Kuldip Singh, a Punjab Police constable posted as gunman with the Phagwara (City) police station SHO, was shot dead in an exchange of firing between a police party and unidentified armed masked robbers near Kot Grewal village late Sunday night. The critically injured constable was brought to Gandhi Hospital in Phagwara around 11 pm where […]
The Bombay High Court on Monday granted bail to former ICICI Bank CEO and MD Chanda Kochhar and her husband Deepak Kochhar in a loan fraud case, noting their arrest was not done in conformity with provisions of law. The couple was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on December 23, 2022 in […]
When four students of a government school in Punjab’s Ferozepur district featured in the merit list of the state Board exams, ending a 12-year wait, the overjoyed principal did not hesitate to fulfil their wish of air travel.Rakesh Sharma, the principal of Shaheed Gurdas Ram Memorial Government Senior Secondary School (Girls) at Zira in Ferozepur, […]
A high-level meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) will take place on Sunday on the Joshimath situation. Dr P K Mishra, principal secretary to PM Modi, will hold a high level review with Cabinet Secretary & senior government officials and members of National Disaster Management Authority at PMO today afternoon, the PMO said in […]
A severe cold wave, accompanied by a blinding layer of dense fog, enveloped North India, including Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh and Delhi, and the adjoining Central and Eastern parts of the country on Sunday, affecting road, rail and air traffic movement.The Met office had issued an “orange” alert for certain parts of north India, including Delhi, […]
Several parts of north India reeled under severe cold and dense fog affected railway movement, with Delhi recording a minimum temperature of three degrees Celsius — the lowest in January in two years — making it cooler than several hill stations.Most people kept indoors and turned to space heaters and cups of hot beverages to […]
A day after Punjab and Haryana failed to reach an agreement on the construction of the Sutlej Yamuna Link canal, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said water should be an issue of cooperation and coordination between the states. Addressing the first national conference of state water ministers convened by the Centre to discuss and […]
There were at least 40 external injuries, ribs exposed from back as skin had peeled away, the base of skull was fractured and some brain matter was missing, said sources citing the autopsy report of the woman, who died after being dragged by a car for 12 kms on January 1. “The provisional cause of […]
In a move that is expected to help India develop a manufacturing ecosystem for high-end drones, a top US drone manufacturer has announced a partnership with a leading Indian forging company to manufacture main landing gear components, subassemblies, and assemblies of remotely piloted aircraft in the country. San Diego-based General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI), a […]
The Supreme Court on Tuesday sought a response from the CBI to the bail plea by former Congress councillor Balwan Khokhar, sentenced to life imprisonment in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, on several grounds, including having already served almost nine years in jail. Besides Khokhar, former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar and ex-MLA Mahender Yadav are […]