Haryana-based accused held from his relatives’ residence in Patiala
Haryana-based accused held from his relatives’ residence in Patiala
65 from Punjab, 33 Haryana, 8 Guj | Another plane with 157 expected today
It took over two years for Daljit Singh to reach the United States through the “dunki route”, only to be sent back to India on a flight carrying deportees from that country. The family of 42-year-old Daljit, a resident of...
Union Minister Ravneet Singh Bittu on Saturday held Punjab’s ruling Aam Aadmi Party responsible for the flight of state youth to foreign countries through illegal routes, saying the problem stemmed from the government’s failure to provide jobs in the state....
The operation was carried out jointly by the Border Security Force and the Anti-Narcotics Task Force in Amritsar and Tarn Taran border areas
Family members of a US deportee here sought strict action against the immigration agent, who had sent their son to the US through the “dunki route”. Gurmeet Singh, a resident of Talania village, is one of the 119 people sent...
Hours before the second flight landed in Amritsar, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann stepped up his attack on the Centre for selecting the airport for deportation flights even as the BJP cited city’s proximity to the US to justify the...
In a crackdown on illegal drug trade, Wahabwala police arrested a tea stall vendor in Khubban village, 28km from Abohar, for allegedly selling poppy husk. This practice, reportedly common in the nearby Sadulshehar area, had begun spreading to local tea...
Says current laws ineffective to keep check on illegal immigration
The Faridkot police have booked Sadiq police station SHO Joginder Kaur and police constables Sher Singh and Lakhbir Singh for alleged extortion and corruption. The policemen are accused of illegally detaining a scrap dealer, Anmol Singh, from Ludhiana, and extorting...
Animal Husbandry Minister Gurmeet Singh Khuddian today launched a statewide vaccination campaign to protect cows from lumpy skin disease at a cow shelter in Malout town here. Khuddian said the state government had purchased 25 lakh doses of lumpy skin...
The court of the Additional District Judge, Chandigarh, has rejected an appeal of Punjab Agri Export Corporation Limited filed against the judgment of Civil Judge (Senior Division), Chandigarh, seven years ago that dismissed its suit for recovery filed against former...
As many as 117 students of Class 10 were in for a surprise as they sat for their English Language and Literature exam (Code No.184) of the CBSE. The students were instead given a question paper for Communicative English (Code...
The Punjab Anti-Gangster Task Force (AGTF) has arrested four alleged associates of Gurpreet Sekhon Gang for their involvement in the sensational murder of Overseer Singh, alias Satinder Singh, alias Satti. The police had also recovered one .32 bore pistol along...
The Fazilka police claimed to have nabbed a drug peddler carrying 35,400 intoxicating tablets in Bhai Mati Dass Colony in Fazilka district today. Acting on a tip-off, the police conducted a raid on the hideout of the accused and held...
Getting a Canadian visa has become increasingly difficult for parents of the youth studying there, and those serving in the Punjab Police. According to the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), as many as 21,19,900 visa applications were pending with...
Narain Singh Chaura, Khalistani activist and prime suspect in the assassination bid on senior Akali leader Sukhbir Singh Badal, was “angered” over inaction in sacrilege incidents by the then SAD-BJP government. That’s why he attempted to kill Badal while he...
The state government has set up a new police station at the Kartarpur Sahib corridor for the benefit of pilgrims crossing over to Pakistan to pay obeisance at Gurdwara Darbar Sahib. Earlier, devotees had to visit the Dera Baba Nanak...
Twenty-two-year-old Sahilpreet Singh’s deportation from the US has left his family shattered. He is the second youth from Taraf Behbal Bahadur village in Kapurthala’s Sultanpur Lodhi who has been deported by the US authorities. His inconsolable mother said they had...
A 31-year-old Field collection officer from Abohar was arrested by Hanumangarh police for allegedly embezzling Rs 2.78 lakh. Bharat Bhushan Shakya, a resident of Nai Abadi, Abohar, had been working for Satin Creditcare Network Limited, a non-banking finance company (NBFC),...
Director General of Police (DGP) Punjab, Gaurav Yadav, inaugurated the National Equestrian Championship-2025 (Tent Pegging) at PAP Campus, Jalandhar, on Saturday. Organised by Punjab Police under the aegis of the Equestrian Federation of India, the championship features 15 teams from...
Farmers in Punjab have sought advice from the government and Punjab Agricultural University regarding the appropriate variety of paddy to sow, aiming to prevent price cuts during the procurement process. In a memorandum submitted to the district administration, Nishan Singh,...
In a significant arrest, the Dhanaula police nabbed two alleged gangsters, including the notorious “A” category gangster Gurpreet Singh Gopi of Selbrah village in Bathinda, following a collision of their car with a stationary vehicle in Dhanaula town, Barnala district....
The Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) organised a Kisan Mela at the ICAR-Central Institute of Post-Harvest Engineering and Technology (CIPHET), Abohar, today, as part of the Crop Residue Management Project. During the event, experts urged farmers to refrain from burning crop...
Among the deportees, 65 are from Punjab, 33 from Haryana, 8 from Gujarat, 2 each from Uttar Pradesh, Goa, Maharashtra and Rajasthan, and one each from Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir
“How is a plane landing in Punjab a matter of shame? In fact, we are providing a safe homecoming to our own people,” he says
Is one of the four prime accused involved in illegal immigration network who were identified by SIT
A second US flight carrying 119 illegal Indian immigrants is slated to land in Amritsar on Saturday night
When Prem Kamboj was passing through a link road near the Dangar Khera rural bus stop, a speeding canter hit his bike
Atul Soni, DSP said that they had shot at farmer, Satnam Singh, in Makhu