Amritsar, October 12 : Rival Sikh groups brandishing swords clashed at the entrance plaza of the Golden Temple Complex here on Thursday, leaving several people from both the sides injured. The clash occurred when the SGPC task force forcibly tried to push Master Johar Singh, the president of managing committee of Chhota Ghallughara Gurdwara at Qadian, […]
New Delhi : The National Green Tribunal (NGT) today directed the Punjab Government to produce before it 21 farmers which it claimed to have helped by giving incentives and infrastructural facilities to prevent them from burning crop residue in a bid to check air pollution.Over a 100 farmers had gathered outside the NGT premises here […]
Chandigarh : Twentytwo years after Punjab’s then Chief Minister Beant Singh was assassinated, his grandson Guriqbal Singh’s appointment as Deputy Superintendent of Punjab Police on compassionate grounds after allegedly bending the rules today came under judicial scanner. Acting on a petition alleging that Guriqbal was not even eligible for appointment, Justice Rakesh Kumar Jain of […]
Patiala, October 11 : A team of Enforcement Directorate raided the house of PCS officer Anand Sagar Sharma, an accused in the multi-crore Hoshiarpur land scam, in Patiala on Wednesday morning.The team was led by Assistant Director Ajai Singh. Sharma was booked by the Vigilance Bureau along with 12 others, including revenue officials, Akali leaders […]
Gurdaspur, October 11 : Polling to the Gurdaspur parliamentary constituency began amid sporadic incidents of violence with SAD-BJP leaders blaming Congress MLAs for inciting locals. The constituency has nine assembly seats of which seven are represented by ruling party legislators. Five SAD workers, including Happy Pahra, a former Akali sarpanch of Pahra village, the native place […]