Chandigarh: Congress MP from Gurdaspur, Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, on Friday slammed the Aam Aadmi Party govt in Punjab over misuse of “drug census”. He alleged that crores of rupees were being wasted on the exercise, which had nothing to do with any genuine anti-drug campaign.“The entire exercise is nothing more than a political survey aimed…
Chandigarh: A day after the arrest of Baljit Singh in an alleged espionage case linked to Pakistan-based handlers, Pathankot police on Friday arrested a shopkeeper for allegedly facilitating the installation of a CCTV camera used to monitor the movement of Army and paramilitary forces along the Pathankot-Jammu highway.Ankit Sharma, a resident of Firozpur Kalan village…
Bathinda: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Friday appealed to voters to back the party in the upcoming municipal elections, asserting that only the SAD can steer Punjab back to a path of progress and prosperity.Addressing a gathering at the residence of late legislator Raghbir Singh in Gidderbaha, Sukhbir launched a sharp…
Bathinda: Thirty-one inmates escaped from a govt de-addiction and rehabilitation centre at Jhaner village in Moga’s Dharamkot subdivision after a scuffle with a security guard during dinner on Monday.Police said the inmates pushed aside the guard and fled through the main gate when it was opened to serve food.Some of those who escaped were facing…
SONIPAT: A tragic incident at Haryana Sports University in Sonipat’s Rai, has raised serious concerns over campus safety after a postgraduate diploma student allegedly drowned in the university’s swimming pool on Thursday night.The deceased has been identified as Nishant Gautam, a resident of Palwal, who was pursuing a final-year PG Diploma in Cricket at the…
Hisar: A Fatehabad court on Wednesday sentenced a man to five-year rigorous imprisonment in a 2021 snatching case and awarded another one-year imprisonment for destruction of evidence. Additional district and sessions judge Navendu Jain also fined the convict, Rajvinder of Nangla village in Fatehabad, Rs 27,000. Police said Rajvinder had snatched a purse containing a…
Kullu: Heatwave conditions intensified across several parts of Himachal Pradesh on Thursday, with the mercury soaring well above normal in the mid and low hill areas, even as the weather department issued orange and yellow alerts for May 22. Una remained the hottest place in the state at 44.3 degrees Celsius, 5.8 degrees above normal,…
Ladwa (Kurukshetra): Haryana chief minister (CM) Nayab Singh Saini on Thursday ordered strict action against officials responsible for installing electricity poles and a transformer in the middle of a farm access path in Bakali village, and directed police to register a case against those allegedly threatening the complainant.Addressing a Jan Samvad (public interaction) in Ladwa,…
KULLU: Terming landslides near the Shimla highway bypass project an ‘act of god’, National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has refused to pay environmental compensation for the alleged damage to an apple orchard during four-laning work from Shakral to Dhalli near Mashobra in Shimla district.In a counter-affidavit filed before National Green Tribunal (NGT), NHAI has…
Chandigarh: The CBI on Thursday filed its first chargesheet running into approximately 10,000 pages in the multi-crore fraud involving the siphoning of govt funds from IDFC First Bank and AU Small Finance Bank.A CBI team submitted the chargesheet, annexures, and supporting documents in eight steel trunks before special CBI judge Vijayant Sehgal in Chandigarh. The…
