BATHINDA: Seven people were handed down a life sentence three years after the murder of Balvinder Singh of Baba Budha Dal by the court of Judge Manju Rana. Balvinder Singh was attacked with sharpedged weapons in Talwandi Sabo in 2008. It was the result of a clash between the two factions of ...

BATHINDA: Karam Chand Vasudeva, the paternal uncle of Hindustan Times staff reporter Ravinder Vasudeva, died after a brief illness at his ancestral village of Pubowal in Una district on Tuesday. He is survived by two sons and two daughters. The bhog will be held at Pubowal village on March 1. SOURCE-HT

KOT SHAMIR (BATHINDA): Within hours of his release from Ferozepur Central Jail, Sant Samaj leader Baljit Singh Daduwal on Tuesday asserted he would continue his "diwan" (religious discourse) as scheduled. He was arrested on Sunday following alleged provocative speeches by him against Dera Sacha Sauda at his ongoing discourse at Bhikhi ...

BATHINDA: Sunday's violence in Bhikhi village of Mans a was far from being a sudden gust of emotion; it was yet another manifestation of the wedge that exists between followers of Sirsa-based Dera Sacha Sauda and Sikhs who see the dera culture as a threat to the religion. And the ...

BATHINDA: Four years into the Akali government, the demand for a rail link to Talwandi Sabo has remained just that, a demand. Deccan Odyssey, the special luxury train that runs the Sikh religious circuit, will reach Bathinda on Saturday from where passengers will travel by buses to the Takht Damdama Sahib ...

BATHINDA: Despite an extensive campaign launched by the state health department against adulteration of food items, the conviction rate remains poor. According to statistics, 1,941 food samples were found adulterated in Punjab during the past three years - 611 in 2008, 730 in 2009 and 600 in 2010 (till August). Health minister ...

Muktsar/Bathinda: The court of Muktsar district and sessions Judge JS Kular on Monday awarded death penalty to a dismissed police constable, Sulinder Singh, for having killed four of his relatives over a property dispute in Gandhar village of Muktsar in June 2007. Case files say Sadhu Singh (60), his wife Jaswinder ...

BATHINDA: Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan (NYKS), once projected as the dream scheme of the Government of India started with the objective of providing the non-student rural youth an opportunity to help him grow and involve in nation­ building activities, has gone off-course in Punjab. More than ten posts of district youth ...

BATHINDA: Activists of the Sikhya Karmi Union faced a police lathicharge on Sunday as they marched to Lambi, home constituency of chief minister Parkash Singh Badal, to start a fast unto death demanding regular jobs. At least 15 teachers (members of the union) and activists of the Bhartiya Kisan Union (Ekta-Ugrahan) ...

TALWANDI SABO (BATHINDA): Raising his cause of "saving Punjab from economic disaster", ousted finance minister Manpreet Singh Badal on Tuesday sought to put up a show of strength in the stronghold of Bathinda MP Harsimrat Kaur Badal, wife of his now-rival and deputy CM Sukhbir Badal. As the Gidderbaha MLA made ...

BATHINDA: The Department of Health on Thursday seized 6 quintals of "suspected spurious” khoya from a cold store in Bathinda. District health officer Raghubir Singh Randhava, and district food inspector Rajinder Pal Singh, led the raid. The DHO issued a statement, saying: "The suspected sub-standard khoya belongs to a sweetshop ...

BATHINDA: The court of Additional Civil Judge (Senior Division), Mansa, has ordered recovery of Rs 3 lakh, along with 6 per cent interest per annum till date, from a former deputy commissioner of Mans a and his five security personnel in a 13-year-old case. The case was filed by a local ...

BATHINDA: Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal on Wednesday categorically said, "the party is supreme, not any individual". Repeatedly quizzed over the suspension and subsequent resignation of his minister cousin Manpreet Badal, the SAD president refused to say much initially, "Manpreet is my younger brother. I don't want to make ...