Parkash Singh Badal.

The Centre on Tuesday night announced two days of state mourning on April 26 and 27 across India in view of the death of former Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal.

A court in Punjab's Faridkot today dismissed the anticipatory bail plea of former Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal in the 2015 Kotkapura police firing incident but granted relief to his father and former chief minister Parkash Singh Badal.

This year's Punjab Assembly polls came as a litmus test for Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal as he shouldered responsibility of steering his 100-year-old party without active participation of his father and party patriarch Parkash Singh Badal.

Accusing the state's Congress government of encouraging radical elements, former Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Sunday claimed there was a plot to assassinate him and his son Sukhbir Badal.

With the AAP's humiliating defeat in the Rajouri Garden by-poll, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia today admitted that people were upset with the party over its legislator quitting to contest from Punjab.

Despite the anti-incumbency sentiment, Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal is extremely confident of an Akali-BJP victory as Punjab votes today. He said the margin will be even bigger than last time when the Akali-BJP combine had formed the government for the second time consecutively. For years, Punjab had alternated between the Akali Dal and the ...

With assembly elections in Punjab less than a month away, the process of filing nomination papers came to an end on Wednesday with 1,941 candidates filing nominations for the 117 assembly constituencies in the state. Congress's newest recruit Navjot Singh Sidhu, state Congress chief Amarinder Singh and the Aam Aadmi Party's Bhagwant Mann were among...

Aam Aadmi Party convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday announced the candidature of Delhi legislator and party's Punjab unit co-in charge, Jarnail Singh from Lambi constituency, a traditional Akali seat in Muktsar district. This is likely to pit him against Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal.

Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today attacked former Rajya Sabha lawmaker Navjot Singh Sidhu, saying "opportunists" and "fugitive" leaders like him have no place in the state's politics and people will teach him a lesson like they taught Surjit Singh Barnala and Manpreet Singh Badal.

In Punjab, which is due for polls next year, the Congress has gained a Badal.

Punjab's ruling allies, the BJP and the Akali Dal, have called truce over the yoga day celebrations. The Akali Dal's decision came after PM Modi cancelled his proposed visit to the holy city of Anandpur Sahib. Sources said the cancellation had irked Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal. The government changed its mind after the BJP's conciliatory ...

Eight Punjab Cabinet ministers and a senior bureaucrat were found to be absent from office during a surprise check today by Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal.

A US-based Sikh group today said that it will challenge the decision of an American district court last week to dismiss alleged human rights violations case against Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal.

Manpreet Badal, who till last year was with the ruling Akali Dal as its Finance Minister in the coalition government, feels an Arab Spring is in the offing in Punjab to unseat the government headed by his uncle Parkash Singh Badal.

Farmers agitating against land acquisition for the Govindpura (Mansa) thermal plant in Punjab have suspended their agitation till September 13 after talks between them and Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal.

The Centre on Tuesday night announced two days of state mourning on April 26 and 27 across India in view of the death of former Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal.

A court in Punjab's Faridkot today dismissed the anticipatory bail plea of former Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal in the 2015 Kotkapura police firing incident but granted relief to his father and former chief minister Parkash Singh Badal.

This year's Punjab Assembly polls came as a litmus test for Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal as he shouldered responsibility of steering his 100-year-old party without active participation of his father and party patriarch Parkash Singh Badal.

Accusing the state's Congress government of encouraging radical elements, former Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Sunday claimed there was a plot to assassinate him and his son Sukhbir Badal.

With the AAP's humiliating defeat in the Rajouri Garden by-poll, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia today admitted that people were upset with the party over its legislator quitting to contest from Punjab.

Despite the anti-incumbency sentiment, Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal is extremely confident of an Akali-BJP victory as Punjab votes today. He said the margin will be even bigger than last time when the Akali-BJP combine had formed the government for the second time consecutively. For years, Punjab had alternated between the Akali Dal and the ...

With assembly elections in Punjab less than a month away, the process of filing nomination papers came to an end on Wednesday with 1,941 candidates filing nominations for the 117 assembly constituencies in the state. Congress's newest recruit Navjot Singh Sidhu, state Congress chief Amarinder Singh and the Aam Aadmi Party's Bhagwant Mann were among...

Aam Aadmi Party convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday announced the candidature of Delhi legislator and party's Punjab unit co-in charge, Jarnail Singh from Lambi constituency, a traditional Akali seat in Muktsar district. This is likely to pit him against Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal.

Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today attacked former Rajya Sabha lawmaker Navjot Singh Sidhu, saying "opportunists" and "fugitive" leaders like him have no place in the state's politics and people will teach him a lesson like they taught Surjit Singh Barnala and Manpreet Singh Badal.

In Punjab, which is due for polls next year, the Congress has gained a Badal.

Punjab's ruling allies, the BJP and the Akali Dal, have called truce over the yoga day celebrations. The Akali Dal's decision came after PM Modi cancelled his proposed visit to the holy city of Anandpur Sahib. Sources said the cancellation had irked Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal. The government changed its mind after the BJP's conciliatory ...

Eight Punjab Cabinet ministers and a senior bureaucrat were found to be absent from office during a surprise check today by Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal.

A US-based Sikh group today said that it will challenge the decision of an American district court last week to dismiss alleged human rights violations case against Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal.

Manpreet Badal, who till last year was with the ruling Akali Dal as its Finance Minister in the coalition government, feels an Arab Spring is in the offing in Punjab to unseat the government headed by his uncle Parkash Singh Badal.

Farmers agitating against land acquisition for the Govindpura (Mansa) thermal plant in Punjab have suspended their agitation till September 13 after talks between them and Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal.