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CHANDIGARH: A tussle among rival gangsters over dominance in the organisation of kabaddi tournaments in Punjab has led to the killing of 30-year-old kabaddi player-cum-promoter Kanwar Digvijay Singh alias Rana Balachauria, who was shot dead in Mohali on Sunday evening. He was killed by associates of gangsters Doni Bal and Lucky Patial. This is not the first such incident, as two well-known players of the sport have earlier been assassinated in similar circumstances. Punjab Police have identified three alleged accused, including two shooters who fired multiple rounds at Balachauria. They have been named as Aditya Kapoor alias Makhan and Karan Pathak, both residents of Amritsar, with 13 and two FIRs registered against them respectively. Police said the accused belong to the gang of Doni Bal and Lucky Patial. No arrests have been made so far. According to police, the assailants fled on the Landran road after shooting Balachauria at point-blank range in the head and face during a private kabaddi tournament in Sector 82, Mohali, at around 6 pm. The tournament had been under way for the past few days. Balachauria, who had got married around 10 to 15 days ago, was rushed to Fortis Hospital with gunshot injuries, but despite immediate clinical assessment, he was declared brought dead. The tournament was being held at a packed ground, where Punjabi singer Mankirt Aulakh was also expected to attend the evening matches to distribute prizes. Police said four rounds were fired by the two accused, who approached the victim on the pretext of taking a selfie and took him aside near the parking lot before shooting him at point-blank range. While fleeing the spot, the accused fired shots into the air to scare youths who attempted to chase them.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed charges in court against Canada-based gangster-terrorist Satwinder Singh alias Goldy Brar and four others for orchestrating grenade attacks on two Gurugram clubs in December, the agency announced on Saturday. The December 10, 2024 attacks targeted Warehouse Club and Human Club in Sector 29, with investigators linking the violence to a broader conspiracy by the banned Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) to spread communal disharmony across Haryana. The chargesheet names Sachin Taliyan, Ankit, Bhawish and US-based Randeep Singh alongside Brar. All ...Read More >
Chandigarh: The cybercrime division of Punjab Police has arrested two individuals and identified 33 suspects involved in viewing, transmitting, and distributing child pornography and expoitive content of minors, said a top official on Friday.Punjab director general of police (DGP) Gaurav Yadav said the content, which is described as child sexual exploitative and abusive material (CSEAM), was being distributed through online platforms like WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, and Telegram. The operation, codenamed CSEAM-4, was conducted on Thursday and spanned 40 locations across 18 districts. The ac ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Jul 2 (PTI) A Mohali court on Wednesday extended by four days the vigilance custody remand of Shiromani Akali Dal leader Bikram Singh Majithia, who was arrested in a disproportionate assets (DA) case. Majithia was produced before the court amid tight security after his seven-day vigilance remand ended on Wednesday. Speaking to the media after a three-hour hearing, public prosecutor Ferry Sofat said the court extended Majithia's remand by four more days after the Vigilance Bureau (VB) filed an application. Even the VB office witnessed beefed up security arrangements aside from th ...Read More >
New Delhi, July 18 (MExN): Ministry of Tribal Affairs (MoTA) and Coal India Ltd (CIL) has partnered for improving the quality of education given to the tribal students in the state of Chhattisgarh. CIL will support 68 Eklavya Model Residential Schools (EMRS) in Chhattisgarh under its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), which will be benefiting more than 28000 tribal students, stated a PIB update. Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Government of India establishes EMRS to impart quality education to ST children thereby enabling them to avail of opportunities in higher and professional educational c ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Feb 10 (SocialNews.XYZ) In a major crackdown on fraudulent immigration consultants exploiting innocent individuals, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) constituted by the Punjab Police on Monday said it has taken action to dismantle the multinational human trafficking nexus operating in the region. This action pertains to the Indians who had been deported from the US and had landed in Amritsar. Punjab Police has recorded statements against travel agents who defrauded them with false promises of illegal entry into the US. Acting on complaints from victims, Punjab Police have regi ...Read More >
