CHANDIGARH: Gurmeet Ram Rahim, a convict in rape and murder cases and the head of Dera Sacha Sauda (DSS) Sirsa, was released by the Haryana government on Wednesday morning on a 21-day parole. Earlier in January, the state government had granted him a 30-day parole. With this, the controversial preacher has been released for a…
NEW DELHI: The final journey of Flight Lieutenant Siddharth Yadav, who died in the Jaguar fighter jet crash near Gujarat’s Jamnagar Air Force Station on Wednesday night, was marked by honour, pride, and unbearable grief. The 28-year-old Indian Air Force officer, recently engaged and preparing for his wedding in November, was cremated on Friday at…
Punjab’s Mohali court sentenced self-proclaimed pastor Bajinder Singh to life imprisonment for a 2018 rape case. Singh, who was convicted last month, faced accusations of sexual harassment and abuse from multiple women. NEW DELHI: A Punjab court on Tuesday sentenced self-proclaimed Christian pastor Bajinder Singh to life imprisonment in a 2018 rape case. Singh, often…
CHANDIGARH: If a soldier dies in an accident in non-duty hours and there was no negligence on his part, he will be deemed to be on duty, and his family will be entitled to special family pension, the Punjab and Haryana high court has ruled.“We find that where an accident has occurred, resulting in death…
CHANDIGARH: A purported video of Pastor Bajinder Singh, who is facing a sexual harassment case, slapping a woman and a man in a room that appeared to be some office, went viral on Sunday. The police have started a verification process to ascertain the place and time of the incident and are waiting for any…
BATHINDA: The arrested leaders and members of the Kisan Mazdoor Morcha (KMM) and the Sanyukt Kisan Morcha (Non-Political) have decided not to file any bail applications, instead they wish to see how far the Punjab govt would go in keeping them behind the bars.A 14-member delegation of the KMM, after visiting the Patiala jail on…
PATIALA: Col Pushpinder Singh Baath‘s wife, Jaswinder Kaur Bath, on Saturday led a protest by ex-servicemen to demand a CBI probe into the assault on her husband and son Angad.The army wife also received support from Congress MP from Patiala seat Dharamvira Gandhi and his predecessor, Congress-turned-BJP leader Preneet Kaur.Col Bath and Angad were assaulted…
AMRITSAR/CHANDIGARH: The grenade attack on Amritsar’s Thakur Dwara temple has sparked a political firestorm, with opposition demanding accountability from the Punjab govt. State’s leader of the opposition, Partap Singh Bajwa, on Saturday called for the resignation of chief minister Bhagwant Mann, who also holds the home affairs portfolio, citing a failure to maintain law and…
This is an AI-generated image, used for representational purposes only. (Picture credit: DALL-E) JIND: A woman and her paramour murdered her one-and-a-half-year-old infant in Jind district on the occasion of Holi, police said.The accused, identified as Sonu (30), kidnapped the infant, Yash, while he was playing outside his house in Chattar village of Uchana town…
KAITHAL: Two youths, one from Haryana and the other from Punjab, have reportedly been kidnapped in Guatemala, prompting their parents to seek urgent assistance from the Indian government. On Monday, the families, along with several villagers from Mohna village in Kaithal district, met with the superintendent of police (SP) Rajesh Kalia, urging intervention to bring…
