Canadian minister Harjit Sajjan reaches Punjab; police and radicals welcome him at Amritsar airport
Canadian defence minister Harjit Singh Sajjan landed at Sree Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport at Rajasansi in Amritsar around 6 pm on Wednesday. On his first visit to native Punjab after becoming a minister in Canada, Sajjan is to be in the state for April 21 and 22.
Busted militant module was in touch with Sikh radicals abroad, gangsters: police
A day after the police claimed to have busted a militant module with the arrest of three persons, the counter intelligence (CI) wing on Wednesday said the accused were in touch with gangsters to take their help in spearheading terror activities.
Liquor to flow at marriage palaces along Punjab highways
The Punjab government is set to remove restrictions on serving of liquor at marriage palaces located along the highways in the state. A decision is expected soon following Punjab advocate general Atul Nanda’s legal opinion that marriage palaces are not covered by the Supreme Court’s judgment banning liquor vends within 500 metres of national and state highways in the state.
44 dead as bus plunges into Tons river in Himachal
The passengers were killed on Wednesday when a private bus carrying more than 50 passengers fell into the Tons river near Chopal, 95 km from Shimla, in Himachal Pradesh.
In pictures | How wheat is harvested by man and machine:
A set of shots from the fields of Jalandhar, where harvesting of what is at its peak.
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