Peoples
KARNAL NEWS: Missing Baby Boy Found Dead In Pit
KARNAL: Kamal police on Thursday recovered the body of an infant boy from a toilet pit at Kheri Roran near Indri, 30 km from here. Police are investigating the case for human sacrifice, as per reports. Dikshant, the six-month-old son of Sanjeev Kumar, went missing early this morning from the house. The family was celebratingjanmashtami with the villagers... »
FATEHGARH SAHIB NEWS: Raise Turban Issue With Poland – Sikh Body To PM
FATEHGARH SAHIB: The UK-based Network of Sikhs Organisations (NSO) has appealed to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to apprise members of a Polish delegation scheduled to meet him on September 7 of the “insulting treatment” meted out to Sikhs at airports in Poland. In an e-mail sent to HT on Thursday, NSO director Indarjit Singh... »
BATHINDA NEWS: 2 Undertrials Hospitalised After Clash
BATHINDA: Four prisoners were injured, two of them seriously, in a clash in front of the Central Jail here on Wednesday. According to information, two rival groups clashed when the prisoners were being taken by a police escort to a local court for a hearing. The seriously injured have been identified as Varinder Singh... »
RUPNAGAR NEWS: Road Deaths To Be Down By Half In Three Years – DGP
RUPNAGAR: Punjab Director General Police (Railways and Taffic) Chander Shekharhas said the police were gearing up for reducing the deaths in road accidents in the state under the Road Safety Decade to be observed by the United Nations from 2011 to 2020. In Punjab, 3,622 deaths had taken place in road accidents last year... »
JALANDHAR NEWS: NRI Sabha Was Never A Private Body
JALANDHAR: The Punjab government’s claim that the NRI Sabha is a private body’ does not conform to facts. Enquiries conducted by HT reveal that the Sabha was always a government agency controlled from the corridors of power. The state government had “disowned” the Sabha following objections raised by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs... »
CHANDIGARH NEWS: Sainik School Teacher Gets National Award
CHANDIGARH: A teacher of Sainik School, Kapurthala, has been selected for National Award for Teachers 2009. Santosh Kumar Gautam, assistant master (TGT) in English, who has put in a dedicated service of more than 15 years in the institution, has been selected for the prestigious award. President Pratibha Path will confer the award upon... »
PHAGWARA NEWS: Man Shot At On Highway
PHAGWARA: Four persons travelling in a Zen car without a registration number opened fire on a Met Life sales manager near the bridge over Chaheru rivulet on NH-l on Tuesday night. Nishikant Bhardwaj (38), a senior sales manager with Met Life India Insurance Co. at Jalandhar, was returning from his office in his Indigo... »
CHANDIGARH NEWS: Rathore Stays In Jail
CHANDIGARH: Dismissing former Haryana DGP S.P.S. Rathore’s plea challenging his 18-month rigorous imprisonment, the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Wednesday stated his molestation act was “shameful to say the least.” The High Court also dismissed Rathore’s petition seeking release on probation. He is undergoing the sentence in high-security Burial Jail here since May... »
SAS NAGAR NEWS: Assets Case – Never Signed Report On Badals, Says CA
SAS NAGAR: In yet another relief to the Badals in the disproportionate assets case, chartered accountant Sanjay Kumar Srivastava – whose analysis report had been submitted in the court by the Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB) - on Wednesday denied the report had been prepared by him. The claim was made before the SAS Nagar... »
CHANDIGARH NEWS: Shagun Scam Key Investigator Shifted
CHANDIGARH: In the middle of extensive investigations into the embezzlement of crores of rupees in the Shagun Scheme in Punjab, the Finance Department has transferred a key investigator who within three months had detected serious irregularities in four districts. This, despite requests from the Welfare Department to cancel the transfer of Section Officer (SO)... »
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