A rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) on Monday hit the Punjab Police Intelligence wing headquarters in Mohali with police saying a 'minor explosion'.
As per sources in the Punjab government, the blast is not a terrorist incident. The Punjab Police Intelligence department has its own explosives due to which the blast took place.
The four suspected Pakistan linked terrorists on their way to Telangana to deliver explosives were nabbed in Haryana's Karnal on Thursday and arms, ammunition and IEDs were recovered from the vehicle they were travelling in, senior police officials said.
Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann is not happy with the police probe so far. The top police officials' late response to the violence has irked the CM.
The fire brigade officials after getting the information rushed to spot and controlled leakage and brought the situation under control.
Among the IPS officers who have been shuffled is the DIG of the newly formed Anti-Gangster Task Force, Gurpreet Singh Bhullar, who has been transferred and posted as the DIG of Rupnagar Range, replacing Arun Kumar Mittal.
Punjab Cabinet portfolio distribution: There are 18 berths in the Cabinet, including the Chief Minister, but Bhagwant Mann has gone for a lean cabinet.
The FIR against the Akali Dal leader comes hours after a crossfire, where the EC had registered a complaint against AAP's Kejriwal as well.
Akali Dal had filed a complaint against Kejriwal after he released a video levelling allegations against Sukhbir Badal-led party.
CM Channi filed his nomination papers from the Bhadaur (SC) seat in Barnala district today. After filing his nomination papers, Channi said the Congress party has directed him to contest from Bhadaur seat.
On Tuesday, Congress accused the BJP and its government at the Centre of defaming Punjab and Punjabiyat by raiding a relative of Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi in an old case.
Majithia was booked under Section 25/27A/29 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (NDPS) Act on the basis of a report submitted by the Special Task Force.
Union Home Ministry had sought a report from the Punjab government on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's security breach within two days.
Officials said that the role of the woman in the blast is still being probed.
A blast inside the district court complex earlier on Thursday left one person dead and three injured, police said. According to reports, the blast took place inside a bathroom on the second floor of the court building.
Another man was beaten to death by a mob over a sacrilege attempt in Punjab's Kapurthala, a day after a person who hailed from UP was killed by an angry crowd for sacrilege attempt inside the sanctum sanctorum of the Golden Temple.
The Kartarpur Corridor, which links Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Pakistan, the final resting place of Sikhism founder Guru Nanak Dev, to Dera Baba Nanak shrine in Gurdaspur district, reopened on Wednesday.
According to sources, CM Charanjit Singh Channi along with close cabinet colleagues and their families went to Kartarpur after reopening on November 17 but did not include Navjot Singh Sindhu in the list of 50 people given to MHA.
Jagtar Singh, AAP MLA from Raikot, on Thursday stood up in the House and said Punjab has got the real 'Aam Aadmi' in the form of Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi whereas AAP has reduced to just being called 'Aam Aadmi Ki party for name-sake'.
In view of the heavy uproar, the audio of the House was muted.
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