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1 month ago

PM security breach in Punjab: SC rejects state’s plea for statements of witnesses

The Supreme Court on Friday turned down the Punjab government’s plea seeking statements of witnesses who have deposed before former apex court judge Indu Malhotra to probe the security breach during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the state in January 2022. The state may conduct its inquiry against delinquent officers without the aid of the statements said to have …

Security Prime Court State Committee Minister Punjab

1 month ago

Cops nab 3 suspects of bank robberies in Ferozepur

Hindustan Times

Police on Thursday arrested three persons for their alleged involvement in a series of bank robberies at Zira in Ferozepur district. Saumya Mishra, senior superintendent of police, has identified the apprehended suspects as Jaspreet Singh alias Jas Gill, Gurvinder Singh alias Nikka, and Raqbir Singh alias Raju. “Stolen items, including six laptops, a 12-bore gun, six live cartridges, a motorcycle, …

Ssp Zira Cops Nab Bank Robberies

1 month ago

2 arrested with 1kg heroin in Ferozepur

Hindustan Times

Counter-intelligence, Ferozepur, arrested two smugglers with 1kg of heroin on Wednesday. Giving details, Lakhbir Singh, assistant inspector general, counter-intelligence, Ferozepur, said that the police team apprehended two suspects, identified as Sandeep Singh alias Lala, a resident of Mumbe Ke village in Fazilka, and Paramjit Singh alias Bhutti, a resident of Asif Wala village also in Fazilka Giving details, Lakhbir Singh, …

Ferozepur Singh Fazilka

1 month, 1 week ago

Punjab: Ferozepur police seize cache of arms, zero in on two accused

Hindustan Times

Cracking down on illegal arms trafficking, Punjab Police have seized a cache of weapons, including 11 pistols and 21 magazines, in the border district of Ferozepur, DGP Gaurav Yadav said on Thursday. Punjab Police seized a cache of weapons, including 11 pistols and 21 magazines, from two motorcycle-borne suspects in Ferozepur district on Wednesday night. Congratulating Ferozepur police on the …

Ferozepur Punjab Police

1 month, 1 week ago

‘Drunk’ brother behind firing at Ferozepur bride: Police

Hindustan Times

A day after a 23-year-old bride sustained a forehead injury after being shot at during her farewell ceremony following her wedding, her brother, along with owner of the marriage palace, has been booked, the Ferozepur police said on Monday. According to superintendent of police Randhir Kumar, electronic gadgets along with videos of the event will be scrutinised and the legality …

Ferozepur

1 month, 1 week ago

Contractor held, officials booked for illegal mining in Punjab’s Ferozepur

Hindustan Times

Chandigarh : The Punjab vigilance bureau has arrested a contractor involved in illegal mining in Ferozepur district between 2018 and 2019 allegedly in collusion with officials and employees of the state mining department. The Punjab vigilance bureau has arrested a contractor involved in illegal mining in Ferozepur district between 2018 and 2019 allegedly in collusion with officials and employees of …

Illegal Mining Department Punjab Ferozepur Fir Illegal Mahavir Singh

1 month, 2 weeks ago

Districts tour: Punjab guv proposes appointment nodal officers for VDCs

Hindustan Times

Punjab governor Gulab Chand Kataria on Tuesday began a four-day visit to the state’s border districts and proposed appointment of nodal officers for Village Defence Committees in each village. Punjab governor Gulab Chand Kataria paying homage to freedom fighters at Hussainiwala Martyrs’ Memorial in Ferozepur on Tuesday. While addressing VDC members in the village of Jodha Bhaini, near the India-Pakistan …

India Border Kataria Ferozepur Governor Vdc

1 month, 2 weeks ago

Punjab: CI nabs absconding ‘smuggler’ in 77-kg drug haul case

Hindustan Times

The Ferozepur counter intelligence on Tuesday apprehended a suspected smuggler in connection with an NDPS case involving recovery of 77.8kg heroin last year. Lakhbir Singh, assistant inspector general, CI, said that the Ferozepur CI had recovered 77.8kg of heroin, three pistols, six magazines and 115 live cartridges in August last year. “The contraband was reportedly smuggled from across the Indo-Pak …

Ferozepur Case Singh

2 months ago

Former MLA, BJP leader and nephew arrested for peddling heroin in Punjab

New Indian Express

Punjab police have arrested a former MLA and her nephew for peddling heroin. The former MLA, Satkar Kaur Gehri, was an elected Congress MLA from Ferozepur Rural in 2017 and later joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 2022 after the Congress denied her the ticket. Her nephew, Jaskeerat Singh, was driving the car and was also arrested along with …

Chandigarh

2 months, 1 week ago

{‘Tardy’ paddy procurement } 17 trains affected as farmers block roads, squat on tracks

