AMRITSAR: The city police on Friday claimed to have made a breakthrough in a case pertaining to the death of a 10­ year-old child, whose body was found in the local Ranjit Avenue area on January 30. The boy was reportedly hit by a car and was abandoned after he died, ...

CHANDIGARH: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) informed the Punjab and Haryana high court on Friday that the file carrying the report of then Haryana director general of police (DGP) RR Singh regarding the inquiry against accused SPS Rathore, also a former Haryana DGP, in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case ...

LUDHIANA: Barjinder Singh, the accused in an honour killing case, was produced in a court on Friday and remanded in two­ day police custody. Gurpreet Singh, SHO, Ladowal police station, said the accused had stuck to his statement that he committed the double murder when he saw his sister, Navdeep ...

GURDASPUR: Resentment prevails among hundreds of retired employees of various municipal councils under the jurisdiction of the local bodies deputy director, Amritsar, over non­ payment of their pension for the last four months. When retired employees contacted respective offices, they were told that the department does not have funds to pay ...

AMRITSAR: The local police claimed to have busted a gang that was allegedly involved in looting gullible people after making them sit in auto-rickshaws and looting them at a secluded place. Eight persons have been arrested and a pistol has been recovered from one of them, police commissioner RP Mittal said. Mittal ...

BATALA: A debt-ridden farmer of Veela Teja village under Fatehgarh Churian allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself with a ceiling fan on Friday. The body of Baljinder Singh was found at his tube well by the family members. His wife Harjeet Kaur said Baljinder Singh was the sole breadwinner for the ...

CHANDIGARH: Punjab chief electoral officer Kusumjit Sidhu said on Thursday that as per latest instructions of the Election Commission, static surveillance teams and flying squads deployed to monitor expenditure and flow of liquor during the assembly elections have been directed to be disbanded. Sidhu said the district administration especially the SSPs ...

AMRITSAR: Jagtar Singh, a patwari in the Sultanwind tehsil revenue circle, Amritsar-1, was dismissed on Thursday on the charges of corruption. The court of Ashok Pal Batra, special judge, Amritsar, had ordered deputy commissioner-cum-collector Rajat Aggarwal to dismiss Jagtar under rule 5(9) of the Punjab Civil Services Rules 1970 (punishment ...

PATHANKOT: The shortage of doctors at the local civil hospital is forcing patients from the town and surrounding areas to go for costlier private treatment. The 50-bedded hospital in this newly-formed district do not have many specialists. Several doctors have left their jobs or got transferred. Patients suffering from bone-related problems ...

CHANDIGARH: Responding to the refusal of the Punjab State Power Corporation Ltd (PSPCL) to implement the "standards of performance" guidelines laid down by the Punjab State Electricity Regulatory Commission (PSERC), the regulatory body has sent a communication to the state power secretary, instructing that the guidelines be implemented and necessary directions ...

CHANDIGARH: Chandigarh Press Club, on Wednesday, strongly condemned the attack on a journalist of a daily newspaper in Nabha during Monday's polling and urged the Punjab DGP to personally intervene and ensure appropriate action against the two Congress workers named in the FIR. Harvinder Kaur of Punjabi Tribune was hospitalized after ...

AMRITSAR: Bigg Boss 4 contestant and actor Dolly Bindra is keen to join politics and is already working in this direction. The TV star revealed her plans to jump into the political arena during her visit to Amritsar on Wednesday. Bindra, who paid obeisance at the Golden Temple, said there were ...

GURDASPUR: An old, uncovered and unused well at Sri Hargobindpur, 20 metres from the Sri Hargobindpur-Amritsar road, is waiting for an accident to get the attention of authorities concerned. In the absence of a boundary wall or warning sign around the well, it is posing a threat to human life. Sources say ...