CHANDIGARH, Apr 28: A blast that occurred on a railway track near the Shambhu area in Punjab’s Patiala district was an attempted detonation, a senior police officer confirmed on Tuesday. Patiala Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Varun Sharma said the person involved in the attempt to trigger the explosion on Monday has died in the
SAMANA (PATIALA), Apr 24: Activist Gurjeet Singh Khalsa, who had been sitting atop a 400-foot BSNL tower for around 560 days demanding stricter laws against sacrilege incidents in Punjab, was finally brought down on Friday morning, officials said. The protest, which began on October 12, 2024, in Samana near Patiala, came to an end after
CHANDIGARH, Apr 20: Punjab Police on Monday said it has busted a major narcotics and illegal arms module with the arrest of four accused persons and recovery of over nine kg of heroin along with pistols and ammunition in Hoshiarpur. In what officials described as a significant breakthrough, Hoshiarpur Police dismantled an inter-state and foreign-linked
CHANDIGARH, Apr 14: The Punjab Police has busted a cross-border arms smuggling module, arresting three persons and recovering six pistols from their possession, an official said on Tuesday. Director General of Police Gaurav Yadav, in a post on X, said preliminary investigations revealed that the accused were in contact with Pakistan-based smugglers through social media
JAMMU/NEW DELHI: An espionage network with alleged links to Pakistan has been uncovered, revealing that handlers across the border were reportedly monitoring the real-time movement of Indian Army personnel through a covert network of solar-powered CCTV cameras installed at strategically sensitive locations across North India, an official said on Friday. The surveillance system reportedly spanned