Punjab
- India
Fall in line or be destroyed: In Budget speech, AAP govt warns ‘enemies of Punjab’
Chandigarh: Days after the siege of the Ajnala police station by supporters of a pro-Khalistan preacher, the state government on Friday asked “enemies of Punjab” to fall in line or be destroyed.…
- India
Dera Sacha Sauda chief booked for hurting religious sentiments
Chandigarh: Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was booked on charges of hurting religious sentiments over his alleged objectionable comments on Guru Ravidas and Saint Kabir, police said on Thursday.…
- Telangana
President gives assent to Punjab, Telangana bills
Delhi: A Punjab bill which aims at giving property rights to more than 11,200 tenants occupying over 4,000 acres of land after paying due compensation has received presidential assent, officials said Thursday.…
- India
Frequent parole to Gurmeet Ram Rahim may create law and order problems: Punjab govt
Chandigarh: The Punjab government has told the high court that granting frequent parole to Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, who is serving a 20-year jail term for raping two…
- India
Start direct international flights to US, Canada from Punjab, says minister
New Delhi: Punjab NRIs Affairs Minister Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal on Wednesday demanded to include both the Amritsar and Shaheed Bhagat Singh International Airport in Mohali for direct flights to Canada and the…
- India
Punjab village to get national award for sanitation work
Chandigarh: Peroshah village in Punjabs Gurdaspur district will be honoured with the national award — Swachh Sujal Shakti Samman 2023 — by the President of India and the Union Minister for Jal…
- India
7 gangsters booked after two Moosewala murder accused die in jail fight
Chandigarh: Seven prison inmates were booked Monday after two men held in connection with the murder of singer Sidhu Moosewala were killed in a gang fight at Goindwal Sahib Central Jail in…
- India
Two Moosewala murder accused in killed in Punjab jail clash
Chandigarh: Two gangsters, involved in the killing of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala, succumbed to injuries following in a major clash of gangsters in Goindwal jail in Punjab’s Tarn Taran district on Sunday,…
- India
Centre closely monitoring Punjab after Amritpal’s aide released from jail
New Delhi: The Centre is “closely monitoring” the situation in Punjab after supporters of preacher and Khalistani sympathiser Amritpal Singh stormed a police station to secure the release of an aide, officials…
- India
‘Radical’ connect of Dubai returned self-styled preacher Amritpal Singh
Chandigarh: Punjab-based self-styled gun-trotting Sikh preacher Amritpal Singh, who just came to the limelight after returning from Dubai for criminal and social connections, is the head of the religious organisation Waris Punjab…
- India
Supporters of Khalistan sympathiser Amritpal clash with police
Chandigarh: Carrying swords and arms, supporters of Khalistan sympathiser Amritpal Singh, chief of the Waris Punjab De group, on Thursday clashed with police and forcefully seized a police complex in Punjab’s Amritsar…
- India
Punjab Speaker calls meeting on ‘exorbitant rates of medicines’
Chandigarh: Punjab Assembly Speaker Kultar Singh Sandhawan on Sunday said a meeting to discuss the public interest issue of selling medicines at “exorbitant rates”, which is leading to “public loot”, will be held…
- Pakistan
Pakistan’s rights body finds spike in rights violations against Ahmadi community
Lahore: A fact-finding mission led by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has reported an alarming uptick in the persecution of the minority Ahmadi community in the country’s Punjab province. The…
- India
Punjab CM all praise for Telangana’s water conservation model
Hyderabad: Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann on Thursday praised Telangana’s water conservation model and said that Punjab will soon replicate it. On a day-long visit to Telangana to study some irrigation projects…
- Pakistan
Pakistan’s first Hindu female civil servant posted as Assistant Commissioner in Punjab
Lahore: A doctor who is said to be Pakistan’s first Hindu female civil servant is now the assistant commissioner and administrator in Punjab province’s Hassanabdal city, the first in the town’s history,…
