Swami Aseemanand, a key suspect in multiple bomb attacks at Ajmer, Hyderabad, Malegaon and on the Samjhauta Express near Panipat, recorded what is believed to be a confessional statement in the court

Political conferences at the historic Maghi Mela (fair) of Muktsar, on Friday, witnessed a vitriolic exchange between Punjab’s main rival parties wherein the Congress led by former chief minister Amarinder Singh vowed to exact exemplary retribution when in power, while the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal renewed its rhetoric alleging discrimination by New Delhi.

Waiting anxiously for precious onion supplies from across the border, traders in Amritsar say land exports to India are being “deliberately blocked” by Pakistan’s incumbent federal commerce minister.

Significantly changing tack to include the denial of civil liberties of common citizens in addition to its familiar constituency of Sikhs accused of sedition and terrorism, the separatist Dal Khalsa on Tuesday invited the UK-based Amnesty International to probe “the continuing abuse of human rights in Punjab.”

The Punjab police has arrested a senior Sikh cleric whose inflammatory remarks targeting Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh led to violent clashes followed by an indefinite curfew in the southwestern township of Bhiki on Sunday.

Punjab is preparing to enact a new legislation to ensure citizens’ rights with dignity while making civil servants accountable through a system of cash penalties for which they will be personally liable.

Over 50 trucks laden with prized onions cultivated across the border in Pakistan drove across the Attari-Wagah border over Monday and Tuesday as part of a private initiative by Amritsar-based traders, which is expected to ease the skyrocketing onion prices across north Indian states.

In a move that could have far reaching consequences for the most basic democratic institutions, the Punjab government on Wednesday quietly issued an ordinance that omits Section 19 of the Punjab Panchayati Raj Act (1994) which gives elected members of any village panchayat the power to pass a vote of no confidence to remove a “corrupt” or “no-performing” sarpanch

Punjab’s usually reticent bureaucracy, well-known for its almost legendary reluctance in parting with official records under the Right to Information Act, has turned curiously forthcoming on handing o

The Haryana government has ordered the mandatory profiling of all drivers, security guards and other service sector personnel employed with private firms located in Gurgaon.