Tag: Harsimrat Kaur Badal

Punjabi youth stranded in Iraq to return on July 27

Harsimrat Kaur Badal said she had been informed by the Indian Consul General in Erbil that exit stamps had been affixed on the passports of the stranded youth.

July 23, 2019

Punjab received Rs 1200 Cr investment in food processing sector: Harsimrat

In a statement, Harsimrat said it was strange that despite initiation of various projects in the food processing sector from mega food parks to cold chains to testing laboratories, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and it’s representative in parliament was unaware of the same and had expressed complete ignorance on this subject.

July 10, 2019

PM to attend Guru Nanak’s birth anniv celebrations

The delegation also apprised the PM about the various programmes being held to mark the 550th anniversary.

July 2, 2019

Nepal’s billionaire group CG planning major expansion in India

The group, with 112 companies and 76 brands, already has a large presence in India. It has 66 hotels under the brand name Fern spread across almost every city of India, in joint venture with the Taj.

June 30, 2019

Googly remark ‘misrepresented’, comment with reference to talks with India: Pak FM

Sushma Swaraj had on Saturday slammed her Pakistani counterpart for his 'googly' remark and said that his comments 'exposed' him and that Pakistan has no respect for Sikh sentiments.

December 3, 2018

Indian ministers cross over to Pak for Kartarpur corridor ceremony; Pak army chief to be present

For the past over 71 years, ever since Partition, Sikhs have been offering prayers near the international border while seeing the gurudwara from a distance.

November 28, 2018

Welcome Kartarpur corridor, but not enough for talks: Sushma Swaraj asks Pak to stop terror

Union Ministers Harsimrat Kaur Badal and Hardeep Puri on Wednesday crossed over to Pakistan through the Attari-Wagah joint check post between India and her neighbour for the Kartarpur Corridor ceremony.

November 28, 2018

Sushma Swaraj will not attend Pak Kartarpur ceremony

India will send Union Ministers Harsimrat Kaur Badal and Hardeep Singh Puri to attend the ceremony for the Kartarpur corridor for Sikh pilgrims.

November 25, 2018

Centre to undertake ‘Operations Greens’ to curb tomato, potato, onion prices

The Operations Greens seeks to enhance value realisation of TOP farmers, linking farmers to the markets, building infrastructure and agro-logistics to reduce post-harvest losses.

November 6, 2018

Badals turned SAD into a ‘Private Limited Company’: Navjot Singh Sidhu

The cabinet minister further asked what kind of a democracy the Badal family is practicing that all posts and power have been confined to the family with others treated like nothing.

October 30, 2018

SAD slams Navjot Sidhu after Sushma Swaraj’s clarification on Kartarpur Sahib

A major controversy involving Congress leader and Punjab minister Navjot Singh Sidhu erupted on Tuesday after External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj clarified that Pakistan had made no communication whatsoever regarding the Gurudwara Kartarpur Sahib.

September 18, 2018

Jalandhar-Ajmer Shareef Expressway likely in national project scheme

An assurance to this effect was given to the Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Wednesday by Union road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari.

September 13, 2018

Punjab AAP to make fuel price hike an issue

Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) Punjab unit on Thursday said it will make the record fuel price hike an issue in its on-going ‘Punjab Jodo’ campaign. In a joint statement, party legislators Prof Baljinder Kaur and Meet Hayer said AAP will mobilise people in the Punjab Jodo rallies against the record price hike in diesel-petrol and...

September 7, 2018

Harsimrat: Don’t fall prey to pro-Khalistan outfit

With the a US-based advocacy group, Sikhs For Justice (SFJ) set to hold pro-Khalistan event ‘Referendum 2020’ at Trafalgar Square in London on 12 August, Union food processing minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Friday appealed to Punjabi youth not to fall prey to the anti-national designs of Pakistan’s ISI sponsored SFJ. In a statement, the...

August 11, 2018

Sack Khaira from party for Sikh referendum remarks: Harsimrat Kaur Badal to Kejriwal

Union Minister and senior Shiromani Akali Dal leader Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Tuesday demanded that Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP party should sack its Punjab MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira for reportedly supporting Sikh referendum campaign. Badal, who is Union Food Processing Minister, accused the Delhi Chief Minister of “tacit support” to Khaira by maintaining silence on the...

June 19, 2018

Harsimrat lambasts Punjab govt for turning down ‘Ayushman Bharat’

Union food processing industry minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Saturday rebuked Punjab government for turning down the Central government’s pro-poor health insurance scheme Ayushman Bharat. In a Press statement, the Union minister said the Amarinder Singh government’s refusal to implement the Ayushman Bharat scheme, a Central government-funded health insurance scheme being implemented pan India, had...

May 19, 2018

GST on langar hurting Sikhs, says Union food processing min

Union food processing minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal has apprised Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi of the urgent need to waive off the Goods and Services Tax (GST) on ‘langar’ (food) served in Gurdwaras (Sikh shrines). The Union minister, who apprised the Prime Minister on this issue on Wednesday, said the GST on langar at Gurdwaras...

May 3, 2018