Canadian police in Chandigarh for Kanishka probe

A team of police personnel from Canada on Tuesday held talks with the top brass of Chandigarh police and CBI here in connection with the bombing of Air India flight ‘Kanishka’ in 1985.
The five-member team is on a visit to Chandigarh and Punjab to probe a few leads in connection with the incident in which […]

Congress’s Punjab poll debacle a personal blo ...

Congress supremo Sonia Gandhi may respond to the verdict by nudging the government to take measures which are demonstrably in line with her “aam aadmi” plank.

She has loved playing the opposition, making public exhortations and shooting off missives, which invariably get leaked, and there could be a lot more interventions from public exhortations on […]

Punjab, Uttarakhand results a warning for UPA : Nit ...

NDA’s performance in Punjab and Uttarakhand Assembly Election reflected public anger against the Congress-led UPA Government at the Centre for its failure to check the steep price rise, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said on Tuesday.
“Apart from a mandate for change, the NDA’s performance in Punjab and Uttarakhand are indicative of public anger against […]

Navjot Singh Sidhu wins Amritsar Lok Sabha by-elect ...

Cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu Tuesday won the Amritsar Lok Sabha seat by-election, defeating his Congress rival Surinder Singla by over 77,600 votes.
The official announcement of the crucial parliamentary seat result was withheld as two electronic voting machines had malfunctioned. The final result, after counting of votes from the two machines, would be made available later.
Sidhu’s […]

YSRs camp jitter with Punjab, Uttarakhand results

The NDA victory in Punjab and Uttarakhand has added to the worries of the Congress government in the State, coming on top of the defeat in local elections in Rajahmundry and poor showing in Visakhapatnam.
Local Congress leaders have agreed that the local elections showed a strong indication of the anti-incumbency mood among voters. The […]

Parkash Singh Badal convenes meeting of SAD-BJP com ...

SAD president Parkash Singh Badal has convened an “urgent meeting” of newly elected SAD-BJP MLAs here on Wednesday.
Party general secretary Daljeet Singh Cheema said here this evening that the meeting has been convened “after the landslide victory of the alliance in the general elections.”
The meeting will be held in the Punjab Bhawan here […]

Why Amarinder Singh tripped

Poor governance by the Amarinder Singh government and his failure to check corruption have been the chief causes for the defeat of the Congress in Punjab. Charges of corruption in the police department and the civil services had also adversely impacted the common man.
The fact that the chief minister was not easily accessible to the […]