Leading automobile manufacturer Tata Motors has launched a registered vehicle scrapping facility (RVSF) in Punjab, which will be the company’s fourth such unit. Named ‘Re.Wi.Re – Recycle with Respect,’ the facility was unveiled in Morinda by Shailesh Chandra, Managing Director, Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles and Tata Passenger Electric Mobility, a company statement said here on […]
The destination of the pilgrims is Sri Hazur Sahib in Maharashtra’s Nanded. The Aam Aadmi Party government in Punjab on Monday launched a free pilgrimage scheme in the state, on the lines of the programme which has been running in Delhi since 2019. Buses carrying the first batch of devotees under the ‘Mukhya Mantri Tirth […]
Farmers are also demanding the withdrawal of cases filed against them during stir against farm laws Chandigarh: Farmer leaders will meet the Punjab governor on Tuesday in connection with their various demands as the three-day protest under the banner of Samyukta Kisan Morcha continued for the second day on Monday. Scores of farmers gathered at […]
BSF troops intercepted one of the drones near Agwan village in Gurdaspur Chandigarh: Two drones were found near the India-Pakistan border in Punjab’s Gurdaspur and Tarn Taran districts on Sunday, a BSF official said. Border Security Force (BSF) troops intercepted one of the drones near Agwan village in Gurdaspur in the intervening night of November […]
Police said the accused were supplying heroin across Punjab after getting them smuggled from Pakistan Chandigarh: With the arrest of two men and seizure of six kilograms of heroin from their possession, the Punjab Police on Sunday claimed to have busted a cross-border drugs-smuggling racket operated by a US-based smuggler. Commissioner of Police, Amritsar, Gurpreet […]
Maximum of 21 drones were seized in October–19 from Punjab and two from Rajasthan frontier. Amritsar (Punjab): Border Security Force Punjab Frontier and India’s first line of defence intercepted a Pakistani drone and recovered a pistol and 5.240kg of heroin from Pakistan at Village Chak Allah Baksh, District Amritsar. “In the early morning hours of […]
A total of seven police officers have been suspended in connection with the security breach during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Punjab last year. These include the then Superintendent of Police in Ferozepur district and two DSP-rank officers. The security breach took place on January 5 last year when Prime Minister Modi was in […]
The rail traffic was disrupted for some time (Representational) Ludhiana: An allegedly inebriated truck driver left his vehicle onto a railway track here, minutes before a train was to cross the stretch, officials said. On being alerted, the loco pilot slowed down the train and halted it a few metres away from the truck, averting […]
Harjot Bains said necessary requirements regarding online attendance should be completed by December 12 Chandigarh: Punjab School Education Minister Harjot Singh Bains on Saturday ordered to start an online attendance system for students of government schools from December 15. While issuing an order in this regard to the officials of the Education Department, Mr Bains […]
Around 250 ex-servicemen reportedly sat on dharna at the railway station Patiala: A group of ex-servicemen squatted on railway tracks at the Shambhu railway station in this Punjab district for nearly 12 hours on Saturday when they were stopped from heading to Delhi for a protest over alleged anomalies in the “One Rank One Pension” […]
