10 hurt in clash near Batala

10 hurt in clash near Batala

Batala : Followers of the Divya Jyoti Jagrati Sansthan, Nurmahal (Jalandhar), and members of the Guru Granth Sahib Satkar Committee clashed in Ghuman town last evening, leaving 10 injured. Senior police officers, including SSP Opinderjit Singh Ghuman, camped in the town throughout the day today. An anti-drug camp by the Divya Jyoti sect followers was […]

No clue to string of communal murders in state

No clue to string of communal murders in state

Chandigarh : Even as Punjab enters a new phase of tension over which way the followers of Dera Sacha Sauda move in terms of faith in a sect or religion, the unease over unsolved cases of targeted killings, apparently to create communal tension in the state, continues. What is more worrying is that the police have […]

BJP signal: No playing second fiddle in Bihar

BJP signal: No playing second fiddle in Bihar

New Delhi : Even as the Bihar allies-BJP and JD-U-are claiming “all is well”, the fast-changing political canvas in the state appears to be far from settled and a perception has gone down that the saffron outfit is not ready to play the second fiddle to Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s party.There were clear indications that […]

Second Indian student rescued from lake in hurricane-hit Texas dies

Second Indian student rescued from lake in hurricane-hit Texas dies

Houston, September 4 : A 25-year-old Indian student has died here, days after she was rescued along with another Indian man from a swollen lake in the US state of Texas where Hurricane Harvey wreaked havoc. Shalini Singh, a student pursuing Master’s degree in public health from the Texas A&M University, was rescued from the […]