MOHALI: Special CBI court judge RK Gupta on Thursday convicted former Punjab Police DIG Dilbagh Singh and retired DSP Gurbachan Singh in a fake encounter case of 1993. The conviction came 31 years after the fake encounter and the two convicted former police officers will be sentenced on Friday.Advocate Sarabjeet Singh Verka said the case…
BATHINDA: It has been a long and hard initiation into active politics for 46-year-old Sarabjit Singh Khalsa, who contested as an independent candidate and won the Faridkot parliamentary seat.Sarabjit Singh, who completed his matriculation in 1995, was elected to LS on re-emergence of Panthic politics in Punjab along with self-styled Sikh preacher Amritpal Singh, who…
CHANDIGARH: Punjab and Haryana HC on Friday struck down Haryana govt’s policy of assigning additional marks based on socio-economic criteria while evaluating job aspirants, terming the system a violation of constitutional safeguards against discrimination.The division bench of Justices Sanjeev Prakash Sharma and Sudeepti Sharma was hearing a batch of petitions challenging the criteria entitling a…
NEW DELHI: Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday appealed to Punjab voters, two days ahead of their vote, to ‘protect democracy and Constitution from repeated assaults’ by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Calling the people of Punjab warriors, the Congress leader said that BJP has been targetting ‘Punjab, Punjabis and Punjabiyat’ over the withdrawal of…
CHANDIGARH: The Punjab and Haryana high court on Tuesday acquitted the Dera Sacha Sauda (DSS) chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh in the murder case of former Dera manager Ranjit Singh.Division bench comprising Justice Sureshwar Thakur and Justice Lalit Batra of the HC has passed these orders while allowing an appeal filed by Dera chief against…
BATHINDA: The son of Beant Singh, one of the two assassins of Indira Gandhi, is drawing impressive crowds in Punjab‘s Faridkot Lok Sabha constituency, where he is contesting as an Independent.On Monday – which happened to be the 60th death anniversary of Indira’s father Jawaharlal Nehru – Sarabjit Singh Khalsa, 45, was greeted with slogans…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has temporarily halted the experimental opening of a road near the residence of Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann in Chandigarh. Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta observed that the road, which has been closed since the 1980s due to security concerns, has been opposed by both the central and Punjab…
LONDON: British Pakistani Scottish first minister Humza Yousaf was overwhelmed with emotion as he announced his resignation on Monday ahead of two no-confidence votes tabled this week, one in him and one in his government.The motions were tabled by the Tories and Labour after Yousaf (39) last Thursday abruptly terminated the power-sharing cooperation agreement his…
ISLAMABAD: Ahead of the by-elections in different districts of Pakistan’s Punjab, the provincial government has imposed Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC), Pakistan-based ARY News reported. According to details, Section 144 of the CrPC was imposed in districts where by-elections are being held, including Lahore, Kasur and Chakwal. Section 144 of the CrPC…
NEW DELHI: Punjab Police on Friday arrested a member of banned group Khalistan Zindabad Force in New Delhi, who was reportedly operating a terrorist recruitment and funding network from Germany. Prabhpreet Singh was apprehended by Punjab Police’s State Special Operation Cell in Amritsar.The Director General of Police for Punjab, Gaurav Yadav, shared the significant development…
