This is the first Cabinet Cabinet expansion in the state since the AAP came to power in March this year. Punjab Governor Banwarilal Purohit administered the oath of office and secrecy to the new ministers at Raj Bhawan.
July 4, 2022Shiromani Akali Dal on Monday said power cuts ranging from 10 to 18 hours are being imposed by power utility every day as the Aam Aadmi Party government in Punjab has failed to maintain power supply.
May 9, 2022Bharatiya Janata Party national general secretary Tarun Chugh on Thursday said Punjab under the Aam Aadmi Party government has become a paralysed state where law and order has completely collapsed and a new sense of fear has captured the people of the state.
April 7, 2022Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal), Bharatiya Janata Party, Congress and Captain Amarinder Singh failed to make Pearls return the hard-earned money of the people.
January 3, 2022The Delhi government's claim of 1,140 MT was four times higher than the calculated consumption as per bed capacity formula, which was 289 MT only.
June 25, 2021The plea said that Delhi Police should be directed to preserve CCTV footage of the riot affected areas from February 23 to March 1 and should not remove debris without collecting evidence from the site.
March 16, 2020In the recently-concluded Lok Sabha elections, the AAP drew a blank in Delhi. The BJP won all seven LS seats.
May 30, 2019Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday formally launched the volunteer’s mobile medical service by flagging off a mobile medical van at his residence. The mobile medical van will be a key component of this initiative and will be integrated with medical camps that will target communities within 10-15 km radius of Alshifa Multispeciality Hospital, …
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November 3, 2018The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Delhi said on Friday that the Central government advocating doorstep delivery of ration vindicates their stand.
June 29, 2018The Delhi Assembly on Tuesday passed the Rs 53,000 crore “green” Budget for 2018-19, with the maximum share for education and health in allocations and a focus on fighting pollution, including commissioning of 1,000 electric buses and subsidies for switching to non-polluting fuel. Of the total budgetary allocations, up from Rs 48,000 crore in 2017-18, …
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March 27, 2018Days after the Chief Secretary of the Delhi government accused Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) legislators of assaulting him, party MLA Naresh Balyan on Friday justified the act, saying anyone obstructing the work for the common man deserves a beating. “They are taking up to three to six months for doing work which should be done …
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February 23, 2018The National Green Tribunal has rapped the Delhi government for not closing down steel pickling industries which are operating without permission in the national capital and gave it two weeks time to comply with its order. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar said that the tribunal's order has not been implemented despite …
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July 28, 2017The "political competitiveness" between the AAP-led Delhi government and the ruling BJP in the municipal corporations is leading to "stalling" of civic work in the city, Congress leader in the NDMC Mukesh Goel on Tuesday alleged. At a press conference here, he also said the execution of municipal projects was "getting delayed" as standing committees …
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July 11, 2017The Delhi High Court has rapped the AAP government and North Delhi Municipal Corporation for constructing a public urinal under a power transformer and putting the life of users under "extreme danger". "This is incredible," a bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice Anu Malhotra said and asked, "How can you do this?" …
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May 10, 2017The National Green Tribunal on Friday slammed the Delhi government for not introducing destination buses to help improve air quality in the national capital. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar directed the Chief Secretary of Delhi government to show cause why point-to-point bus services have not started till date despite its order …
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March 31, 2017In its first year, the Aam Aadmi Party government spent Rs.29 crore in releasing advertisements outside Delhi which was "beyond" its responsibility, a CAG report has found. Also, advertisements worth Rs.24 crore released by it were in violation of financial propriety and Supreme Court regulations, stated the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report tabled in …
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March 10, 2017The Delhi High Court on Monday dismissed the AAP government's appeal against a single judge's interim order staying its new nursery admission norms based on the neighbourhood criterion. A bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Sangita Dhingra Sehgal directed the single judge to decide the petitions expeditiously. "We have dismissed the appeal (of …
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February 27, 2017