GURDASPUR: Gagandeep Singh, a 25-year-old Indian youth among 80 other Punjabis on hunger strike in an Austrian jail since September 7, died there on September 14. Sources in Austria say the Punjabis had secured permission to stay in Austria, but since the attack on Sant Niranjan Pass in Vienna, the deportation ...

BATALA: A band of about 15 youth armed with baseball bats and iron rods forced their way into a retired soldier's house in Murgi Mohalla on Tuesday and battered him to death. Bahadur Chand, 58, who ran a ration shop in the locality, had objected to their drinking binge outside his ...

JALANDHAR: An NRI from UK was shot and his body dumped in the parking lot of a hotel near BSF chowk here on Monday. Charanjit Singh, a native of Atalgarh village in Hoshiarpur district, had flown down for a wedding. SHO Police Division. No 6 Sakattar Singh said the deceased was ...

CHANDIGARH: The Haryana government on Monday transferred Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Gurgaon (Sadar), Krishan Murari as Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), Fourth Battalion, HAP, Madhuban. Murari is a brother of Congress nominee from Sohna Dharambir Singh. The Election Commission (EC) had pointed out the fact to the state government: Besides, ...

PHAGWARA: Goods worth lakhs of rupees were destroyed late Monday in a fire at a wholesale grocery store on the Old Mandi Road in Phagwara. Firefighters from Phagwara worked hard to control the blaze, but ran short of water to douse the flames. The cause of the fire is unclear yet. Fire tenders ...

GURDASPUR: The festival of Dussehra, which symbolizes victory of goodness over evil, was celebrated with fervor here on Monday. Punjab Chief Parliamentary Secretary Arunesh Shakar lit the effigies of Ravana, Kumbhkarna and Meghnath besides, setting on ablaze a structure of Lanka. The effigies burnt with the bursting of firecrackers. Shakar ...

CHANDIGARH: Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Sunday exuded confidence that the Congress would sweep the October 13 Assembly elections in the state. "We will seek votes on the development plank and the performance of our government in the state," he told reporters on the sidelines of a meeting convened ...

JALANDHAR: Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal said on Sunday that he was ready to suffer power outages faced by the people of Punjab in a show of support even as the situation was not of his making. It has become increasingly difficult to match power demand with supply in most other ...

PATHANKOT: The police on Sunday booked former Congress minister Raman Bhalla, Shiv Sena district president Satish Mahajan and four other persons for blocking the Pathankot­ Dalhousie road on Saturday during a protest against the power crisis prevailing in the state. Traffic was blocked for an hour after Congress workers and Shiv ...

NURPUR BEDI (RUPNAGAR): One person was killed and 10 others were injured after a youth allegedly opened fire on villagers at Takhtgarh village, near here, following a quarrel during a marriage celebrations on Saturday night. According to information, as people were dancing at the marriage of one Parveen Kumar, youth identified ...

Got Paramour, Former Lover TO Strangle Boys To Re-Marry FEROZEPUR: The Moga murder of two children aged 11 and six years as they returned from tuition, which had turned into a murky whodunit with the alleged involvement of the mother, her lover and a neighbour, has been solved, claim police. Arti, the ...

Nominees short of support, party workers prepare for exodus, switching camps PANCHKULA: The Congress in Panchkula is split over fielding people from out­ side in the Panchkula and Kalka Assembly elections and an exodus from the party is imminent. Some Congress leaders in Panchkula have already come out in open against the ...

NAKODAR: Bhupinder Singh, a man from Basti Gobind Garh in the Moga Sadar police jurisdiction, was killed on Saturday in the passenger seat of a car, which rammed into a tree along the Malsian-Nakodar road near village Nurpur Chatha. His son Indeljeet Singh was at the wheel when the accident ...