Patiala, Few police officials are willing to serve in the Jail Department as superintendent, thanks to ills afflicting the state prisons. Threat by gangsters, lack of infrastructure and shortage of staff are among the drawbacks. This is evident from the fact that after posting as jail superintendent, many proceed onRead More

Batala, Ghania-Ke-Bangar SHO Paramjit Singh, who was accused of inaction in the case of suicide by karate player Kuldeep Kaur, has been shifted to the Police Lines. Opinderjit Singh Ghuman, SSP, said he had issued the transfer order to ensure a free and fair investigation in the case. Satwant Singh, deceased’sRead More

Jalandhar, The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has issued summons for January 17 to Rana Inder Partap Singh, son of Punjab Power Minister Rana Gurjit Singh, in connection with raising of funds abroad to the tune of $18 million (around Rs 100 crore) by floating foreign shares, or GDRs (Global Depository Receipts), forRead More

Amritsar, The probe into the sleaze video purportedly showing former Chief Khalsa Diwan (CKD) head Charanjit Singh Chadha with a woman principal, and the subsequent suicide by his son, Inderpreet Singh, has been handed over to IG (Crime) LK Yadav. The case has been taken away from the Amritsar police onRead More

Patiala, A 46-year-old head constable posted as a munshi at the Officers Colony police post allegedly shot himself in the head by using an official carbine. Senior police officials immediately rushed to the spot after they heard the shot. The deceased, identified as Jawahar Lal, shot himself at around 1.15Read More

Chandigarh/New Delhi, January 4 Congress MP from Amritsar Gurjeet Singh Aujla on Thursday demanded in the Lok Sabha a Special Economic Zone status for Amritsar to give boost to industrialisation. Raising the issue during the Zero Hour, he said that there has been an alarming shifting or winding up ofRead More

Chandigarh, January 4 – The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today asserted that Congress legislators were looting the State exchequer by preparing lists of beneficiaries of the proposed crop loan waiver scheme at their residences and ruthlessly ignoring genuine recipients. In a statement here, former minister Bikram Singh Majithia said CongressRead More

Chandigarh, January 4: A sharp decline in heinous crimes marked the year 2017 for the Punjab Police, which notched up major successes in maintaining law and order in the wake of the Dera Sacha Sauda chief’s conviction and arrest, besides busting as many as eight terror modules and solving theRead More

Chandigarh, January 4 – Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal today while condemning police inaction which led to the suicide of international Karate player Kuldeep Kaur in Batala yesterday, demanded an inquiry into the political interference by rural development minister Tripat Rajinder Singh Bajwa and other Congressmen inRead More

Chandigarh, January 4 The Punjab Government has changed the timings of all schools in the state owing to dense fog. Now, as per the new timings the schools would open at 10 AM and close at 3.20 PM. Earlier, the schools used to open at 9 AM. The changed timingsRead More