Capt rubbishes ‘outsider’ tag on Cong candidate. Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Friday said the Congress would fight the Gurdaspur by-poll on development plank and rubbished AAP’s claims that his party’s candidate was an “outsider”. Even late actor and MP Vinod Khanna, whose death had necessitated the by-poll, hailed from Mumbai, while Sunil Jakhar is

The polling for the Gurdaspur Lok Sabha seat in Punjab will take place on October 11. Four times BJP candidate from Gurdaspur Lok Sabha seat Vinod Khanna’s wife Kavita Khanna was sad for not getting a party ticket in Gurdaspur by-poll. Kavita said that people of Gurdaspur had sympathy with me, but the party has

The Pashu Palan Mela of Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Ludhiana will be a very beneficial event for people of all the walks of life. Dr AS Nanda, Vice-Chancellor, GADVASU, Ludhiana expressed these views on the eve of 23rd Pashu Palan Mela which is going to be held on 22 and 23rd

Gurdaspur Campaign: The seriousness of Congress to win Gurdaspur Lok Sabha by-poll is evident from the fact that Ludhiana Member Parliament Ravneet Singh Bittu has been appointed as in-charge of the Pathankot assembly constituency.Pathankot is one of the nine assembly constituencies that form Gurdaspur parliamentary seat.After deliberations among the senior Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee and

Aam Aadmi Party candidate Suresh Khajuria’s security guard has been arrested for open firing with his revolver. On toady morning he fired 20 times on local residents’ houses and vehicle at around five o’clock . Nobody was injured or killed reported. Many vehicles mirrors have broken. This incident was happen at early morning. After getting the

Amritsar Border: The incident took place on the intervening night of September 19-20 in the Ajnala sector in Amritsar. However, BSF jawans have killed two intruders.“When challenged by BSF troops, infiltrators fired on ambush line with automatic weapons. Taking cover, the fire was appropriately retaliated and infiltrators were neutralised near the border fence,” a Border

Start direct flights between Canada, Amritsar: Gumtala AMRITSAR: Amritsar Vikas Manch, an NGO from the holy city of Amritsar has taken up the demand of Punjabi Diaspora for starting direct flights between Canada to the holy city of Amritsar with Canadian Parliament members. During their visit to Toronto regarding start of direct flights, Manch Patron

Gourav Sally/ DP correspondent Gurdaspur, Sept 18, 2017: The Dera Baba Nanak police on Monday has booked a 33 years old man, allegedly strangled his wife to death with a rope at Jaurian kala village, who was suffering from cancer from the last three years.Shamsher Singh, victim’s brother, in a complaint to police, said that

Narinder jagga Chandigarh, 18 September- Successfully tested in UP assembly, the lucky motorcycles will be used in Gurdaspur bypoll as well as for the Parliament election -2019, in Punjab by the BJP. The first batch of 38 motorcycles has been arrived from Utter Pradesh. Out of these, 10 have been sent to Gurdaspur area. Second

Gurdaspur Sep 18:- Forest Guard suspended. The district electoral officer (DEO) Gurdaspur has placed under suspension a forest guard on the charge of dereliction of election duty.DEO Gurloveleen Singh Sidhu said that Sandeep Masih, a forest guard in South  beat of Forest department Dhariwal in Gurdaspur district had not obey the directions of Election Commission of

Marshal Arjan Singh’s photo at Sikh museum in Amritsar soon. The SGPC has decided to put up photos of Indian Air Force Marshal Arjan Singh, along with photos of two other heroes of the 1965 and 1971 India-Pakistan wars, in Central Sikh Museum, Amritsar. Shiromani Committee chief, Kirpal Singh Badungar made this announcement at Nankana

Batala – Despite of imposition of the model code of conduct by Election Commission of India after the announcement of Gurdaspur Parliamentary by-elections, a number of political hoardings and posters continue to deface the public property till date.It is worth mentioning that Election Commission of India had imposed model code of conduct on September 12

Gurdaspur bypoll: Sonia, Rahul to decide on Cong nominee New Delhi: Punjab Congress on Sunday authorised party president Sonia Gandhi and vice president Rahul Gandhi to take the final call on the name of candidate for the Gurdaspur Lok Sabha bypoll scheduled next month. This was decided at a meeting of the party leaders from

Power, water supply snapped from ex-Jathedar’s residence Amritsar – Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) has disconnected power and water supply to the house of former Takht Damdama Sahib jathedar Giani Gurmukh Singh on Sunday. His family has also been asked to vacate the house. Gurmukh was not at home as he was transferred as the head

Aam Aadmi Party on Sunday announced its candidate for the Gurdaspur by-election scheduled to take place on October 11. AAP candidate from the seat would be Major General Retd. Suresh Khajuria. Bhagwant Mann and Sukhpal Khaira announced their party candidate’s name. The decision to field Khajuria has been taken after due diligence with the Gurdaspur unit of the party