ROHTAK: Dalbir Thekedar, the sarpanch of Naya Baans village in Sampla sub-division here, was shot dead by four assailants on Sunday night. He died on the way to a hospital. The four men barged into his office and shot him. The police said his family suspected the role of a former sarpanch, ...

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 ...

KAITHAL: Three girls were reportedly crushed to death at Chandana village in Haryana's Kaithal district on Tuesday when a wall fell on them after some monkeys pushed the wall. The victims - identified as Sanjna, 7; Simran, 3; and Khusboo, 1- were sitting on a cot in a house's courtyard when ...

London(Punjab): Jaskanwal Rana, an Indian- origin former teacher in the North England town of Huddersfield, has been remanded in custody on the charge of murdering his father, Tarsem Singh, 75. Rana, 32, appeared in the magistrate’s court this week. He was remanded in custody till May 16, when he will appear ...

BATALA(Punjab): At least 12 girls fainted when a health department team injected them with tetanus vaccine on Monday at Government Girls Senior Secondary school in Batala. Around 10.30 am, the team came to the school at Dharampura Colony and administered the shots to girls in classes 8, 9, ...

ROHTAK(Punjab): A case of murder was registered against 22 persons, including former Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) MLA from Meham Balbir Singh Malik following a group clash at the grain market after a dispute over collection of donations for a cow shelter, in which one youth was killed during a ...

NEW DELHI: It does not get more ironic than this More than 40 pregnant ad hoc senior resident doctors - 11 in their ninth month of pregnancy -at the All Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) have been denied maternity leave. One of them had to take casual leave to deliver her ...

AIZAWL(Punjab): The Mizoram government on Monday demanded that the union home ministry give an ex-gratia payment to the family of Johny F Lalhmangaih Zuala who was killed allegedly by Sudanese nationals after a university football match in Punjab on, April26. In a letter sent to union home minister P Chidambaram, Mizoram ...

ROHTAK: Services at the state's premier medical institution ­ Pandit Bhagwat Dayal Sharma Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (PGIMS) - here were restored on Wednesday following an agreement between the authorities and the junior doctors who had been on strike since Monday. The stir has started in response to alleged ...

CHANDIGARH: In a fresh effort to secure the release of an 8o-year old Pakistani virologist from an Ajmer jail, filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt and veteran journalist Kuldip Nayar appealed to Punjab governor Shivraj Patil, who holds additional charge as governor of Rajasthan, to intervene in the matter, Urging for the early release ...

HISAR: A drunk nephew of landlord Ram Bilas Billu tried to rob the modesty of two Dalit women, working in the fields of Ram Niwas in Kheri Lohchab village near Narnaund on Wednesday last week. When the women raised an alarm and cried for help, he rushed back and came on ...

CHANDIGARH: A stillborn child and critical injuries to its mother have led to a female-foeticide inquiry by the health department, even as a hospital in Patti has been sealed. On March 18, a village pharmacist tried in vain to abort the foetus in the womb of Rajwinder Kaur of Patti ...

TARN TARAN: Prem Singh Lalpura, 85, former president of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), died at a hospital in Amritsar on Wednesday. Backed by then chief minister Partap Singh Kairon, Lalpura defeated Mastar Tara Singh to be elected SGPC president in November 1958. He held the post till March 1960. Three-time ...