On the Congress declaring Mr Channi as its chief ministerial candidate in the upcoming state polls, Captain Singh said, "A chief minister should be decided on grounds of capability and not on the metric of caste, be it an SC, Jat or Hindu."

With an aim to tackle the challenges posed by militant threats, the state government of Punjab has deployed Special Operation Group

The Punjab government will go by the will of the state assembly on the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the National Population Register (NPR), it said in a statement on Tuesday. This was decided by ministers of the state government during a discussion after a cabinet meeting, the statement said.

A day after Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal accused his government of "forcing farmers to burn stubble" and thereby cause the pollution crisis in the national capital, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi

A day after being sworn in as minister, Navjot Singh Sidhu today said if the Punjab Chief Minister, Amarinder Singh, had asked him to serve as an MLA, he would have done so. Allotted portfolios of local government and tourism and cultural affairs, archives and museums, the cricketer-turned-politician also said he will continue doing his television show.

The Congress has announced its second list of candidates for the Punjab assembly polls today, but the name of Dr Navjot Kaur - wife of cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu's - was not among the 16 on it.