BHAGWANT MANN

NEW DELHI: Unknown men fired at heavily-guarded Punjab Police intelligence headquarters in Mohali’s sector 77 on late Monday evening in a daring attack, stoking memories of a dreadful strike by pro-Khalistani outfits in 1995 leading to the killing of then Punjab CM Beant Singh. Sources in Punjab Police said that a Rocket Propelled Grenade (RPG)-like […]

Today a substantial quantity of some explosive material has been recovered from a vehicle in Karnal. Though initial reports claim it to be RDX, one needs to wait for the authentic report from explosive experts. Keeping in view some of the incidents of recent past which took place in Punjab, including a blast in a […]

  CHANDIGARH: In wake of the deteriorating law and order situation in Punjab, a Congress delegation on Tuesday met Governor Banwari Lal Purohit and also highlighted the misuse of police force to file a case against party leader Alka Lamba and poet Dr Kumar Vishwas. The delegation led by Punjab Congress President Amarinder Singh Raja […]

  CHANDIGARH/NEW DELHI: Hours after Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann signed a knowledge sharing agreement with the Delhi government, Congress on Tuesday roasted the state government describing the agreement as an ‘instrument of surrender’. The remarks came soon after Mann and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced that a Knowledge Sharing Agreement has been signed […]

  NEW DELHI: With an eye to replicate his leader and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal’s ‘Delhi Model’, newly-elected Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann visited state government-run health institutes and schools on Monday. Mann was accompanied by Kejriwal, who is also the national convenor of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), and Manish Sisodia, the Deputy CM of […]

  CHANDIGARH: Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Monday allocated portfolios to newly-appointed ministers while keeping the Home department with himself. The chief minister, who took the oath of office on March 16, has given the Finance portfolio to Harpal Cheema, Education to Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer, and the Health department to Dr Vijay Singhla. […]

  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 […]

NAWANSHAHR (PUNJAB): Khatkar Kalan, the ancestral village of legendary freedom fighter Bhagat Singh, will wear the yellow hues of spring (basant) when Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Bhagwant Mann takes oath as the new chief minister of Punjab on March 16. Arvind Kejriwal-led party has chosen the yellow colour theme for the swearing-in ceremony in […]

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 […]