NAKODAR: A flying squad formed for monitoring implementation of the code of conduct seized more than 300 bicycles with chief minister's photo being distributed to girl students of Mallian Kalan and Sorihn government senior secondary schools on Friday. Nakodar returning officer Summet Kumar said that these cycles had been seized after ...

NAKODAR: Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Capt Amarinder Singh on Thursday accused chief minister Parkash Singh Badal of patronizing a section of Punjab Police officers who allegedly engineered extra-judicial killings of innocent Sikh youths during the days of terrorism. Amarinder targeted Badal and other Akali leaders for defending police officers, including ...

NAKODAR: The Nakodar police have arrested Chandan Veer, a resident of Guru Nanak Pura Mohalla here, on charges of forcing his wife to commit suicide. Police said Sonia committed suicide on Thursday night by consuming some poisonous substance. A case was registered under section 306 of the IPC on a complaint ...

NAKODAR: The Mehatpur police have booked a couple and their daughter for cheating, forgery and criminal conspiracy. SHO Bimal Kant said a case under sections 420, 465, 468 and 120-B of the IPC had been registered against Lovleen Kaur, his father Gurdeep Singh and mother Bachan Kaur, residents of Beetal ...

NAKODAR: The Jalandhar additional district and sessions judge has sentenced Ravinder Kumar, his son Rahul, residents of Arjun Nagar here, and Tajinder, a resident of Krishna Nagar, Nurmahal, to seven years imprisonment on charges of attempt to murder. A fine of Rs 5,000 has been slapped on them. A case ...

NAKODAR: The nagar council meeting on Monday to elect the vice-president was witness to much theatre with Congress councillor Ashwani Kohli alleging that three party councillors had been kidnapped. He moved an application seeking that the meeting be put off. But, Nakodar SDM Supreet Singh Gulati declined the plea and instead, ...

NAKODAR: Members of the Valmiki community formed a 21-member action committee on Wednesday to hold talks with the administration on the installation of a statue of Bhagwan Valmiki on Nagar Council land. The statue was installed in Indira Colony of Guru Teg Bahadur Nagar on Monday evening. More than 100 ...

NAKODAR: The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has started chemical treatment of the interiors of the tomb of Muhammed Momin at Nakodar. A protected monument, the tomb was built in 1612 over the remains of Ustab Muhammed Momin, also known as Ustad Mummamed Hussain alias Hafizae, a “tambura” player in the ...

NAKODAR: The bodies of five Amarnath pilgrims, who died in an accident on the Jammu­ Srinagar highway on Saturday, were brought here on Sunday. Sudesh Kumar, Tilak Raj and Jagdish Raj were cremated, while the last rites of Nawal Chander Bhalla and his relative, Arun Kumar, would be performed after the ...

NAKODAR: Resentment prevails among farmers over the Punjab State Power Corporation (Powercom) decision to ban the supply of 16-KVA transformers sanctioned under the voluntary load disclosure scheme (VDS). The Nakodar store sub-divisional officer said Powercom had issued directions not to provide 16-KVA transformers to farmers till further orders. The Powercom XEN’s office ...

BARNALA/ NAKODAR /AMRITSAR: Members of various farmers’ organizations on Wednesday marched through the town raising slogans against the SAD-BJP government, demanding uninterrupted eight-hour power supply to the agriculture sector. The protestors staged a dharna before the office of the executive engineer. Addressing the rally, BKU (Dakaunda) state leader Manjit Singh Dhaner ...

NAKODAR: Hundreds of activists of the Punjab Mazdoor Union staged a dharna in front of the block development and panchayat office here on Monday, seeking implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS). Union leaders alleged that NREGS beneficiaries had not been paid for months. They claimed that ...

NAKODAR: Sukhdev Singh alias Vijay of Giddar Pindi village, was found dead here under mysterious circumstances on Tuesday night. SHO Harpreet Singh said that the deceased, who owned a sanitary ware store on Kapurthala road, did not reach home on Tuesday at which the family went looking for him and ...