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Ruchika M Khanna Chandigarh, January 3 A breach at the Bheni distributary of the Kotla canal has led to a partial shutdown of the Talwandi Sabo power plant for 15 days, affecting the power generation. The power plant is working...

Bathinda/Abohar, January 2 The ongoing protest by truck drivers against the new hit-and-run provision have triggered panic buying among commuters, leading to long queues outside petrol pumps in Bathinda and Mansa. Around 170 fuel stations have gone dry so far...

Bathinda, January 1 Lieutenant General Nagendra Singh took over the command of the prestigious Chetak Corps today as the 34th General Officer Commanding. He replaced Lieutenant General Sanjiv Rai, who superannuated on December 31 after his successful tenure of more...

Bathinda, December 31 The Bathinda police have busted a gang whose members would rob passers-by on the main road of the city at night by pretending to seek help. A total of nine suspects, including five women, have been...

Bathinda, December 29 A youth who was arrested in a four-year-old case allegedly died under suspicious circumstances in the custody of Bathinda Cantt police station. The police said that the condition of the arrested youth suddenly became critical and he...

Bathinda, December 29 The city residents witnessed another chilly day with maximum temperature coming down to 15.6° Celsius on Friday. According to the Agri-Met Department of the regional station of Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), Bathinda, the maximum temperature was...

Bathinda, December 23 Two MBBS students died, while two others were seriously injured as the speeding car they were travelling in collided with a unipole near the multi-storey parking on Mall Road on Friday. The condition of both the injured...

Bathinda, December 23 Two MBBS students died in a road accident on Mall Road in Bathinda on Friday night as their rashly driven Honda City car rammed into a pole. At the time of the accident, four people were travelling...

Bathinda, December 19 As part of its ongoing drive against drugs and to instil a sense of security among the populace, the police conducted raids at drugs hotspots in Bathinda district today. Under a cordon and search operation, Bathinda police...

Archit Watts Muktsar, December 18 Politics has heated up over the state government’s decision to not allow the annual horse market to be held at Lambi Dhabh village here during the Maghi Mela in January. Earlier, the government had banned...

Bathinda, December 17 Congress leader Navjot Sidhu today addressed a rally at Mehraj in the Rampura Phul Assembly segment. While he criticised the working style of some Congress Chief Ministers, he also attacked Aam Aadmi Party supremo Arvind Kejriwal and...

Sukhmeet Bhasin Bathinda, December 17 In a major push to development in the Bathinda Lok Sabha segment, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann and his Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday inaugurated and laid foundation stones of welfare projects worth...

Chandigarh, December 17 Unanticipated drop in kinnow rates amid a bumper yield has left growers of the fruit in Punjab staring at very poor gains. Farmers said they are getting Rs 6-10 per kg for their kinnow crop, a steep...

Bathinda, December 16 Former Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) chief Navjot Singh Sidhu today launched a scathing attack on the AAP-led state government. Sidhu said the government was on the path of selling “packaged” lies and people were being...

Bathinda, December 15 On the call of Punjab Employees and Pensioners Joint Front Punjab, Joint Front, Bathinda, today burnt the effigy of the state government and staged protest outside the DC Office in Bathinda. Gagandeep Singh Bhullar, state convener of...

Bathinda, December 15 The government has reversed its decision to announce two holidays at six government schools (on December 16 and 17) for CM Bhagwant Mann’s rally at Maur Mandi in Bathinda. The event is scheduled for December 17. Holidays...

Archit Watts Muktsar, December 13 The number of dengue patients has increased almost nine times in Muktsar district during the last three months. The district has recorded 775 cases till December 12. The count was 87 on September 9. Notably,...

Mansa, December 12 Gangsters Lawrence Bishnoi and Jaggu Bhagwanpuria today filed applications for discharge from the case of late Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala’s murder in a Mansa court. According to the information, both have denied their involvement in this case...

Bathinda, December 12 The Bathinda-AIIMS nursing staff strike, which had been going on for the last two weeks, ended today after the AIIMS administration gave in writing that no action would be taken against the protesting staff after they join...

Bathinda, December 11 The AIIMS-Bathinda administration today accepted the demands of the protesting nursing staff, but the staff were still adamant on continuing the protest. The administration had meetings with nursing officias on December 10 and 11. Their demands were...

Bathinda, December 11 Farmers under the banner of the Bharatiya Kisan Union (Ekta-Ugrahan) today staged a protest at the office of the Cotton Corporation of India (CCI), Bathinda, demanding to start procurement of the crop at the minimum support...

Balwant Garg Bathinda, December 10 A former constable, who was head munshi of a police station, wanted in the theft case of 12 weapons and 1,200 cartridges from its malkhana, was arrested today in a one-year-old case of attempted robbery....

Bathinda, December 10 Owing to the strike by about 600 nursing staff members of AIIMS here for the past five days, the health services have been severely hit. On an average, 1,200 patients visit OPDs on a daily basis...

Bathinda, December 6 Strike by about 600 nursing staff of AIIMS, Bathinda, today crippled the health services in the institute. The nursing staff are demanding promotion and eight holidays every month. The nursing staff had been on a token...

Bathinda, December 4 The Counter Intelligence wing of the Bathinda police have arrested two operatives of the Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) for writing anti-national slogans in Punjab and adjoining states. Those arrested have been identified as Harmanpreet Singh of...