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  Crop damage: Punjab CM seeks bonus for farmers

  India | April 01, 2015 21:29 IST

  Chandigarh: Seeking personal intervention of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Wednesday demanded that farmers, who had suffered crop damage due to unseasonal rains, should be compensated by giving Rs.100

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  Parkash Singh Badal seeks Rs 10,000 per acre compensation

  National | March 08, 2015 18:26 IST

  Chandigarh: With unseasonal rain damaging the standing wheat crop in several areas of Punjab, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Sunday sought compensation for the farmers from the central government.Expressing concern over the major losses

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  AAP's victory in Delhi not to impact Punjab politics Badal

  National | February 10, 2015 20:16 IST

  Ludhiana: Noting that the people's mandate is supreme and it must be respected in a democratic set up, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today said AAP's victory in Delhi Assembly polls would not impact Punjab

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  Opinion polls will be proved wrong: Badal on Delhi elections

  National | February 04, 2015 21:50 IST

  Mohali: Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today said the pre-poll surveys predicting victory for AAP in the Delhi polls will be proved wrong and the SAD-BJP alliance will sweep the elections.“SAD-BJP alliance will sweep

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  Congress root cause of country's problems: Parkash Singh Badal

  National | January 28, 2015 17:37 IST

  Dhuri (Sangrur): Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today blamed the successive Congress governments at the Centre for all the problems including drug addiction, unemployment faced by the country.  “Social maladies like unemployment, drug addiction,

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  Drugs menace not an issue in Delhi polls: Badal

  National | January 20, 2015 16:33 IST

  Muktsar (Pb): Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today said that the drug menace was hardly an issue in the upcoming Delhi Assembly polls and described it as a “malicious propaganda” unleashed by the opposition

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  'MSG: The Messenger of God' row: Screeing banned in Punjab, section 144 imposed in Sirsa

  Bollywood | January 19, 2015 18:38 IST

  Apprehending serious law and order problem in the state following the release of controversial film ‘Messenger of God', featuring Dera Sacha Sauda sect head Gurmit Ram Rahim Singh, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on

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  We have nothing to do with transfer of ED official: Badal

  National | January 18, 2015 19:38 IST

  Ludhiana: Two days after the Enforcement Directorate transferred its main investigator probing the multi-crore drug case in Punjab, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today said his government had nothing to do with the transfer of

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  SAD to fight four seats in Delhi polls: Sukhbir Badal

  National | January 17, 2015 20:46 IST

  Bathinda: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) will contest four seats in next month's Assembly polls in Delhi, Punjab Deputy Chief Minister and party president, Sukhbir Singh Badal said here today.“Shiromani Akali Dal will contest four seats

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  SAD-BJP alliance to finalise seat sharing for Delhi polls

  National | January 15, 2015 18:12 IST

  Bondli (Ludhiana): Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today said that both SAD and its ally BJP will soon finalise the seat sharing arrangement for the next month's Assembly polls in Delhi.The alliance between both

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  Lukewarm response to 'Punjab Bandh'

  India | January 10, 2015 13:34 IST

  Amritsar: The ‘Punjab Bandh' called by various Sikh outfits to extend support to Sikh activist Gurbaksh Singh Khalsa, who is on an indefinite fast demanding release of prisoners from jails lodged in different states, evoked

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  Free Khalistani prisoners, Badal tells Rajnath

  National | January 08, 2015 14:57 IST

  New Delhi: Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal Thursday urged Home Minister Rajnath Singh to release some Khalistani prisoners who he said were aged and even blind.Badal told reporters after meeting the home minister that

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  Akali Dal to hold 'Dharnas' against drug smuggling near international border

  National | January 05, 2015 12:53 IST

  Chandigarh: The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) will hold a sit-in near the international borders today to pitch for "greater vigilance along the border with Pakistan" and to stop the flow of narcotics into the stateThe

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  Badal attacks Congress over its proposed sit-ins against drugs

  National | January 02, 2015 18:31 IST

  Lambi (PB): Pillorying the Congress over its proposed sit-ins against drugs, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today alleged the party did nothing to eradicate the menace during its two decades in power at the

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  Dismiss Punjab government for sedition: Congress

  National | January 02, 2015 7:47 IST

  Chandigarh: The Punjab unit of the Congress Thursday sought the dismissal of the Parkash Singh Badal government, saying the Shiromani Akali Dal was inciting people against the security forces which was an anti-national act.Punjab Congress

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  Parkash Singh Badal flays 'forced' religious conversions

  National | December 27, 2014 23:42 IST

  Fatehgarh Sahib (Pb): Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today flayed the "forced" religious conversions taking place in a few parts of the country, saying these were against the tenets of Sikhism.Describing the conversions as

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  Punjab govt ignored sacrifice of jawans killed in J&K attacks: BJP

  National | December 09, 2014 6:58 IST

  Jalandhar:  BJP today hit out at the Punjab government led by its ally SAD, alleging that while the state ignored the martyrdom of soldiers, it “wasted precious money” on performances by film actors.Senior BJP leader

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  Centre seeks report from Punjab government on eye camp tragedy

  National | December 05, 2014 16:32 IST

  New Delhi: The Centre today sought a report from the Punjab government on an NGO-sponsored medical camp tragedy in Gurdaspur where several people lost their eyesight.  “We have asked for a report from the Punjab

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  Time for Modi govt to handover Chandigarh to Punjab: Parkash Singh Badal

  National | November 16, 2014 17:19 IST

  Tarn Taran : Charging successive Congress-led governments at the Centre for depriving Punjab of it's capital, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today said time has come for Narendra Modi-led government to make Chandigarh the capital

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  All is well between SAD and BJP: Parkash Singh Badal

  National | November 06, 2014 20:27 IST

  Sultanpur Lodhi: Asserting that SAD-BJP alliance is in the interest of the nation as well as Punjab, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today said all is well between the partners and that BJP will never