Chandigarh, May 18 (UNI) Nine people were burnt to death while score others injured when a moving bus full of devotees returning to Punjab from Mathura-Vrindavan caught fire on the Kundli-Manesar-Palwal Expressway in Haryana early Saturday, police said. According to the police, the incident occurred in Nuh around 2 am when the bus carrying 60…
Chandigarh, Apr 9 (UNI) The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) bigwigs discussed nitty-gritties of the electoral strategy for Punjab on Tuesday under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann. AAP’s National Secretary Sandeep Pathak, two-time Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Singh, party’s Punjab Working President Principal Budh Ram, all Cabinet Ministers and MLAs attended the meeting. Talking…
Chandigarh, Mar 17 (UNI) A day after the Election Commission of India (ECI) announced the schedule for the general elections, Punjab Director General of Police (DGP) Gaurav Yadav on Sunday said his force is fully geared up to ensure free, fair and peaceful elections in the border state. Yadav and Special DGP Law and Order…
Chandigarh, Mar 14 (UNI) After the successful launch of Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann’s ambitious project “CM Di Yogshala” in all the districts, the mass campaign aimed at keeping people of Punjab fit and healthy is all set to further spread its wings at village and block levels from Saturday onwards. The government has recruited…
Chandigarh, (UNI) Amid reports about the forcible induction of Indian youths in Russian military and their subsequent participation in the Ukraine war, Punjab NRIs Affairs Minister Kuldeep Singh on Thursday raised the matter with the External Affairs Ministry and the Russian Ambassador to India. Kuldeep Singh said it is a serious matter, which should be…
Jalandhar, Mar 7 (UNI) In an intelligence-based operation, Punjab police averted possible target killings with the arrest of two members of the Babbar Khalsa International (BKI)-backed terror module on Thursday. DGP Gaurav Yadav said that the module was operated by USA-based Harpreet Singh alias Happy Passian, a close aide of Pakistan-based terrorist Harwinder Singh alias…
Chandigarh, Feb 23 (UNI) Punjab BJP president Sunil Jakhar on Friday demanded strict action against those responsible for the death of Shubhkaran Singh during the ongoing farmers’ protest and said the truth must come out while calling for measures to prevent recurrence of such mishap. Shubhkaran Singh, a 21-year-old farmer, died on Wednesday at the…
Chandigarh, Feb 22 (UNI) The budget session of the Punjab Assembly will begin from March 1, with the state budget slated to be presented on March 5, an official said on Thursday after a meeting of the state Cabinet. The session will continue till March 15 The Cabinet also approved setting up of the Design…
Chandigarh, Feb 22 (UNI) The Haryana Police have registered a case against the Punjab Congress MLAs and other workers who are going to besiege the Haryana Chief Minister’s House in protest against the Haryana Police’s ban on farmers from going to Delhi. Haryana police arrested Punjab Congress MLAs Sukhwinder Singh Kotli, Virinder Singh Dhillon, Samit…
Phagwara, Feb 12 (UNI) Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee (Piddi Group) Punjab General Secretary Sarwan Singh Pandher on Monday flayed the central and Haryana governments for “creating obstacles” by barricading the Punjab-Haryana border to stop the protest march of farmers to Delhi. Talking to the media during a brief halt of the Delhi-bound farmers’ cavalcade at…
