FEROZEPUR: A Woman is among three people given death sentence for killing her daughter and the latter’s boyfriend for honour. Paramjit Kaur of Nurpur Sethan village, and her partners in crime, Gurbhej Singh and Billa of Kotwal village, are whom district and sessions judge Fatehdeep Singh held guilty in the final ...

FEROZEPUR NEWS: Matter's in court, yet PUDA has auctioned 56 residential plots of its proposed colony at the 13adha well and in Pazilka. The Punjab and Haryana high court is yet to give verdict on encroachment of the lake' but the Punjab Urban Planning and Development Authority (PUDA) is on ...

FEROZEPUR: Unruly scenes were witnessed during a live debate between various candidates in Ferozepur late night on Monday. As scheduled, Congress nominee Parminder Singh Pinki, BJP representative Ashwani Dhingra and PPP's Parminder Singh Pintu turned up for the debate. All was going well until Congress rebel and Independent candidate Ravinder Singh ...

FEROZEPUR: Punjab deputy chief minister and Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal submitted his nomination papers to the returning officer-cum-sub divisional magistrate at Jalalabad in Fazika district on Monday. Sukhbir's total assets are valued at more than Rs 76 crore. Prior to the 2009 by-election at Jalalabad, his total ...

FEROZEPUR: High on the coming in of new teachers and infrastructure, Punjab is close to the pinnacle of top rank in education, MP Harsimrat Kaur Badal has said. On Monday, the Member of Parliament from Bathinda inaugurated the Government College for Girls in the Jalalabad subdivision of Fazilka district. The structure ...

FEROZEPUR: A patwari and his father were injured and robbed of Rs 7 lakh after armed persons attacked them in Zira in the wee hours of Thursday. Surjit Singh and his father Khushal Singh were on way to Rajpma to pay Rs 7 lakh for a land deal when some ...

FEROZEPUR(Punjab News): Two gun houses were sealed by the Ferozepur police after the recovery of some firearms, 120 firearm licences suspected to be fake - and nine army letter pads. Two brothers have been booked in this regard. Sukhdev Singh, in-charge, city police station, Abohar, received a tip-off that brothers Harish ...

FEROZEPUR(Punjab): Congress MLA from Abohar Sunil Jakhar has asked Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal to make his stand clear on arrested BJP chief parliamentary secretary Raj Khurana and convicted SAD and MLA Sohan Singh Thandal. Jakhar said the CM, during a social function at Jalandhar recently, had suggested death sentence ...

FEROZEPUR: Four labourers were allegedly tortured by a commission agent (arhtiya) and his men over alleged theft of wheat grain, here late Saturday night. The police were informed but an FIR remained to be registered till late Sunday evening. Gurjant Singh, a labour contractor, told HT that his son Surinder Singh, ...

FEROZEPUR: A farmer, Kala Singh of Jhoke Harihar village on Ferozepur- Muktsar road, was found dead under mysterious circumstances here on Thursday. He had recently returned from Bihar, He was found dead while in sleep and a suicide note was recovered  from his possession, which read that despite toiling hard ...

FEROZEPUR: The local police and the forest department are at loggerheads here over the pos­ session of a piece of land on which the forest circle office is located. On Saturday evening, the police set up their station on a part of the land after a number of cops barged into ...

FEROZEPUR: A Court of Inquiry is under way at the cantonment here in connection with an incident of officers and jawans of the Army allegedly assaulting one another at Gurdaspur. According to sources, in the incident that took place a few weeks ago, a young officer of an armoured regiment based ...

FEROZEPUR: It took several years for the Abohar- Fazilka railway link to have its foundation laid. It's been over six years since then and the 28-km stretch us far from completion. This, when the project was supposed to be completed in three years, as was announced by the then railway minister ...