Jaipur: Police in Didwana have stepped up their probe into a cross-border smuggling case in which they arrested two arms and drug smugglers on June 27 for supplying Austrian Glock and Chinese Norinco pistols. It has emerged that the case has links to a massive Rs 300-crore heroin consignment seized by Punjab's Amritsar police near the India-Pakistan border in Barmer on June 30. Canada-based Joben Kaler was identified as the main overseas handler of the heroin consignment. Didwana-Kuchaman police had arrested Mohammad Ilyas from Khunkhuna and Amarjeet Singh Takhar, alias Prince, from Jalandhar ...Read More >
Lucknow, Jul 14 (PTI) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday said the state's health services must be made future-ready to keep pace with global advancements and effectively respond to emerging challenges. He was speaking at the foundation stone laying and inauguration ceremony of various health projects worth Rs 1,000 crore at King George's Medical University (KGMU) here. Deputy Chief Minister Brajesh Pathak, who also holds the Health portfolio, and Medical Education Minister Mayankeshwar Sharan Singh were present on the occasion. The chief minister said institutions like K ...Read More >
New Delhi: Chief minister Rekha Gupta on Sunday said authorities cannot go against demolition orders issued by courts and stressed that displaced residents have been provided accommodation.Her words came in the wake of the recent Madrasi Camp demolition for which the opposition Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has criticised her. AAP has targeted Gupta, and alleged that the displaced Madrasi Camp residents were provided homes in faraway Narela, and those lack basic amenities.Attending an event to mark the construction of a Jan Sewa camp at a slum cluster in the Haiderpur area, Gupta told reporters: "In t ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Jul 9 (PTI) Punjab police on Wednesday said they have foiled a major terror plot orchestrated by Pakistan-based terrorist Harwinder Rinda and recovered a cache of arms from a forest area in Gurdaspur. Preliminary investigation has found that the consignment was pushed into India by Pakistani agencies and Rinda as part of a premeditated plan to carry out attacks at multiple locations in Punjab, Director General of Police Gaurav Yadav said. "In an intelligence-led operation, the Anti-Gangster Task Force (#AGTF), Punjab successfully foiled a major terror plot orchestrated by Harwind ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Jun 30 (PTI) The Punjab Vigilance Bureau Monday took Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Bikram Singh Majithia to Himachal Pradesh in connection with a disproportionate assets (DA) case registered against the former minister, said sources. The Punjab Vigilance Bureau on June 25 arrested Majithia in a disproportionate assets case allegedly involving laundering of Rs 540 crore of "drug money". Majithia, who is the brother-in-law of SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal, is learnt to have been taken to Mashobra in Himachal Pradesh for verification of property allegedly linked to his family ...Read More >
Hyderabad: The Bharat Rashtra Samithi lodged a complaint against MAHAA news channel for alleged character assassination, criminal intimidation and spreading highly defamatory, false and derogatory allegations against its party supremo and former Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR), BRS working president K T Rama Rao and other family members. The complaint comes after BRS workers attacked MAHAA news office in Hyderabad last week over allegations of the channel broadcasting alleged defamatory content. The complaint was lodged at the Cyber Crime Police Station of Hyderabad police ...Read More >
According to CCTV footage and eyewitness accounts, the attackers -three unidentified men on a motorcycle - opened fire at Jugraj Singh at close range. The brother of a deceased gangster allegedly involved in the assassination of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala was shot dead in public at Channan Ke village under Mehta police station limits in Amritsar district on Saturday. The victim has been identified as Jugraj Singh, 28. He was the younger brother of gangster Jagroop Singh alias Rupa. The latt ...Read More >
Hyderabad: An FIR has been registered after a hoax bomb threat prompted a huge security scare at Shaheed Bhagat Singh International Airport last week. A note "bomb inside" was found on a tissue paper in the lavatory of an IndiGo flight that had come in from Hyderabad on July 5. The note was discovered during a routine cleaning procedure after everyone had disembarked, according to officials. The plane was to proceed to Delhi when the message was found by ground staff, who promptly alerted the airline's security personnel. The incident was brought to the notice of airport officials and the P ...Read More >
