Chandigarh: Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann‘s claim that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was behind the Tuesday night blasts in Jalandhar and Amritsar snowballed into a political storm on Wednesday, with Congress and Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) slamming the statement. Punjab leader of opposition Partap Singh Bajwa called statements by Mann as “contradictory”. “On one…
CHANDIGARH: After topping the country in drug overdose deaths in 2022 and 2023, Punjab recorded the secondhighest fatalities in 2024, with 106 deaths, according to the latest NCRB report on Accidental Deaths & Suicides in India (ADSI).A total of 978 such deaths were reported nationwide, with Tamil Nadu topping the list at 313, followed by…
Chandigarh: Punjab BJP chief Sunil Jakhar on Wednesday reacted sharply to chief minister Bhagwant Mann‘s statement linking the blasts in Jalandhar and Amritsar to the saffron party’s “poll preparations”, warning the Centre had the “right to remove the chief minister” and the party will pursue every legal recourse available for the ouster of “an irresponsible”…
Congress’s mayoral candidate Sudha Bhardwaj (65) feels corruption is the biggest issue in this election. Setting up a garbage processing plant for the city and shifting liquor vends from residential areas are her main priorities. She speaks to TOI:If elected, what are your priority areas?My main priorities will be setting up a garbage processing plant…
Panchkula: The Congress on Wednesday accused the BJP govt of attempting to “manipulate the electoral process” in the upcoming Panchkula municipal corporation elections, alleging large-scale irregularities in the voter list.Addressing a press conference at the party’s state headquarters in Chandigarh, Haryana Congress chief Rao Narender Singh and Rajya Sabha MP Randeep Singh Surjewala claimed that…
Amritsar: An abandoned vehicle with suspicious items was found in Chheharta, 9km from the site of the blast that took place in Amritsar’s Khasa neighbourhood on Tuesday night.Shopkeepers said the vehicle, parked outside a shop, contained wires, pipes and drum-like objects, and its roof appeared partially cut. Suspecting foul play, they alerted police.A local shopkeeper…
Chandigarh: Punjab finance minister Harpal Singh Cheema on Wednesday said the state DGP had not attributed the recent low-intensity blasts in Amritsar and Jalandhar to Pakistan’s ISI, stressing that the investigation was still at an early stage.“The DGP did not say that. He said the probe into the blasts is at an initial stage. Forensic…
Bathinda: Punjab govt has put on hold its April 7 decision to increase crop loan limits for farmers by 53%, following objections from cooperative banks, and will continue with last year’s rates for now.State govt had recently raised the per-acre loan amount for paddy from Rs 25,400 to Rs 39,000 under the scale of finance…
Chandigarh: A political war erupted in Punjab after chief minister Bhagwant Mann accused the BJP of attempting to turn the state into a “laboratory of fear and violence” ahead of assembly elections early next year, alleging that the twin blasts in Amritsar and Jalandhar were part of a “deliberate strategy” to destabilise the state following…
Chandigarh: Blaming the Centre for the shortage of storage space for food grains in the state, Punjab food, civil supplies and consumer affairs minister Lal Chand Kataruchak on Wednesday claimed that the required number of special trains for transporting wheat grain had not been deployed, resulting in a “glut-like” situation in mandis.The minister said the…
