Punjab BJP president Sunil Jakhar has said that the Punjab government is behind the farmers' protests. He said that the Aam Aadmi Party is using the farmers' protests during the elections to distract people from the real issues of the state so as to cover up the major failures of the government. During the press conference in Jalandhar, he also said that with these demonstrations, an attempt has been made to divide the society into two parts, 'rural versus urban' and 'farmer versus merchant'. Jakhar said that questions should have been raised on the Aam Aadmi Party on issues ranging from dru

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will hold a rally in Punjab. He will be in Mohali on May 30, the last day of campaigning for the Lok Sabha elections, where he will address a rally in favor of BJP candidate Subhash Sharma. Earlier he had held a rally in Chandigarh. At the same time, Defense Minister Rajnath Singh addressed a public meeting in Kurali today. He said that the opposition parties have been spreading lies that if the BJP wins more than 400 seats, they will change the constitution. Rajnath said that this can never happen. On the other hand, Congress president Mallikarju

Police in British Columbia say a man from Vancouver Island has been arrested and charged with child exploitation offences following a tip from American authorities. RCMP say in a statement that the B.C. Integrated Child Exploitation Unit received information from U.S. Homeland Security Investigations last September about a suspect who was allegedly exploiting children using a social media application. The Mounties say they identified a suspect in Langford, B.C., just outside Victoria, who allegedly lured three girls and exploited them by creating child sexual abuse materials that he posted on

Rahul Gandhi will visit Khanna in Punjab tomorrow. He will meet the family of Ajay, a youth recruited under the Army's Agniveer scheme of the village Ramgarh Sardars here, who was martyred in Jammu and Kashmir in January 2024. It is to be noted that in June 2022, all the three branches of the Indian Army had launched the Agniveer recruitment scheme to recruit a large number of youth for a 4-year tenure. Agniveer can apply for a permanent job in the army on completion of 4 years of service. Rahul Gandhi is against this, he has said that if the government of the Congress alliance is formed, th

The Punjab-Haryana High Court has acquitted 5 people including Dera Sirsa Chief Ram Rahim in the case of Dera Manager Ranjit Singh's murder. The CBI court had sentenced him to life imprisonment in this case. Despite being acquitted in this case, Ram Rahim will have to remain in jail because apart from the Ranjit murder case, he is also serving the sentence for the murder of journalist Ramchandra Chhatrapati and the sexual abuse of sadhvis. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in the murder of the journalist and 10 years each in two cases of sexual harassment. Currently, Ram Rahim is lodged

Pakistan's former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has been re-elected as party president after six years. Only last year he was acquitted in all corruption cases. Nawaz alleged that various forces tried to create a rift in his relationship with his brother and party supporters but Shahbaz Sharif remained loyal. It is to be noted that Shahbaz Sharif had recently resigned as the party president and said to hand over the reins to his elder brother Nawaz Sharif, who was unanimously elected as the party president on Tuesday. With their direct entry into politics, the political environment is expected

An election rally was held today in Mansa of Punjab in favor of BJP candidate Parampal Kaur. Union Minister Smriti Irani was supposed to participate in this rally but she could not join the rally because the administration did not give a signal to her helicopter to land. BJP candidate Parampal Kaur accused the state's Aam Aadmi Party and said that earlier they found various obstacles to prevent her from contesting the election, now to make her rally a failure, Union Minister Smriti Irani's helicopter was not allowed to land. It is to be noted that Parampal Kaur is the daughter-in-law of Shiro

In the Delhi liquor scam case, the Supreme Court has refused to hold an immediate hearing to extend the bail of Arvind Kejriwal. The Chief Minister of Delhi had demanded to extend the bail for another 7 days on medical grounds. His current bail expires on June 1. A bench of Supreme Court judges said that the decision to extend the interim bail will be taken by the Chief Justice. At the same time, Delhi's Tis Hazari Court has rejected the bail plea of ​​Arvind Kejriwal's PA Vibhav Kumar in the case of beating up his own Rajya Sabha member Swati Maliwal. Swati Maliwal had threatened the fa

The Nature Conservancy of Canada says a new conservation area north of Cranbrook, B.C., will protect important bird habitat and preserve grasslands in the province's southeast. The conservancy says money from the federal government and private donors went to buying up 271 hectares of land in the Skookumchuk Prairie in the province's southeast corner. Richard Klafki, a B.C. program director with the Nature Conservancy, says the land which also includes wetlands and forests is a "key biodiversity area," and came up for sale when the former owner, a local rancher, decided to downsize. Klafki says