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CHANDIGARH: Punjab Congress President Navjot Singh Sidhu has welcomed the reopening of the Kartarpur Corridor from Wednesday. “The opening of the Kartarpur Corridor is in itself a historic, rare and priceless gift,” said Sidhu while addressing mediapersons here in Chandigarh, adding that he would appeal to the government at the Centre to keep this corridor […]

NAINITAL: After his recent odious comparison of Hindutva with ISIS terror group, senior Congress leader Salman Khurshid on Monday claimed that his house in Nainital was set on fire by the adherents of Hinduism. The accusation comes days after the BJP had pointed out that Khurshid in his latest book on Ayodhya has equated Hindutva with […]

BULANDSHAHR: Being out of power in Uttar Pradesh since 1989 and in an attempt to regain its lost ground in the state, the Congress made it clear on Sunday that it will contest the 2022 assembly elections solo and will not enter into any alliance with another political party. The announcement was made by the […]

CHANDIGARH: Bollywood actor, Sonu Sood, on Sunday announced that his sister, Malvika Sood, will contest the Punjab polls, which are to be held early next year. However, he did not reveal the party choice. In the past month, Sood has held separate meetings with the Punjab chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi as well as Aam […]

LUCKNOW/NEW DELHI: BSP supremo and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati’s mother Ramrati (92) passed away on Saturday after battling prolonged illness. BSP general secretary Satish Mishra told reporters that the Dalit czarina’s mother was undergoing treatment at a Delhi hospital and died following a cardiac arrest. Her mother’s cremation is scheduled to take place in […]

NEW DELHI: A day after Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot met Congress interim chief Sonia Gandhi, former Deputy Chief Minister and senior party leader Sachin Pilot also met the party supremo in the national capital. Pilot arrived at the residence of Sonia Gandhi around 12 noon at 10 Janpath. Their meeting lasted for over one […]

CHANDIGARH: In a setback to Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) just before Vidhan Sabha elections, the AAP MLA from Bathinda Rural (reserved) Rupinder Kaur Ruby quit the party on Tuesday and joined Congress. 33-year-old first time MLA Ruby tweeted her resignation which was addressed to AAP national convener ad Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and Punjab […]

NEW DELHI: In what spells out more trouble for Sushen Mohan Gupta, the alleged middleman in the French aviation company Dassault’s alleged agreement with a Chandigarh based software firm IDS Infotech, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has found bills for his vacation in Thailand in December 2010 on New Year eve. The CBI chargesheet, […]

CHANDIGARH: A day after Punjab’s advocate-general APS Deol attacked Navjot Singh Sidhu in the ‘drugs matter’ and the ‘sacrilege cases’, the cricketer turned politician on Sunday hit back at him, alleging that the lawyer had appeared before the High Court for main conspirators and accused in the case. The Punjab Congress chief, Sidhu also accused […]

CHANDIGARH: The Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) chief Abhay Singh Chautala scored his fifth victory from Ellenabad in Haryana assembly by-elections. He beat BJP-JJP candidate Gobind Kanda and Congress candidate Pawan Beniwal. With this win, Chautala remains undefeated from this rural Jat-dominated seat since the 2010 by-elections. The bypoll was necessitated after Abhay Singh Chautala, […]