Chandigarh : Healthcare facilities leave much to be desired in the state’s border belt. Patients are at the receiving end due to poor infrastructure, acute shortage of staff and lack of medicines as well as basic life-saving equipment. In many areas, quacks are having a field day, courtesy political patronage and illiteracy. The worst affected […]
Jalandhar : British MP Martin Docherty-Hughes today extended support to UK-based NRI Jagtar Singh Johal, an alleged conspirator in the seven targeted killings in the state over the past year and a half. Hughes alleged that the police and other authorities were withholding information from Johal’s family following his arrest. “This has been an extremely […]
Chandigarh, November 13- A Facebook post by a gangster, involved in the killing of a Hindu leader in Amritsar, admitting to his crime, has left Punjab Police embarrassed. Saraj Sandhu, who is being chased by the state police, not only admitted to killing Hindu Sangharsh Sena leader Vipan Sharma, but even suggested that the “killing […]
Jalandhar : At least seven masked men, armed with pistols, intercepted a cash van on the Adampur-Bhogpur road around 3 pm today and looted Rs1.15 crore. The vehicle was on its way to Adampur from Bhogpur to load cash in ATMs. The robbers chased it in an Indigo car, which had no registration number plate, […]
Bathinda : So badly were the bodies crushed that parents had a tough time in identifying their children, run over by a truck on the Bathinda-Chandigarh highway today morning. Parents and relatives gathered outside the mortuary of the local Civil Hospital, numb and shocked. The only give away was clothes and other belongings of the […]