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An 81-feet Sikh military emblem in this Punjab town is quite a hit among the devotees and tourists, officials said on Thursday.Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal accompanied by his daughter-in-law and union Food Processing Minister Harsimrat Kaur on Wednesday unfurled the recently installed 81-foot ‘Khanda’ (double-edged sword) at Panja Piara…[Read more]

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday visited the family of Punjab farmer Surjit Singh, who had committed suicide on June 10 by consuming a poisonous substance.Rahul reached the Dadu Majra village in Fatehgarh Sahib district, early on Thursday morning and offered condolences to the grieving family. He was with them for over 30 minutes,…[Read more]

The Municipal Corporation has deducted the expenses incurred on the family members of nine councillors, including the Mayor and the Deputy Mayor, during the study tour last year from their monthly honorarium. Recently, the MC had issued recovery notices to nine councillors, who had taken their family members along with them on the study tour to…[Read more]

Local lad Himanshu Gupta has done the city proud by bagging the seventh position in the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Advanced, 2015. The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) declared the names of the top 10 rank holders this evening.Himanshu is a student of Shivalik Public School, Sector 41. He said nine hours of study and one hour of…[Read more]

JALANDHAR: A man was shot at point-blank range by two motorcycle-borne robbers on Monday night when he was returning with his wife and two sons on a bike at Dyalpur village at around 9.30pm. In her complaint to police,Palwinder Kaur, wife of victim Kuldeep Singh, 48, alleged that two youths on a motorcycle stopped them, took away Rs 18,000 and two…[Read more]

The Punjab government has built toilets for 33 lakh rural families as the state aims to become the first in India to be free from open defecation.The Punjab government has constructed toilets for 33 lakh rural families under the ambitious Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, which has elimination of open defecation as one of its objectives,” a state government…[Read more]

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh along with BJP President Amit Shah will visit Anandpur Sahib on the occasion of the 350th anniversary celebrations of the holy town on June 19.Giving this information here today, Punjab BJP President Kamal Sharma said that Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar will also be attending the celebration function.

A notorious criminal was arrested and arms seized from him by Faridkot police. Jaswinder Singh Rocky was arrested yesterday and one .9 mm pistol and .38 bore revolver were seized from him in Faridkot. Rocky was facing at least 17 criminal cases including those for attempt to murder, kidnapping, extortion and some cases under the Arms Act. These…[Read more]

Demanding immediate release of 13 students arrested by police during demonstration against the alleged molestation of a minor girl, Punjab Students Union (PSU) on Monday staged a protest here.The protesters assembled at old rest house (Darbar Ganj) where they held a rally in protest against the arrest of 13 students, including one girl on May 6 on…[Read more]

Jathedar of Akal Takht (highest Sikh temporal seat) Gyani Gurbachan Singh on Monday visited the 1993 Delhi blast convict Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar and asked the medical team treating him to allow one of his relative to stay with him.Bhullar was shifted to Swami Vivekananda Drug De-addiction Centre here due to severe depression from the Central…[Read more]

With a mobile app for women safety, and WhatsApp numbers and a Facebook page for redressing traffic and drug menace, the Chandigarh Police has undertaken several initiatives. However, not all have found many takers. The women safety app, which was downloaded by 4,699 people till May 31, has had only four users till now. The police officials…[Read more]

At least 14 passengers died on Friday and 20 others were seriously injured, when the private bus in which they were travelling slid off the road and dashed against a tree near village Behram. The bus was on its way from Nawanshahr to Jalandhar at the time of the accident. The bus was passing through a deep curve when it slid off the road and…[Read more]

Defending the transfer of prisoners with terrorist background hailing from Punjab back to the state from jails in other states, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Sunday said the move will not impact peace and harmony in his state.The SAD-BJP alliance government has always accorded top priority to preserving peace, communal harmony and…[Read more]

The maximum temperature across Haryana and Punjab on Sunday plunged by upto nine notches, a day after rains lashed several parts in the two states, providing much-needed relief to people from hot weather conditions.Hisar, which generally turns out to be the hottest place in the two states during summers, was the coolest town in the region today…[Read more]

Rock Garden creator Nek Chand will go down in history for giving Chandigarh its unique artistic style with an art-from-waste success story that seemed to run parallel to master architect Le Corbusier’s vision of a capital city going on to get worldwide recognition.

The two stories are so interwoven that Nek Chand first set foot on a cluster of…[Read more]

Alleging harassment by the electricity department officials and a local BJP leader, a man committed suicide in the Shashtrinagar locality here, police said today.Nishan Singh yesterday committed suicide at his residence here after allegedly being harassed by electricity department officials and local BJP leader Pradeep Khullar, they said.On the…[Read more]

In a tragic accident, at least 6 persons lost their lives and over 100 were injured after an ammonia gas tanker leaked in the outskirts of Ludhiana in the wee hours of Saturday.The leak occurred when the Gujarat registered tanker got stuck under a flyover on the Doraha Bypass Road along a canal, about 25 kms from the commercial capital of…[Read more]

Creator of Chandigarh’s famed Rock Garden Nek Chand died here around midnight, Thursday-Friday. He suffered a cardiac arrest. He had celebrated his 90th birthday on December 15 last year. His son Anuj Saini, who helped him in maintaining Rock Garden, was by his side when he died. The date and time of the cremation will be decided later on F…[Read more]

A) Amritsar
B) Barnala
C) Bathinda
D) Jalandhar

Former Union Minister and sitting Patiala MLA Preneet Kaur on Tuesday said that she does not have any bank account overseas in her name with any foreign bank.My statement was recorded by Income Tax authorities at Ludhiana (earlier). I was not shown any document which may indicate that I had a foreign bank account or a Trust. I gave my statement…[Read more]