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More than a decade after the foundation stone for a new forest inspection hut and range office was laid in Mukerian, the project remains unrealised, caught in a web of shifting policies and prolonged neglect. In 2011, then Forest Minister...

Phagwara: The Nurmahal police have arrested a woman drug peddler on the charge of selling heroin. SHO Krishan Gopal said 20 gram of heroin was recovered from the possession of the accused Resham Kaur, alias Manni, of Nurmahal. A case...

CT Group of Institutions, Shahpur campus, hosted a grand felicitation event, ‘Shining Star’, celebrating the achievements of more than 1,800 meritorious students from Class 10 and 12 of ICSE, CBSE and PSEB. The achievers hailed from Jalandhar, Kapurthala, Hoshiarpur and...

Olympian Sanjeev Kumar, who was the part of the Indian hockey team in the 1996 Olympics, will again play a key role in improving the hockey skills of Punjab. He has been appointed as the Assistant Technical Lead by Round...

A wave of fear and frustration is sweeping through Phagwara and its surrounding villages as an alarming surge in stray dog attacks has left over 250 residents, including several women and children, bitten in the past month. The victims are...

In a shocking case of cyber fraud, a farmer from Nadala town in Punjab’s Kapurthala district was duped of Rs 11.75 lakh after receiving a phone call falsely claiming that his son had been involved in a serious accident in...

The Indian Fishing Cat has been classified as ‘vulnerable’ on the Red List of Threatened Species issued by the International Union for Conservation of Nature

Paramjit Kaur was nabbed with 18 gm of heroin during a naka held by the Kartarpur police

Astudy conducted by Dr Sandeep Aggarwal, Associate Professor of Paediatrics at Government Medical College, Amritsar, has found that indigenous dog breeds can be just as effective as foreign breeds in providing animal-assisted therapy (AAT) for children with intellectual disabilities. The...

Residents serve notice on Chief Secy

The newly elected president of Nagar Council, Talwara, Harsh Kumar Ashu Arora, assumed charge at the Nagar Council office today. In the function organised by the Nagar Council under the leadership of MLA Dasuha, Karambir Ghuman, Dr Gurpreet Kaur, wife...

In a determined push towards a drug-free Punjab, residents of 11 villages across Kapurthala district took a collective pledge to intensify efforts against substance abuse under the ongoing state-wide Nasha Mukt Bharat Yatra (Drug-Free Punjab Campaign), launched by the government....

The Shahkot police have arrested a proclaimed offender (PO) absconding for the last many years. The accused has been identified as Sukhwindar Singh, alias Sukha, of Lattianwal village in Kapurthala, wanted in a case of drug peddling. The Nurmahal police...

In line with the directives of the Punjab State Election Commission, the revision of electoral rolls is currently underway in Kapurthala district in preparation for the upcoming by-elections to fill vacant posts of sarpanch and panch in various gram panchayats....

A 50-year-old man from Shidham Hari Singh village near Nurmahal was found dead under suspicious circumstances near Thablke village on Monday, prompting police to launch a murder investigation. Nakodar DSP Sukhpal Singh confirmed that the deceased has been identified as...

Licence of coop bank has been cancelled

The auditorium of the Phagwara Municipal Corporation, built to facilitate social organisations, is being run without any power connection since June 2018. PWD SDO Rajiv Uppal told The Tribune here today that the auditorium was constructed by the PWD at...

The Satnampura police in Phagwara have arrested three youths and recovered illegal weapons from their possession. Acting on a tip-off, the police seized a country-made pistol, six cartridges and two iron rods during the operation. According to ASI Sukhjinder Singh,...

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has ruled that police protection cannot be demanded as a status symbol and every request must pass the test of “need and risk” set by the state’s own security-assessment policy. In a stinging indictment...

In an effort to curb eve-teasing and promote road safety, the Commissionerate Police conducted a three-day special drive between May 17 and May 20 under the supervision of ACP North Aatish Bhatia. The drive took place between 12 PM and...

Olympian Sanjeev Kumar, who was the part of the Indian hockey team in the 1996 Olympics, will again play a key role in improving the hockey skills of Punjab. He has been appointed as the Assistant Technical Lead by Round...

The Jalandhar Commissionerate Police has apprehended two key suspects involved in the recent gang-related shooting in Shaheed Babu Labh Singh Nagar, which resulted in the death of a Fateh gang member and injury to a bystander. Commissioner of Police Dhanpreet...

Phagwara: The Bilga police have arrested two miscreants and booked eight others on the charges of outraging the modesty of a woman. The arrested accused has been identified as Buta Singh of Pati Bagga, Bilga village, and his brother...

Following a brief encounter on Tuesday morning, the Jalandhar Rural Police arrested gangster Paramjit Pamma near Kalra village in Adampur. The gangster, who hails from Binjo village of Hoshiarpur, received a bullet injury in his left leg and is taking...

Even as the successive governments of Punjab have been talking of providing basic healthcare facilities at doorsteps, the students of Electronics and Communication Engineering of Mehr Chand Polytechnic College have come up with an innovative solution to the problem.Sixth...