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Chandigarh, March 15 The grand swearing-in ceremony of Chief Minister-elect Bhagwant Mann at Khatkar Kalan is expected to be an AAP affair. At least 10 top leaders of the party from Delhi are expected to attend the ceremony. However, no...

Sanjeev Singh Bariana and Aparna BanerjeeKhatkar Kalan, March 16 Bhagwant Mann was administered the oath of office as Punjab chief minister by Governor Banwari Lal Purohit here on Wednesday. Inderbir Singh Nijjer, Amrtisar South MLA, was appointed Protem Speaker of...

Amritsar, March 14 Former Deputy CM Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa has written to Akal Takht officiating Jathedar Giani Harpreet Singh urging him to stop endorsing the Badal-led SAD and be a representative of the entire Sikh community. The letter was in...

Chandigarh, March 14 Holding the Gandhis solely responsible for the rout of the Congress in the recent Assembly elections, PLC chief Capt Amarinder Singh on Monday hit out at the Congress Working Committee (CWC) for trying to put the blame...

Chandigarh, March 14 Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) core committee today reposed faith in the leadership of president Sukhbir Singh Badal at its first meeting after the party’s poor show in the Assembly polls. The committee passed a resolution that...

Chandigarh, March 14 Pressure is building in the Punjab Congress to isolate the pressure group in central leadership that played a key role in giving lead roles to Charanjit Singh Channi as the CM face and Navjot Singh Sidhu...

New Delhi, March 14 Chief Minister-designate and Sangrur MP Bhagwant Mann on Monday attended the Lok Sabha for the last time and tendered his resignation to Speaker Om Birla. Responsibility bigger now The people of Punjab have now given me...

New Delhi, March 14 A meeting of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) to review the next phase of farmers’ movement to demand MSP guarantee witnessed some stormy scenes. Two groups held separate meetings at the same venue — Gandhi...

Ravi Dhaliwal Gurdaspur, March 13 The tsunami unleashed by the AAP in the Assembly elections was so intense that party candidates who lost have actually performed exceedingly well if the number of votes polled is any indicator. The twin districts...

Vishav Bharti Chandigarh, March 13 Several parties could not even match the number of NOTA votes polled in the recent Punjab Assembly elections. As per the results declared on Thursday, of the 1.54 crore votes polled in the state, 1.10...

Deepkamal Kaur Jalandhar, March 13 All those who were members of some commissions or committees and had to put in papers for contesting the polls have had to face a double loss. While they lost the posts they were holding,...

Moga, March 13 Newly elected Aam Aadmi Party legislator Dr Amandeep Kaur Arora, who defeated actor Sonu Sood’s sister Malvika by 20,915 votes, says she will focus on raising the standard of education and health services in the area....

Ferozepur, March 13 Leaving the AAP in the lurch at the eleventh hour proved costly for turncoat Ashu Banger, who despite being allocated the ticket by the party from the Ferozepur Rural seat jumped ship overnight to join the Congress,...

Chandigarh, March 13 As pressure mounts on former Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi and PCC chief Navjot Singh Sidhu over the poll debacle, senior Congress leader and former minister Balbir Singh Sidhu on Sunday termed the two as “turncoats and...

Chandigarh, March 13 Chief Minister-elect Bhagwant Mann will submit his resignation as the Member of Parliament from Sangrur on Monday. Sources in the Aam Aadmi Party have told The Tribune before Mann takes the oath of office and secrecy as...

Rajmeet Singh Chandigarh, March 13 Faced with its worst poll debacle, churning has begun within the party over the choice of the Congress legislature party (CLP) leader in the new Vidhan Sabha. With all leaders gunning for PCC chief Navjot...

Aditi Tandon New Delhi, March 13 Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Sunday admitted before the party’s working committee she kept protecting former CM Capt Amarinder Singh despite a series of complaints against him. Sources said Sonia made these remarks after...

Amritsar, March 13 Showing gratitude towards the people of Punjab for AAP’s landslide victory, party convener and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal said, “It is now our turn to pay back and fulfil all promises made prior to the elections.”...

Chandigarh, March 13 Punjab’s health system could go under the knife with 13 doctors making it to the state assembly this election, including 10 from the AAP which is set to form the next government. “I feel the way the...

Bathinda, March 12 For the first time, as many as 12 doctors have been elected to the state Assembly, in which the AAP has registered a landslide victory. Of the 12 doctors who have become MLAs, nine are from AAP,...

Chandigarh, March 12 The Election Commission of India (ECI) has lifted the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) with immediate effect, which came into force on January 8 with the announcement of schedule for the Assembly Elections. Chief Electoral Officer, Punjab,...

Amritsar, March 12 After the crushing defeat of the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) in the Assembly elections, Akal Takht Jathedar Giani Harpreet Singh has asked the party to return to Panthic agenda. The SAD got only three seats and its...

Chandigarh, March 12 Accepting the responsibility for the crushing defeat of the SAD (Sanyukt), party president Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa today submitted his resignation from the post. Dhindsa submitted resignation in a meeting of the core committee of the party. He...

Vishav Bharti Chandigarh, March 12 While the BJP claims its performance in the Assembly elections is another feather in its cap, the party seems to have failed to make major impact on the ground. The party had contested 50 more...

Sameer Singh Bathinda, March 12 The number of voters who opted for NOTA (none of the above) in this elections has increased as compared to the 2017 polls in Bathinda and Mansa districts. As per official data, in 2017, as...