Punjab's ruling Shiromani Akali Dal on Sunday sought ‘direct and immediate intervention’ of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to save the life of Devender Pal Singh Bhullar, a Khalistani militant facing t

Undisclosed income worth Rs.55 crore (Rs.550 million) was found during income tax raids at the premises of the Ind-Swift group, a leading pharmaceutical company in northern India, officials said on Sa

Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal’s wife Surinder Kaur Badal passed away on Tuesday afternoon after a two-year battle with cancer at Chandigarh’s Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research.
The chief minister, his son deputy chief minister Sukhbir Badal, daughter Preneet Kaur and daughter-in-law

Thousands of affected people followed Punjab’s best known eco-activist Baba Balbir Singh Seechewal, on Wednesday, to block the intensely polluted Kala Sanghian Drain which is known to dump lakhs of tons of poisonous industrial effluents directly into the river Sutlej.

The CBI special court at Chandigarh issued fresh summons to former Punjab and Haryana high court judge, Justice Nirmal Yadav, who has been charged along with four others in a sensational, 2008 bribery scandal widely known as the “cash-at-judge’s-door” scam.

In what is widely being seen as a bid to resurrect its image ahead of the Assembly elections in Punjab next February, the Bharatiya Janata Party has denied Cabinet berths to two of its seniormost min

Avtar Singh Nagla, a Punjabi politician-farmer who perched himself atop a tall eucalyptus tree exactly 30 days ago, demanding restoration of land acquired from local villagers, including his own grandfather’s land over four decades back, is finally back on the ground.

All police personnel in Punjab have been re-designated as “officers” irrespective of whether they hold the rank of a constable or director-general police.
Drawing from the recommendations contained in the draft version of the New Punjab Police Rules, the DGP, Mr P.S. Gill, on Thursday signed an order that designates

Swami Aseemanand, a key suspect in multiple bomb attacks, targeting the Muslim community at Ajmer, Hyderabad and Malegaon, on Thursday, denied a hand in the February 2007 Samjhauta Express bombing, which killed 68 passengers, the majority of whom were Pakistan nationals returning to Lahore after visiting relatives in India.

Prompted by the BJP’s national leadership all the five party ministers and two chief parliamentary secretaries resigned from their positions in the Punjab government in what is being seen as an attempt to limit damage amidst allegations of corruption.