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Video: Dubai-based Indian woman wins Rs 8 crore in DDF draw
A 42-year-old Dubai-based Indian expatriate woman won a staggering one million dollars (Rs 8,34,84,600) on Thursday, May 16, in the Dubai Duty-Free (DDF) Millennium Millionaire draw. The winner, Payal, became a one…
- India
Punjab: People will teach AAP a lesson, says BJP candidate Kaur
Bathinda: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which came to power in Punjab promising to end the drug menace in the state, has failed badly on all fronts, said former IAS officer Parampal…
- India
Ex-Punjab CM Channi calls attack on IAF’s convoy ‘stunt’, links it to LS polls
Chandigarh: Congress leader Charanjit Singh Channi on Sunday called the Poonch terror attack in which an IAF soldier was killed and four were injured, a “stunt” meant to make the BJP win…
- India
Farmer dies during protest against BJP candidate in Punjab’s Patiala
Patiala: A farmer died during a protest against BJP candidate Preneet Kaur here on Saturday, following which Kaur cancelled his poll campaign programmes for the day and Sunday. Sixty-year-old farmer Surinder Pal…
- India
‘Historical mistake’: Amritpal’s father on SAD fielding LS candidate from Khadoor Sahib
Chandigarh: The father of Amritpal Singh on Monday expressed resentment over the Shiromani Akali Dal’s move of fielding its candidate from Punjab’s Khadoor Sahib Lok Sabha seat from where the jailed radical…
- India
LS polls: SAD (A) to support Amritpal Singh from Punjab’s Khadoor Sahib seat
Chandigarh: The Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) on Sunday said it will support radical Sikh preacher Amritpal Singh who has decided to contest the Lok Sabha elections from the Khadoor Sahib parliamentary constituency…
- India
BJP, Akali Dal, Congress leaders join AAP in Punjab
Chandigarh: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Punjab got a major boost ahead of the parliamentary elections on Saturday, April 27, as BJP’s Other Backward Class wing secretary Kuldeep Singh Shanty and…
- Mumbai
Firing outside Salman’s residence: 2 men nabbed from Punjab sent to police custody
Mumbai: A Mumbai court on Friday remanded to police custody till April 30 two men arrested from Punjab in connection with the firing outside Bollywood superstar Salman Khan’s residence in Bandra. Subhash…
- Pakistan
Polling began on 21 national and provincial seats in Pakistan’s by-elections
Islamabad: Polling began on Sunday on 21 national and provincial seats in the by-elections in Pakistan amidst tight security and suspension of cellular and internet services in specific districts of Punjab and…
- India
Man held for killing pregnant wife, setting body on fire in Punjab
Amritsar: A man has been arrested for allegedly killing his pregnant wife and later setting her body on fire in Punjab’s Amritsar, police said on Saturday. According to officials, the incident was…
- India
China-made drone seized near India-Pak border in Punjab
Chandigarh: The Border Security Force (BSF) on Saturday said it has seized a China-made drone near the India-Pakistan border in Punjab’s Amritsar district along with a packet of 500 gm of heroin.…
- India
Ludhiana court awards death penalty to woman for burying alive toddler
Chandigarh: A Ludhiana court in Punjab on Thursday awarded a death sentence to a woman for the horrific murder of a two-and-a-half-year-old girl by burying her alive. Sessions judge Munish Singal convicted…
- India
Punjab: Trains affected as farmers on track demanding release of fellow protesters
Chandigarh: Farmers under the banner of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (non-political) and Kisan Mazdoor Morcha on Wednesday squatted on a rail track in Patiala district near the Punjab and Haryana border, demanding…
- Pakistan
Pakistan’s ruling PML-N party loses two Parliament seats in a day after Lahore HC ruling
Lahore: The ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz party lost two of its National Assembly seats as separate benches of the Lahore High Court set aside the victory notifications of its lawmakers from Gujranwala…