Anil Bhardwaj

PUNJAB ISSUES FRESH SOP FOR NEW COVID-19 STRAIN DETECTED IN UK

December 23, 2020

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab government on Tuesday issued the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for epidemiological surveillance and response in the context of new variant SARS-CoV-2 virus detected in United Kingdom. Giving details Punjab Health Minister Balbir Singh Sidhu said that instructions have been issued to all Deputy Commissioners and Civil Surgeons...

After 11 hand grenades, Punjab Police seize AK-47

December 23, 2020

CHANDIGARH: Barely 48 hours after the recovery of 11 hand grenades, the Punjab Police on Tuesday recovered an AK-47 rifle and a magazine with 30 live cartridges, evidently a part of the same consignment that was dropped by a Pakistani drone in Gurdaspur district on Sunday. The seizure comes amid...

Be in limits of decency, Capt Amarinder Singh warns Kejriwal

December 23, 2020

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Tuesday made it clear that his meeting with the Union Home Minister Amit Shah was exclusively on one point agenda to discuss issues related national security. Being the Home Minister of the border state facing a hostile neighbour, it was his foremost...

BSF, PUNJAB POLICE SHOOT PAK DRONE NEAR GURDASPUR BORDER, RECOVER 11 GRENADES

December 22, 2020

Five days after busting a drone module with Pakistani links in Amritsar, the Punjab Police on Sunday seized 11 hand grenades allegedly dropped on the night of 19 December by a drone launched from Pakistan, which was engaged and shot at jointly by police and Border Security Force (BSF) personnel...

Sukhbir seeks President’s intervention in convening Parliament’s winter session

December 19, 2020

CHANDIGARH: The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president and MP Sukhbir Singh Badal on Friday called upon the President of India, urging his intervention for immediately convening the Winter Session of the Parliament. The SAD president who, as MP had voted against the three farm Bills, in his letter to the...

AM GAME CAPT AMARINDER RENEWS ATTACK ON KEJRIWAL, CALLS HIM A ‘BIG FRAUD’

December 19, 2020

MOHALI: Even as he ridiculed Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal as a big fraud, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Friday said both Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) were a bunch of hypocrites whose double standards on the farm laws had exposed their lack of...

TODAY MOBILE IS AS POTENT A WEAPON AS MISSILE: RAJNATH

December 19, 2020

CHANDIGARH: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday dedicated the Military Literature Festival (MLF) 2020 to all great warriors who have attained supreme sacrifice in service of the motherland. Inaugurating the festival through a virtual ceremony on Friday, Rajnath Singh said it was only befitting that MLF was conceived and conceptualised...

Rajnath Singh to inaugurate Military Lit Fest 2020 today

December 18, 2020

CHANDIGARH: The national spirit of Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan will echo at the Military Literature Festival 2020, set to begin on Friday. Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will be launching the 4th Military Literature Festival (MLF) 2020 during a virtual ceremony. Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh would preside over...

RAHUL RIGHT IN WALKING OUT OF DEFENCE PANEL MEET: CAPT AMARINDER

December 18, 2020

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday termAed Congress MP Rahul Gandhi’s walkout from the parliamentary defence committee as totally justified. He said as both China and Pakistan are breathing down India, the committee should have been discussing strategic security issues and the urgent requirements of our forces and...

SAD CHIEF PLAYING PETTY POLITICS, SPREADING POISON IN PUNJAB: BJP

December 17, 2020

CHANDIGARH: BJP national general secretary Tarun Chugh on Wednesday said that SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal was spreading poison and igniting communal passions in Punjab. Reacting to Badal's statement that the BJP had become a “tukde tukde” gang, Chugh said the way Sukhbir, after parting ways with the NDA, was...

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