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Punjab Police recover AK-47 rifle, magazine – part of consignment dropped by Pakistani drone in Gurdaspur district

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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

Sujanpur: Actor and BJP's Lok Sabha candidate from Gurdaspur, Sunny Deol during a roadshow ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, in Punjab's Sujanpur on May 3, 2019. (File Photo: IANS)

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 […]