Following the arrest of Congress leader Sukhpal Khaira, Congress workers led by state party chief Amarinder Singh Raja Warring gathered outside the Jalalabad CIA office on Friday.A law and order situation developed as the Congress workers demanded the opening of the CIA gate to see the arrested MLA. Additional police force was rushed to the […]
The Punjab Vigilance Bureau has registered a case against former state finance minister Manpreet Badal and five others in connection with alleged irregularities in the purchase of a property in Bathinda, a top official said on Monday.Apart from Badal, who is now a BJP leader, and former Bathinda municipal corporation commissioner Bikramjit Shergill, the other […]
Gangster Sukha Duneke has been killed in Canada, according to TV reports.He was killed in an inter-gang rivalry.Duneke was part of Khalistan movement in Canada. Sukhdool Singh alias Sukha Duneke, a gangster who escaped to Canada from Punjab in 2017 on forged documents, was shot dead in Winnipeg by assailants. His name figured in the […]
A woman who had approached a police station here to file a complaint against her husband was allegedly gang-raped by the accomplices of a sub-inspector posted there, officials said. The accused kept her hostage at a house for three days where they repeatedly raped her. Later, they allegedly sold the woman to another man, who, […]
Just about a fortnight after it’s decision to dissolve gram panchayats in Punjab came under judicial scanner, the government on Thursday announced its decision to withdraw the notification in this regard.Appearing before the Bench headed by Chief Justice Ravi Shanker Jha, Punjab Advocate-General Vinod Ghai submitted that the notification would be withdrawn in the next […]
Due to heavy rain on Wednesday morning, traffic was stopped at Chakki Mor on the Chandigarh-Shimla highway for safety reasons. The damage will be assessed after the rain. Police have diverted the traffic through alternative routes.Also, traffic has been put on hold over the Baddi bridge after it bent in the middle and a pier […]
Police have registered an FIR against unidentified people for allegedly making provocative speeches at the August 13 ‘Sarv Hindu Samaj mahapanchayat’ in Haryana’s Palwal, officials said.The FIR was registered based on a complaint by Probationer Sub-Inspector (PSI) Sachin, who alleged that some people gave provocative speeches against the people of another community during the gathering […]
Several teams of the National Disaster Response Force, Army and the BSF have been pressed into service for rescue operations in flood-hit areas of Punjab’s Hoshiarpur, Gurdaspur and Rupnagar districts. Large parts of these three districts have been inundated following the release of excess water from the Bhakra and the Pong dams, said officials. The […]
The rescue operation to retrieve the technician who was buried under 80 feet of soil at the Delhi-Katra Expressway construction site on the Kartarpur-Kapurthala road here on Saturday evening received a setback on Monday morning as soil further caved in at the rescue site.This further set the rescue operations back by several hours even as […]
Forty-one people were killed and 1,616 are living in 173 relief camps following the floods that hit Punjab recently, officials said.Nineteen districts — Tarn Taran, Ferozepur, Fatehgarh Sahib, Faridkot, Hoshiarpur, Rupnagar, Kapurthala, Patiala, Moga, Ludhiana, SAS Nagar, Jalandhar, Sangrur, SBS Nagar, Fazilka, Gurdaspur, Mansa, Bathinda and Pathankot — were affected by the floods. The government […]