The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)’s newly-elected Jalandhar MP Sushil Kumar Rinku met party’s national convener Arvind Kejriwal in New Delhi on Sunday. He was accompanied by Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on the occasion. Rinku had recorded a landslide victory by winning the Jalandhar Lok Sabha bypoll by 58,691 votes after he polled 3,02,279 votes. […]
Two teenagers have been jailed for murdering a 16-year-old Sikh boy in 2021 who they mistakenly thought belonged to a rival gang in West London, police said.Vanushan Balakrishnan and Ilyas Suleiman, both 18-year-olds from Hillingdon, were sentenced at the Old Bailey on Wednesday for stabbing Rishmeet Singh to death. Balakrishnan was sentenced to life imprisonment […]
Targeting the ruling Aam Aadmi Party over the alleged unlawful presence of its at least seven MLAs in Jalandhar on the day of the Lok Sabha bypoll on May 10 is costing the opposition dear as Congress MLA from Shahkot Hardev Singh Laddi Sherowalia has been booked under a non-bailable section. Sherowalia, who had gone […]
Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) today announced results of Class 12 board exams held in February, March and April. Students can now go to resuts.cbse.nic.in or cbseresuts.nic.in and check their marks. They have to use roll number, school number and admit card ID as login credentials. The overall pass percentage in Class 12 result […]
Punjab Police have arrested five suspects, including a woman, after another low-intensity blast was reported near the Golden Temple in Amritsar on Thursday midnight– the third explosion in less than a week. The blast occurred just behind the Guru Ram Dass Inn. CCTV footage showed that the suspect allegedly threw the bomb from the second […]
More than 17 per cent polling was recorded till 11 am in the bypoll to the Jalandhar Lok Sabha seat on Wednesday.Voting for a four-cornered electoral began at 8 am, with the AAP, Congress, BJP and Shiromani Akali Dal vying to outdo each other in the Dalit stronghold. The bypoll on Wednesday was necessitated with […]
Five tourists from Delhi trapped in heavy snow in Lahaul and Spiti were rescued, while over 500 vehicles stranded between Atal Tunnel Rohtang and Dhundi in Himachal Pradesh have been moved to safer places, police said on Tuesday.The vehicles started skidding on the road on Monday following heavy snow. The Kullu district police supervised the […]
Another blast rocked the holy city of Amritsar on Monday. The blast occurred on Heritage Street on the way to the Golden Temple, around the same place where a blast had taken place on Saturday. No one was injured. The incident happened at around 6.30 am. Police and forensic teams have reached the spot and […]
Rains lashed parts of Punjab and Haryana on Wednesday morning, leading to a dip in the temperature.According to the Meteorological Department here, Chandigarh, Ludhiana, Patiala, Bathinda, Faridkot, Ferozepur, Rupnagar, Mohali, Ambala, Karnal, Kurukshetra and Yamunanagar received rains. Many parts of the two states, including Chandigarh, have been receiving rains from the past few days.The maximum […]