Hindustan Times

Several trains were either cancelled, diverted or rescheduled as Punjab farmers on Sunday blocked roads and squatted on rail tracks across the state as part of their protest against the alleged ‘tardy’ paddy procurement operations during the ongoing kharif marketing season. In Punjab, procurement officially began on October 1 but various factors including paucity of space with Food Corporation of …

Procurement Protest State Punjab Block Rail Bku Ekta Ugrahan

2 months, 2 weeks ago

Punjab panchayat polls: Police file FIR against 750 unidentified persons

Hindustan Times

A day after a clash between activists of the Aam Aadmi Party and the Congress during the nomination process for the upcoming panchayat elections, which left former Congress MLA Kulbir Singh Zira and two others injured, the Ferozepur police have booked ‘750 unidentified persons’ for rioting, attempt to murder and violation under of the Arms Act. As the situation escalated, …

Congress Ferozepur Fir Nomination Zira

2 months, 3 weeks ago

Amid boycott by arhtiyas, labourers, 730-tonne paddy procured on Day 1

Hindustan Times

Amid strike by arhtiyas, labourers and rice mill owners, the Punjab government announced the beginning of the paddy procurement from Tuesday that saw about 1,000-tonne freshly harvested grain reaching the over 1,800 mandis of the state. Muktsar district mandi officer Ahaypal Brar said the authorities have made ample arrangements to purchase 9 lakh tonnes of paddy. “The government may store …

Rice Procurement Paddy State Punjab Bathinda Ferozepur

3 months ago

Haryana elections: In Mewat, cow vigilantism remains key electoral issue

Hindustan Times

A loudspeaker perched atop an auto-rickshaw in Nuh announces on the loop that soon there will be an end to “terror of cow vigilantes”, claiming that the Congress is coming to power in Haryana after a decade. Khan was arrested on September 14 last year on charges of spreading fake news related to communal riots in Nuh the previous month, …

Vigilante Hindu Bjp Muslim Khan Cow Vigilantes

3 months, 2 weeks ago

PSPCL employee caught taking ₹10,000 as ‘bribe’

Hindustan Times

The Punjab Vigilance Bureau on Monday arrested Som Nath, an assistant lineman, posted at the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited office in Dagru village of Moga district, red-handed while he was reportedly accepting a bribe of ₹10,000. The Vigilance Bureau, Ferozepur range, laid a trap to arrest Som Nath accepting bribe from a complainant in presence of two official witnesses. …

Ferozepur Ferozepur Range Som Nath Pending Bills Pspcl Sdo

4 months ago

Narco-terrorism needs to be dealt with iron hand: HC

Hindustan Times

The Punjab and Haryana high court has dismissed the bail plea of a Ferozepur resident accused of being involved in narco-terrorism and illegal weapon trade from across the border. Therefore, offences of this kind are to be dealt with an iron hand,” the bench of justice Jasjit Singh Bedi observed while dismissing the plea. Police further claimed that a raid …

Case Ferozepur Narco

4 months, 2 weeks ago

Five children among seven hurt in Ferozepur gurdwara cylinder blast

Hindustan Times

A cylinder blast in Gurdwara Jamani Sahib in Bazidpur village, 6 km from Ferozepur city, left seven persons, including five students, injured on Friday. Gurdwara Jamani Sahib holds historical importance as it is believed that Guru Gobind Singh visited the site after the battle of Sri Muktsar Sahib. In a statement, PSCPCR chairman Kanwardeep Singh said the district administration has …

Ferozepur Singh Injured Bazidpur Gurdwara Jamani Sahib

4 months, 3 weeks ago

Ferozepur man shot dead by rivals

Hindustan Times

Ferozepur: One person was shot dead while two others were injured in an attack near Ferozepur on Wednesday, officials said. One person was shot dead while two others were injured in an attack near Ferozepur on Wednesday, officials said. The incident occurred when Lovepreet Singh, 25, from Naorang village, along with his 42-year-old uncle Mahendra Pal, 23-year-old friend Rohit Ahuja …

Mahendra Pal Rohit Ahuja Rivals Ferozepur Lovepreet

4 months, 3 weeks ago

Train from Jammu evacuated in Punjab after bomb threat; 1 held in W Bengal for hoax call

Hindustan Times

A bomb threat was reported on the Jammu Tawi-Bhagat Ki Kothi Express near Ferozepur on Tuesday morning, prompting immediate action by security forces, including the Punjab Police and the Railway Protection Force amid high alert in the region. Six hours later, the threat was found to be a hoax and the caller was traced and detained in West Bengal in …

