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Chandigarh: In his maiden speech for Punjab Assembly elections, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, in a veiled attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, said that the government instead of rectifying the problems of the past is choosing to pin the blame on the country’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. Manmohan Singh, 89, also asserted that […]

Pathankot (Punjab): It’s been six years since Ikaagar Singh, a taxi driver, was brutally killed by Pakistan terrorists on the fateful night of January 1, 2016. His children are still awaiting for the government to fulfil its promise of proper education for them and to build a memorial gate in his village. The promise was […]

Anand Singh/Qadian( Punjab): With just over a week left for polling for the 117-member Punjab assembly, Congress leader Pratap Singh Bajwa said that party may have announced Charanjit Singh Channi as chief ministerial candidate in the state but in politics nothing can be guaranteed as things keep on changing and anything can happen. His comments […]

In the wake of simmering ‘hijab’ controversy, which kicked off in Karnataka, a thread exposing the alleged conspiracy behind it has gone viral on Twitter. A verified Twitter user, Vijay Patel, put out several tweets in a thread which alleges that the student wing of a radical outfit Popular Front of India (PFI) orchestrated the […]

NEW DELHI: In what spells more trouble for Bhupinder Singh ‘Honey’, nephew of Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi, who has been arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in illegal mining case, the Income Tax department is also set to register a case against him under Benami Act. According to the IT department sources, the […]

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 […]

Lucknow: After women and youth, it is ‘focus on farmers’ in the third manifesto released by Indian National Congress (INC) ahead of Uttar Pradesh assembly elections. The first phase of voting will start tomorrow. While releasing the manifesto, Congress General Secretary and party in-charge of Uttar Pradesh, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said that if voted to […]

The ‘Hijab’ row that kicked off a couple of months ago in the Government Pre-University college in Udupi in Karnataka has now spread across the state. Following the unrest in different parts of the state on Tuesday, the government declared a three-day holiday in colleges, universities and high schools above ninth standard. “I appeal to […]

New Delhi: “I have been often asked by the members, what would happen if there was no Congress? I would like to say, if there was no Congress there would be no Emergency, there would be no caste politics, Sikhs would never have been massacred, the problems of Kashmiri Pandits would not have happened. Had […]

New Delhi: The Congress and the ruling BJP on Monday released the list of 28 and 45 candidates respectively for Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls. In an interesting development, the BJP has denied tickets to two sitting women MLAs and fielded their husbands instead. The BJP has fielded Sanjay Singh from Amethi after dropping his first […]