Pressing on with his new broadside against the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal-BJP Coalition, former chief minister and Punjab Congress chief Capt. Amarinder Singh on Tuesday charged the government of trying to take credit for infrastructure projects planned and initiated under Congress rule.

Amid protests from vegetable merchants over tax raids, the I-T department has unearthed unaccounted money worth over Rs 7 crore from Punjab-based wholesale vegetable merchants, an official said on We

Angry over Pakistan’s decision to block overland onion exports to India, Amritsar’s traders blocked the movement of Indian tomatoes, other fresh vegetables and meat meant for consumer markets in Lahore, Rawalpindi, Islamabad and Karachi.

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.

Notifying a new “victim compensation policy”, the Punjab Cabinet on Monday approved the princely sum of `30,000 for women who fall prey to rapists and `40,000 for victims who lose an arms or a leg. The monetary compensation policy, which has been formulated following directions from the Punjab and Haryana high court, seeks to recompense victims or their dependants who suffer injury or loss as a result of a crime where the perpetrator goes unpunished.

The Haryana government will assist industrial units in the state garner carbon credits via a new centralised cell that will advise entrepreneurs on optimal technologies.

Steered deftly by Union parliamentary affairs minister Pawan Kumar Bansal, the Congress kicked off the New Year with a clean sweep of Chandigarh’s mayoral elections on Saturday morning.

In yet another case of suspected honour killing, a 14-year-old girl was allegedly strangled to death and the body dumped into a drain at Champanura area in Rohtak, a senior police official said here o

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.