Chandigarh, Leading brand in cycles, Hero Cycles, will invest around Rs 400 crore in the Hi-Tech Cycle Valley project in Punjab, Chief Minister Amarinder Singh said here on Friday.

Hero Cycles on Friday signed an agreement with the Punjab government for allotment of 100 acres of land in the Cycle Valley which is coming up in 380 acres in Dhanansu in Ludhiana district.

Chandigarh: The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president S. Sukhbir Singh Badal today appointed 6 new core committee members of the Youth Akali Dal (YAD), a youth wing of the party besides making some other important appointments in the organization including spokespersons, a secretary general and a district president as well.

The decision was taken by the SAD president after having extensive deliberation over the matter with General Secretary In charge of the Youth Wing, S, Bikram Singh Majithia.

Chandigarh, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Thursday lashed out at Union Minister and former Punjab BJP chief Vijay Sampla "for trying to scuttle the dreams of the Sikh community by unnecessarily complicating the process of travel and darshan at the historic Kartarpur Sahib Gurdwara".

A statement issued here by the Chief Minister said that instead of finding ways of facilitating the pilgrimage, the Centre and "those especially responsible elected representatives such as Sampla are constantly putting hurdles in the way of the realisation of their dream to visit the historic gurdwara, which they had seen being fulfilled with the decision to open the Kartarpur Sahib Corridor."

Chandigarh, In a fresh jolt to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Punjab, yet another MLA, this time Baldev Singh, resigned from the party's primary membership on Wednesday, citing "autocratic functioning", "double standards" and disregard for its basic ideology and principles.

A sitting legislator from the Jaito Assembly seat, he sent his resignation to his party's national convener Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday.

Chandigarh, Punjab Congress legislator Kulbir Singh Zira was on Wednesday suspended from the party's membership on charges of indiscipline, Punjab Congress President and Member of Parliament Sunil Kumar Jakhar said.

Chandigarh, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Tuesday sought waiver of the passport condition for pilgrims to pay obeisance at Kartarpur Sahib Gurdwara in Pakistan on the 550th birth anniversary celebrations of Guru Nanak Dev.

In a letter to Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, he requested that the condition of mandatory passport for devotees seeking to cross the Kartarpur Corridor be waived.

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The Aam Aadmi Party on Monday demanded from the Capt. Amarinder Singh led Congress govt. to fulfill the pre-poll promises made with the employees of state. In a press statement issued from party headquarters, the leader of opposition in Punjab Vidhan Sabha Harpal Singh Cheema said that due to the anti people policies of Congress govt. the employees, Farmers and other people are agitating against it. He said that the govt has cheated the people of state by stepping back from its promises.

Chandigarh Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today demanded an inquiry by a sitting Judge of the High Court to ascertain why no action was being taken against the sand Mafia despite instructions of the chief minister and demanded a complete expose of the culprits, abettors and their masters. In a statement, the SAD’s vice president and spokesperson S. Maheshinder Singh Grewal said the latest disclosures about illegal sand mining being carried out at the Bairsal quarry in district Nawanshahar proved that the state administration did not deem it fit to check this brazen loot of government exchequer as well as pillage of the environment for reasons known to itself. “The high court inquiry should find out who is behind this and why government is behaving like a helpless spectator in the face of unabated illegal mining? Appropriate action should be taken in the matter and the guilty should be booked immediately”, he added.

Chandigarh, While the Indian government is seeking to project the country as a rising economic and political power, a report by a Canadian government agency has painted a dim picture of India and said that various socio-economic and even environmental factors are pushing more and more of its citizens to opt for immigration and seek refugee status in Canada.

Chandigarh, A retired High Court judge who probed incidents of sacrilege of Guru Granth Sahib when the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD)-BJP government ruled Punjab on Wednesday alleged that the Congress government of Chief Minister Amarinder Singh was trying to shield those responsible for the sacrilege cases.

Justice Zora Singh, a retired judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, who probed the sacrilege cases and the violence related to it in 2015, told the media here that the present government in Punjab was unwilling to make the report of the Zora Singh Commission public.