New Delhi : Stepping up the heat on Pakistan, the US today sought immediate re-arrest and prosecution of LeT founder Hafiz Saeed and threatened of an adverse impact on ties if Islamabad failed to act against the mastermind of the 26/11 Mumbai massacre. After Saeed’s release from house arrest yesterday, the US State Department had […]
Chandigarh: Punjabi writer Amarjit Chandan is a product of the 1960s, a time when universities and colleges were considered a vibrant place for creativity. He often wonders if what he studied at the college really made any impact on his literary creativity. He finds the answer in the negative. “In teaching, the syllabus comes first, […]
Chandigarh : The fate of two Punjabi youths among 600 illegal migrants is uncertain after the Papua New Guinea police today stormed the Manus Island detention centre and whisked them away in buses, more than three weeks after the centre was decommissioned. Papua New Guinea is a country in southwestern Pacific. Ravinder Singh and Manjit Singh […]
Amritsar : The SGPC has terminated the services of its 15 employees posted at Gurdwara Gurusar Madoke Brar in Ajnala. The employees, who had been serving as sewadars and clerks, have written to SGPC president Kirpal Singh Badungar that if they were not taken back, they would give up Sikhism and surrender their religious symbols […]
Gurdaspur : Three hundred policemen and commandos surrounded two Gurdaspur villages after the police received reports that Nabha jail escapee Vicky Gounder and the gangster’s accomplices were hiding there. The policemen laid siege to the twin villages of Talibpur and Mahanta Di Pandori village, 7 km from here, around 4 pm after the intelligence wing […]