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Chandigarh, April 9 – The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in Mohali, Punjab, has convicted and sentenced 11 individuals, including Rajesh Ranjan, the then District Manager of the Food Corporation of India (FCI), to three years of rigorous imprisonment with a total fine of ₹3.3 lakh...

Chandigarh, April 8 Congress MLA Pargat Singh on Wednesday urged the AAP government in Punjab to consult religious scholars and experts from all faiths before enacting a law on sacrilege.Singh asserted that the announcement of a special session of the Vidhan Sabha on April 13 to enact a new...

New Delhi, April 8 Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Wednesday urged exporters and businesses in India and the US to make greater use of the India-US trade facilitation portal to boost bilateral trade.He also said that bilateral trade is growing towards USD 500 billion, an...

New Delhi, April 8 Police are planning to retrace the entire route taken by the man accused of breaching the Delhi Assembly security, to reconstruct his movements before he drove his SUV through a VIP gate and entered the premises, sources said on Wednesday.Sarabjeet Singh, a resident of Uttar...

Chandigarh, April 8 Former Punjab MLA Navjot Kaur Sidhu, who joined the Bharatiya Rashtrawadi Party (BRP), claimed on Wednesday that her husband, Navjot Singh Sidhu, was not involved in any political party.Outlining a plan for Punjab, the former Congress leader told reporters here that the BRP...

Chandigarh, April 8 Daytime temperatures in Haryana and Punjab remained significantly below normal on Wednesday, following heavy rains that had affected the region the previous day.Chandigarh, the shared capital of both states, recorded a maximum temperature of 24.2 degrees Celsius, which is...

Chandigarh, April 8 Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Badal appealed to Punjabis on Wednesday to unite in support of farmers whose wheat crop has been damaged over 1.25 lakh acres due to unseasonal rain and hailstorms.Badal, who held a meeting with the party’s ‘halka’ in-charges and...

Chandigarh, April 8 A multi-purpose exhibition-cum-convention center worth Rs 250 crore will come up in Mohali, Punjab, according to Industries Minister Sanjeev Arora, who announced the development on Wednesday.The project, to be developed on 14 acres of land in Sector 83 by Exhicon Events...

Chandigarh, April 8 – The Amritsar police announced on Wednesday that they had cracked a cross-border illegal arms smuggling operation, apprehending four individuals, including a minor, and seizing seven sophisticated pistols and 12 cartridges.Preliminary investigations revealed that the...

Chandigarh, April 8 Leaders of opposition parties in Punjab targeted the AAP government over the state's debt, accusing it of further burdening the state's finances by taking an additional loan of Rs 1,500 crore.Expressing concern over the "rising debt", they claimed that the fresh borrowing...

New Delhi, April 7 A Delhi court on Tuesday sent a man who caused a security breach at the Assembly by forcing his way into the complex in an SUV to eight days' police custody.Police produced the accused, Sarabjeet Singh, before Judicial Magistrate Kartik Taparia, seeking 10 days of police...

New Delhi, April 7 The Delhi Police placed two officers from its security unit under suspension on Tuesday night following preliminary findings related to the Delhi Vidhan Sabha security breach incident, according to an official statement."Based on preliminary findings, a sub-inspector and an...

Kapurthala, April 7 Following the deaths of the couple's four sons allegedly due to drug abuse, their fifth child died at the Government Medical College and Hospital in Amritsar on Tuesday.Sonu (32), the fifth son of the couple and who was in a critical condition, was referred to Amritsar for...

Chandigarh, April 7 A cadet from the Maharaja Ranjit Singh Armed Forces Preparatory Institute (MRSAFPI) in Mohali secured the first All India Rank (AIR) in the Combined Defence Services (CDS) Air Force list.Jasnoor Singh, a cadet from the 10th course at MRSAFPI and the son of a businessman...

Chandigarh, April 7 Punjab Agriculture Minister Gurmeet Singh Khudian said on Tuesday that an estimated 1.25 lakh acres of crops have been affected by recent rainfall and hailstorms, and that affected farmers will receive compensation.He said that Fazilka reported crop damage on over 45,000...

Jammu, April 7 Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said that drug smuggling from across the border remains a major challenge, not limited to Jammu and Kashmir, but faced by all border states across the country.Abdullah said that his government is working to engage youth by promoting a strong sports...

Chandigarh, April 7 Punjab Agriculture Minister Gurmeet Singh Khudian said on Tuesday that an estimated 1.25 lakh acres of crops have been affected by recent rainfall and hailstorms, and that affected farmers will receive compensation.He said that Fazilka reported crop damage on over 45,000...

New Delhi, April 7 The Competition Commission of India, the regulator for fair trade, has approved Torrent Power's proposal to acquire 100 per cent stake in Nabha Power Ltd.This move came after Torrent Power announced in February 2026 that it had entered into an agreement with L&T Power...

New Delhi, April 7 The man behind the Delhi Assembly security breach was upset that he was told about his nephew's disappearance three days after he went missing, his family said.The Delhi Police is investigating the circumstances leading up to the assembly security breach. Sarabjeet Singh...

Hoshiarpur, April 7 – Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann launched a healthcare and infrastructure initiative here on Tuesday, laying the foundation for a ₹268 crore medical college and a 300-bed hospital, while announcing the establishment of the Shaheed Udham Singh State Institute of...