In yet another highest single-day spike in past five months, Punjab recorded 1,179 fresh Covid cases and 12 more deaths, as per the state bulletin on Saturday. On Thursday (March 4), in the highest single-day spike in the past five months, the daily case count had breached 1,000-mark with 1,074 […]
Punjab recorded 389 fresh Covid cases as per the state bulletin released by the Health Department on Monday. For four consecutive days, the state has been recording more than 300 fresh cases per day. On February 19, 20 and 21, there have been 385, 358 and 348 new Covid cases, […]
Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA), while expressing concern over the haphazard growth of digital news platforms in the recent past, insists on effective guidelines for the portals. The forum also reiterates its old demand to bring both television news channels and portals under the purview of the Press Council of India […]
LUDHIANA RURAL police has registered an FIR against Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) Jagraon MLA Sarvjit Kaur Manuke (deputy leader of Opposition in Vidhan Sabha), her husband Sukhwinder Singh and 30-40 party workers for allegedly staging a protest on the national highway, blocking traffic, causing hindrance for common public and flouting […]
Two unidentified men Thursday shot dead a Youth Congress leader in Punjab’s Faridkot, police said. The masked men, appearing to be in their 20s, first fired at the back of Gurlal Singh Bhalwan (35) while he was about to get into his car after coming out a from a friend’s […]
Ludhiana rural police has registered an FIR against Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) Jagraon MLA Sarvjit Kaur Manuke (deputy leader of Opposition in Vidhan Sabha), her husband Sukhwinder Singh and 30-40 party workers for allegedly staging a protest on the national highway, blocking traffic, causing hindrance for common public and flouting […]
AMID STIFF protest from farmers, Punjab BJP managed to win 49 seats of 116 (declared so far) urban local bodies where polling took place for 2,165 wards. Meanwhile, AAP, which did extensive roadshows that were also attended by two Delhi MLAs, won 62 seats. “We were not even allowed to […]
THE JOGA Nagar Panchayat with 7,800 votes has elected 13 Independent candidates with 12 out of them being backed by CPI. There are only 13 seats in Joga NP, and it is the only Nagar Panchayat in Punjab which has chosen CPI-backed candidates for the second consecutive time. In 2015, […]
Senior SAD leader and former Cabinet minister Bikram Majithia appeared in a local court of Ludhiana Wednesday for the hearing in the defamation case filed by him against AAP MP Sanjay Singh. Damanbir Singh Sobti, counsel for Majithia, said, “He was cross examined in the court proceedings today. AAP’s Sanjay […]
Ludhiana police recovered the body of 60-year old man from a canal Wednesday, five days after he allegedly hammered his wife and daughter to death, at their residence in Sherpur Kalan of Ludhiana. Police said that the body of Pyara Singh (60), was recovered from Sidhwan Canal near village Rol. […]