Prime Minister Narendra Modi today will address the Combined Commanders Conference at Bhopal even as the military posture of India’s principal adversaries—China and Pakistan—has recorded no positive change on the borders. The meeting will be attended by all tri-service commanders of the rank of commander-in-chiefs with Chief of Defence Staff Gen Anil Chauhan leading the […]
Ahead of Navjot Singh Sidhu’s release from Patiala Central Jail, his wifeNavjot Kaur Sidhu shared an emotional message on Twitter.Congress leader’s wife, who recently broke the news that she was battling cancer, in her tweet said ‘she asked for death’ to ‘teach Sidhu a lesson’. She also wrote profoundly about her husband’s love for Punjab. […]
India logged 2,151 new Covid-19 cases within 24 hours amid conern cover a fresh spike in infections in the country, according to Union health ministry data updated Wednesday. A total of 2,208 cases were recorded on October 28 last year. The Covid-related death toll has increased to 5,30,848 – three reported by Maharashtra, one by […]
Punjab AG on Tuesday said the state was close to arresting fugitive Amritpal, even as habeas corpus petition seeking his release says he was in ‘illegal’ custody at Shahkot Police Station in Jalandhar.AG submitted in Punjab and Haryana High Court that Khalistan sympathiser was not arrested and state was trying its best to nab him. […]
An MP/MLA court in Prayagraj has pronounced gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmad and three others guilty in the 2006 kidnapping of lawyer Umesh Pal, the main witness in the killing of Bahujan Samaj Party lawmaker Raju Pal. Umesh Pal was shot dead in Prayagraj on February 24. Atiq and former corporator Dinesh Pasi have been convicted of […]
Amritsar rural police have arrested an associate of Amritpal Singh.He was identified as Varinder Singh alias Fauji of Tarn Taran. The police have invoked the NSA against him and sent him to Dibrugarh jail in Assam.An official wishing not to be named confirmed the development. Fauji, a retired army constable, was the bodyguard of Amritpal. […]
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Monday said the government had ordered that the special girdawri to assess the loss caused by recent spell of rain and high-velocity winds had to be finished within a week.The compensation will also be given to farmers who have taken land on lease and were cultivating the fields owned […]
The convoy of gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed being escorted by the Uttar Pradesh police halted briefly in Shivpuri district of Madhya Pradesh on early Monday morning before entering Jhansi on its way to Prayagraj, a police official said.As the convoy halted briefly at Kharai in Shivpuri district and Ahmed, wearing a white turban, got down from […]
Two people were shot at in a gurdwara in the US state of California, with authorities ruling out the incident as a hate crime.The shooting took place on Sunday at around 2.30 pm at the Gurdwara Sacramento Sikh Society, according to Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Sgt Amar Gandhi. One of the men, Gandhi said, […]
Lok Sabha proceedings on Monday were adjourned till 4 pm amid slogan-shouting by the Opposition members.As soon as the House met for the day, Congress members wearing black scarves trooped into the Well. Two Congress members, T N Pratapan and Hibi Eden, who were in the Well holding placards, flung the order papers towards the […]