West Bengal Threat Train Ferozepur Jammu Bomb Threat Ferozepur Cantt

5 months ago

Three killed in collision on Gurugram-Alwar highway

Hindustan Times

Three men were killed in a collision on the Gurugram-Alwar highway on Sunday, said police. “When the car was crossing the village Nasirbas in Ferozepur Jhirka, the speeding dumper rammed into the car ahead of us,” said a victim’s father. Police said that the three were friends, adding that Rohan and Jitendra worked together in a company and were traveling …

Car Rohan Ferozepur Jhirka Village Nasirbas

5 months ago

1kg heroin, ₹2.65L seized in Bathinda, 3 arrested

Hindustan Times

The Bathinda police arrested three “drug smugglers” and seized a kilogram of heroin besides ₹2.65 lakh drug money from them on Saturday. Bathinda senior superintendent of police Deepak Pareek said a police team was carrying out checking near the Sirhind canal ring road in Bathinda when it spotted a car near the tracks. Ganesh is also facing five cases under …

Bathinda Ferozepur Drug Fazilka Tarsem

5 months ago

IT City carjackers involved in 50 snatchings in tricity: Cops

Hindustan Times

The two carjackers who landed in Mohali police’s net on Tuesday are involved in at least 50 snatching cases across the tricity, apart from murder bid on a cab driver on Airport Road near IT City, police said on Wednesday. The duo, Dharminder alias Sunny of Kapurthala and Lucky alias Kala of Ferozepur, landed in Mohali police’s net on Tuesday …

Car City Case Ferozepur Mohali Snatching Zirakpur

5 months, 1 week ago

ED raids premises of liquor baron Deep Malhotra in Punjab

Hindustan Times

The Enforcement Directorate raided the residence and companies of liquor baron and former Shiromani Akali Dal MLA Deep Malhotra and his associates in Faridkot and Ferozepur districts on Tuesday. Paramilitary forces outside the Faridkot residence of liquor baron Deep Malhotra during the ED raid on Tuesday. The ED teams from Delhi, accompanied by central paramilitary forces, raided six locations linked …

Ferozepur Faridkot Malhotra Premises Liquor Baron Deep Malhotra Ferozepur Districts

6 months, 2 weeks ago

No Modi magic, BJP draws a blank in Punjab

Hindustan Times

Contesting the Lok Sabha polls on its own after 1996 with focus on Hindu factors and Modi “magic”, the Bharatiya Janata Party has ended up with a duck in Punjab. The saffron party increased its vote share almost 12% more as compared to the previous 2022 assembly polls when it contested without its traditional alliance partner SAD and bagged 6.6% …

Sikh Vote Patiala Bjp Punjab Bathinda Ferozepur

6 months, 3 weeks ago

Punjab: Rajpura AAP MLA gets notice, Ferozepur BSP candidate booked for recording voting

Hindustan Times

Aam Aadmi Party MLA Neena Mittal was issued a notice for violating the election model code of conduct by using her cell phone to videograph her casting the vote at a polling booth in Rajpura on Saturday. A notice was also issued to Sangrur BJP candidate Arvind Khanna for sporting the party symbol inside the polling booth. The Sangrur returning …

Vote Punjab Ferozepur Mla Sangrur Polling Mann

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PM security breach in Punjab: SC rejects state’s plea for statements of witnesses

Cops nab 3 suspects of bank robberies in Ferozepur

2 arrested with 1kg heroin in Ferozepur

Punjab: Ferozepur police seize cache of arms, zero in on two accused

‘Drunk’ brother behind firing at Ferozepur bride: Police

Contractor held, officials booked for illegal mining in Punjab’s Ferozepur

Districts tour: Punjab guv proposes appointment nodal officers for VDCs

Punjab: CI nabs absconding ‘smuggler’ in 77-kg drug haul case

Former MLA, BJP leader and nephew arrested for peddling heroin in Punjab

{‘Tardy’ paddy procurement } 17 trains affected as farmers block roads, squat on tracks

Punjab panchayat polls: Police file FIR against 750 unidentified persons

Amid boycott by arhtiyas, labourers, 730-tonne paddy procured on Day 1

Haryana elections: In Mewat, cow vigilantism remains key electoral issue

PSPCL employee caught taking ₹10,000 as ‘bribe’

Narco-terrorism needs to be dealt with iron hand: HC

Five children among seven hurt in Ferozepur gurdwara cylinder blast

Ferozepur man shot dead by rivals

Train from Jammu evacuated in Punjab after bomb threat; 1 held in W Bengal for hoax call

Three killed in collision on Gurugram-Alwar highway

1kg heroin, ₹2.65L seized in Bathinda, 3 arrested

IT City carjackers involved in 50 snatchings in tricity: Cops

ED raids premises of liquor baron Deep Malhotra in Punjab

No Modi magic, BJP draws a blank in Punjab

Punjab: Rajpura AAP MLA gets notice, Ferozepur BSP candidate booked for recording voting