PATIALA – As the trial in the case, pertaining to the irregularities in the recruitment of 909 Panchayat Secretaries during the SAD-BJP government (1997-2002), started today, the Punjab Assembly Speaker Nirmal Singh Kahlon appeared in the Court of Special Judge (CBI Cases) Balbir Singh at the District Courts Complex, here today.

Miscreants have continuously been stealing the pistol from statue of Shaheed Udham Singh for the last one-year, but no action has been initiated in this regard. Area residents and workers of Shaheed Ram Mohammad Singh Azad Foundation said it was disrespect to the great martyr, who laid his life for the nation after avenging the [...]

LUDHIANA – “Dad save me, they have entered my home, they will kill me, please do something, please save me… ,” and the call disconnected. These were the last words of Rajveer to his father, the moment before he was attacked at his house in Brisbane, Australia, on August 8. He was brutally thrashed and [...]

Poor trucker Gurjant Singh’s family’s world came crashing down on August 9 when Singh’s truck hit a car in Union Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee’s convoy in West Bengal’s East Midnapore district. Apart from praying for Gurjant’s well-being, there is very little his wife, three children and elderly parents can do. Every day is a struggle [...]

BHAMARSI – Two people have died and over 100 villagers, including elderly, women and children have fallen ill after consuming contaminated water from the village taps.

PATIALA – Notwithstanding the fact that over 20,000 Arhtiya’s (commission agents) across the state are lending money to the farmers by charging exorbitant interest rates and are earning crores of rupees every year, not even a single such middlemen is legally registered as a moneylender under the Punjab Registration Money Lending Act, 1938.

CHANDIGARH – The State of Punjab removed over 250 sarpanches without justification— an action for which it has been lambasted by the Punjab and Haryana High Court.