Relentlessly targeted by his own party and government, Punjab’s finance minister Manpreet Singh Badal quit his job as well as his membership of the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal — a party headed by his f

Punjab’s deputy chief minister Sukhbir Badal seems intent on ousting his older first cousin and the state finance minister Manpreet Badal from the Shiromani Akali Dal or as party insiders said, “at least force him to quit the government”.

Punjab’s ruling Shiromani Akali Dal constituted a disciplinary committee comprising senior party men to help resolve growing differences between deputy chief minister Sukhbir Badal and finance ministe

Prince Charles and Duchess of Cornwall Camilla Parker Bowles took a break from their official engagements in India on Monday to attend a private banquet at Patiala’s Motibagh Palace, hosted by Punjab’s former chief minister Capt. Amarinder Singh and his wife, Union minister of state for external affairs Preneet Kaur.

The authorities in Punjab have conceded that a Pakistani prisoner who went missing from Amritsar’s high-security jail nearly a month back, may have “escaped”.
Jail officials had launched a massive manhunt on August 29 after 35-year-old Niyamat Ali was discovered during the mid-day roll call of prisoners. Besides the sprawling, 44-acre jail compound, sniffer dogs were requisitioned to search for the prisoner.

Wasil Khan, the 43-year-old Bihari, forced to spend 10 long years in jail after the Punjab police branded him a “Pakistan national” and falsely implicated him in a bomb attack conspiracy, has finally

Separatist Sikhs in Punjab have invoked references from Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama and former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf for inspiration to emerge as a legitimate political force and carr

Prince Charles and his wife Camilla Parker Bowles will be hosted for a night at Patiala’s Moti Bagh Palace when they arrive in India for the inauguration of the Commonwealth Games early in October.

Curfew was imposed in Punjab’s only Muslim-majority town, Malerkotla, after angry mobs, infuriated by rumours about the desecration of the Quran in the US, attacked a local church, setting fire to furniture and damaging sections of the religious premises late on Sunday night.

Defence minister A.K. Anthony’s decision to institute a fresh inquiry into the mysterious death of Shaurya Chakra winner Capt. Sumit Kohli four-and-a-half years after the Army dismissed his demise as a “suicide” has given new hope to the officer’s widowed mother.