PATHANKOT: Outgoing state BJP president Ashwani Sharma said on Tuesday that he was happy with his performance as he had finished the mission assigned to him by the party. Sharma said the party wanted him to repeat its performance despite the anti-incumbency factor, and he lived up to the expectations of ...

(Sultanpur Lodhi): An eight year old Class III student of local Government Primary School was allegedly sodomised by his 15 year old neightbour. The incident happened on January 7. However, the village panchayat tried to hush up the matter by pacifying the victims’ family. The accused, a Class 10 student at ...

PATHANKOT: The Pathankot police on Tuesday arrested two persons who had been cheating residents since long by selling them brass at the price of gold. The Police have also recovered from them a gold colour brick weighing 1.2 kg, which was actually brass, and two goldplated idols of Hindu gods. SSP Surinder ...

AMRITSAR: Recognizing the services of regular blood donors of the Punjab Youth Forum (PYF) and their role in saving many precious lives, chief parliamentary secretary Inderbir Singh Bolaria on Monday awarded them certificates and trophies during an annual felicitation ceremony organized by the forum. Nearly 150 members of the forum were ...

KARNAL: Activists of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Haryana Janhit Congress (HJC) burned effigy of Vidhan Sabha speaker Kuldeep Sharma here on Monday. They were protesting against Sharma’s decision to set aside disqualification petitions against five HJC legislators who had defected to the Congress after the 2009 assembly polls, providing ...

BATALA: Parkash Chand, a resident of Gaunspura, was seriously injured when his neck got stuck in a Chinese kite string. He is admitted at civil hospital and his condition is stated to be serious. Nirmal Singh of Mian Mohalla suffered a deep cut in his neck after his nech hot entangled ...

GURDASPUR : The Dhariwal police, on Monday, booked an Akali sarpanch from Dairiwal Daroga village and others on the charge of attempt to murder. The assailants, armed with firearms and sharp-edged weapons, had attacked co-villagers Kulwinder Singh and Daljit Kaur in Dairiwal Daroga late on Sunday night. The injured were rushed ...

AMRITSAR: Six to seven youths fired gunshots in the air and beat up members of a family who were celebrating Lohri outside their house in Bhai Sant Singh locality under the D division police station. The complainant, Rohit Narula, alleged that he, along with his family members and neighbours, was ...

CHANDIGARH: HJC chief Kuldeep Bishnoi admitted during his cross-examination that he had met chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda during the period prior to the merger of five HJC MLAs. According to the speaker’s orders, Bishnoi said he kept meeting the CM. “When he was specifically asked what issues were discussed by ...

AMRITSAR: Three thieves armed with sickles broke into the house of a doctor in the Virandabhan Gardens on Fatehgarh Churian road on Saturday night, when the family members were present in the house. Dr Beant Singh told the police that at around midnight he heard the cries of his son ...

AMRITSAR: On the complaint of the superintendent of the Central Jail here, the cantonment police have booked two udertrails and one other person under the NDPS Act, after a toxic substance was recovered from their possession. According to the complainant, the toxic substance was recovered during routine checking from undertrials, ...

NEW DELHI: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCFA) on Thursday approved a 10 % state sale in consultancy major Engineers India Ltd (EIL) through a public issue, a move likely to fetch the exchequer around Rs800 crore. The government holds 80.4% in EIL and post divestment, the shareholds in the company ...

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB) registered 81 cases in the state in 2012. According to VB chief director-cum-DGP Suresh Arora, the bureau arrested six gazetted officers, 32 non-gazatted officers and six private individuals in 38 corruption cases last year. He said the bureau had stepped up its drive against corruption ...