MOHALI: Former Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal, 95, was admitted to a private hospital in Mohali on Saturday evening. The hospital released a statement stating that Badal was admitted with gastritis and bronchial asthma. Badal is under the treatment of Dr Deepak Bhasin and Dr Digambar Behera; he is improving with all his parameters … Read more
NEW DELHI: Former Punjab Congress chief Sunil Jakhar on Saturday announced his decision to quit the party. The decision follows his suspension by the party for two years. He has wished the party luck in a live session on Facebook. “…Good luck and goodbye Congress…” he said. He said while he is upset and pained, … Read more
LONDON: One of T20 cricket’s all-time greats, Chris Gayle has revealed that he opted out of IPL 2022 because of lack of respect, saying he “wasn’t treated properly” in the last couple of years despite doing so much. The swashbuckling West Indian has been one of the top performers with the bat since the inception … Read more
NEW DELHI: Punjab Police’s arrest of BJP leader Tajinder Bagga on Friday triggered a massive confrontation not just between the governments of Punjab and Haryana but also the Aam Aadmi Party and the BJP at the Centre. A spokesperson of the Delhi unit of BJP, Bagga was arrested for some allegedly objectionable tweets against Delhi … Read more
PATIALA/CHANDIGARH: A day after the clash between two groups in Patiala outside a Kali Mata temple over a protest march, the Punjab government on Saturday transferred the top three police officers of the district and ordered the suspension of mobile internet services from 9.30 am to 6 pm. The state government moved out Patiala SSP … Read more
An energy crisis is looming over a vast swathe of land from the northern states to southern India as low coal supplies across the majority of thermal power plants have set off blackouts in several urban and rural areas where domestic demand for electricity has spiked manifold because of an unusually early and record-shattering heatwave … Read more
SRINAGAR: Two Pakistani terrorists of the outlawed Jaish-e-Mohammad group and a CISF officer were killed while nine more security personnel suffered bullet and splinter wounds in a four-hour gunfight following an ambush on a paramilitary bus early Friday near Sunjuwan military camp, 8km from Jammu city. The attack by terrorists “wearing explosive-laden suicide vests” happened … Read more