Chandigarh: The bharat bandh call to protest the petrol price hike has been fairly effective in Punjab. However, no incidents of violence have been reported from the region till the filing of this report. The Amritsar bus stand wore a deserted look with no buses plying. All buses stood lined up at the bus stand. Mounted police patrolled the streets even as shops remained closed. "We wanted to go to...
07:19 PM, May 31, 2012
New Delhi: A major fire broke out in a building housing Punjab National Bank in New Delhi's Parliament Street on Wednesday. Although many people were trapped inside the building but fire officials managed to rescue all, and there were no casualties. Twenty-five fire tenders were rushed to the spot and fire was brought under within an hour. The six-storey building is in the heart of Delhi and in the vicinity...
05:31 PM, May 23, 2012
Chandigarh: Pungrain (Punjab Grains Procurement Corporation Ltd)and the FCI (Food Corportation of India) are expected to submit their replies in the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Wednesday in response to a petition filed over the wastage of grain in the state. A CNN-IBN report had revealed that the Punjab government was not using godowns to store grain and had left them to rot out in the open. It had...
10:42 AM, May 23, 2012
Chandigarh: Punjab NRI Commission on Wednesday issued notice to the Jalandhar Commissioner of Police and sought a report within three weeks on a complaint filed by an NRI woman against her husband. Complainant Nileshni Reddy, an NRI wife of Ravi Sidhu, resident of Village Chotta Saipur, has alleged that her husband had gone "missing" since April 26, a spokesman of the commission said in a release in Chandigarh. She said...
11:18 PM, May 16, 2012
Chandigarh: It is not just a shortage of storage space that is the problem. In Punjab, investigations by CNN-IBN reveal that space to store seven lakh tonnes of wheat grain has already been created by private godown owners and another five lakh tonnes space would be created in the next three months. However, the Punjab government is not using the new godowns and has left its grain out in the...
10:07 PM, May 09, 2012
New Delhi: At least 19 passengers were injured when eight coaches of the Delhi-bound Firozpur-Mumbai Punjab Mail got derailed near Kharawar village, about 14 km from Rohtake, in the wee hours on Sunday. Alok Mittal, the IGP of the Rohtak Range, informed the incident took place around 3:30 am. Out of the 24 coaches, the eight bogies that derailed include sleeper coaches from S-5 to S-10, apart from the guard-cum-luggage...
06:38 AM, May 06, 2012
New Delhi: Five bogies of the Punjab Mail have derailed near Rohtak, Haryana. 20 people have been injured in the incident but no casualties reported so far. The injured have been admitted in the PGI Hospital in Rohtak. The train was on its way from Firozepur in Punjab to Mumbai when the accident occurred in the middle of the night. The accident occurred due to break in railway line. ...
05:55 AM, May 06, 2012
Chandigarh: Like other states in the country, Punjab too is on the brink of a blackout. Punjab is suffering from a shortage of about 2500 megawatt of electricity presently. Acute power shortage is making survival of industries difficult. Rajnish Ahuja's carefully built-up auto spare parts company in Ludhiana is suffering, due to an acute power crisis. And he is not alone. The power crunch in the state has affected other...
06:34 AM, Apr 17, 2012
Balachaur: In yet another incident of "honour killing", a 25-year-old man lost his life on Monday minutes after he had lunch with his newly-wedded wife at a roadside eatery near Punjab's Balachaur town. The brothers of the girl allegedly pumped bullets into him for marrying against their wishes. Ranjit Singh was getting into his car outside the popular 'Hoshiarpurian da Dhaba' with his wife Jasmeet Kaur when he was attacked....
04:02 AM, Apr 17, 2012
Chandigarh: Factional feud in Congress in Punjab in the wake of party's debacle in assembly poll came to the fore on Wednesday as some senior leaders walked out of a meeting presided over by PCC President Amarinder Singh. Seventy one candidates who lost the state Assembly elections held recently in Punjab had been called to the meeting held in Chandigarh to discuss the party's poll defeat. Former MLA Sukhpal Khaira,...
07:23 PM, Apr 04, 2012
Chandigarh: Punjab police is at the centre of a controversy for giving VIP treatment to convicted minister Bibi Jagir Kaur. Some of the uniformed policemen even bowed down to touch the feet of the convicted minister. The VIP treatment, however, did not end there. The former SGPC chief, who was last week convicted of the forced abortion of her daughter Harpreet, was ferried to the Kapurthala jail in an air-conditioned...
09:29 PM, Apr 03, 2012
New Delhi: Two days after police officials were caught touching convicted minister Bibi Jagir Kaur in jail, Punjab Jail Minister SS Phillaur denied any such treatment being meted out to Kaur. "I haven't seen the video of policemen touching Jagir Kaur's feet. How can I comment on it," said Phillaur. Uniformed officers were seen bowing down to touch Kaur's feet and transporting her in an air-conditioned car to Kapurthala Jail...
11:59 AM, Apr 03, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan is committed to protecting shrines belonging to minorities, a minister said on Sunday, following a protest by Hindus over illegal occupation of a temple in Punjab. Minister-in-charge for National Harmony Paul Bhatti said all steps were being taken to maintain Hindu temples, Online news agency reported. More than 30 Hindus from Zafarwal in Narowal district protested in front of the National Press Club to seek an end to...
01:48 AM, Apr 02, 2012
New Delhi: Gurdaspur will continue to remain under curfew on Friday after communal clashes that broke out in the city on Thursday over the issue of Rajoana execution that left one dead and one injured in police firing. Two groups clashed on Thursday over clemency for Balwant Singh Rajoana, a convict in the assassination case of former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh. Curfew was clamped following tensions between Shiv Sena...
08:00 AM, Mar 30, 2012
Chandigarh: Clashes have been reported from Patiala and some other regions of Punjab as tension escalates over the hanging of Balwant Singh Rajoana, convicted in the assassination of former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh. Sikh groups have also taken out protest marches in Jammu in support of Rajoana, putting pressure on the Punjab government. Security forces have been put on high alert across Punjab and 60,000 Punjab Police personnel along...
02:51 PM, Mar 28, 2012
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