An assistant sub-inspector (ASI) was shot dead by unknown persons on Sunday evening on the Jalandhar-Ludhiana highway. Police claim that the ASI was shot at when he chased a few persons in a car for not stopping when he asked them to. ...
09:00 AM, Apr 01, 2013
Anti-corruption crusader and social activist Anna Hazare will address a rally in Jalandhar on Sunday during his 'Janatantra Yatra' in Punjab. Anna will address eight public rallies during his five-day visit to the state, Janatantra Morcha member IS Bhalla said. ...
05:46 PM, Mar 30, 2013
A family belonging to Amritdhari Sikh sect has alleged that a private school denied admission to their daughter as her turban was in breach of the school's uniform, a claim rubbished by the institution's principal. ...
02:26 AM, Mar 30, 2013
The death toll in the Jalandhar school bus accident rose to 13 on Monday evening. The school bus had a head-on collision with a truck early in the morning, following which casualties were reported. ...
06:40 PM, Mar 04, 2013
A school bus had a head-on collision with a truck early on Monday morning, following which casualties were feared. Reports said at least 10 children were feared dead in the accident, but there was no confirmation yet. ...
09:02 AM, Mar 04, 2013
With a fuel price hike every other day a man in Jalandhar is dedicating himself in an effort to find an economical and ecological solution to fuel guzzling cars. Sumeet Aneja has come up with many attractive, viable and most importantly buy-able electric cars. ...
10:27 AM, Feb 20, 2013
Police on Monday claimed to have busted a flesh trade racket with the arrest of six persons, including three Army personnel, from urban state area here. On a tip-off, a special police party raided a MIG flat in urban state area and arrested six persons including three army personnel Ashwani, Shyama Prasad and Surjeet Singh. ...
08:05 AM, Jan 14, 2013
Chandigarh: Accusing the Congress of politicising the issue of law and order for vested interests, Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal on Wednesday said Punjab is a much safer place than other states. "Punjab is a much safer place than other parts of the country," he told reporters here in an apparent reference to Congress' allegations that the law and order had deteriorated in the state. "The law and order...
06:45 PM, Dec 12, 2012
Jalandhar: In another case of molestation in Punjab, a man trying to protect the victim was beaten up. The man who intervened was a freelance journalist. Police say Ashwini Malhotra was shopping with his family members when some persons in an inebriated condition allegedly started harassing a girl. "Ashwini Malhotra, a journalist with a news channel, was shopping with his family members when some persons in an inebriated condition teased...
08:27 AM, Dec 11, 2012
Shah Rukh Khan, Katrina Kaif and Anushka Sharma, the cast of the big Diwali release, Yash Chopra's 'Jab Tak Hai Jaan' visited the late filmmaker's hometown Jalandhar on Wednesday. ...
05:16 PM, Nov 08, 2012
New Delhi: Famous comedian Jaspal Bhatti has died in a road accident near Jalandhar. Bhatti was going to Nakodar from Bhatinda for the promotion of his upcoming film 'Power Cut'. The accident happened on Shahkot area of Jalandhar. Bhatti's car rammed into a roadside tree. Bhatti's son and actress Surilie Gautam of his upcoming film got injured in the mishap. Both the injured have been admitted to the hospital. Jaspal...
06:19 AM, Oct 25, 2012
Jalandhar: Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi will be campaiging in Punjab on Friday and will be visiting Jalandhar where he will hold talks with district level party leaders. This is Rahul's second visit to the state after the drubbing in Assembly Elections, earlier this year. Last week, at a rally here of the National Students Union of India (NSUI), the students' wing of Congress party, Rahul had said, "what is...
09:24 AM, Oct 19, 2012
Chandigarh: Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi is on a two-day visit to Punjab from Wednesday during which he will interact with party cadres. He will be interacting with party leaders in Amritsar, Jalandhar and Patiala. This will be his first visit to the state since the party's debacle in the assembly elections. After landing at Raja Sansi Airport at Amritsar he will drive to the venue of his first meeting...
12:02 PM, Oct 10, 2012
Chandigarh: Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi will be on a two-day visit to Punjab in October during which he will be interacting with a cross-section of people including party workers, office bearers, MLAs and MPs, State Congress President Amarinder Singh said on Wednesday. He said that Rahul will be visiting Amritsar, Jalandhar and Patiala during his tour of the state on October 10-11. Singh said, being Rahul's first visit to...
01:23 AM, Sep 27, 2012
Jalandhar: A college student was found dead near a railway track in a suspected suicide case in Jalandhar. This comes days after she was pulled up for being with a boy in a car outside a city college. She was said to be distressed when her photographs were taken by media persons with the boy. The police had allegedly stopped the girl and her male friend, when they were in...
01:25 PM, Aug 31, 2012
Jalandhar: A five-day old newborn died in Jalandhar's civil hospital when doctors took her off life-support, all because the baby girl's parents couldn't pay Rs 200. The Punjab Health Minister has ordered a probe demanding answers within the next two weeks. The baby was born on July 20 and had to be kept in an incubator. On Wednesday, the hospital told the baby's father, who works as a painter, to...
08:08 AM, Jul 26, 2012
New Delhi: The Jalandhar Police on Tuesday said that they had arrested four of the accused in the Burundi boy attack case that took place in April this year. While three of the accused were on the run, one had fled to Australia, said Additional DCP (Headquarters) Navjot S Mahal. A lookout notice has been issued against the one who fled to Australia, he said. "Police investigations are on," he...
10:56 AM, Jul 10, 2012
New Delhi: The fourth accused in the Burundi student attack case was arrested in Punjab on Monday, Navjot S Mahal, Additional DCP, said. Amandeep Singh was arrested by the Jalandhar Police on Monday afternoon. Yannick, a student of B Sc (Computers) at a private university near Jalandhar was brutally beaten up outside his rented accommodation in Dashmesh Nagar on the night of April 21, while he was celebrating the birthday...
02:43 PM, Jul 09, 2012
Patiala: Romi Uppal, son of a senior police officer and a key accused in the case of attack on Burundi student Yannick Nihangaza, on Saturday surrendered before police. Jalandhar DCP Sarabjit Singh said Romi had surrendered himself. With Romi's arrest, the total number of persons arrested so far in the attack on Yannick, who slipped into coma after the assault, has gone up to three. Earlier, two accused, Sahil Deep...
10:46 PM, Jul 07, 2012
Jalandhar: A Burundi national and a student of Punjab's Lovely University was reportedly beaten and left for dead in Jalandhar in April this year. The 23-year-old, Yannick Nihangaza is currently in coma. The boy was allegedly pelted with stones and beaten up on April 22. Two people have been arrested in the case. His father has now written an emotional appeal to India asking that he be repatriated to Burundi....
03:49 PM, Jul 06, 2012
