Navjeevan Gopal

The FIR stated 18 policemen were injured and 15 men from various districts of Malwa region of Punjab were detained.

During a media briefing in Delhi, SAD president Sukhbir Badal alleged that police were “bringing them (BJP cadre) forward, encouraging them and giving them full protection”.

The Supreme Court on Monday directed the central government to take a call within 14 days on the mercy plea of Balwant Singh Rajoana.

Ludhiana MP Ravneet Singh Bittu said someone hit him on his head with a heavy wooden stick, dislodging his turban, before he was manhandled and before farm leaders eventually took him to his vehicle.

SAD spokesperson Daljit Singh Cheema said, “First of all, it makes no sense that farmers are given such an offer two months after they have been protesting. What Centre has offered, the Supreme Court has already done.”

In a complaint lodged with Patiala SSP on December 1 last year, Raj Kumar's younger brother, Gurpreet, named Poonam Rani, wife of Kamal Kumar, for orchestrating the alleged fraud.

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Extending support to the ongoing protests against the agri Acts, Sidhu said he hoped the laws will repealed, but added that the “bigger game” hitting the farming community was already on.

Punjab received 2.04 lakh doses of Covishield — AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine from Pune-based Serum Institute of India — on Tuesday. The consignment was taken to State Vaccine Store from where it is being transported to 59 facilities earmarked for vaccination.

A police party led by STF inspector Sukhwinder Singh had purportedly recovered one kg of heroin smuggled from Pakistan from Kukku's possession while claiming that he was apprehended at a naka.

Envisaged to pull Punjab farmers out of wheat-paddy cycle, the 3 mega food parks are struggling to even reach their optimum capacity with one running into financial trouble and the other functioning with just 33 per cent occupancy.

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On 29 July 2009, some armed assailants had shot at Rulda Singh, then national chief of the RSS-affiliated Rashtriya Sikh Sangat, outside his home in Patiala. He died of the bullet injuries days later.

In rolling weekly e-auction, any fancy number in a particular series is available next week if it is not auctioned.

The bulls cost Rs 9 lakh each, but have been provided free of cost to Punjab by the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB).

Punjab had hit the peak of new coronavirus cases in a single day on September 17 when 2896 new cases of infections were recorded.

Justice S S Saron (retd) has visited the office twice in the recent past and sought its renovation and availability of staff so that he may take charge and start working. A visit to the office on Tuesday, however, revealed that no renovation work has started so far.

Ansari is a history-sheeter in Mohammadabad police station of Ghazipur district with 38 cases of heinous crime lodged against him. The cases against the five-time MLA are lodged at various police stations in different districts, including Lucknow, Ghazipur and Mau.

Currently posted as DSP (D) Pathankot, Maninder joined the Punjab Police the next year, becoming fourth from his family to join the state police force.

The police did not rule out any larger conspiracy behind the incidents, which happened five years after the Bargari sacrilege incident and at a time when Punjab elections (scheduled in early 2022 now) were due at that time in 2017.

Once there is official notification, the Chief Commissioner, Gurdwara Elections, will set the ball rolling for SGPC elections where fresh voter lists would be prepared, among other things.

Shiromani Akali Dal president and MP Sukhbir Singh Badal refused to comment on whether the BJP’s actions were a sign of its “arrogance”, saying, “I do not want to get into this... We still have personal relationships with them... The PM took certain very good decisions also.”

The SAD leaders were marching to Punjab Governor V P Singh Badnore’s Chandigarh residence to hand over a memorandum.

After Punjab, the second maximum rate of crime in the category was in Andaman and Nicobar Islands (33.4 per cent) and 133 cases, and Kerala (26.3 per cent) where 9,245 cases were registered, which is also fourth highest in the country.