Penalising students for speaking in Punjabi will invite action: CM

Penalising students for speaking in Punjabi will invite action: CM

No announcement for grants for cash-strapped Punjabi varsity. Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann today said the state government would cancel the affiliation of schools that penalise students for speaking in Punjabi. He was at Punjabi University here on the concluding day of the three-day inter-university youth festival on Monday. But faculty and employees’ expectations were dashed…

4 ‘accomplices’ of Canada-based gangster Lakhbir Singh Landa arrested

4 ‘accomplices’ of Canada-based gangster Lakhbir Singh Landa arrested

Four country-made weapons along with magazines and bullets seized. The city police arrested four alleged accomplices of Canada-based gangster Lakhbir Singh Landa and seized four country-made weapons along with magazines and bullets here on Tuesday. Acting on a tip off, they were intercepted from near Vallah bypass at a naka. They were travelling in a…

No death, no major injuries to our soldiers  Rajnath Singh in LS on India-China LAC clash

No death, no major injuries to our soldiers Rajnath Singh in LS on India-China LAC clash

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday said that timely intervention by Indian Army stopped the Chinese PLA troops from encroaching on the country’s territory during the December 9 face-off at Arunachal Pradesh’s Tawang sector. Speaking in the Lok Sabha today, the Defence Minister said that Indian Army bravely stopped the Chinese People Liberation Army (PLA)…

India Hits Out At OIC Secretary General For Visiting PoJK

India Hits Out At OIC Secretary General For Visiting PoJK

India on Tuesday strongly condemned the visit of the secretary general of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to Pakistan occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK) and for his comments on Jammu and Kashmir, asserting that the grouping has no locus standi in matters related to the region. In a sharp reaction to OIC Secretary General…

Search ops enters day 2 to locate Sopore teenage girl, who jumped in Jhelum

Search ops enters day 2 to locate Sopore teenage girl, who jumped in Jhelum

The search operation to locate the body of a teenage girl who jumped in the river Jhelum near Jamia Qadeem bridge of Sopore town in North Kashmir’s Baramulla district, entered second day on Tuesday. An official told news that the search operation to trace the missing teenage girl started today morning again. He said the…

Nation remains grateful to bravehearts for their supreme sacrifice: Prez on 2001 Parliament attack

Nation remains grateful to bravehearts for their supreme sacrifice: Prez on 2001 Parliament attack

President Droupadi Murmu on Tuesday said the nation will always remain grateful to the “valiant martyrs” who laid down their lives in the 2001 Parliament attack. Twenty-one years ago on December 13, terrorists of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) attacked the Parliament complex and opened fire, killing nine people. “The nation pays homage…

India-China troops clash: Congress seeks statement from PM, discussion on issue in Parliament

India-China troops clash: Congress seeks statement from PM, discussion on issue in Parliament

The clash between Indian and Chinese troops in Tawang sector of Arunachal Pradesh is set to rock Parliament on Tuesday with several Congress MPs demanding a statement from Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the situation at the border. The Congress MPs have given adjournment notices in both houses of Parliament to discuss the border situation…