One person was injured today in a mild explosion outside a Gurdwara at Kot Khalsa locality in the city, triggering panic among people. Confirming the incident, ADCP Punjab Police Mohan Lal said the incident occurred when a priest set a pile of dry leaves on fire. The priest, who was injured in the incident, was [...]
Four modules of Sikh separatist group Babbar Khalsa International, arrested for planning to target religious figures, were today sentenced to imprisonment already undergone after they pleaded guilty for being member of the banned outfit. A sessions court convicted Kulwinder Singh, Jaswant Singh, Bikkar Singh and Surender Singh under various provisions of the Unlawful Activities Prevention [...]
An employee of a diary farm was today robbed of Rs 7 lakh by two motorcycle-borne men here, police said. The robbery took place at Dashmesh Nagar near Gill Road when Rajesh Kumar was returning to the dairy farm, where he was an employee, located in Dashmesh Nagar after withdrawing Rs 7 lakh cash from [...]
Cricketer may have tormented many batsmen with his bowling but this is one googly he may fail to comprehend himself. Police in Jalandhar are investigating a scam in which a namesake of the Indian cricketer used his bank statement to get a visa to visit Britain. The British high commission however, refused a visa to [...]
Some 25 years back, the Economics dept of Punjab Agricultural University had raised the issue of a third party reaping the benefits of someone else’s hard labour. To this, the arhtiyas had reasoned that this system made it easier for them to realise the debts that the farmers had raised from the arhtiyas. Completely in [...]
Police today claimed to have solved a blind murder case with the arrest of the victim’s brother and his friend. Sohan Singh was brutally murdered on the night of February 3 at village Bhatolian. Hoshiarpur SSP Balkar Singh Sidhu said that police arrested the deceased’s brother Kuldip Singh and his friend Jagmanpreet Singh for the [...]
SGPC President Avtar Singh Makkar said that the Sikh body is determined to hold its budget session before March 31 after election of its office bearers. He said that SGPC was running numerous educational institutions and medical colleges besides managing numerous Sikhs shrines in and outside Punjab and to run the administrative system smoothly, the [...]
The issue of newly-elected SGPC just refuses to die down. Sehajdhari Sikh Federation president Paramjit Singh Ranu today said the newly-elected members of the SGPC were not empowered to elect their office-bearers. The lawyer representing the Sehajdhari Sikh Federation Sandeep Khunger said the Supreme Court had instructed the SGPC to continue functioning as it was [...]
In Amritsar, the police today arrested two persons involved in the shootout at a government school. The police first laid its hand on one of the students who had allegedly opened fire on in school premises in Bhangali village in Majitha on February 17. The accused, identified as Navdeep Singh, told the police that he [...]
A committee formed to probe the fake encounters allegedly carried out by the Punjab Police during the days of militancy has recorded the statements of 80 persons. Set up on the orders of the National Human Rights Commission, the committee members met in Tarn Taran and heard complaints of relatives of alleged fake encounter victims.
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