Tag: Punjab

New York: The Sikh Human Development Foundation (SHDF) has raised over $210,000 for underprivileged students pursuing higher education in Punjab during its latest fund drive, according to the organisation’s chairman, Gajinder Singh Ahuja. The Washington-based foundation has since 2011 given over $2 million in scholarships based on merit and need to about 5,000 students in […]

New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday said it has arrested an arms supplier involved in the murder of RSS leader Ravinder Gosain in Ludhiana in Punjab. An NIA official told IANS: “The agency has arrested Malook who is accused of providing weapons to the assailants who killed Gosain.” The arrest was made […]

Chandigarh: A gangster’s Facebook post, admitting his crime of involvement in the killing of a Hindu leader in Amritsar, has left the Punjab Police embarrassed. Saraj Sandhu, who is being chased by the state police, not only admitted to killing Hindu Sangharsh Sena leader Vipan Sharma, but even suggested that the “killing should not be […]

New Delhi:The air quality in Delhi and NCR got more toxic on Monday with winds coming in from Punjab and Haryana where stubble burning continues unabated. According to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), Delhi Technical University (DTU) in north Delhi, ITO in central Delhi, Anand Vihar in west Delhi and areas in Ghaziabad and […]

Gurdaspur: Maintaining its winning streak from the assembly elections, Punjab’s ruling Congress secured an emphatic win in the Gurdaspur Lok Sabha seat on Sunday. Congress candidate Sunil Jakhar won by a margin of over 1.93 lakh votes, officials said. Jakhar, who was in the lead right from the time the vote count began on Sunday […]

Ferozepur/New Delhi: A train driver was killed when a truck rammed into a passenger train at an unmanned crossing in Punjab’s Ferozepur district on Sunday, officials said. No passenger was injured. “The incident occurred around 10.15 a.m. at an unmanned railway crossing between Jalalabad ansd Ladhuka Mandi stations as the train was headed for Fazilka […]

Amritsar: A group of 15 bikers rode from the national capital to the Attari-Wagah border in Punjab to give a ‘rev’ salute to the Border Security Force (BSF) guards. The bikers from the pan-India biker group Roaring Power Machines (RPM) left New Delhi on Friday. They reached the border and revved up their superbikes as […]

Chandigarh: Faced with environmental and health concerns over stubble-burning by Punjab farmers, the state government on Wednesday announced an elaborate action plan to curb the menace. Chief Minister Amarinder Singh appealed to farmers to abstain from the harmful practice, though farmers are not too enthusiastic about the plan drawn up by the Department of Science, […]

Chandigarh: Senior journalist K.J. Singh and his aged mother were found dead in their residence in Mohali town in Punjab, adjoining Chandigarh, on Saturday, police said. Both victims were attacked by their assailants with a sharp-edged weapon in their house in Phase 3B2 of Mohali, 10 km from here. Police said that Singh’s mother, Gurcharan Kaur, […]

Chandigarh: A day after large scale violence broke out over the conviction of Dera chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, authorities in Punjab and Haryana on Saturday relaxed curfew in some towns to enable the residents to buy essential and eatable items. In Punjab, curfew was relaxed in Patiala, Bathinda and Ferozepur towns for four hours, […]

Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Wednesday directed authorities to withdraw 1,000 police personnel from VVIP security and deploy them to strengthen security in the state, an official said. A decision in this regard was taken at a meeting presided over by the Chief Minister ahead of the judgment by a Haryana court this […]

Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh has offered a job in the Punjab Police to Indian batswoman Harmanpreet Kaur following her stellar performance in the ICC Women’s World Cup in England. Singh offered the post of a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) to Kaur if she so desired to join the police force, the Chief […]

Chandigarh: Border Security Force (BSF) troopers shot dead an intruder from Pakistan early on Monday in Punjab’s frontier district of Gurdaspur, a BSF official said. The intruder was shot dead near pillar 15/3, the official added. The identity of the intruder is being verified.

New Delhi: As many as 826 housing projects are running behind schedule by an average of 39 months, with Punjab having the maximum delayed projects followed by Telangana and West Bengal, an Assocham study has found. “At the end of December 2016, 3,511 projects were live in construction and real estate sector, of which 2,304 […]

Chandigarh: With a “bone to pick with Ratan Tata”, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh is headed to Mumbai to seek investments from industry and corporates for his state. Having taken over the reins on March 16, following the Congress’s resounding victory in the assembly elections, Amarinder is faced with the daunting task of rescuing Punjab […]