Chandigarh: Ending suspense, Punjab Cabinet Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu on Monday said he sent his resignation to Chief Minister Amarinder Singh. “Today I have sent my resignation to the Chief Minister Punjab, has been delivered at his official residence…,” he tweeted. Today I have sent my resignation to the Chief Minister Punjab, has been delivered at […]
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Sidhu’s resignation ‘drama’, says Cabinet colleagues
Chandigarh: Punjab Cabinet ministers Brahm Mohindra and Charanjit Singh Channi on Sunday ridiculed their ministerial colleague Navjot Singh Sidhu’s resignation as a “drama” and urged him to show dignity and decorum in his actions. The ministers reacted to Sidhu’s tweet on his resignation sent to Congress President Rahul Gandhi last month, and his subsequent remark […]
Navjot Singh Sidhu resigns as Punjab minister
Chandigarh: The rift between Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh and his Cabinet colleague Navjot Singh Sidhu deepened on Sunday, when the latter resigned as Minister for Power and New and Renewable Energy Sources. “I hereby resign as Minister from the Punjab Cabinet,” the former-cricketer-turned politician wrote in his resignation letter. Posting the letter on Twitter, Sidhu […]
Congress needs charismatic Gen Next leader as Rahul’s replacement: Punjab CM
Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Saturday backed a young leader to galvanise the Congress in the wake of Rahul Gandhi’s resignation as the party President. Pointing to the large and growing youth population in the country, the Chief Minister urged the Congress Working Committee (CWC) to look for Gandhi’s replacement in a charismatic Gen […]
BJP MP Sunny Deol appoints ‘aide’ to represent him in constituency, triggers row
Chandigarh: Sunny Deol, actor and first-time Member of Parliament from Gurdaspur in Punjab, has triggered a ‘row’ by appointing screenwriter Gurpreet Singh Palheri as his ‘aide’ to co-ordinate with government functionaries on his behalf. The decision has not gone well with the BJP. Deol announced that Palheri will look after the affairs of his constituency on […]
Gurmeet Ram Rahim withdraws parole plea
Chandigarh: Controversial Dera Sacha Sauda sect chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, who is serving a 20-year sentence for raping two of his disciples, on Monday withdrew his request to grant him a parole of 42 days to tender the fields in his sect’s headquarters in Sirsa in Haryana, officials said on Sunday. Ram Rahim (51) […]
25-year-old woman driver attacks man with iron rod in Chandigarh, arrested
Chandigarh: A 25-year-old woman driver who attacked a man with an iron rod in a road rage incident here has been arrested, police said on Wednesday. The incident on Tuesday led to traffic snarls and her crime video went viral on social media. #WATCH Chandigarh: A girl attacks a man with a rod near […]
BJP ministers ‘favour’ parole for Gurmeet Ram Rahim
Chandigarh: The ruling BJP in Haryana seems to be favouring jailed Dera Sacha Sauda sect chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, who was convicted in August 2017 for raping two of his disciples and is now seeking parole, saying this is his right owing to his ‘good conduct’ in jail. The self-styled godman, who has a […]
Pakistani lawyer trying to prove Bhagat Singh’s ‘innocence’ in Saunders murder
Chandigarh: Eighty-eight years after freedom fighters Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru were hanged in the Lahore conspiracy case at Lahore on March 23, 1931, efforts are on across the border to prove that the martyrs did not get a fair trial. The Lahore police last week submitted in a Pakistan trial court the first information […]
Child retrieved from borewell in Punjab died few days back: PGI Hospital
Chandigarh/Sangrur: The two-year-old boy who was pulled out on Tuesday from a 150-feet-deep abandoned borewell in a village in Punjab’s Sangrur district after six days had died a few days ago, the PGI Hospital said. The child, Fatehveer Singh, was brought to the PGI Hospital in Chandigarh, some 130 km from the accident spot, soon after […]