Ludhiana court summons Captain Amarinder in IT complaint case Court ordered CM to appear on July 20 In the high profile complaint case filed by Income Tax Department against Captain Amrinder Singh, the court of Cheif Judicial Magistrate Jaapinder Singh has issued  summon to the Chief Minister Captain Amrinder Singh and ordered him to appear

Just few weeks ahead of the elections to the Shimla Municipal Corporation (SMC), its Deputy Mayor Tikender Panwar has recently commented that SMC is no parastatal. This means ‘an agency or organisation which is owned by a government.’ It is right in all respects. The spirit behind the Local Self-Government, the Civic Body, has been

The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) reports year after year have been issuing warnings to Himachal Pradesh government on the increasingly grim financial situation of the state treasury. The situation has not improved either in the present Congress regime or in the last tenure of BJP. This was evident from the allegations and the counter

The SC has just stopped the sale of liquor along the Highways not the drinking. And, if someone consumes liquor in a car or a bar or tavern not coming within the distance limit finalised by the SC, will he or she not indulge in drunken driving? The Supreme Court has now partially relaxed some

This is the election year in the polity of Himachal Pradesh. This means the social fabric of the state will decide to elect which party’s government in the state during the assembly elections. If we look at the political scenario since 1985, electorate of Himachal Pradesh had been electing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the

Drugs is a word that has defamed this agricultural state of Punjab so much that people across the world, forgetting its rich legacy, have started expressing concern over its ‘sorrowful’ condition. Whether the menace has seriously ruined the state so badly or it’s all a political hype for vested interest is being debated for past

Chandigarh: Prison inmates in Punjab’s Gurdaspur central jail fought pitched battles with security forces till early Saturday morning. However, the violent protesters were thwarted in their attempted jailbreak as heavy police reinforcements were rushed. Punjab Police’s elite SWAT (Special Weapons and Tactics) commandos, armed police as well as police personnel from Amritsar, Pathankot, Tarn Taran

Assembly elections 2017 in five states of Goa, Punjab, Manipur, Uttrakhand and Uttar Pradesh (UP) concluded recently have given opportunities to the political pundits to make political, social and economic analysis. May these analysis be independent or aligned to a particular thinking of the Left, Right, Socialistic or Centrist. Each party has a team of

Aristotle had said: Well begun is half done. The proverb deems fit in the case of newly-formed government in Punjab, if we go through the 125 decisions Captain Amarinder Singh’s Cabinet took on Saturday. Just two days after taking over Punjab’s reins, Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh played a masterstroke to win the hearts of

A town in the vicinity of Dhauladhar ranges of the Himalaya’s Shiwaliks which experiences the chilly winds of the climate the year round has been burning with the hot-windy storms since the present government took reigns of the state in 2012. The recent storm hovering over this hilly town is its status as the ‘Second

The most significant fight will be witnessed in between the ruling and the opposition in this election year indoors as well as outdoors in the state. The main political parties, the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party, are vying at all the opportunities to woo electorate in the state, which have marginally bulged by 0.89

Earlier they had a simple excuse: “We are under too much pressure of VIP duties” but now the scene is totally different. The state cops are now almost free from “VIP duties” as the model code of conduct is in force. The results of the Punjab Vidhan Sabha polls, held on February 4, are yet

Chandigarh: “It was the last fire by the miscreants that missed, else I had been dead,” said 40-year-old financer Karan Singh, who was allegedly shot at and injured by three miscreants at Burail, Sector 45, here on Wednesday night. Recalling the incident with Daily Post, Singh said, “I was just heading to the market when

Chandigarh: Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has sought the reasons from UT Administration of underutilisation of the budget. The UT Administrative officers held a series of meetings with Administrator V P Singh Bandore on Thursday to chalk out the plans and reasons to be put forth the parliamentary committee in Delhi on February 28. Union

Chandigarh: Division in the Haryana Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to the fore on the SYL Sutlej-Yamuna Link (SYL) Canal digging issue with a party MLA from Ambala organising a ‘dudh-jalebi’ langar for Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) leaders and workers adjacent to their agitation site while the other leaders criticised the INLD leadership, on

For the leaders of the political parties in Himachal Pradesh year 2017 seems to be running fast as this being the year of two prestigious elections for this Hilly state. How is this that time runs faster? Scientifically it’s not possible but as regards socio-economic and political tasks, it seems that time left to accomplish

After political parties in Punjab tried their best to exploit the controversial issue of Sutlej Yamuna Link (SYL) canal in the recently-held state Vidhan Sabha elections, now it’s Haryana’s turn. Notwithstanding the fact that the matter is sub-judice in the Supreme Court, the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) leader Abhay Chautala has threatened to march

Himachal Pradesh Assembly elections are round the corner. The state government is coming out with varied announcements to attract the attention of the public with its report card which has nothing exceptional but a routine rehash of the development since the inception of the statehood. The Chief Minister is anxious knowing that much time is

Attempting to depict the present socio-political milieu of Punjab, famous singer Gurdas Mann has stirred a hornet’s nest. Igniting a hot debate, some are criticising the lyrics of a fresh controversial song and some are praising the same. The song talks about the pangs of pain through which Punjab is passing; a rose flower is

After the completion of elections process to five states, the next turn is of Himachal Pradesh waiting in the wings for which the state government is getting ready and going the whole hog either through inaugurating or stone-laying ceremonies in the run-up to the state assembly elections which are due in a year’s time. In