The blast occurs around 1 am, triggering panic among the workers
The blast occurs around 1 am, triggering panic among the workers
According to official data, 9,992 reported incidents of farm fires have been recorded until May 24, with 92 per cent of these occurring in May alone
Maharaja Ranjit Singh's death anniversary
Punjab will conduct mock drill under “Operation Shield” in its border districts on May 31. Special DGP Sanjeev Kalra, who is also Punjab Home Guards Commandant General, issued the orders in this regard today. The orders said the mock drill...
The Khanna police are yet to ascertain the sequence of events leading to their disappearance
A sea of fans paid tribute to Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala on his third death anniversary at Moosa village in Mansa today. Moosewala’s parents, father Balkaur Singh and mother Charan Kaur, organised a “Sehaj Path” on the occasion. They were...
As part of the project, a 3-km elevated road will be built over a protected forest to preserve wildlife movement while constructing the Zirakpur bypass
Congress candidate Bharat Bhushan Ashu and Shiromani Akali Dal nominee Parupkar Singh Ghuman today filed their nomination papers for the Ludhiana West bypoll, scheduled on June 19. Both Pradesh Congress Committee chief Amrinder Singh Raja Warring and Ashu were seen...
Refrain from misleading people, Bhagwant Singh Mann warns SAD, kisan unions
In the case of reported kidnapping of a youth of Hoshiarpur district in Iran, the police have formed a Special Investigation Team (SIT) on the instructions of the SSP. According to police sources, SIT consists of DSP (D) Sukhninder Singh,...
The brother shared that for about 15 days, they kept receiving video calls where they could see Jaspal being brutally beaten and shouting in pain, asking for money
A committee will now be formed to evaluate these proposals
'My brother was told that he would be hired as a helper or cook, but was instead sent to the warzone'
Leaders evasive on legislator’s resignation
The Punjab Government on Thursday granted sanction to prosecute a revenue officer in the Rs 140-crore Mohali guava orchard scam involving several senior bureaucrats and high-profile people. Additional Chief Secretary-cum-Financial Commissioner (Revenue) Anurag Verma ordered the prosecution of Naib Tehsildar...
Fourth-generation Army officer, Col Sarfraz Singh (48), hailing from Jalandhar, has etched his name in mountaineering history by leading a joint Indo-Nepal team to the summit of Mount Kanchenjunga. The nine-member expedition reached the world’s third-highest peak, standing at 8,586...
Days after three Indian nationals have been reported missing in Iran, officials in New Delhi, for now, have ruled out a link of these three to any spying activity.Hushanpreet Singh from Sangrur, Jaspal Singh from SBS Nagar and Amritpal...
Farmers in Punjab are facing a shortage of diammonium phosphate (DAP) fertiliser, which is immediately required for paddy cultivation. Against a requirement of 2 lakh metric tonne (LMT) of DAP for the kharif marketing season (KMS) for both paddy and...
Even as the Punjab and Haryana High Court continues to grapple with a gaping judicial deficit — 51 judges against the sanctioned strength of 85 — it has managed a consistent month-on-month decline in pendency by an average of 365...
The Batala police have globalised their crackdown on terror activities by securing five red-corner notices from the Interpol against the gangsters who have been regularly ordering their local accomplices to create terror and chaos in the town.Batala is among...
Dallewal warns state government to not gag the voice of the farmers
A couple and their son were killed, while three youngsters were injured in an accident between two cars at the Daun Kalan turn on the Patiala-Rajpura highway this afternoon. The deceased were identified as Sidhant Babbar (25), his mother Kusam...
Earlier, Punjab had not followed the MHA’s orders to conduct a mock drill on May 29, citing training issues with the civil defence staff
Overspeeding, drunken driving not ruled out yet by police
The poll body has asked that the panel include officers of appropriate seniority and experience, in line with prescribed norms
Justice Vinod S Bhardwaj observed that the doctrine of acquiescence did not apply where an action was fundamentally illegal
Following his induction into the party, Kohli replaces MLA Raman Arora as halqa in-charge of the Jalandhar Central Assembly constituency
Justice on a fast track: From a backlog of 4,32,227 cases in January this year, the total pendency has dipped to 4,30,412—marking a steady, determined effort to clear the decades-old burden of cases
The camaraderie between Dhindsa and Parkash Singh Badal was intertwined with a 'deep-seated rivalry', particularly over the leadership of SAD
The three men from Sangrur, Nawanshahr, and Hoshiarpur were allegedly duped by travel agent who promised them work permits in Australia