COVID cases in the state the Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) has decided to shut down restaurants and Pubs in Delhi. DDMA has also decided that all the private offices should work from home. DDMA said that, ”DDMA is satisfied that the NCT of Delhi has taken effective […]