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CHANDIGARH: Navjot Singh Sidhu local bodies and tourism minister today said that Punjab government has initiated action against Fastway Cable network which has stake of Badal family. The Fastway has evaded tax to the tune of Rs.640 crores by fudging figures of connections and not paying entertainment and various other taxes.

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CHANDIGARH: Punjab Vidhan Sabha speaker Rana K.P.Singh today forwarded to privilege committee the resolution adopted by Vidhan Sabha to taken punitive action against SAD President Sukhbir Singh Badal for his act of denigrating the seat of Speaker and using derogratory language against the chair.

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AMRITSAR : Bhartiya Janata Party former vice president and state executive member Rajinder Mohan Singh Chhina today squarely blamed ruling Congress leaders for creating unhealthy environment on the floor of the state assembly that led to the injuries and disgrace to men and women MLAs belonging to opposition Aam Adami Party. He said it was unprecedented that the MLAs including women would be so much humiliated and this speaks volumes of the egoistic attitudes of the Congress leaders.

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CHANDIGARH : Upset over the treatment meted out to legislators by assembly staff on Thursday, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Shiromani Akali Dal members on Friday walked out of the Punjab assembly on the last day of the budget session.

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CHANDIGARH : Punjab Congress president Sunil Jakhar has hit out at Akali supremo Parkash Singh Badal for taking a high moral stand on the unfortunate incidents that occurred today in the state assembly, conveniently forgetting his party’s obnoxious behavior in the House in the past, in which he himself had actively participated.

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CHANDIGARH: Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has ordered an inquiry into the alleged scam related to purchase of land in district Fatehgarh Sahib by Gram Panchayat, Jheurheri, in which amount of Crores of Rupees was embezzled.

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CHANDIGARH: Punjab Congress legislators today lashed out at the Aam Aadmi Party and the Shiromani Akali Dal for indulging into ‘competitive hooliganism’ inside the Punjab Vidhan Sabha where they, by turns, tried to jump the security cordon in an aborted attempt to assault the Speaker and misbehaved with the watch and ward staff, particularly the female members.

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CHANDIGARH: Former Chief Minister of Punjab Sardar Parkash Sigh Badal today against the authorities in the Sector 16 for the utterly inhuman treatment being meted out to two AAP legislators who had been admitted following serious injuries inflciuted on them by the watch and ward staff of the Punjab Vidhan Sabha and members of the Punjab Police

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CHANDIGARH : The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today said Vidhan Sabha Speaker Rana KP had insulted the “Sikh quom” by ordering bouncers to toss and trample upon turbans of Sikh legislators in the assembly solely to please his Congress masters.

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CHANDIGARH : Amid continuing ruckus and disruptions by both, the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), in the Vidhan Sabha, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday lashed out at the opposition for their atrocious behaviour which smacked of hooliganism.

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CHANDIGARH : Pandemonium prevailed inside the Punjab assembly on Thursday after a Sikh legislator from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) alleged that his turban was taken off as marshalls pushed his party legislators out of the house.

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CHANDIGARH :  Punjab Chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh today said that state government has no record of landless farm labourers who could not be covered under farmers debt waiver scheme.    

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CHANDIGARH : Lashing out at the opposition for twisting the issue, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh intervened in the House on Thursday to make it clear that the Rs. 1500 crore proposed by the Finance Minister in this regard was an initial sum provided in the budget to leverage more money to provide for the debt waiver scheme in installments. 

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CHANDIGARH: Punjab Vidhan Sabha today witnessed uproar when speaker Rana KP Singh ordered to throw all AAP MLAs out of house twice. The SAD MLAs also raised slogans against speaker and walked out. 

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CHANDIGARH: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal today castigated finance minister Manpreet Badal for comparing families of farmers who had committed suicide with beggars and announced the SAD-BJP combine would move a privilege motion against him.

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CHANDIGARH: AAP leader Sukhpal Singh Khaira and Lok Insaf Party leaders, Bains brothers today challenged Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh for releasing the list of SAD leaders involved in sand mining scam which he(CM) claimed in the Vidhan Sabha.

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CHANDIGARH: While questions are being raised on the Punjab government scheme of debt waiver of farmers, the Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal has defended the 'Ahrtiya system' and gave no road map in the budget to waive off loans taken by farmers from the ahrtiyas (Commission agents).

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CHANDIGARH : The Punjab government will enforce strict implementation of the Unicode compliant Raavi font in all official matters in order to ensure smooth e-governance transactions.

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CHANDIGARH : The Punjab government today said it will not spare anyone found "guilty" in the Amritsar food-grain distribution scam in which disciplinary proceedings have been initiated against 22 officials.

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CHANDIGARH : 500 MVA power transformer has been damaged last week at Punjab State Transmission Company Ltd. (PSTCL) 400 KV sub-station Rajpura .