TARN TARAN: The Tarn Taran district unit of the Congress staged a demonstration outside the office of the deputy director, panchayats to protest against the manner in which the delimitation exercise of wards in village was being carried out. The protest was led by district unit president Dharamvir Agnihotri and ...

TARN TARAN: The Tarn Taran police have booked members of a special election team on the charges of burning the election material of an SAD candidate. District election officer and deputy commissioner Satwant Singh Johal said the team members had also been suspended. Sources said SAD candidate Harmeet Singh Sandhu's supporters were ...

TARN TARAN: Differences among Harmeet Singh Sandhu, the SAD candidate from Tarn Taran, and the local BJP unit came to the fore on Sunday. The local BJP unit has decided to extend support to independent candidate Davinder Singh Lalli, a SAD rebel. At a press conference on Sunday, they announced their ...

TARN TARAN: Activists of Kisan Sangharsh Committee (KSC) and some residents of the district blocked the Tarn Taran­ Harike highway on Tuesday and staged a protest in front of the municipal committee office. The protestors alleged that MC officials and the local MLA had misused development funds for the district by ...

TARN TARAN: The deputy com­ missioner's office is supposed to implement the code of con­duct. However, there is violation of the code right outside the DC's office with hoardings belonging to Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) banners contain pictures of Youth Akali Dal president Bikramjit Singh Majithia and SAD President Sukhbir ...

TARN TARAN: People's Party of Punjab (PPP) chief Manpreet Singh Badal will appear before the Akal Takht if ordered to do so in connection with his visit to the Sirsa-based Dera Sacha Sauda, whose chief Gurmit Ram Rahim was ex communicated from the sikh 'panth' on charges of blasphemy in ...

TARN TARAN: Twelve persons were injured in a head-on collision between a truck and a Punjab roadways bus near Goindwal on Wednesday. The accident took place at around 6:40am due to thick fog and poor visibility. The bus with 45 passengers onboard was on its way to Chandigarh, while the truck started ...

TARN TARAN: Two days after the clash between two groups of Youth Congress leaders in Valtoha village in Tarn Taran, the local police have booked Anup Singh Bhullar, a Youth Congress activist and a son of former Congress irrigation minister Gurchet Singh Bhullar, on charges of assaulting and threatening another ...

TARN TARAN: The Khalra police have arrested a man on the charge of having links with Pakistan-based smugglers. According to information, the accused is a history-sheeter and involved in smuggling activities on India-Pakistan border. The Khalra SHO said that a few days back, B.SF's 45 battalion had seized fake currency worth Rs ...

TARN TARAN: For the past more than 10 days, residents of the border district have been receiving missed calls from phone numbers with Pakistan's ISD (international subscriber dialling) code. Many residents of Valtoha, Chabhal, Khemkaran Khalra, Bhikhiwind, Sur Singh and Tarn Taran have approached the police. About a dozen complaints have been submitted ...

TARN TARAN: Jawans of the 45th battalion of the Border Security Force (BSF) seized fake Indian currency to the tune of Rs 2.94 lakh and three Pakistani SIM cards near the border outpost of Dharmawaia on Wednesday. Himmat Singh, DIG, BSF, said the special operation was carded out following au intelli­ ...

TARN TARAN: The district police on Wednesday arrested three persons, including a relative of a SAD leader, in connection with an 11-year-old murder case. The accused have been identified as Dharminder Singh alias Kakku, Rajwinder Raju, Satnam Singh and Sarbjit Singh Sabha. Sabha is learnt to be a relative of a ...

TARN TARAN: The Tarn Taran police have arrested two persons and recovered a car and 10 stolen motorcycles from them on Monday. The accused have been identified as Jaswinder Singh alias lakhu and Sukhdev Singh of Bakipur. Tarn Taran SSP Manminder Singh said the CIA staff laid a naka near ...