Category: PUNJAB

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

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.

Apart from seizing big-haul of heroin, the IGP said the police have also recovered 424 kg opium, 480.24 kg ganja, 255 quintals of poppy husk, and 51.39 lakh tablets, capsules, injections and vials of pharma opioids.

Fissures appear in less than a year-old AAP government in Punjab with its legislator Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh on Wednesday resigning from the post of chairman of the committee on government assurances of the Legislative Assembly over government's "inaction" in the 2015 sacrilege cases.

The day senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi ended his six-day long Bharat Jodo Yatra, party leader and former Finance Minister Manpreet Badal on Wednesday quit the Congress and will join the BJP in Delhi later in the day.

In a communication to the DGP on Friday, the court officer of the NCSC clearly mentioned that a warrant has been issued against Jaspreet Talwar, Principal Secretary, for not attending the hearing before the Commission on January 2.

The junior athletics coach, who has accused former Haryana sports minister Sandeep Singh of sexual harassment, on Wednesday recorded her statement before the magistrate here under Section 164 of the CrPC.