Punjab news

Harsimrat Kaur Badal, the sitting MP from Bathinda, will be the party's candidate from the same constituency for the fourth consecutive time.

Former Punjab Congress chief Mohinder Singh Kaypee on Monday ditched the party and entered the Lok Sabha fray from Jalandhar on SAD ticket.

Chandigarh: Working on various permutations and combinations, the Congress is learnt to have shortlisted its candidates for the Faridkot and Hoshiarpur parliamentary segments at its central election committee meeting held on Sunday.…

Both Congress leaders joined the BJP in the presence of Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw and national general secretary Vinod Tawde.

Patiala: A total of 54 trains on the Ambala-Amritsar route were cancelled on Saturday as farmers squatted on tracks at the Shambhu railway station in Patiala district of Punjab for the fourth day, officials said. In Ferozepur division,…

Jalandhar: Congress leaders Tajinder Singh Bittu, a close aide of Priyanka Gandhi, and Karamjit Kaur Chaudhary, widow of two-time Jalandhar MP Santokh Singh Chaudhary, joined the BJP in Delhi on Saturday. The development comes as another…

The accused has been arrested and identified as Gurvinder Singh, who works as a laborer.

Chandigarh: Rain accompanied by dust storm lashed Chandigarh and parts of Punjab and Haryana on Friday, bringing relief from the hot weather conditions, according to the weather department here. There were also reports of hailstorm at a…

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Bhagwant Mann, a senior leader of the AAP dismissed the BJP's poll slogan of winning more than 400 Lok Sabha seats as a 'jumla'.

Chandigarh: Having taken the lead in announcing its candidates for all 13 Lok Sabha seats in Punjab, the Aam Aadmi Party is set to be the first one to launch its election campaign from tomorrow. All party candidates for the Lok Sabha…

Day after expressing resentment over ticket denial, Dalvir Singh Goldy backs Sangrur nominee

Jalandhar: With the BJP fielding MoS Som Parkash’s wife Anita Som Parkash from the Hoshiarpur parliamentary constituency, speculation is rife that disgruntled saffron party leader Vijay Sampla may also throw his hat in the ring. Since…

With this announcement, the AAP has declared candidates for all 13 parliamentary seats in Punjab.

Jalandhar: Siding with former MP Sukhdev Dhindsa and his son Parminder Dhindsa over not getting Lok Sabha ticket from SAD for Sangrur seat, party leader Jagir Kaur today said that the party leadership should not have broken the trust of…

Overall development took place during SAD tenure

The Punjab CM met Kejriwal as a common visitor, as per the rules of the jail manual.

Singh, 49, died of cardiac arrest in Jinnah Hospital Lahore in the wee hours of May 2, 2013, after being comatose for nearly a week following a brutal assault by inmates in a Pakistani prison.

The incident took place on Saturday evening when the two assailants entered the deceased, Vikas Bagga's shop located near the Rupnagar railway station and opened fire at him before fleeing immediately, the police said.

Amritsar: On the occasion of the 325th ‘Khalsa Sajna Divas’, Sikh devotees put up Khalsai flags on the rooftop of their houses, recited ‘Moolmantra’ besides paying obeisance at the Golden Temple since the wee hours today. Devotees from…