CHANDIGARH : At least three people have been killed and 21 others injured after a blast in a dryer at a paper mill in the city of Malerkotla located in the Sangrur district of Punjab.The blast occurred between 11 a.m. and 12 noon at Vishal Paper Mill in Malerkotla, Investigating Officer Sanjeev Goyal told International […]
Jalandhar : Pargat Singh, suspended Akali MLA from Jalandhar Cantt, will join the the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) by mid-September and recontest the seat on AAP ticket. This was confirmed by Durgesh Pathak, organisational incharge of AAP. Sounding cautious, Paqthak said: “In politics, it is not wise to comment till something actually happens. In any case, […]
CHANDIGARH : Harmel Singh Tohra former minister and son-in-law of ‘Taksali Akali leader’, former SGPC president late Gurcharan Singh Tohra has accused Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal of selling party ticket for 2017 assembly elections. He also said that only motive of Sukhbir Badal is to loot Punjab. These serious allewgations were levelled […]
Amritsar : A team of doctors have removed 40 knives from a man’s stomach in a surgery that lasted five hours in Amritsar. In a most unusual case, the patient, Surjeet Singh, a policeman, said on Saturday that he ate knives because he craved them. Dr Jitendra Malhotra, MD of Corporate Hospital, said the man, aged […]
Pathankot : An alert was sounded by security forces, including the army, after the Pathankot police intercepted a “sensitive” phone conversation made by using a Pakistani SIM from inside the Indian territory. Pathankot SSP Rakesh Kaushal confirmed that the border area was put on alert following a “technical intercept” (phone conversation). The exchange, in Urdu, lasted […]