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New Delhi, March 28 – Pakistan fast bowler Naseem Shah is under scrutiny from the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) after a controversial social media post, which has since been deleted, appeared to criticize Punjab (province of Pakistan) Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz during the opening match of the...

Hoshiarpur (Punjab), March 28 Police have registered a case following a reported online fraud of approximately Rs 17.52 lakh from the bank accounts of a retired Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) officer in Hoshiarpur district, Punjab, officials said on Saturday.According to officials at the...

New Delhi, March 28 With Jaish-e-Mohammad largely in a subdued state, its operatives within India have been instructed to find new ways to raise funds for operations in Jammu and Kashmir.Jaish-e-Mohammad was one of the most severely affected terrorist groups during Operation Clean Sweep. Not...

Chandigarh, March 27 Punjab has set a benchmark in large-scale public healthcare delivery under the 'Mukh Mantri Sehat Yojna', with over 30.51 lakh families enrolled and Rs 292 crore worth of free treatment approved within three months of its launch on January 8, Health Minister Balbir Singh...

Chandigarh, March 27 The "Gangstran Te Vaar" campaign launched by the Punjab Police to make the state free of gangsters, has resulted in the blocking of 643 social media pages that glorify weapons, said the Deputy Inspector General of Police, Anti-Gangster Task Force (AGTF), on Friday.The...

Lahore, March 27 A patient with a mental disorder in the Punjab province of Pakistan drove away a hospital's ambulance to another health facility by posing himself as the new medical superintendent (MS), an official said on Friday.The incident took place on Wednesday in Lahore, which caused a...

New Delhi, March 27 Delhi minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa on Friday cited the CAG report on the now-scrapped excise policy in the Assembly to allege "deliberate policy manipulation" by the previous government, claiming it led to revenue losses of Rs 2,000 crore and extended undue benefits to...

Chandigarh, March 27 – Punjab Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema said on Friday that the Taxation Department has launched a large-scale, coordinated enforcement drive across the state to curb tobacco tax evasion, leading to the detection of unaccounted goods estimated at Rs 1.5 crore...

Chandigarh, March 27 Punjab BJP President Sunil Jakhar expressed his gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday for taking a major decision to provide relief to the general public in view of rising global fuel prices.The excise duty on petrol has been reduced from Rs 13 to Rs 3 per...

Chandigarh, March 27 The head of the Radha Soami Satsang Beas (RSSB), Gurinder Singh Dhillon, paid a courtesy visit to Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini in Chandigarh on Friday.Saini and his family met Dhillon at the Chief Minister's official residence, 'Sant Kabir Kutir', and sought...

New Delhi, March 27 Ceigal India on Friday said its subsidiary, Ceigall Infra Projects Pvt Ltd (CIPPL), has secured a contract worth ₹603 crore from NHAI for the construction of a six-lane, access-controlled spur road in Punjab.The project involves developing a 10.300-km stretch starting from...

Phagwara, March 27 Local residents blocked vehicular traffic for about 15 minutes near Bhagwan Valmiki Chowk on the Phagwara-Hoshiarpur road here on Friday, citing alleged shortages of cooking gas.Eyewitness accounts said that the blockade caused significant inconvenience to commuters.The...

New Delhi, March 27 – Indian men's hockey team forward Gurjant Singh announced his retirement from international hockey at the Hockey India Awards ceremony held in New Delhi on Friday.The 31-year-old striker brings to a close a decorated career spanning nearly a decade, 130 international caps...

Chandigarh, March 27 The Punjab government seized illegal tobacco products worth approximately Rs 1.5 crore during a statewide drive against tax evasion, Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema said on Friday.He said the tax department conducted simultaneous raids at eight locations – five...

Mohali, March 27 The Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday alleged that illegal mining was taking place along the Siswan River in the Majri block of the Kharar Assembly constituency, despite claims by the Punjab government of strict action.The party's media head in the state, Vineet Joshi, said he...

Jaipur, March 27 Around 10 kg of heroin dropped by a drone from across the border in Rajasthan's Sriganganagar district has been seized, officials said on Friday.Five persons have been arrested, Ganganagar SP Harishankar said, adding that the seized heroin is estimated to be worth about Rs 50...

Phagwara (Punjab), March 26 Three individuals have been booked for allegedly assaulting a journalist here, police said on Thursday night.The case was registered under relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), including Section 109 (attempt to murder), in connection with the...

Jamnagar, March 26 – The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Thursday criticised both the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress over their governance record in Gujarat, alleging that the two parties have failed to address key public issues over the past three decades.Addressing the ‘Vijay Vishwas...

Ottawa, March 26: The disparaging of Shaheed Bhagat Singh, who sacrificed his life for India's independence, by Khalistani extremists is not an act of courage but moral bankruptcy disguised as activism. Such acts expose "Khalistanism" for what it truly is - "not a liberation theology, but a...

Jamnagar, March 26 The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will begin the fight to eradicate corruption from the very grassroots level if voted to power in the Gujarat local body elections, its national convener and former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal said here on Thursday.The ruling BJP and the...