DW BUREAU / CHANDIGARH With Congress and INLD promising farm loan waiver and other sops in their poll manifestos, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Sunday said freebies will not fetch votes as the opposition parties were facing a “crisis of credibility”. On the other hand, he asserted, the BJP was making “realistic promises” […]
Category: Chandigarh
Minister rules out glut-like situation in mandis
DW BUREAU/ CHANDIGARH Categorically refuting the rumours of ‘glut-like situation’ in the mandis, Food and Civil Supplies Minister Bharat Bhushan Ashu today claimed that the procurement operations state-wide are sailing smooth. He said that mis-communication is being done as to ‘government-miller standoff leading to distress sale’ and false statistics are being projected to media. Elucidating […]
Akalis shamelessly and willfully heaped humiliation on Akal Takht Jathedar: Amarinder Singh
DW BUREAU / CHANDIGARH Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Sunday hit back at Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal, saying it was the previous SAD government that had “shamelessly and willfully heaped humiliation” on the Jathedar of the Akal Takht, the highest temporal seat of the Sikhs. Badal had on Saturday slammed the Congress government over […]
Khattar changed image, picture of Haryana: Nadda
DW BUREAU / CHANDIGARH The Manohar Lal Khattar-led BJP government in the past five years has changed the image and picture of Haryana that was ridden with corruption and nepotism, BJP working President J.P. Nadda said on Sunday. “There is not a cosmetic but a fundamental change in Haryana in five years,” he said here. […]
Massive tent city readied Sultanpur Lodhi for 550th birth anniversary celebrations of Guru Nanak Dev
DW BUREAU / CHANDIGARH A massive tent city spread over 270 acres has been readied at Sultanpur Lodhi in Punjab to provide free accommodations to thousands of devotees who are expected to converge next month for the 550th birth anniversary celebrations of Guru Nanak Dev, the founder of Sikhism. The tent city, which has a […]
Khelo India Youth Games-2020
DW BUREAU / CHANDIGARH “The ‘Khelo India Youth Games-2020’ are scheduled for Guwahati (Assam) from January 10 to 22, 2020. The selection trials for the teams from Punjab would commence on 13th October at the Sports Complex, Sector-78, Mohali.” Disclosing this here today in a press communique, the Sports and Youth Affairs Minister Rana Gurmit […]