Category: PUNJAB

• AMRITSAR
• Chandigarh
• Dera Baba Nanak
• Khatkar Kalan
• Patiala

A soldier died of a gunshot wound at around 4.30 p.m on Wednesday. He was on sentry duty with his service weapon. The weapon and cartridge case from the same weapon was found next to the soldier, it said.

Four Army personnel were killed in a firing incident inside the Military Station in Punjab's Bathinda, one of the country's largest defence establishments, the Indian Army said on Wednesday. However, the local police clarified that it was not a terror attack.

In a statement, the Army said, "Firing was reported in the early hours of the morning around 0435h inside Bathinda military station. The mil Stn Quick Reaction Teams were activated. Area was cordoned off and sealed.

However, his followers and sympathizers the elderly Buddhist monk was "joking around" with the boy. However, victims of child sexual abuse argue that being sexualised by a powerful adult is serious matter.

"A nilgai appeared on the road and hit Hooda's vehicle. However, he escaped unhurt and no one else in the vehicle received any injury," Hisar's Superintendent of Police Ganga Ram Punia told the media.

The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Friday exposed a Rs 200-crore liquor scam in the Excise Department in Punjab and demanded a CBI probe into the fraud and arrest of all guilty on the same pattern as followed in Delhi.

Fugitive pro-Khalistani leader Amritpal Singh and his mentor Papalpreet Singh once again dodged the Punjab Police in a village near Hoshiarpur town where a massive search operation is underway, officials said on Wednesday.

As the hunt of 'Waris Punjab De' chief and fugitive pro-Khalistani leader Amritpal Singh is still on, the separatist leader's close aide and gunman, who is an ex-serviceman, was arrested by the police for his alleged involvement in the Ajnala violence case.

The motorcycle on which Khalistani ideologue and fugitive Amritpal Singh fled has been found by Punjab Police, officials said, as the massive manhunt for the self-styled preacher continued on the fifth day.

The National Security Act (NSA) has been invoked against pro-Khalistan self-styled radical Sikh preacher Amritpal Singh on Tuesday, who has been absconding since March 18, informed sources said on Tuesday.

Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Badal on Monday came down heavily against "the puppet AAP regime in Punjab for the undeclared emergency and reign of repression and terror let loose in the state".

Punjab Police on Sunday continued its crackdown against 'Waris Punjab De' elements wanted on criminal charges, and also made preventive arrests of persons attempting to disturb peace and law and order in the state.

The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Sunday issued notice to the Punjab government on a habeas corpus petition seeking issuance of directions to the Jalandhar Commissioner of Police and other officials to present alleged detainee Amritpal Singh "in the interest of justice".

The police had on Saturday launched a major crackdown against Amritpal and arrested 78 members of Waris Punjab De, including six to seven gunmen of the radical outfit.

To prevent any untoward incident in case of the arrest of absconding Sikh radical preacher Amritpal Singh, head of 'Waris Punjab De', who has been declared a 'fugitive', the police along with CRPF personnel on Sunday conducted flag marches across Punjab.

Massive search operation continued on the second day on Sunday to arrest Sikh radical Amritpal Singh, head of 'Waris Punjab De', who has been declared a 'fugitive', a senior police official said.

Punjab Police on Saturday launched a massive state-wide search operation against Sikh radical Amritpal Singh, head of 'Waris Punjab De'. A total of 78 persons have been arrested so far, while, several others have been detained.

Internet services in several parts of Punjab were suspended on Saturday till 12 p.m. Sunday amid reports of arrest of self-styled radical Sikh preacher and Khalistani sympathiser Amritpal Singh.

Even at this stage, any input or information provided by any individual might prove to be helpful for the SIT in completing the legal process of investigation at the earliest, he added.

The Border Security Force (BSF) has arrested a Pakistani national while he was trying to intrude into India in Punjab's Ferozepur sector, officials said. During questioning, he said he was a resident of Khyber district in Pakistan.

The Punjab Assembly on Thursday unanimously passed a non-official resolution to take up the matter of fleecing common people by exorbitantly priced medicines with the Central government.

For supporters and sympathisers, a few, he's the Next Gen of Sikh 'separatist leader' like Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, who was killed in the Indian Army's Operation Blue Star in 1984.

Two gangsters, involved in the killing of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala, succumbed to injuries following in a major clash of gangsters in Goindwal jail in Punjab's Tarn Taran district on Sunday, officials said.

Junaid and Naseer were drivers, said SHO Ram Naresh Meena. One Ismael, friends of the duo lodged a missing complaint on Wednesday night that on Wednesday morning when the duo left Bharatpur, they were attacked by Bajrang Dal leaders.

Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Monday said in 11 months after assuming charge, his government has so far firmed up investment of Rs 38,175 crore which will generate 2.43 lakh jobs in the state.