In a mega crackdown on drug mafia, Punjab Police arrested 258 drug smugglers and seized over 100 kilograms narcotics worth Rs 20.5 lakh in a week. Officials said they also arrested 188 people and recovered 10,269 Chinese Dor (Deadly strings), during the raids conducted last week.
Police sources added that they suspects were to receive Rs 50 lakh on killing the first target, Rs 1 crore for taking out the second and Rs 1.5 crore for eliminating the third.
Meanwhile, over North India, cold wave to severe cold wave conditions are very likely over many parts of Rajasthan, Punjab and Haryana, Chandigarh and Delhi till January 17 and thereafter in isolated pockets on January 18.
Murdered Punjabi singer Sidhu Moose Wala's father Balkaur Singh joined the Bharat Jodo Yatra led by Rahul Gandhi as it resumed from Jalandhar district in Punjab.
The Police said the arrested accused has involvement in the targeted killing of Pardeep Singh persons outside his shop in Kotkapura on November 10 last year.
Ashwani Sharma, the state president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday hit out at the Aam Admi Party (AAP) led government in the state, saying the law and order situation in the state is 'deteriorating'.
Foreign Minister of Pakistan and the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari announced that his party would support Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif if there is a vote of confidence by a President's order, reported The Express Tribune.
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chairman Nawaz Sharif on Saturday directed party leaders to start preparing for provincial elections in Punjab with full force, the Express Tribune reported, adding the decision was conveyed by the former PM.