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ED chargesheets Avinash, Phillaur

Jalandhar/Mohali : The Enforcement Directorate today submitted its fifth chargesheet naming 12 persons, including former Akali minister Sarwan Singh Phillaur, his son Damanvir Phillaur and former Akali CPS Avinash Chander, in the Bhola drug case. The 211-page charge sheet was submitted by ED’s special public prosecutor Jagjit Singh Sarao, who was accompanied by the ED Deputy […]

Loan default: Bank attaches farmer’s pension

Muktsar : The farmers who have stopped repaying loans on an assurance by the Congress government are in trouble. Nationalised banks have started recovering loans from the social security pension credited into their accounts. Recently, a Gidderbaha farmer was denied his old-age pension by the State Bank of India, as he had failed to clear […]

Nabbed gangster behind dera follower’s killing: Cops

Ferozepur : The state police today claimed to have busted an inter-state militant module following the interrogation of two persons who were arrested after a shootout at Kohala village in Ferozepur and Bhanolanga in Kapurthala yesterday. The police also claimed to have cracked two murder cases of Dera Sacha Sauda follower Gurdev Singh (31) of […]

Heroin use in Australia’s Melbourne hits 20-year high

Melbourne : Heroin use in Australia’s Melbourne city have hit a 20-year high due to the plummeting price of the drug, it was revealed on Thursday. Heroin addicts can buy a hit of the drug for as cheap as $13, cheaper than most alcohol for sale in Australia, compared to $38 per hit in the […]