Hisar: CIA Tohana has arrested a Nigeria national and a Rohtak resident in connection with the Sept 11 seizure of 114g cocaine, taking the total arrests in the case to five.Police said on Monday that Ritch Desment of Ritch Compound City, Nigeria, and Mandeep of Kharkara village in Rohtak were arrested on Sunday.Investigators are questioning…
Chandigarh: Haryana Police have prepared a database of 45,207 active criminals and verified the current status of 26,026 (57.57%) of them as part of an intelligence-led crime monitoring exercise aimed at identifying potential threats before they translate into organised crime.The verification, carried out under the RJSF pattern, covers criminals’ present whereabouts, activities, criminal contacts and…
Shimla: Delivering a strong message against official agencies violating land and construction laws, the Himachal Pradesh high court has ordered the demolition of a Shimla municipal corporation ward office in Sanjauli after finding it was constructed on forest land without an approved building plan.A division bench comprising Chief Justice Gurmeet Singh Sandhawalia and Justice Bipin…
Patiala: The Punjab govt on Monday transferred two senior IAS officers, handing Gurkirat Kirpal Singh additional charge of state’s power administration and moving Basant Garg to industries and commerce with immediate effect.The transfer comes amid industrial and agriculture sector witnessing prolonged power cuts followed with farmer protests across various parts of the state during the…
Amritsar: Himalaya Parivar, an organisation associated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), organised its first Raksha Sutra programme in Amritsar on Monday, with around 500 women participating.Himalaya Parivar Punjab president Mohit Arora said participants tied rakhis to mark the festival and convey a message of social unity, brotherhood and Indian cultural values.The programme comes as…
Major Bhupinder Singh Dhillon (Retd.), a cousin of late Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, joins BJP CHANDIGARH: The BJP on Monday stepped up its bid to tap the Shiromani Akali Dal’s political legacy in Punjab by inducting Major Bhupinder Singh Badal, cousin of late SAD patriarch Parkash Singh Badal and his political adviser for…
Bathinda: SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Monday distributed around 1,000 quintals of wheat to 300 farmers and workers who suffered damage to crops and lost livelihood during the April hailstorm in Bhalaiana and Kotli villages of Gidderbaha constituency.The SAD president distributed four quintals of wheat to each farmer as well as farm worker family….
Police use a water cannon to disperse protesting Congress functionaries and workers as they attempt to break through barricades outside the PSPCL office over power-related issues in Patiala on Monday Patiala: Police used water cannons and detained Punjab Congress president and Ludhiana MP Amrinder Singh Raja Warring and several party workers during a protest over…
Onkar Singh with his father. The boy from Pakistan’s minority Sikh community has grabbed the second rank in the Lahore Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education’s matriculation exam Amritsar: The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) has decided to award Rs 51,000 to a Pakistan-based Sikh boy, Onkar Singh, for securing the second rank in the…
Farmers block Rampura-Maur road at Mandi kalan village in Bathinda By: Gurvinder SinghCHANDIGARH: Punjab’s power crisis continued on Sunday, with power minister Tarunpreet Singh Sond saying the state was receiving 1,051 MW less than its share from the Central Power Pool.He urged the Centre to ensure Punjab gets its full allocation, saying uninterrupted supply was…
