Chandigarh, January 7 –Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal today said the SAD would not allow Congress goons to indulge in goondaism in the forthcoming municipal corporation elections in Ludhiana. Addressing a meeting of councillors as well as former councillors of Ludhiana at the party office here yesterdayRead More

Gurdaspur, A Rs 4-crore pure grade heroin haul from a peon of the Gurdaspur Municipal Committee (MC) has shocked residents in this border district where such large-scale narcotic recoveries are often made near the wire fencing at the international border. Peon Bharat Gill and his wife Anita Gill were nabbed aroundRead More

Moga, A 22-year-old Dalit youth has died under mysterious circumstances at Lohgarh village in the Dharamkot subdivision of the district today. Identified as Inderjit Singh, son of Nikka Singh, his body was recovered from a water channel flowing on the outskirts of the village. Family members of the deceased youth hadRead More

Chandigarh, Major Singh (of Teka Kalan), Tek Singh (of Jiond), Sikandar Singh (of Rodewala) and today, it is Kulwant Singh (of Bhotna). All four farmers “in debt”, committed suicide, not because they were grappling with the repayment of their crop loans taken from banks. They took the extreme step because theyRead More

Sangrur, Four robbers fired at a pregnant woman at the Ghaggar bridge on the Punjab-Haryana border late last evening and fled after snatching her purse and gold chain. Doctors had to abort her seven months’ pregnancy last night as the bullet hit the unborn child. The police have registered a caseRead More

Jaito, Five unidentified youths today looted a household here after holding all members of the family hostage. The gang members fled with cash and jewellery worth more than Rs 5 lakh and two licensed weapons. Sandeep Kumar, the victim and owner of two rice mills, said five youths armed with sharpRead More

Chandigarh, Punjab would witness a major facelift in the road network as the state government has decided to strengthen 9,000 km of link roads with an outlay of Rs 1,000 crore, state Public Works Department Minister Razia Sultana said. Likewise, the New Green Field Expressway connecting the national capital withRead More

Chandigarh, Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee President and Member of Parliament from Gurdaspur Mr. Sunil Jakhar said that anti-farmer face of BJP was exposed today on the peasant issues in the Lok Sabha when the central government was completely fled from farm debt waiver in the shielding cover of former RBIRead More

Chandigarh, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal today said the Congress government was playing with the lives of Punjab farmers by proposing to implement a fraudulent crop loan waiver which left out genuine beneficiaries and demanded it be scrapped and replaced with a comprehensive waiver covering all indebtedRead More

KHATKAR KALAN (SHAHEED BHAGAT SINGH NAGAR), The Tourism, Cultural Affairs and Local Government Minister, Punjab, Mr. Navjot Singh Sidhu here today said that the Punjab Government would observe the martyrdom day of Shaheed-E-Azam S. Bhagat Singh, Shaheed Sukhdev and Shaheed Rajguru on 23rd March as the ‘Youth Empowerment Day’. The ministerRead More