The Punjab Assembly on Tuesday passed a resolution urging the Centre to ask Pakistan to do away with the condition that pilgrims using the Kartarpur Corridor must hold passports.
Pakistan's Punjab government on Tuesday decided not to extend the bail granted on medical grounds to former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, who is currently in London for treatment, according to media reports.
The opposition SAD and AAP on Saturday slammed Punjab DGP Dinkar Gupta's for his purported statement on the Kartarpur corridor and sought clarification from Chief Minister Amarinder Singh within 24 hours.
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Thursday approved a series of measures to make jails more secure, including AI-enabled CCTV systems, live wire fencing and creation of a separate prison intelligence wing.
Around 30 kg gold was looted by four robbers in Punjab's Ludhiana. Gold was looted from a financing company on February 17. The incident took place around 10:30 am and got captured in CCTV camera which is now being monitored.
The thieves escaped with the money after breaking open the ATM of Punjab National Bank installed outside the gate of a sugar mill unit on Khurja Pahasu state highway late on Saturday night, Superintendent of Police (Crime) Shivram Yadav said.
The first sniffer dog training centre for canines of the Customs Department was started at Attari in Amritsar on February 14.
“The fire broke out in a firecracker shop which engulfed nearby shops also. Fire tenders have been pressed into service to douse the flames,” SHO of Kotwali police station Yashwant Singh said.
At least four students were feared killed on Saturday after their school van caught fire in Longowal town of Punjab’s Sangrur district. The students were reportedly, travelling on the van belonging to Simran Public School in Longowal.
Punjab National Bank (PNB) on Tuesday said there is no proposal to change the name of the bank following the merger of two other public sector lenders Oriental Bank of Commerce (OBC) and United Bank of India (UBI) with itself.
Chief Minister Amarinder Singh had on Saturday ordered a magisterial probe into the incident and also announced an ex-gratia grant of Rs 5 lakh for the kin of the deceased and free treatment to the injured, admitted in the local civil hospital and Guru Nanak Dev Charitable Hospital.
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh has directed the police to ensure that nothing is allowed to disturb Punjab's peace and communal harmony.
At least two children lost their lives and nine others were injured in a firecracker explosion during a religious procession in Punjab's Tarn Taran district on Saturday.
A three-storey building collapses in Punjab's Mohali on February 08. Several people feared trapped under debris.
A 62-year-old private security guard Nirmal Singh is running school for children of migrant labourers.
The Punjab government here on Monday claimed to have wiped out locust from two villages in the Fazilka district along the Indo-Pak border
On Friday, Chief Minister Amarinder Singh had expressed deep concerns over the propagation of violence and gun culture in Punjabi songs.
Special Task Force (STF) Border Range seized around 200 kilogram heroins and arrested 4 people in Punjab's Amritsar.
The Punjab government on Monday transferred 19 IPS officers including a DGP and four ADGPs, an official statement said. Director General of Police (Intelligence) V K Bhawra was appointed the DGP Home Guards and Director Civil Defence, the statement said.
Amid national outrage and polarisation of views over the Citizenship act, Congress' senior leader Kapil Sibal on Saturday stated that no state can deny implementing Citizenship Amendment Act after it was passed in parliament and got signed by the president of India.
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