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Foreign-based gangster’s aide held with 3 pistols

According to Punjab director general of police (DGP), police teams have also recovered three pistols — including two .32 bore and one .30 bore — along with 14 carriages from the possession of arrested accused.

Punjab: Kargil war veteran saves five drowning labourers

Harjinder Singh, a retired soldier who fought in the Kargil War, and his two sons risked their lives to save five labourers from drowning in the Sirhind Canal near Machhiwara on Monday night

Gangster Rajan Bhatti met international smugglers in Tihar Jail: Mohali special cell

During his five-day police remand, Rajan Bhatti told the special cell that after coming out of Tihar Jail in April 2023, he started smuggling heroin, which he received from his Uganda-based associates at multiple locations, including Mohali, Amritsar and Hoshiarpur

Encourage children to take up art, says Punjab revenue minister

Appreciating the artwork of photo journalists, Punjab revenue minister Brahm Shankar Jimpa said, “As the theme goes, a picture is worth one thousand words.”

Punjab: Vigilance bureau nabs ASI while accepting ₹20,000 bribe

A team of VB laid a trap and arrested the accused ASI Harjinder Singh while accepting ₹20,000 from the complainant Harpreet Singh in the presence of official witnesses

Crop loss: Mann disburses ₹6cr as relief to farmers in 362 Fazilka villages

CM said he had immediately ordered a comprehensive special girdawari to ascertain the loss suffered by farmers due to inclement weather conditions

Chandigarh: Phone snatcher to cool heels in jail for six years

The convict, Chandan Madan, is a resident of Burail village, Chandigarh; he had snatched a cyclist’s mobile phone in December 2021

Crackdown against Amritpal: Assam detainees not in illegal custody, Punjab tells HC

Says associates of radical Sikh preacher, Amritpal Singh, sent to Dibrugarh in Assam are detained under the National Security Act 1980 and not in illegal custody

Pleas from NSA detainees: HC defers hearing for April 11

Pleas demanded that they be allowed to meet the detainees and directions be given to the Punjab government to provide copies of orders, whereby these persons have been detained under the National Security Act (NSA) and sent to Dibrugarh jail in Assam

2 booked for bailing out drug peddler on fake identity in Ludhiana

Later, the police found that a builder named Naveen Bhatia was developing a colony near the village and the accused used this information to forge documents in his name.

Chandigarh resident held for tearing policeman’s uniform in Mohali

A resident of Chandigarh’s Sector 41, Veer Bahadur got into an argument with policemen Harjinder Singh, Gurcharan Singh and Dilbagh Singh, who were controlling traffic at a spot near Airport Road

Robbers decamp with cloth rolls, SUV from dyeing factory after holding labourer captive

A gang of robbers targeted a dyeing factory in CMC Colony of Jamalpur on the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday and decamped with cloth rolls and an SUV after holding two labourers captive. The accused have been captured in the CCTV cameras installed near the factory.

Roof collapse claims one more life in Karnal

A seven-year-old girl died while her two siblings sustained injuries as the roof of their house collapsed in New Pritam Nagar locality of Karnal City on Friday. The deceased has been identified as Lakshmi and the injured are her sister Amisha, 14, and brother Rajnish, 10.

GMC Patiala gets Punjab’s first plasma bank

Medical education and research minister OP Soni to inaugurate it on Tuesday

Two Hindi daily scribes booked for spreading fake news

Hathur station house officer (SHO) Harjinder Singh said the accused had published an article in a Hindi daily on Sunday that a resident of Lamme died due to coronavirus

50-yr-old woman killed, three injured in Gurdaspur firing

Police say a few days back, boys of the victim’s and the assailant’s family, all students of Class 10 at a Harchowal school, got into a scuffle on school premises which resulted in the Tuesday’s attack

Day after release from jail, Moga man found dead

Moga A day after he was released from Faridkot modern jail, Davinder Singh Kala, of Kot Ise Khan village in the district, was found dead at the grain market in Mana Singhwala village in Ferozepur district on Friday. Davinder got out of jail after serving two years for two cases of theft registered against him.

Pushed off terrace by ‘lover’, her husband, Ludhiana man dies

Remained in the hospital for 23 days; case of culpable homicide registered on aunt’s complaint

Dhadrianwale’s 3-day sermon starts amid opposition by Sikh organisations

Chandigarh administration starts process for inter-departmental transfer of employees

Drawing and disbursing officer will be directed to feed entries of regular employees online

Kapurthala woman held for pushing minor girl into prostitution

City police on Monday arrested a 35-year-old woman for allegedly pushing a 17-year-old girl into prostitution here. Accused was identified as Sunita alias Munni (35) of Kapurthala. Victim has been working as domestic help at accused’s house. Her parents live in Kapurthala on a rented house and they have four other children, police said.

Punjab govt discontinues services of five super specialist doctors

Cop caught smuggling phones to gangster in Patiala jail

A Punjab Police constable was arrested red-handed when he was allegedly sneaking in two mobiles phones meant for a gangster into the Patiala central jail. The accused, Dinesh Kumar, 28, is deployed on security duty in the prison complex. Tripuri station house officer (SHO) Harjinder Singh said acting on a tip-off the jail officials conducted a surprise check in the wee hours of Thursday and recovered from him seven tobacco packages and two cigarette packets besides the smartphones.

POLITICIAN-GANGSTER NEXUS Will not succumb to pressure from Akalis, says Amarinder

Asserting that he will not succumb to any pressure from Akalis, Punjab chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Monday said his government would get to the bottom of the politician-gangster nexus. Reacting to protests by Shiromani Akal Dal (SAD), the CM said he had ordered the probe into the nexus by the director general of police (DGP) after receiving photographs “clearly showing links of hardened criminals and gangsters with top Akali leadership”.

Mechanic bludgeons mother to death in Patiala, injures wife, three children

Survivors undergoing treatment at Chandigarh hospital

Blast in 50 boxes of crackers at Jalandhar plot in Punjab

A bomb-disposal squad, a team with sniffer dogs, fire department personnel and the police rushed to Baba Mohan Das Colony on Sunday night, after an explosion in 50 boxes of crackers stored illegally at a plot in the area created panic. The crackers had been stored at the plot for over two months, police say, adding that the cause of the blast had not been ascertained yet.

Labourer rapes six-year-old girl in Ludhiana’s Tajpur village

Leaves her bleeding on a vacant plot. Victim suffers grievous genital injuries.

PUTA polls: TUF records victory, says will fight for teachers’ rights

After winning, newly elected president Jaswinder Singh Brar says it is a victory of the university faculty, who supported the alliance

PUTA elections: Pbi University releases final list of candidates

Following withdrawal of nominations on Monday, only two alliances of teachers — Progressive Teachers’ Alliance and Teachers’ United Front — will face each other

Sangrur man kills 20-yr-old over suspicion of illicit relations, held

 Police said that the accused stopped Arshdeep and attacked him with sharp-edged weapons