Aam Aadmi Party on Saturday suspended rebel MLAs Sukhpal Khaira and Kanwar Sandhu, over involvement in anti-party activities. Three months earlier, Khaira was sacked from Leader of Opposition post of Punjab assembly. Khaira had earlier stated that “It hardly mattered to me, even if AAP suspended me from party membership,[Read More…]
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Punjab core committee on Tuesday announced the five candidates for Lok Sabha elections 2019. The list includes Bhagwant Mann from Sangrur, Professor Sadhu Singh from Faridkot, Dr Ravjot Singh from Hoshiarpur, Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal from Amritsar Sahib and Narinder Singh Shergil from Anandpur Sahib respectively.[Read More…]
Days after the Amritsar train accident which claimed as many as 60 lives, National Student Union of India, the student wing of the Congress, organised a programme on Sunday at Dhuri Line, Ludhiana, which is just a few meters away from the railway tracks. Congress Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA)[Read More…]
Punjab government on Thursday has announced to employ 558 doctors for state. Health Minister Brahm Mohindra stated that “The department has completed the process of recruiting 558 doctors in the state”. “The recruitment process is over”, he added. The newly recruited doctors including specialists will be posted across the state[Read More…]
Chandigarh: Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Wednesday sought Israel’s cooperation for sewerage water treatment in five major cities of Punjab, as the state looks to tackle pollution and boost irrigation. The Chief Minister, who is on an official visit to Israel, held talks in Jerusalem with Israel’s Minister of Energy[Read More…]
Arvind Kumar, the driver of the Diesel Multiple Unit train which was involved in the horrifying accident in Amritsar on Dussehra eve, wrote an emotional letter explaining that he applied breaks and honked in an attempt to stop the train, but then sped off after people started throwing stones. While[Read More…]
Chandigarh: Claiming to be “completely satisfied with the relief and rehabilitation measures being carried out for the victims of the Amritsar train tragedy” and following assurances by his ministerial colleagues that everything will be taken care of, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Sunday decided to visit Israel. The Chief[Read More…]
The bussing cities of Punjab invited a huge risk of accidents. In fact, if there is no mishap, then it means that luck is nice to them. Many places in Punjab witnessed, Dussehra celebrations right on the railway tracks welcoming horrific tragedies. The railway tracks on the Dhuri Line in[Read More…]
Chennai: Friday’s Amritsar’s train tragedy is similar to the one that happened in 1986 in Kerala’s Thalaserry, where an Express train ran through revellers, leaving several dead and injured in its trail, recalled a senior journalist here on Saturday. “I was 20 and working in a private company. The rail[Read More…]
Amritsar: Dalbir Singh acted Ravaan in the Ramleela performed at Joda Phatak, where a speedy train mowed down 61 people; was getting ready after the play to watch himself the #RavaanDahan, saw the train coming from other direction tried his best to stop people standing on the railway track from[Read More…]
Amritsar: Opposition Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Friday blamed the Congress administration for the tragic train disaster here in Punjab which claimed over 50 lives. The accident happened when a speeding train crushed Dusshera revellers who were watching the burning of a Ravan effigy from a railway track. “The entire[Read More…]
Shortly after over 50 people were killed when a train ran into crowds at Joda Phatak crossing in Amritsar, Punjab CM Captain Amarinder Singh announced compensation for the kin of those deceased in the tragedy. “Rushing to Amritsar to personally supervise relief & rescue in tragic rail accident on Dussehra[Read More…]
LIVE UPDATES: Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal has cancelled all engagements in the US and is immediately returning to India Several bodies still lying on railway tracks Around 40 to 45 dead bodies have arrived at Guru Nanak Dev Hospital while several are reportedly still lying on railway lines. Amritsar[Read More…]
After the arrests of three J&K students from a local institute, panicked paying guest (PG) accommodation owners have now begun asking J&K students to vacate their premises. Police have stepped-up verification of Jammu and Kashmir students. Police are also seeking intimation and details of all Kashmiri students proceeding or coming[Read More…]
The local police along with the Excise and Taxation Department has busted a gang of liquor smugglers and recovered around 140 boxes (1,680 bottles) of various brands smuggled from Chandigarh and Haryana for illegal sale in Moga, the police said on Saturday. Local liquor traders got information that an illegal[Read More…]
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday criticized the Punjab government for not acting against the killers of two Sikhs who died during protests against the sacrilege of Guru Granth Sahib three years ago. Krishan Bhagwan Singh and Gurjit Singh died in police firing in October 2015 in[Read More…]
In a horrific incident, reported from Kapurthala in Punjab where a 24-year-old woman was gang-raped by 10 men on two instances on the same night. Police said the majority of the accused were known to the woman. The woman was exploited in Lakhanpur Khole and Dayalpur villages of Kapurthala district[Read More…]
Punjab minister and eminent speaker Navjot Singh Sidhu on Thursday in Chandigarh grabbed the attention of many people, as former cricketer walked blindfolded on the roads of the sector-17 plaza. An event was organised by Dialogue Highway Trust,’ to make people realise what kinds of problems the visually impaired face’.[Read More…]
The municipal election in Brampton city of Ontario in Canada has become a major centre of attraction for locals and Indians too, as around 36 Punjabi candidates are in the competition for the civic polls. In an electrifying contest for the topmost chair, Bal Gosal, who originally hails from Punjab,[Read More…]
Four labourers suffocate to death in a hosiery factory in Punjab’s Ludhiana district. The incident happened in the Bajwa Nagar, a clothes factory area of Ludhiana. Two of them are from Madhepura District, Bihar. A sudden fire broke out in the wee hours when these four workers, in their night[Read More…]
Ludhiana: On Friday morning, Panna Singh Pakorewala surrendered Rs60 lakh to the Income Tax department, after a day-long survey conducted on Thursday. Based on the daily sales of the outlets, the department calculated the approximate annual tax liability of the enterprise, and verified it with its income tax returns, and[Read More…]
Punjabi controversial poet Surjit Gag, who was arrested in 2017 after a complaint filed by the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), was whipped on Sunday in Anandpur Sahib. Gag said, “He was attacked by two persons at a shop near the Charanganga Bridge. He (Surjit Gag) tried to flee, but[Read More…]
Chandigarh, Sep 29 (IANS) Senior Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader and Rajya Sabha MP Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa on Saturday resigned from all positions in the party, citing “advancing age and deteriorating health”. Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa submitted his resignation to SAD President Sukhbir Singh Badal. A veteran leader, Dhindsa was the[Read More…]
A barbaric incident of Punjab police shocks India as the cops in Amritsar forcibly tied a woman on their police van roof and paraded her across the village. CCTV footage of the incident has surfaced where the police is roaming around the village carrying a woman from Chawinda Devi village[Read More…]
In a hilarious yet shocking development, the names of some retired as well as a deceased policeman had made it to the list of the 2,500 police personnel transferred through the newly introduced Automatic Personnel Placement Software (APPS), on Monday September 22. Later on, the names of around 45 names, including[Read More…]