Kamaldeep Singh Brar

Kultar Singh was named along with four others in suicide notes left behind by Hardip Singh, whose family committed mass suicide in end of October 2004.

Chief Minister Captain Amrinder Singh too had said that he was committed to ending the cable mafia and would allow any organisation to compete in a healthy environment as long as it is not found to be engaged in any unlawful activity.

"I will say that all religions should be respected and take along minorities, take along your allies if you have to be successful in running the government so that all brothers (countrymen) consider themselves part of a family,” Badal said.

SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal posted a message on Facebook stating that he had welcomed both Bony and his father Rattan Singh Ajnala — who were expelled from primary membership in 2018 for “indulging in anti-party activities.

The Jathedar assured the delegation that Sikhs were with Muslims in efforts to maintain communal harmony in the country.

The biggest obstacle in his way is his father and former MP Rattan Singh Ajnala and SAD MLA and former minister Bikram Singh Majithia.

Honey Mahajan the president of Shivsena Hindustan’s youth wing, was hit by three bullets in his legs, while another bullet hit his friend, Ashok Kumar in the head.

During ‘nagar kirtan’ (religious procession) near Pahuwind village of Tarn Taran, crackers were being burst by people, the police said. The explosion is suspected to have taken place when sparks from the crackers landed on a tractor-trolley where the fireworks were stacked, officials said.

As per an STF official privy to the investigations, the Gujarat ATS had been on the trail of Simranjit Sindh Sandhu, a resident of Ranjit Avenue in Amritsar and a proclaimed offender.

Authorities believe that the heroin seized by Punjab Police's Special Task Force (STF) on January 31 was part of a 300-kg consignment that they suspect had reached Mandvi coast in Gujarat in 2018.

Shiromani Akali Dal leader and Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee president Manjinder Singh Sirsa received four “Dalit Hindu Sikh families” who he claimed had were facing religious persecution in Pakistan.

The father and son run a hotel in the city and STF suspect that the hotel was used for drug smuggling and knowingly accommodating the accused, said sources.

Punjab Assembly, on January 17 adopted a resolution against the CAA urging the Centre to repeal the new law “to avoid any discrimination on the basis of religion in granting citizenship and to ensure equality before law for all religious groups in India.”

One report says that constable Balwinder Singh and his father were picked up by police in 1993 and the former had confessed to crime; other report, 27 yrs later, says they went missing from home

That Balwinder Singh had been murdered was proven in CBI court only on Thursday. Since 1993, his family couldn’t procure any death certificate of Balwinder Singh, who had been named a proclaimed offender in the police records.

“Justice has still not been delivered. Two accused in the case have been released. My family members were killed in cold blood. There was no criminal record against any of them. We have been given no compensation,” says Surjit Kaur.

“January 11 is the martyrdom day of Mewa Singh Lopoke, who was hanged in Canada for his fight for immigrants’ rights. He was also connected to Ghadar Party revolution. Pictures of revolutionaries will be installed at Golden Temple on the same day,” said Gurvinder Singh of Ghadar Memorial Society.

Malik asked why former state minister Navjot Singh Sidhu, who had “hugged Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan and Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa”, was silent on the Nankana Sahib incident.

Though Kartarpur corridor is one of the most important and positive developments in the history of Indo-Pak relations, it is an exceptional case where a peace deal saw daylight in times of bitter relations.