Chandigarh, May 21 (IANS) Punjab Finance Minister Harpal Cheema on Thursday announced that sanitation workers across various Urban Local Bodies (ULBs), municipal councils, municipal committees, and nagar panchayats in the state have decided to withdraw their ongoing strike after talks with the government. Cheema told the media here that a five-member delegation from the workers’ 35-member committee held detailed discussions with Cabinet Minister Harjot Singh Bains, senior government officials,…
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Chandigarh, May 21 (IANS) Minister of State (MoS) Ravneet Singh Bittu on Thursday issued a clarification for referring to Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann as an “ISI agent”. He underlined that his remark came in response to Mann accusing the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the twin explosions in Punjab, despite the Director General of Police (DGP) Gaurav Yadav mentioning an ISI angle in the incident.Bittu had accused Chief Minister Mann of being an “ISI agent” who is trying to endanger India…
New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Convener and former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday reached out to NEET aspirants upset over the cancellation of the medical entrance examination, urging them to stay strong and continue preparing for the re-exam scheduled on June 21.In a post on social media platform X, Kejriwal said he was deeply moved by the response to a recent video he had shared on the issue.”Dear NEET students, I am touched by the number of messages and intens…
Chandigarh, May 19 (IANS) Punjab Bharatiya Janata Party President Sunil Jakhar on Tuesday accused the Aam Aadmi Party government in Punjab of undermining democracy by allegedly rejecting nomination papers of the party’s candidates in large numbers during the local body elections. Jakhar told the media that the Bharatiya Janata Party would move court against the rejection of nomination papers and would not allow the ruling government to “loot the elections through unfair means”.He said the …
Mumbai, May 19 (IANS) Singer and Vedic priest Ankit Batra, who conducted the wedding rituals of actress Parineeti Chopra and politician Raghav Chadha, has shared some unknown details about the high-profile nuptials. Ankit divulged the first-person account of the high-profile wedding during the premiere episode of his YouTube channel, “Voice of Vows”.From the “fortress-like” security, to the various protocols set in place to protect the privacy of the ceremony, to the emotional moment when Parine…
Patna, May 18 (IANS) Launching a sharp attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Union government over rising inflation and restrictions on people, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Monday said the Centre has pushed the country into an “undeclared lockdown” while hiding the true state of the economy from people. Pointing out that the Centre artificially suppressed fuel prices until elections and is now burdening citizens immediately afterwards, Mann demanded that the Union government pub…
Chandigarh, May 16 (IANS) Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader and former Punjab Minister Surjit Singh Rakhra on Saturday joined the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) at a public meeting in Samana town with Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann personally welcoming him into the party. His family and several supporters also joined the AAP along with him. Welcoming Rakhra into the AAP, CM Mann said, “May 16 will be remembered as a significant day in Punjab’s political history, as a clean and respected personality dedicate…
Chandigarh, May 16 (IANS) Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Saturday criticised the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Central government over the steep rise in fuel prices, saying the burden has once again been imposed on common people immediately after elections while those in power continue to lecture citizens on cutting expenses and savings. He said that people across the “country are struggling with inflation, rising transport costs and increasing household expenditure, but instead of pr…
Chandigarh, May 16 (IANS) Amid growing concerns over manipulation of electoral rolls in several states, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Saturday said the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) would not allow even a single genuine vote to be deleted under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process. Warning against any attempt to engineer “fake votes” in favour of a particular political party, CM Mann said AAP leaders and workers would remain stationed alongside booth-level officers (BLOs) at every p…
Chandigarh, May 16 (IANS) To ensure that the increased fuel prices do not impose any additional financial burden on the people of Punjab, the state government should follow the example of the BJP-led Central government, which on March 27 reduced taxes by Rs 10 per litre and absorbed the burden of rising fuel prices, the state unit of the BJP said on Saturday. BJP General Secretary Anil Sarin, while addressing the media in the presence of the party’s state media head Vineet Joshi, said that sim…