Press Releases Punjabi

• Directive to Haryana guv amounts to constitutional impropriety: Amarinder

  Sunday, 20/07/2014
  
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  CHANDIGARH: Congress deputy leader in the Lok Sabha Capt Amarinder Singh on Saturday took a strong exception to the union ministry for home affairs asking the Haryana governor to reconsider his assent to the Act passed by the Haryana legislature setting up a separate gurdwara management committee.

   

• Akali stir to vitiate atmosphere: Bajwa

  Sunday, 20/07/2014
  
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  CHANDIGARH: Punjab Congress president Partap Singh Bajwa on Saturday slammed chief minister Parkash Singh Badal for trying to vitiate the atmosphere in the region by reverting to morcha politics on the issue of the Haryana Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee Act.

   

• Majithia took Rs 70 lakh hawala money: Cong - Khaira shows ‘proof’, asks CM to act

  Friday, 18/07/2014
  
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  Chandigarh : Punjab Pradesh Congress spokesperson Sukhpal Singh Khaira today accused Revenue Minister Bikram Majithia of receiving Hawala money in 2011 through an accomplice of arrested drug lord Jagdish Bhola.

   

• Majithia had got hawala money in April 2011, alleges Khaira

  Friday, 18/07/2014
  
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  URGES CHIEF MINISTER PARKASH SINGH BADAL TO DROP THE REVENUE MINISTER FROM THE MINISTRY AND ALLOW A FAIR INVESTIGATION AGAINST HIM

   

• Bajwa targets govt over investment summits

  Friday, 18/07/2014
  
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  CHANDIGARH: Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) president Partap Singh Bajwa on Thursday slammed the state government for “wasting public money on investment summits” that, he said, had failed to produce the desired results as no progress was made on the MOUs (memoranda of understanding) signed during such events.

   

• Assembly in session - Growth rate down in most sectors: Economic Survey

  Thursday, 17/07/2014
  
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  Chandigarh : The Economic Survey Report of the last financial year released during the Budget Session in the Assembly today does not point out encouraging signs for the state’s economy. While the state government’s debt has increased to Rs 86,453 (as per revised estimates), and is likely to touch Rs 95,670 (as per the Budget estimates), the survey stated there was another Rs 35,000 crore debt on farmers.

   

Budget gets Modi stamp, but Oppn asks where are achhe din

Wednesday, 09/07/2014

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NEW DELHI: When minister DV Sadananda Gowda stood up in the Lok Sabha to present his maiden railway budget, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s stamp was hard to miss.

Sikh man in UK jailed for 5 years

Friday, 18/07/2014

http://www.tribuneindia.com/2014/20140718/punjab.htm#19

London : A 50-year-old Sikh ringleader of a gang, who kidnapped a woman in Britain and fled to India, has been sentenced by a UK court to five years in jail after he was extradited.