The police detained Fiza Mohammad aka Anuradha Bali, the estranged second wife of former Haryana deputy chief minister Chander Mohan, following complaints that she had verbally abused and pelted stone

Religious functionaries loyal to the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal padlocked the doors of a gurdwara to prevent former finance minister Manpreet Badal from addressing a congregation.

In a huge security breach unidentified miscreants ransacked and burgled former Punjab finance minister Manpreet Badal’s office in the heavily guarded state civil secretariat building at Chandigarh past midnight on Friday.

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

The Punjab and Haryana high court on Tuesday commuted the death sentence of Jagtar Singh Hawara, the mastermind in the sensational killing of chief minister Beant Singh in 1995, to life imprisonment "

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

Former Punjab chief minister Capt. Amarinder Singh made a triumphant re-entry into the Punjab Vidhan Sabha on Wednesday two years after the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal-Bharatiya Janata Party alliance used their majority numbers to “illegally” expel him from the House.

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