People try to douse a fire that broke out in a coach of the Amritsar-Saharsa Garib Rath Express, near Sirhind railway station, in Fatehgarh Sahib district, Punjab, on October 18, 2025 | Photo Credit: PTI A fire broke out in a coach of the Amritsar-Saharsa Garib Rath Express near Sirhind railway station, Fatehgarh Sahib, on … Read more
Amritsar police have busted a cross-border narcotics smuggling network and seized over 5 kg of heroin, officials said on Saturday. One operative, Pawandeep Singh, a resident of Amritsar, was arrested during the operation, part of an ongoing effort to make Punjab drug-free under Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann. According to Punjab DGP Gaurav Yadav, Pawandeep … Read more
The dark monsoon clouds that hung over Fazilka have given way to sunlight that filters through the eucalyptus trees surrounding the government middle school at Salem Shah village. Kirna Rani, 22, cannot enjoy it. She sits on the floor of the corridor, gently stirring a saucepan of water and a flour-jaggery mixture over a shared … Read more
Punjab has ordered the closure of all government, aided, private schools, colleges, universities and polytechnics across the state until September 7, 2025, in light of worsening flood conditions. The decision, earlier expected to be lifted by September 3, reflects the increasing urgency of the situation. Education Minister Harjot Singh Bains made the announcement on X, … Read more
A journalist was publicly assaulted by two police personnel following an argument between them in Punjab’s Batala. The entire incident was captured on CCTV. The accused were suspended after a video of the footage went viral on social media. The incident occurred on August 1 when Balvinder Kumar Bhalla, a freelance journalist, was attacked by … Read more
The vehicle which fatally hit the world’s oldest marathoner Fauja Singh in Punjab’s Jalandhar district has been identified and the driver of the vehicle, an SUV, will be arrested soon, police said on Tuesday (July 15, 2025). Fauja Singh was 114, and the ironies could not be more tragic for the legend who got into … Read more
The house of an alleged drug smuggler being razed in Bathinda on June 16, 2025. | Photo Credit: ANI Even as the Punjab Cabinet also gave ex-post facto approval for the constitution of the high-powered cabinet sub-committee to intensify the ‘War on Drugs’ program, the Congress party came down heavily on the ruling Aam Aadmi … Read more
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Saturday (June 15, 2025) chargesheeted three persons in connection with the 2024 case related to a grenade attack at a police post in SBS Nagar district of Punjab. The attack was allegedly planned by banned terror outfit, Khalistan Zindabad Force (KZF). | Photo Credit: PTI The National Investigation Agency … Read more
Pakistan‘s Punjab Assembly Speaker Malik Ahmad Khan has shared the stage with top leaders of the Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) at a rally organised by the banned group led by Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed. Khan, a Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader who reportedly has close ties with the military, attended the rally in Kasur on … Read more
दिल्ली, पंजाब, हरियाणा, उत्तर प्रदेश और राजस्थान के कुछ जिलों में गंभीर गरज के साथ तूफान, 60-80 किमी प्रति घंटे की तेज सरफेस हवाएं और भारी बारिश की संभावना जताई है. विभाग ने इस दौरान लोगों को सतर्क रहने की सलाह दी है. भारतीय मौसम विभाग ने अगले कुछ घंटों के दौरान बारिश होने की संभावना … Read more