The police have recovered three magnetic IEDs dropped by a drone in the border area of Jammu district in a fresh attempt to smuggle explosives through the aerial route, officials said on Tuesday.The IEDs, with their timers set and packed inside tiffin boxes, were recovered from the Kantowala-Dayaran area of Kanachak in Akhnoor sector, Additional […]
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will visit the house of slain Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala in Mansa district on Tuesday.Gandhi, who landed at the Chandigarh airport this morning, will express condolences to the family of Moosewala at his native Musa village in Mansa, said a party leader. Several Congress leaders including Punjab Congress chief Amrinder Singh […]
Embattled British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has narrowly survived a vote of confidence by his fellow Conservative Party lawmakers against his leadership, a ballot that has left his authority weakened and exposed rifts within his party.Some 211 MPs voted for the prime minister, compared to 148 votes against – a majority of 63. The vote […]
The Vigilance Bureau has arrested former Punjab minister Sadhu Singh Dharamsot under the Prevention of Corruption Act.Official sources said he was arrested from Amloh in connection with the recent arrest of DFO Guramanpreet Singh in a corruption case. The arrested DFO and contractor Harminder Singh Hummy reportedly gave details to the bureau indicating wrongdoings in […]
The Enforcement Directorate on Monday conducted raids against arrested Delhi minister Satyendar Jain as part of a money-laundering investigation being conducted against him, officials said. The raids, including that at the residential premises of Jain in Delhi and certain other locations, are being conducted as part of a “follow up” in the case, they said. […]
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), without citing any incident particularly, asserted on Sunday that it respects all religions and strongly denounces insult of any religious personality. The BJP statement, however, can be seen as an attempt to defuse a controversy over comments allegedly made by party spokesperson Nupur Sharma against Prophet Mohammed, leading to violence […]
In a major setback to the Congress in Punjab, five of its leaders and former ministers Raj Kumar Verka, Balbir Singh Sidhu, Sunder Sham Arora, Gurpreet Singh Kangar and Kewal Dhillon joined the BJP here on Saturday.Those joining the BJP today also include former Congress MLA Amrik Dhilon, former SAD MLA Sarup Chand Singla and […]
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has fielded Bhojpuri star Dinesh Lal Yadav, popularly known as ‘Nirahua’, for the Lok Sabha bypoll from the Azamgarh constituency in Uttar Pradesh. The seat fell vacant after Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav resigned as a Lok Sabha member following his decision to retain the assembly seat he won in […]
A serious attempt was made to destabilise Punjab’s power supply on Saturday by removing at least 1200 clippings from the rail tracks between Sarai Banjara and Rajpura thermal power plant. While two rakes carrying coal passed through the tracks this morning, luckily there was no untoward accident. This has been done on the day there […]
Telangana Police on Saturday arrested the second accused, who is a juvenile and one of the main culprits, in connection with the alleged gang rape of a teenage girl in Hyderabad’s Jubilee Hills last week. So far, two accused have been apprehended in the Hyderabad rape case. One accused, identified as Saduddin Malik, was arrested […]