Francesca Cartier Brickell In the summer of 1925, the head Cartier Paris salesman was summoned to the elegant Hotel Claridge on the Champs-Élysées by a very distinguished client. One of the richest men in the world, Maharaja Bhupinder Singh of Patiala didn’t do things by halves. With five wives andRead More

Sangrur Rebel Akali leader Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa on Sunday accused the Badal family of being “hand in glove” with Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, saying their business interests “remained unaffected” despite the Congress being in power in the state. Dhindsa appeared to be responding to the allegations by Akali DalRead More

Chandigarh A day after the Supreme Court turned down a CBI’s plea challenging the withdrawal of sacrilege cases probe from it, Punjab Advocate General Atul Nanda has made it clear that the Punjab and Haryana High Court verdict in the state’s favour stood confirmed in the process. Justice Rajan GuptaRead More

Chandigarh The opposition SAD and AAP on Saturday slammed Punjab DGP Dinkar Gupta’s for his purported statement on the Kartarpur corridor and sought clarification from Chief Minister Amarinder Singh within 24 hours. Senior SAD leader Bikram Singh Majithia warned, “If a clarification is not issued, the party will stall proceedingsRead More

Jalandhar The Deputy Commissioner (DC), Varinder Kumar Sharma, and the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Navjot Singh Mahal, today held a round table conference on safe and legal migratio. The conference was organised by the Centre for Research in Rural and Industrial Development (CRRID) here. The DC and the SSPRead More

Chandigarh The Punjab Assembly on Thursday extended the Budget Session till March 4. Now, the Budget will be presented on February 28 and not on February 25, as announced earlier. The decision was taken in the Business Advisory Council meeting of the Vidhan Sabha. Earlier, the Budget Session got underRead More

Attari A 12-member Sikh delegation, led by Akal Takht head Harpreet Singh, crossed over to Pakistan on Wednesday to pay obeisance at various Sikh shrines in the country. A Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) official said during his stay in Pakistan, the Akal Takht Jathedar would visit different gurdwaras, includingRead More

Amritsar Additional Sessions Judge Sandeep Singh Bajwa on Wednesday sent former Punjab DIG Kultar Singh and four others to eight-year imprisonment in a mass suicide case here in 2004. They were recently convicted in the case along with DSP Hardev Singh, who got four-year jail. The four other convicted areRead More

Chandigarh Almost half of the groundwater in Punjab is unsafe and contaminated with hazardous chemicals, heavy metals and radioactive material. And in the absence of any remedial steps by the government, the remaining safe groundwater is depleting at a rapid pace. These facts have come to the fore in theRead More

Chandigarh The Punjab Cabinet on Tuesday approved creation of 550 posts in the Government Medical Colleges at Patiala and Amritsar with the objective of further improving and streamlining the functioning of these institutions. The new posts would 66 paramedics of technical nature, 464 critical posts of nurses, technicians and classRead More