Guwahati, Jul 15 (PTI) Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi will visit Assam on Wednesday during which they will interact with party functionaries of the state. State Congress chief Gaurav Gogoi said the district, block and mandal presidents of the party will be able to present their views before its top leadership during Kharge and Gandhi's visit. Also Read | Did Lucknow Court Judge Take Selfie With Rahul Gandhi During Hearing of Indian Army 'Defamation' Case? BJP's Amit Malviya Found Fake in Fact Check. "I look forward to welcoming Shri ...Read More >
Navi Mumbai: An 18-year-old college student was arrested in Assam for sending a death threat message to city rapper Mohammad Bilal Shaikh, also known as Emiway Bantai, and demanding Rs 1 crore in extortion. The student, Arnav Ramen Kumar Haloi, claimed to be Goldy Brar, an aide of gangster Lawrence Bishnoi and the alleged mastermind of the 2022 murder of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moose Wala. The threat message was sent on May 25, coinciding with the release of an online teaser for a music video in tribute to Moose Wala.ACP Mayur Bhujbal said that Haloi, a first-year B.Com student from Sonitpur dist ...Read More >
Chandigarh: As part of its intensified anti-drug campaign, Punjab Police on Saturday arrested 132 drug smugglers and seized 1.3 kg of heroin, along with Rs 1.5 lakh in drug proceeds. This brings the total number of arrests in the past 98 days to 16,296.The coordinated crackdown was conducted across all 28 police districts. Special DGP (law and order) Arpit Shukla said over 200 police teams -- comprising 1,400 personnel and 96 gazetted officers -- carried out raids at 492 locations. These efforts led to the registration of 97 FIRs, and 528 suspects were checked during the day-long operation.The ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Jun 27 (PTI) Former Punjab DGP Siddharth Chattopadhyaya on Friday met a team of the Vigilance Bureau which is probing the disproportionate assets case against Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Bikram Singh Majithia and said he shared his "experience and knowledge" with it regarding the drug case registered against the former minister in 2021. The Vigilance Bureau on June 25 arrested Majithia in a disproportionate assets case allegedly involving the laundering of Rs 540 crore of "drug money". Chattopadhyaya was appointed as the officiating DGP during the then Charanjit Singh Channi ...Read More >
NEW DELHI/BATHINDA: The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) on Friday conducted searches at 22 de-addiction centres across Punjab, including in Chandigarh, Barnala and Ludhiana, after its investigation revealed illegal sale of drugs by these centres. The agency also searched a premise in Mumbai linked to the accused.Dr Amit Bansal, who runs these 22 centres, is prime accused in the case, sources said. Bansal, against whom Punjab Police has registered multiple FIRs, is alleged to be engaged in illegal sale of drugs from his de-addiction centres.Privately-run drug de-addiction centres in Punjab are ...Read More >
New Delhi: In a deeply disturbing incident in southwest Delhi, a 12-year-old student died at a private school on Tuesday morning, with police suspecting a seizure as the cause of death. However, the boy's family claims he was beaten by a classmate. Police have secured CCTV footage from the school that shows several boys fighting after assembly. The boy, identified as Prince from Kudumpur Pahari in Vasant Vihar, had been enrolled at Chinmaya Vidyalaya through the Economically Weaker Section (EWS) quota. His family informed him that he had celebrated his 12th birthday on November 3. The school ...Read More >
Imphal, June 7 (UNI) Three militants were nabbed in separate incidents during the last 24 hours in Manipur, police said on Saturday. Manipur Police arrested a militant from Moidangpok Awang Leikai from Khumbong Bazar under Imphal West District, they said. Security forces arrested a militant from the Elangkhanpokpi Mayai Leikai area under Kakching district. Security forces apprehended a militant from Wangoo Samushang in Bishnupur district and elected members from Kumbi area. In an operation, one M16 rifle, one bolt-action rifle, three pull-mechanism rifles, three improvised mortars, and fiv ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], June 8 (ANI): BJP MP Gulam Ali Khatana, who was part of the all-party parliamentary delegation to Europe, said that during their recently conclued visit they successfully communicated India's development story and its resolute stand against terrorism, particularly emanating from Pakistan. Highlighting the delegation's key discussions during the tour, Khatana told ANI, 'We discussed how we dismantled the terrorism factory in Pakistan by responding... We also talked about tourism infrastructure, G20 Summit, and projects like the six-lane roads, bridges, solar initiatives, our ...Read More >
GURGAON: A day after singer and rapper Rahul Yadav alias Fazilpuria escaped an alleged gunshot attack on Southern Peripheral Road (SPR) on Monday evening, Badshahpur police registered a case and claimed to have identified the accused. Police said the car used in the crime has also been recovered. One round was fired at the singer's vehicle, but no one was injured, and the bullet did not hit the car. The accused fled the spot after the incident. ASI Sandeep Kumar, police spokesperson, said, "We have identified the accused and have also recovered the car used in crime. We will soon arrest the ac ...Read More >
