Smita

Senior superintendent of Vigilance Bureau (VB) Satinder Singh informed that Buta Singh, a company commander (Urban Company) of Punjab Home Guards was caught red-handed while accepting a bribe of Rs7,000 from one of his colleagues. He said Buta’s rank is head constable, though currently working as an inspector, adding that the accused was arrested…[Read more]

Veteran cricket administrator Inderjit Singh Bindra was on Sunday unanimously elected as Chairman of the Punjab Cricket Association at the election of office bearers of the PCA held in Mohali. Besides 71-year-old Bindra, the other office bearers of the PCA who were unanimously elected in the election process which was taken up after the 67th…[Read more]

Sources said the Congress and SAD members who accused each other of horse trading clashed with each other. The first mayoral election of Mohali Municipal Corporation was put off on Tuesday following a clash between the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and Congress members outside the MC headquarters. Sources said the Congress and SAD members who…[Read more]

Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Saturday appealed to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi to help bail out the farmers of the state who have been facing hardship. Unfurling the national flag at a function in Mohali, he noted that the hardworking farmers of the state, who have been meeting the nation’s food needs, were today facing many…[Read more]

Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Saturday appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to review the “unending saga of discrimination and sheer injustice” allegedly meted out to Punjab by successive Governments at Centre after country’s Independence. Badal alleged that despite Punjab’s enormous contribution in the country’s freedom…[Read more]

In a faux pas, Punjab Cabinet Minister Bikram Singh Majitiha on Saturday unfurled the national flag which was upside down during an Independence Day function here and it was only corrected as the event was about the conclude. Two police personnel responsible for the flag hoisting arrangement were suspended and a magisterial inquiry ordered into…[Read more]

Over 45 pilgrims returning from the Hindu shrine of Vaishno Devi were rescued after the bus they were travelling in fell into an irrigation canal near Punjab’s Madhopur town, police said on Monday. The injured passengers, including the bus driver, were rushed to a civil hospital in Pathankot town, 250 km from here. None of the passengers, mostly…[Read more]

Chandigarh, Aug 13 (IANS) The Punjab government on Thursday sought more Border Security Force (BSF) troopers along the state’s 553-km long border with Pakistan. Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal said that deployment of more BSF personnel on the international border with Pakistan was necessary to prevent cross-border infiltration. Speaking…[Read more]

The Punjab education department has proposed to restart evaluation of students in V and VIII class from the current academic year, state Education Minister Daljit Singh Cheema said here. The Punjab School Education Board had stopped annual examination system of V and VIII class after the Right To Education (RTE) Act was implemented which allows…[Read more]

The body of missing SAD leader Jagjit Singh Bhaini has been found in the Bhakra Canal near Khanauri in Sangrur district, police said today. Bhaini was missing since Saturday last. His body was found yesterday and some of his belongings were found from near the Bhakra Canal at Anandpur Sahib, they said. During postmortem, doctors found injury marks…[Read more]

Ahead of Independence Day, 265 live cartridges including those which could be used in assault rifle AK-47 were found along the boundary wall of a school in Civil Lines area here. The cartridges were found by KVM school’s bus staff when they brought students to school premises at about 8 am here, police said. Station House Officer (SHO) Gurpreet…[Read more]

A trial court here on Tuesday convicted two Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) terrorists but acquitted 14 others in the sensational Burail jailbreak case of January 2004. BKI chief Jagtar Singh Hawara and BKI terrorist Paramjit Singh Bheora were convicted by the court in the jailbreak conspiracy. However, both terrorists, who are already in jail…[Read more]

Ninety children separated from their parents have been reunited by Punjab Government as part of its special campaign to unite missing children with their respective families. Till date 90 missing children in the state have been successfully sent to their biological parents during the current year, an official spokesman said here today.…[Read more]

An alert has been sounded to people living in areas along the Sutlej and Beas rivers in various districts of Punjab after the Bhakra Beas Management Board (BBMB) released water from the Bhakra and Pong dams on Monday. Water overflowed the banks of both rivers in low-lying areas downstream in Ropar and adjoining districts in Punjab on Monday after…[Read more]

Senior Congress leader and former Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Wednesday alleged it was not only the BJP ministers who were feeling “suffocated” in the current government, but even most of the Akali ministers as well, since power had been “concentrated” within the Badal family. Amarinder also claimed that there was a lot of “resentment” among…[Read more]

According to the locals, the men accompanying the woman were Sikhs who claimed they were from an NGO but did not disclose their identities and contact numbers. Located about 116 kilometres from Chandigarh, the village of Karnana near Banga town of Punjab is in the news. It has been reported that before the July 27 Gurdaspur terror attack , at…[Read more]

Punjab Cabinet on Monday strongly condemned the terror attack at Dinanagar by three terrorists on July 27 and praised Punjab police, including four policemen who were killed, for their counter-insurgency efforts. The cabinet also observed two-minute silence in the memory of former President APJ Abdul Kalam, victims of Dinanagar terror attack and…[Read more]

A former hockey player-turned-Punjab Police officer Jugraj Singh played an active role in the day-long operation against three terrorists in Gurdaspur district’s Dinanagar town on Monday. 32-year-old Jugraj Singh was among those Punjab police personnel who gunned down the heavily-armed terrorists. A former international hockey player who was once…[Read more]

Reiterating state’s commitment to maintain peace and communal harmony, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today said his government was prepared to meet any challenge threatening peace in Mohali. After paying tributes to late BSP leader Maan Singh Manhera on his third death anniversary at Khrar near Mohali, Mr Badal said Punjab government…[Read more]

The Government Railway Police (GRP) on Thursday arrested a Pakistani woman who was travelling in the Samjhauta Express without passport and visa. As per reports, the woman was held at Jalandhar station from the Attari-Delhi Samjhauta Express late on Thursday night. Interrogation of the woman revealed that she hails from Karachi and her name is…[Read more]