PANCHKULA: The special designated court of National Investigation Agency (NIA) here on Tuesday extended the judicial remand of Swami Aseemanand, an accused in Samjhauta Express blasts, till June 20.Aseemanand was presented in the NIA court through video conferencing from Ambala Central Jail. The special designated court had earlier also issued non-bailable ...

AMRITSAR: The India-Pakistan friendship train is carrying extra baggage these days. A few days after fake currency was seized from a goods train coming in from Pakistan, custom officials reportedly found 3 kg of heroin stacked on the roof of the Samjhauta Express at Attari railway station. The consignment of drug was ...

PANCHKULA: The specially-designated National Investigation Agency (NIA) court here on Thursday granted the permission to NIA to produce Samjhauta Express blast accused Swami Aseemanand on Februarx 7 after NIA informed it that he could be presented as he was currently in the police custody in Ajmer in connection with a ...

PANCHKULA: Even as a special court on Thursday sent Swami Aseemanand, an accused in Samjhauta Express blasts case, in 14-day judicial custody in Ambala jail, it also accepted the National Investigation Agency's application for recording his statement under Section 164 CrPC in the court of the chief judicial magistrate here ...

AMRITSAR: Following regular seizure of drugs from the goods train coming to India from Pakistan, the Indian authorities have written to their counterparts across the border to send the train during the day time (before 4 pm) so that it can be thoroughly checked. The train has been smuggling drugs like ...

AMRITSAR: Flooding of various areas between Delhi and Amritsar, the Shatabdi express which was to leave for New Delhi from Amritsar at 5:05 pm, was cancelled on Thursday. The Samjhauta express plying between India and Pakistan through the Attari Border arrived in India at least five hours behind schedule. Meanwhile, ...

AMRITSAR: With the Railways failing to get permission from the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) to allow a Pakistan train to reach Amritsar to pick up a Sikh Jatha on Monday, Pilgrims had to travel on their own to Attari, from where they boarded Samjhauta Express to Lahore. For Sikh Jathas ...

AMRITSAR: The seven-year-old boy who had reached Pakistan on Monday after boarding the Samjhauta Express by mistake was handed over to the Indian authorities on Tuesday. Rajat, who had reached the Attari railway station in a local train, was in tattered clothes when he boarded the Samjhauta Express stationed there. He ...

AMRITSAR: Samjhauta Express, the only rail link between India and Pakistan, has witnessed a sharp decline by about 30 percent in the number of passengers in the past one year. While in 2008-09, 51,566 passengers from India and 52,725 from Pakistan boarded the train, the number of passengers in 2009-10 fell ...

AMRITSAR/HOSHIARPUR: Mohammad Ateeq, the 13-year­ old Pakistan national who was arrested at Attari railway station on January 11 for travelling without valid documents and was since lodged at the juvenile home at Ram Colony Camp near here, was repatriated late Friday evening. The boy was handed over to Pakistan authorities at ...

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab government has no objection lf the 12-year-old Mohammad Ateek of Lahore, who arrived at Attari station in Amritsar by the Samjhauta Express without any travel document on February 21, is repatriated to Pakistan. This was stated by DSP (GRP) Narinder Pal Singh in an affidavit filed before the ...

CHANDIGARH: A Division Bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court has directed the Punjab government to file a status report within a week on 13-year-old Mohd Ateek, the Pakistan boy caught at Attari railway station while travelling in Samjhauta Express on February 21. Ateek apparently had an altercation with ...

CHANDIGARH: Coinciding with the Indo-Pak dialogue, a petition has been moved in the Punjab and Haryana High Court for the release of a 13-year-0ld Lahore boy; who it was claimed fell asleep in a stationary train at Lahore and was taken into custody when it reached Attari. The petition by Ranjan ...