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Woman gets life term for killing adopted girl

Shimla, Aug. 6 -- Terming the act as "barbaric", a local court in Nahan convicted and awarded life imprisonment to a woman for thrashing her 4-year-old adopted daughter to death in 2020. The court of ... Read More


Don't stop outstation vehiclesneedlessly: UT DGP to cops

Chandigarh, Aug. 6 -- Director general of police (DGP) Sagar Preet Hooda has instructed all Chandigarh traffic police personnel to refrain from unnecessarily stopping vehicles with outstation number p... Read More


Pharma, chips tariffs coming 'next week or so': US president

Washington, Aug. 6 -- President Donald Trump said US tariffs on semiconductor and pharmaceutical imports would be announced "within the next week or so". "We'll be putting an initially small tariff on... Read More


Assembly's select panel 100 public inputs

Chandigarh, Aug. 6 -- A 15-member select committee of the Punjab assembly, tasked with holding wider consultations on the Punjab Prevention of Offences Against Holy Scriptures(s) Bill, 2025, has recei... Read More


Missing Batala boy's body found buried in mother's courtyard

Batala, Aug. 6 -- In a chilling breakthrough, 11 years after a 12-year-old boy disappeared from a village in Batala in 2014, police have solved the mystery, finding his remains in the courtyard of his... Read More


VB busts fake licence racket in Gurdaspur, MVI among 4 held

Chandigarh/Gurdaspur, Aug. 6 -- Continuing its crackdown on corruption in the Punjab transport department, the Vigilance Bureau (VB)has unearthed a fake heavy vehicle driving licence racket in Gurdasp... Read More


NIA conducts searches in 3 border districts

Amritsar, Aug. 6 -- The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday conducted searches at 19 locations across Punjab in connection with the terror grenade attack on a temple in Amritsar in March th... Read More


PCS prelims on October 26: PPSC

Patiala, Aug. 6 -- The Punjab Public Service Commission (PPSC) on Tuesday announced that it would conduct the preliminary examination of the Punjab State Civil Services Combined Competitive Examinatio... Read More


Farmer Rallies against land pooling policy on Aug 11, 20

Jalandhar, Aug. 6 -- The Sanyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) (non-political) on Tuesday said it had decided to hold a "kisan maha rally" against state government's land pooling scheme in Jalandhar's Kukkad vil... Read More


Kanungo arrested for taking bribe

Jalandhar, Aug. 6 -- The Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB) on Monday arrested a kanungo, Jatinder Singh, posted in Shahkot, for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs.2,000. An official spokesperson for the VB ... Read More