Amidst the ongoing decisive action against drug traffickers and illegal encroachments, Jalandhar Rural Police, in coordination with local authorities, have demolished unauthorised structures built on the encroached panchayat land in Khanpur and Mandi villages of Phillaur.
Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann unequivocally said on Sunday that gangsters, smugglers, criminals, and other anti-social elements have no place on the sacred land of Punjab and that they would soon be wiped out from the state.
On the afternoon of 5 February 2025, a US military aircraft landed at Amritsar’s Shri Guru Ramdas Ji International Airport, carrying 104 Indian immigrants who had entered the United States illegally.
Police said that gangster Maxi, a native of village Rodala in Rajasansi Amritsar, is an operative of foreign-based terrorist Goldy Brar and gangster Goldy Dhillon and was operating an extortion racket on their behalf.
With an aim to inculcate reading habits in government school students for their holistic development, the Punjab Government has released a grant of Rs 15 crore to purchase books for the government school libraries.
A 33-year-old woman was shot dead in Dukhniwaran Sahib Gurdwara complex in Patiala in Punjab for allegedly 'consuming' liquor, police said.
The bypoll is another chance for the SAD to wrest its decline in Punjab politics which saw the party win just three seats in Assembly polls and getting pushed to fifth position in Sangrur by poll by polling just 6.25 per cent of votes despite alliance with the BSP.
The Congress legislator complained that the state police was working overtime on the directions of the Bhagwant Mann to implicate him in multiple false cases.
Bhagwant Mann government in the state has 'failed' to maintain law and order. "We will strengthen our own task force now.
Ruling AAP legislator Dalbir Singh Tong in Punjab was arrested on Wednesday for violating model code during the polling for the Jalandhar Lok Sabha constituency bypoll, but later released on bail.
