MOGA: British citizen Avtar Singh is 82nd suspect in the 2008 Moga passport scam to fall into the hands of the Punjab Police special investigation cell. Avtar Singh, from Medha Shahkot village of Jalandhar was arrested on Thursday when he landed at Guru Ram Das International Airport in Amritsar from Birmingham ...

MOGA: Locals of Dhalle Ke village on Wednesday held a ration depot holder captive for allegedly selling kerosene oil on the black market. The depot holder was later released after officials of district food and civil supply reached the village and issued suspension orders. Residents also stopped the vehicle of Harnek Singh, who ...

MOGA (PUNJAB): An 80-year-old couple on Friday filed cases against each other in separate courts. Harbans Singh of Janer village of Moga district in his petition in the court of Judicial Magistrate Suresh Goyal said he had married Amar Kaur around 60 years ago and about three years back she left her parents ...

BADHNI KALAN (MOGA): The Punjab government soon will transfer civil and police officers as required by the Election Commission of India. "The process of making the lists has started already," deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal told the media- on Thursday at the Sangat Darshan programme in Badhni Kalan village of ...

MOGA NEWS: Ramandeep Kaur Brar, daughter of a farmer from the little village of Kothe Rajpura in Moga, has bagged the third spot in the PSEB Class 10 result declared on Tuesday. A student of Shri Guru Gobind Singh Senior Secondary public School in Jindra village, Ramandeep got 1239 marks ...

MOGA: In a case of murder of a Punjabi man in Manila (philippines), 42-year-old Baljeet Singh of Kokrihera village, who had been living in Manila for the past 11 years, was allegedly shot dead by unidentified assailants on Monday morning. Baljeet reportedly worked as a financier in Manila and had been ...

MOGA: The state Information Commission has issued a showcause notice to Sneh Deep Sharma, senior superintendent of police (SSP), Moga, for not furnishing information, sought by a Barnala resident under the Right to Information RTI Act, within the stipulated period. Sukhdev Singh of Anaj Mandi Road, Barnala, had demanded information pertaining to ...

MOGA: Nishan Singh of Daulewala village was arrested with 25 kg of poppy husk, police said on Sunday. The recovery was made during patrolling. In another incident, Sukhdev Singh of Landeke village was caught with 10 kg of poppy husk. Both were looked under the NDPS Act. SOURCE-HT

MOGA: A 19-year-old youth was beaten to death at Dhurkot Ransih village by the family of the girl he was in love with when he went to meet her, police said on Tuesday. The incident took place at around 10pm on December 25 night, when Kuldeep Singh of Gill village near ...

CHAND PURANA (MOGA): A father walked in on a secret rendezvous between his 17 -year-old daughter and the youth she had affection for and shot them dead at this Moga village on Wednesday night, as per reports. Jagtar Singh then fled the scene. The village stood by the barbaric act and ...

BATHINDA/MOGA: Four police personnel have been booked in connection with the Moga passport scam on charges of embezzling several lakhs of rupees received from NRIs as foreign registration fee. A criminal case has been registered against Gurdial Singh, Jaswinder Singh, Balbir Singh and Ranjit Singh, all constables, who were posted in ...

BATHINDA/MOGA: In the early 1990s, young boys would often gather at the Bathinda railway station in the evenings, in time for t4e train from Delhi, to catch a glimpse of the orchestra dancers getting off. Today, "we have local orchestra dancers, our village girls". Pushed out of agriculture, the quest for survival ...

MOGA: A court here on Monday fixed June 5 for framing charges against NRI Jagdev Singh, an accused in the murder of former MLA Nachhattar Singh Gill in 1991, and five others in connection with a fake passport case. Punjab police filed a chargesheet against Jagdev, a travel agent from Goa ...