Security personnel stand guard at Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport before the arrival of Indian immigrants who were deported from US, in Amritsar on February 16, 2025. | Photo Credit: ANI A United States aircraft carrying around 112 undocumented Indian immigrants, deported from the U.S. landed at Punjab’s Amritsar International Airport on Sunday … Read more
BSF has recovered a drone with one packet, suspected to be Narcotics from a paddy field in the Kalsian Khurd area of Tarn Taran district of Punjab. | Photo Credit: ANI Border Security Force (BSF) has recovered a drone with one packet, suspected to be Narcotics from a paddy field in the Kalsian Khurd area … Read more
Gurdaspur Deputy Commissioner Himanshu Aggarwal said that vehicular traffic on Mukerian bridge has been closed after the Mukerian-Gurdaspur road submerged. | Photo Credit: X/@himan47agg_IAS Several teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) on August 16 began rescue operations to evacuate people in several areas in Gurdaspur which were inundated following the release of excess … Read more
A Border Security Force soldier keeps a watch at the border fence at Bamial border in Pathankot. File photo | Photo Credit: PTI A Pakistani intruder has been shot dead along the International Border in Punjab’s Pathankot district, a BSF official said on Monday, August 14, 2023. He said the Border Security Force troops noticed … Read more
With 19 of the 23 districts in Punjab continuing to reel under floodwater, the Opposition parties have upped the ante against the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in the State. Former Union Minister and senior Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Tuesday asked Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann to immediately call a special … Read more
Pro-Khalistani leader and Waris Punjab De chief Amritpal Singh. File. | Photo Credit: ANI Fugitive radical preacher Amritpal Singh who has been booked under National Security Act has been arrested from Punjab’s Moga, police said on April 23. Amritpal’s arrest comes a month after the police launched a massive crackdown against him and his outfit ‘Waris … Read more
File image used for representational purpose only. | Photo Credit: PTI Six trains have been cancelled due to a ” rail roko” protest of farmers’ group Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee (KMSC) that entered its second day on April 3 at the Batala railway station in Punjab’s Gurdaspur district. The farmers launched their indefinite protest on … Read more
Punjab’s Harike wetland. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The arrival of migratory birds this year to Harike, northern India’s largest wetland, declined 12% from 2021, according to the latest census of these water birds. The Forest and Wildlife Preservation department census counted 65,624 birds from 85 species at Harike, World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) … Read more
BSF recovered nine packets heroin, 1 Pistol, 2 magazines and 50 rounds of 9 mm. | Photo Credit: ANI The Border Security Force (BSF) foiled another cross-border drug-smuggling attempt on December 3 as it recovered more than 7KG of heroin, which was air dropped by a Pakistani drone in Punjab’s Fazilka district. The BSF personnel … Read more
Punjab Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema. File | Photo Credit: PTI With the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Punjab inching close to completing nine months in power, Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema, who has been dealing with the stiffest task of bringing the cash-strapped State back on track fiscally, has seemingly demonstrated an assertive … Read more