Punjab
Sikhs one of the top targets of hate crimes in US: Community leaders
Washington: Sikhs are one of the top targets of hate crimes and sectarian violence in the US, the community leaders have said as they remembered victims of the 2012 mass shooting by a white supremacist that claimed the lives of six Sikhs at a Gurdwara in the Wisconsin city. Several eminent Sikh-Americans from across the US, lawmakers, government officials and local leaders participated in prayers held on the weekend to mark the five-year anniversary of the mass shooting.
More braid-cutting cases surface, police puzzled
Moga: With three more incidents of braid-cutting being reported in the state, the police continued to remain clueless about such cases. A 55-year-old woman hailing from Mandheke village in Moga has alleged that her hair was chopped off on the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday.
Social boycott: SC panel team visits Sangrur village
Sangrur: A three-member team of the Punjab Scheduled Castes Commission today visited Dhandiwal village following allegations of social boycott of Dalit labourers by upper caste farmers over the rate of daily wages.
CM greets people on Rakhsha Bandhan
Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has extended warm greetings to all Punjabis across the globe on the auspicious occasion of Raksha Bandhan (Rakhri).
CBI arrests Chandigarh SDM, her husband, middleman in Rs 50k bribery case?
Chandigarh: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested Shilpy Pattar Dutt, sub-divisional magistrate (east), Chandigarh, her husband Dhiraj and a middleman GS Brar in graft case.
Braid-chop hysteria grips state, 10 cases in a day
Muktsar: At least 10 new cases of braid chopping were reported in the state on Saturday, with seven of them from Muktsar alone.
Boy cooked up kidnap story to meet grandfather
Morinda: The ‘kidnapping’ of a local 11-year-old boy two days ago on Thursday turned out to be a cooked-up story.
Duleep Singh’s kin moves court against filmmakers of 'Black Prince'
Amritsar: Alleging distortion of facts, city-based Damandeep Singh Sandhawalia has moved the Delhi High Court against the makers of Hollywood film “The Black Prince”. Damandeep’s ancestor Thakur Singh Sandhawalia was a cousin of Maharaja Duleep Singh, on whose life the film is based.
Americans call to combat racism, violence on 5th anniversary of Wisconsin gurdwara shooting
Washington: Cutting across party lines, various people in the US have called for combating racism, intolerance and violence during the fifth anniversary of the tragic Oak Creek massacre that killed six innocent Sikhs five years ago.
STF arrests 5 police officials, 3 persons for snatching heroine, cash form drug trafficker
Chandigarh: In its drive against drug trafficking, the Special Task Force Punjab today arrested five police personnel attached with State Counter Intelligence and three private persons who have snatched 300 gm heroin and extorted Rs 8 lakh from a drug trafficker by impersonating as STF unit Fazilka.