The Shahi Imam of Indian Punjab, Maulana Habib-ur-Rehman Saani Ludhianvi, has threatened to issue a fatwa (diktat) excommunicating Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Mr Nawaz Sharif from Islam.

Disclosures made by Brigadier Devinder Singh, commander of the Batalik-based 70 Infantry Brigade during the 1999 Kargil War, have caste a cloud on the role of several Indian Army generals, including three officers who subsequently went on to become chiefs.

Former Haryana DGP Shambhu Pratap Singh Rathore is finally in jail for molesting 14-year-old schoolgirl Ruchika Girhotra in August 1990 after a Chandigarh court on Tuesday confirmed his conviction by the trial court and enhanced his original jail term from six to 18 months.

The Canadian high commission in New Delhi may have sparked off a major diplomatic row by rejecting a former BSF head constable’s application for immigration and terming the Indian border force a notoriously violent paramilitary unit responsible for attacks on civilians and torturing suspected criminals.

Beer for peanuts? Well not exactly but liquor contractors out to make a whole lot of cash while the sun scorches across Punjab insist on handing out a pack of roasted peanuts with every bottle of the super strong brew. It’s a marketing exercise that will have all the yuppie corporate whizkids chewing their nails.

Suspected Khalistani terrorists shot dead Sant Pradhan Singh, the local head of the Dera Maidas Nirmali — a little known religious sect based in Village Baddon in Punjab’s Hoshiarpur District.

The father of the 14-year-old Chandigarh schoolgirl who committed suicide after she was molested by former Haryana DGP S.P.S. Rathore, has alleged a fresh conspiracy aimed at influencing the judiciary in favour of the disgraced police officer who already stands convicted.

Having already offended political veteran Mulayam Singh Yadav and Lalu Prasad Yadav, Bharatiya Janata Party president Nitin Gadkari has now drawn the ire most Punjabi politicians in suggesting the nationalisation of

“Upper caste jats who fear losing their centuries-old hegemony in Haryana are trying to project the scourge of honour killings as an emotional caste issue to force their will on everyone else,” says All-India Democratic Women’s Association chief Jagmati Sanghwan who has been spearheading an alternate battle to free Haryanvis from brutal medieval mindsets.

The police in Punjab’s border district of Tarn Taran have launched a manhunt for killers who shot dead a 50-year-old woman and her newly wed daughter-in-law in what appears to be yet another “honour” crime.