Chandigarh: Six of Punjab’s 22 districts have no active coronavirus cases as on Saturday, according to a government data. The districts are: SBS Nagar, Moga, Rupnagar, Fatehgarh Sahib, Barnala and Gurdaspur. The government data shows that the districts had a total of 31 patients, of whom 27 recovered while four died. SBS Nagar was a […]
Read MoreFerozepur: The Punjab Police on Thursday claimed to have nabbed a criminal allegedly wanted in several cases, including murder and attempt to murder. Senior Superintendent of Police Bhupinder Singh said Harpreet Singh, alias Happy Mall, was arrested from a local gym following an intelligence input. Happy was produced in a court, which sent him to […]
Read MoreChandigarh: Cold weather conditions continued to prevail in most parts of Punjab and Haryana on Monday. Adampur in Punjab continued to remain the coldest place in both states. It registered its low of 3.5 degrees Celsius, an official of the Meteorological Department said on Monday. Union Territory Chandigarh, the joint capital of Punjab and Haryana, […]
Read MoreChandigarh: A man wanted for killing a woman friend on New Year’s eve at a hotel here was arrested from a television studio after he confessed to the crime while on air, police said on Thursday. The accused, Maninder Singh, was wanted by the police for allegedly killing Sarabjit Kaur (27), a nurse at a […]
Read MoreGharuan (Mohali): Despite the ban on stubble-burning that is choking Delhi and other areas in northern India, farm fires continue around this Punjab village, just 20 km from the state capital Chandigarh. We are helpless, says a farmer, citing the cost of equipment meant to tackle crop residue without burning it. The 35-year-old did not […]
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