Ludhiana Former Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee president Avtar Singh Makkar died at 78 after a brief illness at the Fortis Hospital in Gurugram on Friday evening. Makkar, who was SGPC president from November 23, 2005, to November 4, 2016, had been reportedly unwell for the past few days, and wasRead More

Chandigarh With rebel Akali leader Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa openly challenging the leadership of Sukhbir Badal, a number of party leaders today expressed faith in the latter and urged Dhindsa not to “sabotage” his parent party with unfounded allegations. Drawing battle lines, senior leaders Balwinder Singh Bhundur, Jathedar Tota Singh andRead More

Chandigarh Further scaling up the police pick-drop facility for women in distress, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has ordered all-women PCR vans to be mobilised in five major cities of Punjab to provide safe transport in response to such calls. PCRs rushing to help stranded women seeking to beRead More

London, The High Court in London has dismissed a judicial review application brought by a British Sikh group for a separate Sikh ethnicity tick box in the next UK census in 2021. Justice Beverley Lang ruled that the application was dismissed on the ground that it is “premature”, and inRead More

Amritsar, Five armed persons, including a couple working as domestic help, robbed a garment trader after keeping him and his family as hostages in the posh White Avenue area here late Sunday evening. The robbers thrashed and injured the trader, Ravi Arora, his daughter-in-law Heena (33) and granddaughter Kamaya (5).Read More

Chandigarh, Nearly 90 per cent of the cases registered and drug recoveries by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), Chandigarh, were from Punjab this year. The prominent cases included the busting of an international cartel of smuggling South American cocaine to Punjab via Canada. Also, 1,60,800 Tramadol tablets were seized andRead More

Sangrur After facing problems in reaching out to various government teachers’ unions, the Punjab Education Department has decided to set up a state-level advisory committee to bridge communication gap between the two. The state has no education policy to date. Moreover, we need to change the syllabus as per students’Read More

Chandigarh Hundreds of protesters on Monday staged a protest against a private convent coeducational school authorities near Amritsar over the alleged by a senior from Class 10 of the school. The protesters were demanding registration of a criminal case against the school authorities for its failure to prevent the crimeRead More

Amritsar After the re-election of Sukhbir Singh Badal as president of the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), delegates called for fiscal and political autonomy to all states, redressal of farmers’ woes, due regard to Punjabi language in government communication and Punjab’s inalienable right on its capital Chandigarh and other Punjabi-speaking areas.Read More

Amritsar Sukhbir Singh Badal was unanimously re-elected as the president of the Shiromani Akali Dal on Saturday. The 57-year-old former Punjab deputy chief minister became the SAD chief for the third time in a row. His name was proposed by senior party leader Tota Singh and seconded by another seniorRead More