MOHALI: Morning walkers at a residential society in Mohali nearly stepped on bundles of currency notes on Thursday and looked up to find more fluttering down on Thursday.The cash was allegedly thrown from a ninth-floor house where an Enforcement Directorate search was on as part of a major operation against a section of influential builders.The…
Bathinda: Punjab for the first time recorded less than 100 farm suicides in over a decade in 2024 in line with the decline across the country, according to a report by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) under accidental deaths and suicides in India in 2024.The national figures dropped from 10,786 in 2023 to 10,546,…
CHANDIGARH: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) conducted raids at nearly a dozen locations across Chandigarh and Mohali on Thursday morning, targeting properties linked to several prominent builders.Multiple ED teams carried out the searches simultaneously under tight security, creating a stir in the real estate sector in Punjab and Chandigarh. Watch In Punjab Money Laundering Case Cash…
Amritsar/Jalandhar: Back-to-back explosions near security installations in Punjab have triggered panic, raised fresh security concerns and put agencies on high alert. Within three hours of a blast outside the BSF Punjab Frontier headquarters in Jalandhar, a powerful explosion occurred near the Army cantonment in the Khasa area of Amritsar around 11 pm on Tuesday. Officials…
Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann ROPAR: Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Singh Mann on Wednesday squarely blamed the Bharatiya Janata Party for twin blast-like incidents in Amritsar and Jalandhar, calling them “BJP’s preparation for the 2027 Punjab Assembly elections.”Speaking to the media at the outset of his four-day ‘Shukrana Yatra’ — which began with obeisance at Takht…
Jalandhar: A blast took place in a scooter parked just outside the BSF Punjab Frontiers headquarters in Jalandhar around 8pm on Tuesday, injuring the vehicle’s owner.The nature of the blast was not yet clear and police were questioning the injured youth, Gurpreet Singh, who works with a courier firm. His father Kashmir Singh, who retired…
CHANDIGARH: An accounts officer with Haryana govt allegedly died by suicide after being called for questioning by CBI in connection with the probe into the Rs 593 crore bank fraud case linked to Haryana govt funds, police said on Monday. Balwant Singh, who was posted with Haryana Power Generation Corporation Limited (HPGCL), is suspected to…
Chandigarh: Police claimed to have solved the case of a security guard’s murder in Manimajra with the arrest of three persons. The accused, Munna Rajak, 47, Shani Dev Kumar, 27, and Dhanik Kumar Sah, 24, of Bihar, were produced in court and remanded in judicial custody. Police scanned CCTV camera footage from nearby locations and…
Bathinda: Punjab’s wheat procurement is in its final phase, with over 98% of the estimated 122 lakh tonnes having arrived in mandis by Sunday. Of the 119.9 lakh tonnes received, about 118.8 lakh tonnes (99%) has been procured.However, lifting remains slow, with only 66.3 lakh tonnes (around 56%) moved so far. Officials said 1.16 lakh…
Amritsar: Lying deep in the fertile plains between Amritsar and Lahore, a once-thriving utopian colony that stood as a testament to communal harmony before the bloodletting of Partition in 1947 is being rediscovered by a new generation of Punjabi litterateurs.Recently, the Punjab language department marked the birth anniversary of Gurbakhsh Singh Preetlari, the visionary civil…
