Chandigarh: Less than 48 hours after recovery of 11 Arges 84 hand grenades, Punjab Police on Tuesday recovered an AK-47 rifle and a magazine with 30 cartridges, evidently a part of the same consignment that was dropped by the Pakistani drone in the border Gurdaspur district. The seizure comes amid concerns raised by Chief Minister Amarinder […]
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Facing flak, ‘missing’ Gurdaspur MP Sunny Deol comes to town
Chandigarh: Bollywood star-turned-politician Sunny Deol on Saturday announced he will start his party programmes in his Punjab constituency Gurdaspur. Sharing lighter moments with children, he tweeted: “Aaj apane Lok Sabha Gurdasapur mein party kaaryakramon kee shuruaat bachchon ke saath kuchh meethe lamhon se kar raha hoon (Today I am starting the party programmers in my […]
Punjab’s cracker factory was running illegally: Police
Chandigarh: The firecracker manufacturing unit in a densely-populated residential area in Punjab’s Gurdaspur district that claimed 23 lives was running illegally and its licence to manufacture crackers was expired in 2013, Senior Superintendent of Police Upinderjit Singh Ghumman said on Thursday. “We didn’t know about the (operation of the) factory. The licence of the factory was […]
Punjab: Rescuers sift through rubble at blast site
Chandigarh: Rescuers were sifting through the rubble in search of survivors on Thursday a day after buildings were badly damaged in explosions following a blaze at an unauthorised firecracker manufacturing unit in a densely-populated residential area in Punjab’s Gurdaspur district. Twenty-three people were killed and 27 got injured in the explosion in Batala town. Scattered […]
Punjab: 21 killed, 26 injured in blast in firecracker unit
Chandigarh: At least 21 people were killed and 26 injured in an explosion following a blaze at an unauthorised firecracker manufacturing unit in a densely-populated residential area in Punjab’s Gurdaspur district on Wednesday, an official said. Two people are still missing. The dead included the firecracker manufacturing unit’s owner and his son. Rescue workers, including […]
Punjab: 19 killed, 25 injured in blast in illegal firecracker unit
Chandigarh: At least 19 people were killed and more than 25 injured in a blast at an unauthorized firecracker manufacturing unit in a densely-populated residential area in Punjab’s Gurdaspur district on Wednesday, an official said. Rescue workers were on the job to retrieve the bodies from the badly-damaged building in Batala town of the district, […]
16 killed in blast in firecracker factory in Punjab’s Gurdaspur
Chandigarh: At least 16 people were killed and many injured in a blast at an unauthorized firecracker factory in a residential in Batala town of Punjab’s Gurdaspur district on Wednesday, an official said. Rescue workers were on the job to retrieve the bodies from the badly-damaged building, an official told IANS over phone. The cause […]
BJP MP Sunny Deol appoints ‘aide’ to represent him in constituency, triggers row
Chandigarh: Sunny Deol, actor and first-time Member of Parliament from Gurdaspur in Punjab, has triggered a ‘row’ by appointing screenwriter Gurpreet Singh Palheri as his ‘aide’ to co-ordinate with government functionaries on his behalf. The decision has not gone well with the BJP. Deol announced that Palheri will look after the affairs of his constituency on […]
EC notice to Sunny Deol for poll code violation
Chandigarh: The Election Commission on Saturday sent a notice to actor and BJP candidate from Punjab’s Gurdaspur Sunny Deol for allegedly violating the model code of conduct. A notice was served for holding a public meeting in Pathankot town after the campaigning came to an end at 5 p.m. on Friday, an election official told […]
HC dismisses Sunny Deol’s plea for adequate forces
Chandigarh: Actor and BJP-Akali Dal candidate Sunny Deol from Punjab’s Gurdaspur on Friday moved the Punjab and Haryana High Court for deployment of adequate paramilitary forces as the seat has been declared “prone to violence”. However, his plea was disposed off by a Division Bench of the High Court after the Election Commission assured that […]