Brother kills sister for ‘honour’
Emulating the horrific spate of honour killings in neighbouring Haryana, Punjab witnessed its fifth instance of similar crimes on Wednesday when a young man strangled and killed his 14-year-old sister
Artefacts missing from old cemetery
The authorities in Haryana have ordered an inquest into the disappearance of sculpted marble tombstones and other artefacts from the Victorian Age cemetery in Ambala district.
18 grenades dug out on Punjab farm
A Border Security Force (BSF) frontier patrol has reported the recovery of 18 live hand grenades buried on a farm in Punjab’s Ferozepur district.
Pak prisoner ‘missing’ from jail in Amritsar
In a dramatic development, a mentally-challenged Pakistani prisoner has gone “missing” from Amritsar’s high security jail.
Charges framed against 9 accused
The Central Bureau of Investigation special court at Ambala, on Tuesday, framed charges against nine persons accused in the infamous 2008 Gurgaon kidney scam.
Auto fuel retailers to go on indefinite strike from Sep 20
The Federation of All-India Petroleum Traders (FAIPT) on Wednesday said it will go on an indefinite strike from September 20 to press for demands such as raising the commission on fuel sales and a uni
Yashwant salve for Akalis
Former Union finance minister Yashwant Sinha appears to have applied a balm on the worsening relations between the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Shiromani Akali Dal which had recently witnessed publi
BJP: Akalis ignoring us in decision-making
Airing grievances in public yet again senior Bharatiya Janata Party leaders on Wednesday accused the Shiromani Akali Dal flouting the “coalition dharma” while taking important policy decisions in Punjab.
Youth hurls shoe at Haryana CM
Inspired by the string of shoe-throwing protests in recent years, a Haryanvi youth took of his boot and hurled it towards the dais as chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda was addressing a public meeting in the southern township of Mahendragarh on Sunday.
‘Sikhs must lend helping hand’
The separatist Sikh group Dal Khalsa while condemning the recent threat letters as “the handiwork of state-sponsored actors,” has called upon Sikh communities in Jammu and Kashmir to “lend a helping hand to their Kashmiri brethren in their hour of crisis”.