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Punjab CM deplores attempts to politicise armed forces
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Chandigarh [India], Nov 14 (ANI): Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Wednesday deplored attempts to politicise the defence forces, asserting that the armed forces were meant to report only to their regimental heads and not work at the behest of the political dispensation. Th
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Captain denies any role in summoning of Badals in sacrilege case
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Chandigarh [India], Nov 12 (ANI): Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Monday made it clear that his government had no role in the summoning of former Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal and actor Akshay Kumar by the Spec
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Punjab CM condemns vandalism at UK's Indian War Memorial
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab), Nov 12 (ANI): Condemning the vandalism at UK's newly inaugurated Indian War Memorial, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has called for strict action against the culprits of the apparent racial attack on the occasion of the World War I centenary.
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Punjab CM flays Kirpal Singh's removal from Sikh History Resource Project
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab), Nov 12 (ANI): Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has taken strong exception to the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) decision to remove noted Sikh scholar and eminent historian Kirpal Singh as the chairman of the Sikh History Resource Editing P
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Bargari sacrilege: SIT summons Badal father-son duo, Akshay Kumar
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], Nov 11 (ANI): Actor Akshay Kumar, former Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal, and his son Sukhbir Singh Badal have been summoned by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the police firing incidents in the wake of the Bargari sacrilege case.
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Punjab CM writes to Centre, seeks to revise paddy driage
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], Nov 9 (ANI): Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has written to Union Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Ram Vilas Paswan, seeking to revise paddy driage at two per cent from one per cent of the Minimum Support Price (MSP).
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Punjab CM seek PM's intervention in Chandigarh administrative appointments
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab), Nov 9 (ANI): Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Friday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to ensure that the status quo in the share of Punjab and Haryana in Chandigarh Union Territory's (UT) administrative posts is maintained.
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Congress holds nationwide protest against demonetisation, observes black d
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 9 (ANI): Congress party workers on Friday held a nationwide protest against the Bharatiya Janata Party-led central government's demonetisation drive, which had its second anniversary on Thursday.
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Punjab CM seek PM's intervention in Chandigarh administrative appointments
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab), Nov 9 (ANI): Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Friday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to ensure that the status quo in the Punjab and Haryana share in Chandigarh Union Territory's (UT) administrative posts is maintained.
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Punjab CM urges Sushma to take up Kartarpur corridor issue with Pakistan
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab), Nov 9 (ANI): Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Friday urged External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj to take up with Pakistan the issue of opening up of the corridor from Dera Baba Nanak to Sri Kartarpur Sahib in Narowal district, 120-km from Lahore.
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Maqsudan Police Station blast: 2 students arrested
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab), Nov 5 (ANI): The Punjab Police on Monday arrested two students associated with Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind (AGH), a Kashmir-based terrorist outfit with reported links to Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), in connection with Maqsudan Police Station hand-grenade blasts case of September 14
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Punjab CM rubbishes Kejriwal's claims on stubble burning
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], Nov 4 (ANI): Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Sunday rubbished the claims of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal that the stubble burning in Punjab was solely responsible for the high levels of pollution in the national capital.
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