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Pakistan: Woman commits suicide over inflated electricity bill in Punjab
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
A 65-year-old woman, Razia Bibi suffering from a hernia, committed suicide after using her treatment money to pay an unexpected electricity bill
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"Education and health are our priorities": Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
Terming Aam Aadmi Clinics (AACs) as a gamechanger in imparting primary healthcare facilities to the people of Punjab, state Health and Family Welfare, Medical Education and Research Minister Dr Balbir Singh on Thursday said the government is now focusing on further strengthening the tertiary
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Pakistan: Minority Ahmadiyya community member shot dead in Punjab
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
Jamaat Ahmadiyya Pakistan spokesman has condemned the killing of Zakaur Rehman. He said that the victim was an official of the local Jamaat chapter.
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Punjab Police busts international drug network; 2 held with Rs 1.07 crore
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
Amidst the ongoing war against drugs waged on the directions of Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, Counter Intelligence Amritsar has seized over Rs 1.07 crore drug money and apprehended two operatives of foreign-based top drug smugglers Gurjant Singh alias Bholu and Kinderbir Singh alias Sunny Dy
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Punjab-based travel agent held at Delhi Airport for arranging fake visa
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
The passenger, who had arrived at the IGI airport on July 23 as a deportee from the Netherlands, was refused boarding for Canada, as per the press release issued by the Indira Gandhi Airport Police.
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Punjab: Jalandhar Police busts drug network, 9 held from multiple locatio
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
An FIR has been registered against the accused and further backward linkages are being investigated to incapacitate the illegal arms and drug cartels, police said.
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President Murmu accepts Banwari Lal's resignation, appoints governors for
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
Gulab Chand Kataria, Governor of Assam, has been appointed Governor of Punjab and has also been appointed Administrator of the Union Territory of Chandigarh.
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Pakistan: Authorities impose Section 144 in Quetta
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
The district administration also placed containers for an indefinite period on the roads entering and leaving the city of Quetta, including Maghrib Bypass, Hazar Ganji, Lakpass and Sibi Road.
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Punjab National Bank's Q1 net profit surges by 159 per cent to Rs 3,252 cr
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
The Return on Assets (RoA) improved markedly to 0.82 per cent from 0.34 per cent, while the Return on Equity (RoE) saw a notable rise to 16.82 per cent from 7.50 per cent a year earlier.
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"No state is treated step-motherly...": Union Minister Satish Chandra Dube
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
Chief Ministers of opposition-led states including Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Himachal Pradesh, Telangana, Delhi and Punjab boycotted the 9th NITI Aayog's Governing Council meeting chaired by PM Modi at the Rashtrapati Bhavan Cultural Centre in the national capital.
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Pak: Several Jamaat-e-Islami supporters arrested amid police crackdown in
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
Several JI workers who were heading to D-Chowk in Islamabad to hold a sit-in were held and shifted to an unknown place in prisoner vans.
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Indian security forces better coordinated now to face threat emanating fro
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
Punjab governor Banwarilal Purohit on Friday said that there is better coordination now among Indian security forces to ward off security threats emanating from Pakistan.
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