Last Updated: Monday, June 23, 2014, 14:37
The National Human Rights Commission has taken suo motu cognizance of a media report that 105 families of Scheduled Castes have been facing social boycott by upper caste people in Baopur village of Moonak Sub-Division of District Sangrur, Punjab since May 15 of this year.
Last Updated: Sunday, June 22, 2014, 23:35
Seven deaths were reported due to heat wave in Punjab and a girl died in a thunderstorm in Uttar Pradesh as light to moderate rains brought the much needed relief from the blistering hot weather prevailing in the region for the last few days.
Last Updated: Sunday, June 22, 2014, 22:26
At least seven people, including two ITBP personnel, died due to heatwave in parts of Punjab.
Last Updated: Sunday, June 22, 2014, 21:10
Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today urged all political parties to avoid politics over the sensitive issue of Punjabis trapped in Iraqi civil war.
Last Updated: Sunday, June 22, 2014, 21:05
Two drug peddlers were arrested by police from two separate places here and 11 grams of heroin was recovered from their possession.
Last Updated: Sunday, June 22, 2014, 19:08
Four policemen, including two head Constables, have been suspended for allegedly conniving with a jail inmate to smuggle drugs into the local prison, police said on Sunday.
Last Updated: Sunday, June 22, 2014, 19:00
Congress Deputy Leader in the Lok Sabha Amarinder Singh on Sunday questioned Parkash Singh Badal`s opposition to the creation of a separate SGPC for Haryana while supporting the move for managing affairs of Sikhs in the neighbouring state.
Last Updated: Sunday, June 22, 2014, 16:07
Two of the six persons, who sustained burn injuries in a fire following leakage of a cooking gas cylinder at Dogra Mohalla here, succumbed to their wounds today, police said.
Last Updated: Sunday, June 22, 2014, 13:36
Nearly 700 people from Punjab and Haryana are stuck in strife-torn Iraq, officials from both states said Sunday.
Last Updated: Sunday, June 22, 2014, 00:50
Punjab minister Sarwan Singh Phillaur today resigned from the government "on moral grounds" following recent reports of alleged involvement of a family member in drug trade.
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