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Hoardings backing Congress' Navjot Singh Sidhu come up in Amritsar

Development comes a week after a three-member Congress panel set up to end factionalism in the party's Punjab unit recommended Sidhu's suitable accommodation in party ranks

SAD president Sukhbir Badal detained for protest against scams in Punjab

Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) state president Jasbir Singh Garhi was also detained from the protest site

Crisis in Punjab Congress: Mallikarjun Kharge panel stumped for now

The Kharge-led panel is understood to have recommended that Amarinder Singh be retained. But the CM's supporters say that the constant attrition and humiliation of the CM must stop

Congress battles growing restlessness ahead of Assembly elections

Around this time the party was to hold elections to the post of party president. Amid Covid-19, the exercise was cancelled indefinitely after the CWC put its seal of approval on the cancellation

SAD-BSP alliance will sweep 2022 assembly polls in Punjab: Majithia

Senior Akali leader Bikram Singh Majithia on Sunday claimed that the newly formed SAD-BSP alliance will sweep the 2022 Punjab assembly elections.

SAD-BSP alliance a new political & social initiative, says Mayawati

BSP chief Mayawati on Saturday dubbed the alliance between the SAD and her party as a new political and social initiative which will usher in progress and prosperity in Punjab. SAD stalwart Parkash Singh Badal described the formation of the SAD-BSP alliance as the beginning of a secular, federal democratic revolution in the state and the country for a total socio-economic and political revamp of polity. The Shiromani Akali Dal and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) formed an alliance on Saturday for the 2022 Punjab Assembly election. The BSP will fight 20 of the 117 Assembly seats in Punjab, while the rest will be contested by the SAD. The parties are joining hands after a gap of 25 years. The SAD-BSP alliance had contested the 1996 Lok Sabha polls together and won 11 out of 13 seats in Punjab. After the announcement of the alliance, Badal congratulated Mayawati over the phone and invited her to visit Punjab. He also told her to contest from Punjab. Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister

AICC panel submits report to Sonia Gandhi on factionalism in Punjab

A three-member panel was set up to end factionalism in Punjab Congress

3-member Congress panel to meet today over factionalism in Punjab

The meeting of the three-member Congress panel comprising Mallikarjun Kharge, Harish Rawat and JP Aggarwal, constituted after factionalism surfaced in Punjab Congress, will be held on Thursday

Senior Athletics Championships to be held from June 25-29 in Patiala

The Athletics Federation of India on Friday finalised Patiala as the venue for the 60th National Inter-State Senior Athletics Championships to be held from June 25-29

Amarinder meets Congress panel, says discussed poll preparations

The panel is headed by the leader of the opposition in the Rajya Sabha, Mallikarjun Kharge

Punjab CM inducts Sukhpal Khaira, 2 rebel AAP MLAs in Congress

This comes amid the increased political activity within Punjab Congress

Amarinder Singh to meet party panel over factionalism in Punjab Congress

Congress leader Harish Rawat informed that Arminder Singh will appear before the party's three-member panel formed by Sonia Gandhi to resolve factionalism in Punjab Congress

Congress' priorities have nothing to do with people: Harsimrat Kaur Badal

Harsimrat Kaur Badal attacked Congress, saying its government and leaders, instead of focusing on preventing deaths due to Covid, are trying to sort out "differences" in the party's state unit

Black Fungus: Punjab CM Amarinder Singh orders ramp-up of alternative drugs

Singh ordered a ramp-up of stocks of alternative drugs to treat the disease in view of the shortage of Amphotericin

Smoke signals

Farm fires are likely to exacerbate this year

AAP launches 'Doctor Helpline' campaign in Punjab for Covid, Black Fungus

Punjab unit of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Tuesday launched 'Doctor Helpline' campaign to deal with Covid-19 and Black Fungus (Mucormycosis) infections in the state

Centre steps in after foreign Covid-19 vaccine makers say no to state govts

Union govt in direct talks with firms but order book full for now

How Punjab's latest Muslim majority district will encourage Hindutva forces

The Amarinder government declared Malerkotla, where more than half the population is Muslim, the newest district of Punjab on Eid as a symbolic gesture to the community

Covid-19 crisis: Punjab says Moderna refused to send vaccines directly

The world's largest vaccine-producing nation has fully vaccinated a little more than 41.6 million people, or only 3.8 per cent of its 1.35 billion population

Moderna rejects Punjab's request to send vaccines directly to state

So far, about 90 million people have been inoculated the world over with Moderna's vaccine