Hisar: Police have arrested a woman and her lover after he allegedly raped a 19-year-old woman at a private hotel in Hisar after she was lured on the promise of a job.The woman is the sister-in-law of the victim’s cousin. She brought the 19-year-old from Punjab to Sirsa. According to the FIR, the woman’s boyfriend…
Bathinda: Punjab for the first time recorded less than 100 farm suicides in over a decade in 2024 in line with the decline across the country, according to a report by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) under accidental deaths and suicides in India in 2024.The national figures dropped from 10,786 in 2023 to 10,546,…
Bathinda: Punjab on Thursday recorded 978 crop residue burning cases, the highest single-day count so far in the ongoing wheat harvesting season, after a brief lull in incidents. The state also reported the highest number of farm fires among the five states being monitored for stubble burning.With the latest spike, Punjab’s total farm fire count…
Shimla: Himachal Pradesh chief minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu on Thursday directed the Himachal Pradesh Horticultural Produce Marketing and Processing Corporation (HPMC) to complete all preparations for apple procurement under the Market Intervention Scheme (MIS) ahead of the upcoming season.Chairing a review meeting of HPMC schemes, Sukhu stressed that the state govt remained committed to safeguarding…
Shimla: An incident in Himachal Pradesh”s Sirmaur district claimed the lives of two young brothers after they drowned in a stream near their village in Nohradhar area on Thursday. The incident occurred in Devamanal gram panchayat of Sangrah sub-division under the Shri Renukaji Assembly constituency. The police officials said that Ayaan (8) and his elder…
Jalandhar: A dozen schools in Jalandhar received threatening emails on Thursday morning, two days after the blast outside the BSF Punjab Frontier headquarters in the city.The email also allegedly contained threats against Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann and Union minister Ravneet Singh Bittu.Following the emails, police teams carried out checks at the schools. One of…
Patiala: The MGNREGA Karmchari Union (Punjab) has issued a final ultimatum to the state govt, warning of a mass march to the rural development minister’s residence on May 13 if outstanding salaries are not released. Representing around 1,600 contractual employees—including gram sewaks, data entry operators, and JEs—the union has already begun a boycott of all…
Patiala: The AAP MLA from Sanour, Harmeet Singh Pathanmajra, was remanded in four-day police custody on Thursday in connection with an illegal mining case registered against him at Julkan police station in Patiala district. Police had arrested Pathanmajra in March after him being on the run for seven months in a rape case registered on…
Jalandhar/Chandigarh: Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann on Thursday doubled down on his charge that BJP was linked to the recent blasts in Jalandhar and Amritsar even as BJP national general secretary Tarun Chugh sent him a legal notice, demanding his apology, and seeking a sedition case against him.“Communal parties like BJP and Akali Dal make…
Chandigarh: Haryana energy minister Anil Vij announced on Thursday that high-risk electricity lines passing over schools, colleges, hospitals, and public institutions will be shifted across the state in a phased manner. To ensure the work is prioritised, a dedicated monitoring cell has been formed under the chief engineer to oversee the project and submit progress…
