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Punjab Assembly elections 2022: Gangster-turned-activist Lakha Sidhana wants people to read newspapers, open libraries

Contesting from the Maur Assembly seat in Punjab's Bathinda district, Sidhana is one of the accused in last year's Delhi Republic Day violence

R-Day Gujarat earthquake: An army officer recounts going from beer party to relief ops within hours in 2001

Unknown to us and to the rest of the nation, a massive earthquake measuring 7.7 with its epicentre about 9 km south-west of village Chobari in Bhachau Taluka, had struck the Kutch area of Gujarat

Punjab reels under acute power shortage due to high demand amid heatwave; all you need to know

Many areas in Mohali faced power cuts of over 14 hours since the last 24 hours, while Patiala and Bathinda had power outages of up to seven hours, and parts of Kapurthala, Tarn Taran, Ferozepur, Muktsar and Ludhiana had between six and 12 hours of cuts

Farmers ransack BJP venue hosting PM-KISAN event in Punjab's Bathinda, says police; five injured

However, some farmers at the venue claimed anti-social elements and not peasants were behind the incident

Father of sacrilege accused shot dead in Bathinda district; assailants presently unidentified, say police

Bullets were fired from a close range by the assailants, who had their faces covered with masks, the police said

Highways blocked in Punjab as Dalits stage protests against demolition of Delhi's Ravidas temple

Normal life was affected at many places in Punjab on Tuesday as demonstrations and dharnas were held by Dalits to protest the demolition of a temple dedicated to Guru Ravidas in New Delhi's Tughlakabad

Cold war among Congress leaders in Punjab turns Lok Sabha constituencies into hot seats; nine candidates named, four to go

Congress may have navigated through a political landmine in naming nine candidates from Punjab for the Lok Sabha elections, but the remaining four pose problems.

Why Dalit Sikhs of Punjab's Bathinda are nonchalant towards elections, debate around caste, quota and development

A visit to the town reveals that the Dalits in Bathinda have not benefited from the Punjab Village Common Lands (Regulation) Rules, 1964, where one-third of public agricultural land and cultivable common land in each village is reserved for SCs

Kashmiri terrorist Zakir Musa may be in Punjab disguised as Sikh; alert sounded in Bathinda, Ferozepur districts

The intelligence reports have suggested that Musa could be disguised as a Sikh and wearing a turban. He is the Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind chief and is said to be aligned with a global terror group.

Arvind Kejriwal blames Punjab govt's failure to control stubble burning for Delhi's deteriorating air quality since 25 Oct

Arvind Kejriwal, who showed satellite images of stubble burning in Punjab, said the incidents of stubble burning were more in Punjab this year than in Haryana.