The Punjab Vigilance Bureau has arrested a revenue official and his private assistant for allegedly accepting bribe.Gurpreet Singh, posted as ‘patwari’ in Muktsar district, was arrested on the complaint of a resident of Bhullar village, the Bureau said in a statement on Wednesday. The complainant, Gurpal Singh, had alleged that the revenue official had demanded […]
The Punjab Assembly on Tuesday unanimously passed the Punjab Universities Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2023.The Bill aims at removing the governor from the post of chancellor of all 11 state universities. The SAD supported the Bill.Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann said if they could not appoint V-Cs they would be letting down the mandate given by the […]
Canada-based pro-Khalistan leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar–declared a ‘wanted terrorist’ by the Indian government– was shot dead in Surrey, Canada, on Monday.Nijjar, a resident of a village in Jalandhar, was director of SFJ, which is banned in India. He was the president of Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara. He was shot in the parking lot of the […]
Canada-based Khalistan Tiger Force (KTF) chief Hardeep Singh Nijjar, one of the most-wanted terrorists in India who carried a cash reward of Rs 10 lakh on his head, was shot dead outside a gurdwara in the north American country, officials here said on Monday.A resident of Bharsinghpur village in Punjab’s Jalandhar, Nijjar was found dead […]
The Punjab government is set to amend the Sikh Gurdwara Act to ‘ensure free telecast rights’ of Gurbani from the Golden Temple at a cabinet meeting on Monday. Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann said the government would amend the Sikh Gurdwara Act, 1925, to ensure free telecast rights of Gurbani from the Golden Temple. Reacting to […]
Making a strong case in favour of a Consulate of the United States of America (USA) at Chandigarh, against the background of growing demand of people from Punjab in India as well as in the US, Shri Banwari Lal Purohit, Governor of Punjab and Administrator, UT, Chandigarh has written a letter to the External Affairs […]
Avtar Singh Khanda, handler of arrested Waris Punjab De chief Amritpal Singh, has died in the UK, with top intelligence sources saying the cause of his death was blood cancer, according to an agency report.The UK-based head of Khalistan Liberation Force died at Birmingham City Hospital at around 12.45 am (IST) on Thursday, sources said. […]
In a case related to Rs 8.49 crore robbery that took place at the office of CMS Info Systems Ltd near Rajguru Nagar in Ludhiana on June 10, DGP Gaurav Yadav tweeted that the police had achieved a big success in the case.Yadav tweeted that in a major breakthrough, Ludhiana Police, supported by Counter Intelligence, […]
Farmers blocked the national highway in Pipli in Haryana’s Kurukshetra district for a second day Tuesday over the MSP for sunflower seeds, with BKU leader Rakesh Tikait asking the state government to accept the demand or send farmers to jail. Farmer leaders at the protest site said that several rounds of talks have been held […]
Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu’s wife Navjot Kaur on Friday said her husband “gifted” the chief minister’s chair to Bhagwant Mann, claiming that Arvind Kejriwal once wanted the former cricketer to lead Punjab but he chose not to betray his party.Her claims came in the backdrop of a war of words between Mann and Navjot […]