NEW DELHI: Senior Congress leader and former finance minister P Chidambaram on Saturday said that the arrival of a second US aircraft carrying deported Indian nationals would be a “test for Indian diplomacy.” The flight, carrying a fresh batch of illegal immigrants, is set to land in Amritsar.Chidambaram, in a post on X said, “All…
NEW DELHI: INDIA bloc remained divided over Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann’s claim that flights with illegal Indian immigrants were being made to land in Amritsar to “defame” the state.As Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Priyanka Chaturvedi supported the claim saying that the first flight should have landed in Gujarat given the majority of deportees belonging…
Bhagwant Mann (ANI file photo) AMRITSAR: Two more planeloads of Indians deported from the US are scheduled to land in Amritsar over the weekend, with the first of these flights expected around 10am Saturday with 119 illegal immigrants.The impending sorties, just over 10 days after a US military C-17 Globemaster aircraft brought back 104 deportees,…
Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann (File photo) CHANDIGARH: The cash-strapped AAP government in Punjab is dealing with a Rs 12,000-crore ‘reality cheque‘ after doing the maths for the Arvind Kejriwal-led party’s pre-poll promise of a Rs 1,100 monthly allowance each to women over 18.Indications are that the Bhagwant Mann govt is open to tweaking the scheme…
NEW DELHI: Will Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann persist with Arvind Kejriwal‘s “Delhi model” to win a second term or will he explore a “new model” to woo voters? AAP’s humiliating loss in the just concluded Delhi assembly elections has suddenly put a question mark on Kejriwal’s winning strategy which had helped the party rule…
NEW DELHI: Is Arvind Kejriwal, who suffered a humiliating defeat in the just-concluded Delhi assembly elections, planning a rejig in Punjab? Well, both the BJP and the Congress claim that the incumbent Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann is under pressure after the party’s Delhi debacle. BJP leader and Union Minister Ravneet Singh Bittu on Tuesday…
AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal (PTI photo) NEW DELHI: The Aam Aadmi Party‘s (AAP) loss in the Delhi assembly elections has sparked speculation about its political clout in Punjab, with opposition leaders in the state predicting a similar downfall. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) secured a decisive victory in Delhi, reclaiming power after 26 years and…
NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal hit out at the Election Commission of India (ECI) calling the CEC Rajiv Kumar’s response over the Yamuna River water row “baffling”. Reiterating his “Yamuna poisoning” charges over the BJP-led Haryana government, in a letter written to EC, he dared the poll panel to take action…
NEW DELHI: Probing a complaint on the cVIGIL mobile application about money being allegedly distributed from the official residence of Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann in the city, a team of election officials, along with police, reached Kapurthala House on Thursday evening. They were stopped by the security personnel and had to wait for 90 minutes…
NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party on Thursday targeted Bharatiya Janata Party over the alleged raid attempt by the Election Commission officials along with Delhi Police at Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann‘s Kapurthala House in Delhi.AAP alleged that the authorities were defaming Punjabis at the behest of BJP.In a social media post on X, Punjab CM…
