Chandigarh: Amid continuing factionalism in the Punjab Congress, newly appointed state in-charge Sachin Pilot has clarified that the party will not project a chief ministerial candidate before the 2027 Assembly elections. He said the Congress would contest the polls under a collective leadership model, with Rahul Gandhi leading the campaign, while the choice of chief…
Amritsar: Commissionerate Police Amritsar on Thursday claimed to have busted an illegal arms supply network with the arrest of three accused and the recovery of two AK-47 rifles, three magazines and 50 live cartridges from their possession.The arrested accused were identified as Gurmukh Singh (27), Parasdeep Singh (26) and Gurjant Singh (24).Commissioner of Police Harmanbir…
ACB arrests GST department ETO and CA while accepting ₹3 lakh bribe Jind: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has arrested a GST department ETO and a chartered accountant (CA) for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 3 lakh in exchange for settling a tax evasion case. The ACB team apprehended the CA at his office on…
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Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Singh Mann Chandigarh: Aam Aadmi Party on Wednesday restructured its top decision-making bodies ahead of the high stakes Punjab election, inducting Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann and state finance minister Harpal Singh Cheema into its 10-member Political Affairs Committee (PAC)Earlier, Mann was a special invitee to PAC, the party’s apex body….
National Commission for Scheduled Castes chairman Kishor Makwana meets the family members of Sangrur suicide victim Sangrur: The family of Dalit labourer Gulzar Singh — who died by suicide after allegedly being harassed for publicly questioning finance minister Harpal Singh Cheema on the unchecked sale of drugs in his village — on Thursday alleged that…
Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa alleges police-gangster nexus, seeks probe into officers’ call records Gurdaspur: Congress MP and former Punjab deputy chief minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa on Thursday levelled serious allegations against sections of the Punjab Police, claiming that some senior officers were in touch with gangsters and demanding an investigation into their mobile phone records to…
Bathinda: A social media post by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), asking people with the surname Singh to “self-deport”, has drawn criticism from US politicians of Indian origin and Sikh and Hindu organisations. The post is no longer available on the X account of DHS.The post is believed to have been created in…
Drug money demand turns into car robbery at gunpoint, 3 held Chandigarh: Four to five unidentified miscreants travelling on three two-wheelers allegedly robbed a property dealer of his Honda City at gunpoint in Rajiv Vihar, Manimajra, late Wednesday night. Three of the accused have been arrested.The victim told the police that the accused initially demanded…
Two BSF personnel were acquitted of conspiracy charges due to insufficient evidence (AI-generated image used for representational purposes) MOHALI: A court of additional district and sessions judge TPS Randhawa has acquitted two BSF personnel, Prem Singh resident of Naushera Dhalla Tarantaran and Anil Kumar resident of Tungwala in Amritsar, of charges related to an alleged…
