The incident occurred on June 30, 2019 Mohali: Nearly six years after a road rage incident claimed the life of 43-year-old Kuldeep Singh alias Romi near Zirakpur, a Mohali court has sentenced three convicts to life imprisonment for the murder. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 20,000 on each of the convicts —…
Supporters of Akali Dal Waris Punjab De held a massive protest, clashed with police and caused major traffic jams across Chandigarh Chandigarh: Despite elaborate security arrangements and claims that protesters would be confined to the Sector 45 gaushala light point, supporters of jailed Khadoor Sahib MP Amritpal Singh breached multiple police barricades on Wednesday and…
358 Chandigarh households get zero electricity bills under PM Surya Ghar scheme Chandigarh: For a growing number of households in Chandigarh, the monthly electricity bill has quietly disappeared.As rooftop solar panels spread across the city’s skyline under the Pradhan Mantri Surya Ghar: Muft Bijli Yojana (PM-SGMBY), 358 households have already reported a zero electricity bill…
During a checking drive, a police team spotted a scooter carrying four young men. None of the riders was wearing a helmet Panchkula: The local police on Wednesday chased a scooter for nearly 2 km before apprehending four youths riding it and issuing a challan of Rs 31,000 for multiple traffic violations. The vehicle was…
A file photo of Panjab University research scholar Jyoti and her mother Mahendragarh: “I heard her scream, and then the phone went silent.”Recalling the last conversation she had with her daughter, Jyoti’s mother Rajbala Yadav said the call abruptly disconnected on July 28, moments before tragedy struck.“She was talking to me on the phone. Suddenly,…
Patiala: A day after SAD (Punar Surjit) sought Punjab governor Gulab Chand Kataria’s intervention for parole for Jagtar Singh Hawara, the party’s youth wing on Tuesday stepped up the campaign by visiting Hawara village and urging Punjab govt to allow the jailed convict to meet his ailing mother.Even as the party made the appeal to…
Patiala: Police here on Wednesday arrested three people for allegedly hurling a petrol bomb at a house in Abchal Nagar of Patiala on July 25 night, police said.SP Palwinder Singh Cheema said the attackers had procured petrol from a filling station on the Sirhind Road, filled a beer bottle with it, stuffed a cloth wick…
Chandigarh: Punjab has operationalised the e-Zero FIR mechanism for cyber financial frauds involving transactions of more than Rs 5 lakh, allowing complaints to be converted automatically into FIRs to speed up investigations and improve recovery of defrauded money.Director general of police Gaurav Yadav on Tuesday issued a standing order implementing the system, under which eligible…
Patiala: Harjinder Kaur, the 29-year-old daughter of a landless farmer from Mehas village in Punjab’s Nabha, won silver in the women’s 69kg weightlifting at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow on Wednesday, securing her second consecutive Games medal.Harjinder registered a combined lift of 227kg, including 101kg in the snatch and 126kg in the clean and jerk,…
Amritsar: Leader of the Opposition in the Punjab Vidhan Sabha, Partap Singh Bajwa, on Wednesday expressed serious concern over the recurring controversies surrounding recruitment and competitive examinations in Punjab, saying the repeated irregularities have severely undermined the confidence of the state’s youth in the fairness of the recruitment process. In a statement issued here on…
