Hisar: An additional district and sessions judge-cum-special judge of the fast track court in Fatehabad on Friday sentenced a man to five years’ imprisonment in a POCSO case involving a minor girl, besides imposing a total fine of Rs 50,000.The court, presided over by Additional District and Sessions Judge Amit Garg, convicted the accused under…
Himachal Pradesh chief minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu Shimla: Chief minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu on Friday announced the establishment of Himachal Pradesh’s first science college in Hamirpur at an estimated cost of Rs 100 crore. He said 80 kanals of land had been identified for the project and Rs 20 crore had already been released.Addressing the…
Two youths Bathinda found dead in Bathinda Bathinda: In a tragic incident, dead bodies of two youths were spotted in Bathinda on Friday. A syringe was found stuck in the arm of one of the youths, raising suspicion that they might have died of drug overdose.The deceased have been identified as Gurwinder Singh (29) and…
Police evict protesting BKU Ekta Sidhupur members from a railway track at Chandbhan village and near Ferozepur Bathinda: Ahead of Independence Day, Faridkot district police on Thursday evicted BKU Ekta Sidhupur protesters from outside Punjab Assembly Speaker Kultar Singh Sandhwan’s residence at Sandhwan village. The police also removed activists from two railway protest sites on…
Police evict protesting BKU Ekta Sidhupur members from a railway track at Chandbhan village and near Ferozepur Bathinda: Ahead of Independence Day, Faridkot district police on Thursday evicted BKU Ekta Sidhupur protesters from outside Punjab Assembly Speaker Kultar Singh Sandhwan’s residence at Sandhwan village. The police also removed activists from two railway protest sites on…
Artist Alak Kumar paints a scene from India’s partition in 1947 on the eve of the Independence Day Patiala: In the courtyard of his home in Mehas village near Nabha, 95-year-old Bant Ram narrates a story that has stayed with him for nearly eight decades — of a Muslim-majority village once known as Mahesh Nagar,…
Punjabi University VC Jagdeep Singh honours Partition survivor women during a seminar sought to bring women’s largely undocumented experiences of Partition into the mainstream historical narrative. Patiala: Nearly eight decades after the Partition redrew the map of the subcontinent and uprooted millions, women who survived the violence of 1947 gathered at Punjabi University Patiala on…
Congress Rajya Sabha MP Randeep Singh Surjewala Chandigarh: Congress general secretary and Rajya Sabha MP Randeep Singh Surjewala on Friday condemned the alleged lathi-charge and use of teargas against members of the Sikh community in Ambala on August 13, terming it a “black day” in the history of the Nayab Singh Saini govt. Surjewala alleged…
Hisar: A Hisar court on Friday sentenced a man to 20 years in prison for abducting and raping a 14-year-old girl in 2022.Additional district and sessions judge Sunil Jindal convicted the accused and imposed a fine of Rs 55,000.According to police, the man stalked his 14-year-old neighbour, a Class IX student, pressuring her to marry…
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