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For Punjab Congress, it’s over to Delhi

It’s over to Delhi for Punjab Congress, as all leaders of the state Congress are busy with intense lobbying for party tickets. The fact that the Assembly elections in the state are exactly a month away but Congress leaders are absent from their constituencies has created a political lull for the Congress in the state.

Major fire in Chandigarh multiplex, no casualty

A major fire broke out in the food court area of the Fun Republic multiplex in Chandigarh's Mani Majra area on Saturday afternoon.

Fire services officials said five tenders were rushed to the spot to

Leopard strays into Panchkula

Haryana’s Panchkula town witnessed high drama on Thursday after a leopard strayed into a colony creating big scare among residents with cops allegedly cane charging some photo and video journalists eager to click pictures, a charge denied by the police.

EC: No party booths outside polling stations

The Election Commission will for the first time not allow political parties to set up booths outside polling stations. With Punjab set to attain a 100 per cent photo electoral rolls target before the Assembly elections in the state, the old practice of booth agents of various political parties giving voter slips to voters will end.

In Punjab, Akalis & BJP fight against history

The Akali Dal-BJP combine is not only fighting against their political adversaries in the forthcoming elections to capture the power in Punjab, but has also history to fight with as no incumbent government has ever repeated in the state so far. It is to be seen whether development as poll plank used by Akalis to retain the power would be enough to change the history in the elections.

Security of Punjab VVIPs under review

The security of VVIPs in Punjab is being reviewed in the wake of the arrest by Delhi police of two suspected Babbar Khalsa International terrorists who had plans to assassinate some religious and poli

'Repentant' Manu Sharma donates Rs.50 lakh to Missionaries of Charity

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Special prayers were offered at Chandigarh's biggest church in Sector 19 on Sunday morning after Siddhartha Vashishtha, alias Manu Sharma, who is serving a life term for the murder of ramp model Jessi

Man held for khalistan tees, sets off row

The seizure of around two hundred pro-Khalistani T-shirts in Ludhiana by Punjab police has turned into a controversy. The police had on Thursday seized the T-shirts from a manufacturing unit. The T-shirts, bearing Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale’s picture with “Pakke Khalistani” (True Khalistani) written on them, were being manufactured in this unit.

Unattachment of Haryana MLAs ‘unsustainable’

The recent order of the Punjab and Haryana high court unattaching five Assembly members of Haryana could well turn out to be a faceoff between the judiciary and legislator of the ruling party.

‘Sehajdharis’ can vote for SGPC

The Punjab and Haryana high court on Tuesday restored the voting rights of Sehajdhari (non-baptised) Sikhs in elections to the Shriomani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee, the Sikhs’ highest religious bod

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