Day after clash, 11 protesters arrested

Muktsar : A day after the clash between sacked suwidha centre employees and cops at Badal village – which left 27 persons injured — 11 protesters were arrested today. Thirteen of them were booked by name under Sections 307, 353, 186, 332, 333, 427, 341, 120-B, 148 and 149 of the IPC at Lambi police […]

Badal assails Punjab Congress for pursuing divisive politics

SARDULGARH (Mansa) : Assailing the Congress party for its anti-Punjab stance, the Punjab Chief Minister Mr. Parkash Singh Badal today said that Congress has always pursued divisive politics for the sake of its vested political interests. Addressing the public gatherings at village Ahlupur, Sardulewal, Fatta Maleka, Kusla and others during Sangat Darshan in Sardulgarh assembly […]

24 protesters, 3 cops hurt in clash at Badal village

Badal/Muktsar : As many as 24 protesting activists of the Punjab State Suwidha Centre Employees’ Union and three policemen were injured in a clash after the police resorted to lathicharge to disperse them at Badal village today. The state government has already terminated their services and also made the suwidha centres functional, but the protesters […]

Sidhu nobody to dictate terms to Cong

Chandigarh : Staying put outside the Chief Minister’s residence for the second consecutive day, Congress MLAs here today remained firm on their demand for action against Ludhiana Police Commissioner JS Aulakh and SP (crime) Jaswinder Singh in connection with the recent attack on party workers in Ludhiana on Dasehra eve. Leader of the Opposition Charanjit […]

5 killed on way back from wedding in Gidderbaha

Gidderbaha : Five persons, including three women and two kids, were killed on Saturday in a head-on collision between a car and a fuel tanker near Daula village on Malout-Bathinda highway at the boundary of Muktsar-Bathinda districts. Two persons, a man and a girl, were injured.They were returning to Sadulshahar in a Tata Indigo car […]