BATHINDA: The state government of the Shiromani Akali Dal failed to use 70% money from the Centre, Vijay Inder Singla, Member of Parliament from Sangrur, has claimed. Blaming the state government for the increasing influence and supply of drugs in Punjab, the MP said its promises of employment to the youth ...

BATHINDA: Chief minister Parkash Singh Badal on Thursday evening made an unplanned and covert visit to Dera Roomi Wala at Bhucho Mandi. For 15 minutes, the chief minister was in a closed-door meeting with dera head Sukhdev Singh. Badal had taken his personal helicopter to Bhucho Mandi and landed it on ...

BATHINDA: Member of Parliament (MP) Harsimrat Kaur Badal has said the Congress was deliberately keeping the prime minister out of the Lokpal's ambit to save the 'PM-in-waiting' Rahul Gandhi from future prosecution. Harsimrat added that the Congress-led UPA government was using the honesty of Manmohan Singh as a shield to protect ...

BATHINDA: The echo of the slap has gone far but wide of the police ears. More than 24 hours since the Akali sarpanch of Daula village was quick to slap a young education guarantee scheme (EGS) teacher waiting to see her MP, the Gidderbaha police are slow to register a ...

BATHINDA: Women players of the Indian kabaddi team, who had a narrow escape on Thursday when their bus collided with an army truck on the Bathinda­ Chandigarh highway, expressed gratitude to the heroes who saved them. Recounting the tragedy, the girls said that bus driver Harvinder Sharma battled with life to ...

BATHINDA: With heavy security to counter any miscreant raid on the second edition of World Cup Kabaddi, stage is set for a "high-voltage" opening of the event on Tuesday evening at Sports Stadium in Bathinda. More than 3,000 policemen have secured the city and taken over traffic management. Coming to the ...

BATHINDA: A jilted lover set his girlfriend ablaze at Kotsukhila village in Faridkot district on Thursday. The girl, Lakhvir Kaur, was admitted to the Faridkot medical college with 80% burns. The police have registered a case of  attempt to murder against the is accused, Hoshiar Singh, who is on the run. Hoshiar ...

BATHINDA: Guru Gobind Singh Refinery near Phulo Khari village in Bathinda district started processing crude oil finally on Monday. The process is for trial, and the refinery, a joint venture of HPCL and Mittal Energy Limited, will be commissioned fully by November. The Punjab government wants to see it commissioned before ...

BATHINDA: In a big step towards commissioning of Guru Gobind Singh Oil Refinery at Bathinda before the Punjab assembly elections, the first lot of crude oil finally reached the city on Wednesday. This petroleum has come from the Mundra port of Gujarat, more than 1,000 km far. It was to ...

BATHINDA NEWS: Maintaining that the Punjab government has nothing to do with the delay in the launch of a proposed train on the Amristsar-Chandigarh rail link, chief minister Parkash Singh Badal on Monday said it was the responsibility of the Centre to start projects on time. Badal was reacting to the ...

BATHINDA(Punjab News): Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Sukhpal Sran's father Natha Singh and two other family members are among seven people booked by the Dabwali police after Natha allegedly shot two men dead over a land dispute in the family native village Desu-Jodha. Sran is the state secretary of the VHP ...

BATHINDA(Punjab News): Two jawans of the 3 Dogra Regiment were seriously injured in a blast while laying mines in the cantonment on Monday evening. The injured jawans, Pawan Kumar and Nand Lal, were first admitted to the cantonment civil hospital and later shifted to the Command Hospital at Chandimandir, near ...

BATHINDA(Punjab): An inquiry conducted by the block primary education officer (BPEO) on Monday following the HT report (‘Govt teachers sublet work’, May 9) has confirmed that permanent teachers illegally hired tutors at low wages to take classes at Government Primary School, Paras Ram Nagar, Bathinda. After the news item appeared ...