For months, Dera Sacha Sauda has been a target of hatred and violence because of the controversial attire and mannerisms that its chief Ram Rahim Singh adopted to emulate 10th Sikh guru Gobind Singh. Over a dozen people died and an attempt was made on Ram Rahim’s life after clashes broke out between Sikhs and [...]
Punjab’s Tourism and Cultural Affairs Minister Hira Singh Gabria Jails has assured that all genuine problems the state government pensioners would be discussed at the higher forum and would be settled at the earliest.
Gabria was addressing the pensioners at a function organised by Local Bodies Pensioners’ Association to honor him at the Pensioner’s Bhawan [...]
The heat wave continued to cast its grim spell over the northern belt today as Amritsar sizzled at 43.1 degrees Celsius and the mercury maintained a rising trend in several places in Punjab and Haryana.
The maximum temperature hovered between 2-7 degrees above the normal range in the plains of Punjab and Haryana, the Meteorological [...]
The Punjab Government will ply new buses to all historical and religious places on state and inter state routes.
Tis was stated by Transport Minister Master Mohan Lal,while talking to reporters after he had inspected the construction work in progress at the new bus stand here.
He said that 19 new bus stands are to be constructed [...]
The much-hyped proposal of setting up the Amritsar Development Authority (ADA) on the patterns of the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) will be a reality now.
Though the formal announcement will be made by Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on May 5, the SAD-BJP government has taken the decision to float the body for the overall [...]
Broad roads, palatial havelis bordering wheat fields and freshly acquired affluence. Welcome to the NRI belt of Punjab where all roads lead out of the country.
In the villages of the Doaba (comprising Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur, Nawanshahr and Kapurthala), every family aspires to send its son or daughter abroad. Many have succeeded and it’s their money that [...]
That Punjab has been the nerve centre of a flourishing racket in illegal immigration and human trafficking is well known. But it is now creating a record of sorts for also being the state with the largest number of residents deported home.
Records accessed by The Indian Express show that over 9,000 people have been deported [...]
A forty-year-old builder, Vikas Singhal, a resident of Sector 6, committed suicide by shooting himself in the temple here today.
Singhal was in his Toyota Innova at the Sector 8 lightpoint when he took his life with a 7.6 German-made pistol. He and his driver were going to his firm, Reglan Infrastructure in Zirakpur, when he [...]
Punjab Government has no information either from the Centre or Maharashtra Government on the reported joining in Mumbai of former Punjab DGP S S Virk, suspended by the state government on charges of involvement in a controversial land deal.
Official sources in Punjab Government said they have not received any intimation as Virk continues to [...]
As expected, the Punjab government today adopted a tough posture against the Government of India and protested the premature repatriation of former DGP S.S.Virk.
Punjab chief secretary Ramesh Inder Singh today shot off a letter to the Union Ministry of Home Affairs, saying the MHA should not have permitted Virk to join his parent cadre [...]