GURDASPUR : The Dhariwal police, on Monday, booked an Akali sarpanch from Dairiwal Daroga village and others on the charge of attempt to murder. The assailants, armed with firearms and sharp-edged weapons, had attacked co-villagers Kulwinder Singh and Daljit Kaur in Dairiwal Daroga late on Sunday night. The injured were rushed ...

GURDASPUR: An undertrial, Avtar Singh alias ladi, escaped from police custody with handcuffs on while he was being taken back to the Gurdaspur central jail after appearing in the court of additional sessions judge Harleen Bhardwaj on Thursday. A police party from Batala police district and relatives of Avtar Singh were ...

GURDASPUR: PPCC member Raman Bahl alleged on Monday that the government was conducting the delimitation exercise in wards in villages in violation of rules. Talking to mediapersons here, Bahl said the SAD-BJP alliance had completely politicized the task of delimitation of wards to ensure the success of its candidates in the ...

GURDASPUR: The Gurdaspur unit of the Inner Wheel Club organized a function here on Wednesday to mark its 40th foundation day. Club chairperson Archna Bahl said the club had done a lot for people’s welfare in Gurdaspur in the past 40 years. She said the club would continue extending services ...

GURDASPUR: Additional sessions judge Rajiv Malhotra’s wife Neena Malhotra (44), who was seriously injured in a road accident on December 19 in which her son, her sister-in-law and gunman-cum-driver also suffered grievous injuries, died at Amandeep Hospital in Amritsar on Monday evening. Her Body was cremated here on Tuesday. Her ...

Qadian (Gurdaspur): As many as 1,600 pilgrims from Pakistan have reached Qadian, the headquarters of the Ahmadiyya Muslims, to participate in the annual convention of the sect to be held from December 29 to 31. Krishan Ahmad, deputy secretary media, Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat, told Hindustan Times that they had been receiving ...

GURDASPUR: An advocate, Joginder Singh Kaler, who, on August 9, had demanded information about the income and expenditure of the Kaler gram panchayat from 2008 to till date under the Right to Information Act, on Friday alleged that the block development and panchayat officer (BDPO), Dhariwal, had not provided information ...

GURDASPUR: Prem Narayan, secretary, union ministry of woman and child development, on Friday reviewed the progress of the scheme of transferring subsidy directly into beneficiaries’ bank accounts opened on the basis of the Aadhar card in the district. Addressing a meeting of the district officers, he said from January 1,2013, the ...

GURDASPUR: Three relatives of additional sessions judge Rajiv Malhotra and his gunman-cum-driver were seriously injured when their Indigo car (PB 15D 8405) rammed into a tree on Wednesday afternoon. The driver lost control over the vehicle while trying to avoid a speeding Gyspy coming from the opposite direction, at Khakhar village, ...

GURDASPUR: A state-level Christmas function will be held at Dera Baba Nanak on January 4. This was stated by former minister Sucha Singh Langah and state commission for minorities chairman Monawar Masih at a meeting of SAD workers here on Monday. They said chief minister Parkash Singh Badal would preside ...

GURDASPUR: Gurdaspur MP Partap Singh Bajwa said on Sunday that they there would be no looking back on the economic reforms initiated by the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre. “There is no threat to our economy from FDI in the retail sector. On the contrary, it will improve the country’s ...

GURDASPUR: Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal said here on Monday that the Punjab government had retained power in the state owing to its welfare policies. Sukhbir, who was here to attend a league match of the kabaddi world cup at the government college stadium, said every district in Punjab would ...

GURDASPUR: Gurdaspur district Congress committee president and Dera Baba Nanak MLA Sukhjinder Singh Radhwana, along with PPCC member Raiman Bahl, visited the house of home guard jawan Gurnam Singh in Mustafabad Jattan near here on Sunday and expressed solidarity with him. Gurnam was assaulted by Akali leader Inderpal Singh while ...