Chandigarh |Β Gangster Jarnail Singh was shot dead in broad daylight by three masked assailants in Punjab’s Amritsar city on Wednesday. Prima facie it seemed to be a gang rivalry, said the police. Singh, who belonged to the Gopi Ghamshampuriya gang, was on bail. Senior police officials rushed to the spot to investigate the case. The […]
Chandigarh |Β Carrying swords and arms, supporters of Khalistan sympathiser Amritpal Singh, chief of the Waris Punjab De group, on Thursday clashed with police and forcefully seized a police complex in Punjab’s Amritsar district to demand the release of their activist within 24 hours. Six policemen were injured amid the protests and were admitted to a […]
Chandigarh |Β In a broad daylight sensational killing, Shiv Sena leader Sudhir Suri was shot dead on Friday outside a temple in Punjab’s Amritsar during a peaceful agitation amidst the presence of police. He was shot by a person in the crowd. The crime took place outside Gopal Mandir where Suri and some leaders were sitting […]
New Delhi |Β The Border Security Force (BSF) on Sunday said that five jawans have been killed in an incident of fratricide in Khasa in Punjab’s Amritsar. The BSF said that a constable, identified as Satteppa S.K., had fired at five of his colleagues in the camp, which is located 20 km from the Attari-Wagah border. […]
Chandigarh |Β Ahead of Independence Day, Punjab Police on Monday said they foiled a major terror bid as they recovered a double-decker tiffin box carrying an improvised explosive device (IED) weighing two to three kilos along the Indo-Pak border in Amritsar that could be used for a high-value target. State Director General of Police (DGP) Dinkar […]
New Delhi:Β Delhi, Lucknow and Amritsar witnessed dense fog on Saturday morning with zero visibility due to variable and calm lower-level winds, and the fog is likely to persist on Sunday as well. The Met department said “Zero visibility over Delhi, Lucknow and Amritsar due to variable and calm lower-level winds. Similar fog conditions are likely […]
Chandigarh: Cricketer turned politician Najvot Singh Sidhu remained unavailable for the fourth day on Saturday to a Bihar Police team camping in Amritsar city in Punjab to serve him a notice in an election-related case against him. The Congress legislator was booked in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls on charge of violating the model code […]
Chandigarh: In a major breakthrough, the Punjab Police have traced the inter-state links of slain Hizbul Mujhahideen commander Riaz Ahmed Naikoo with the arrest of two accomplices of his close associate, Hilal Ahmed Wagay, from Amritsar on Wednesday. Given the gravity of the offences and the cross-border ramifications of the case beyond Punjab, the Centre […]
Chandigarh: Two Indians who returned this week from coronavirus-hit Italy were preliminary diagnosed positive for the disease and they have been hospitalised in Amritsar city since their arrival, Punjab Health Minister Balbir Singh Sidhu said here on Saturday. They have been admitted to Guru Nanak Dev Hospital in Amritsar. “The preliminary test from the samples […]
Amritsar: A 13-member group of tourists from Iran were quarantined on Friday at a hotel here in Punjab and were asked not to leave the place till their medical examinations were over, an official said. “The tourists have been quarantined in their hotel rooms as a precaution,” Amritsar Civil Surgeon Prabhdeep Kaur told the media. […]