Ludhiana: The Kila Raipur Games, 2025, popularly known as "Rural Olympics," started at Kila Raipur village with 10 games organised under various categories and age groups. Cabinet minister Tarunpreet Singh Sond, who inaugurated the games, announced that the govt would resume the bullock cart race soon. Sports enthusiasts of all ages competed in 10 activities, including men's and women's hockey matches, Kabaddi events for girls under 14 and under 17, 60m and 100m races for boys and girls, 1,500m races for men and women, 400m race heats and finals, Kho-Kho matches, volleyball for men, shooting ...Read More >
Ludhiana: Even as police termed Rajiv Raja, a close aide of BJP leader Ravneet Singh Bittu, minister of state for railways and food processing industries, as the main conspirator in the case of extortion of Rs 30 lakh from a local businessman, Bittu accused the police of harassing and implicating his aides by lodging FIRs against them. Police had arrested Rajiv Raja in the extortion case, in which another accused is a former employee of the victim. A police official, requesting anonymity, said that while probing the extortion complaint, police initially arrested two persons, Sarhas Mudanwal a ...Read More >
Chandigarh, June 28 (SocialNews.XYZ) In a major action against corruption and drug networks in prisons, the Punjab government on Saturday said it has suspended 25 officials, including three Deputy Superintendents and two Assistant Superintendents. The government said the action is part of the drive to root out corruption and dismantle drug networks operating inside prisons. "Following reports of irregularities and drug-related activities within jails, the government said the action was to end corruption and drug networks. The big action was taken as per information received about corruption ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Jun 30 (PTI) The Punjab Vigilance Bureau Monday took Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Bikram Singh Majithia to Himachal Pradesh in connection with a disproportionate assets (DA) case registered against the former minister, said sources. The Punjab Vigilance Bureau on June 25 arrested Majithia in a disproportionate assets case allegedly involving laundering of Rs 540 crore of "drug money". Also Read | Who Is Anjali Vishwakarma? All About Woman IPS Who Got Into Heated Argument With BJP MLC Arun Pathak During Operation Sindoor Cup Match at Kanpur's Green Park Cricket Stadium (Watchy ...Read More >
Amritsar, Jul 14 (PTI) The SGPC on Monday received an email threatening to "blow up" the Golden Temple, prompting authorities to beef up police deployment around the gurdwara, officials said. A bomb disposal squad was pressed into service, they said. Amritsar Police Commissioner Gurpreet Singh Bhullar, while confirming the email threat, said an FIR has been lodged on the complaint of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC). The email received by the SGPC mentioned that the Golden Temple will be "blown up" with explosive material. Bhullar said the cybercrime wing of the Punjab Po ...Read More >
Amritsar: Security has been ramped up at the Golden Temple complex following a bomb threat received via email by the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC). The email, which warned of explosives planted within the temple premises, has prompted immediate and coordinated action from both SGPC officials and Punjab Police. Threat email mentions RDX, prompts urgent action SGPC Chief Secretary Kulwant Singh Mannan confirmed that the threatening email mentioned the presence of RDX and potential harm to the sacred site. Though lacking specific time details, the email vaguely referred to Mond ...Read More >
Lucknow, Jul 17 (PTI) Uttar Pradesh's capital city has secured the third position in the category of urban spaces with population exceeding 10 lakh, while Prayagraj was adjudged the Cleanest Ganga City in the ninth edition of the Swachh Survekshan. Lucknow also became the first city in the state to achieve a 7-star Garbage Free City rating in the 2024-25 survey. Gorakhpur achieved double success, ranking third in the Safai Mitra Surakshit Sheher category and fourth among cities with a population between 3 to 10 lakh. Agra has been recognised as the Emerging Clean City of Uttar Pradesh, securi ...Read More >
From Lucknow To Stars: 5 Lesser-Known Facts About Shubhanshu Shukla - 1st Indian On International Space Station CBSE Supplementary Exam Schedule 2025: The Central Board of Education (CBSE) has officially released the timetable of the Class 10th and Class 12th Supplementary Exams. Students who could not clear the class 10th or 12th exams (not more than two) or want to improve their scores can check their exam schedule through the official website, i.e. cbse.gov.in. The exams will start from 15th July, 2025 so students are advised to prepare accordingly. The exam will start at 10:30 AM and wil ...Read More >