RAJPURA: Punjab Minister for Health and Family Planning Laxmi Kanta Chawla on Tuesday said that she had written to Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal over the debt waiver offer even before' in the swirl of controversy over of the issue surrounding Manpreet Badal. The minister, who was speaking to the media ...

RAJPURA: A 19-year-old girl of Alimajra village near Shambu has alleged torture in custody by an ASI at Shambu police station. Victim Seema Rani was admitted to the civil hospital here in an unconscious state on Sunday night. Later, in her statement, she accused ASI Amanpal Singh Virk of torture during ...

RAJPURA: The local police on Friday claimed to have arrested three Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) militants, along with two robbers, in an early morning raid here. Police said they recovered four pistols and 20 live cartridges from the men, who during preliminary interrogation spoke of their intentions to attack controversial "godman" ...

RAJPURA: Crores were spent on building the 10-acre sprawling campus, now only a dispensary is functioning in the regional complex built by the Employees State Insurance (ESI) Corporation in Industrial Area here. Thirty-six staff quarters, a 50-bed hospital, a house for the Senior Medical Officer, a laboratory - not to mention ...

RAJPURA: A local police team claimed to have nabbed four members of an inter-state gang of smugglers and recovered 14­ kg opium from their possession on Thursday. A special police team headed by Rajpura CIA staff incharge Himmat Singh, SI Raj Kapoor, ASI Kuljeet Singh and ASI Baldev Singh nabbed the ...