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Maharashtra adds to covid cases in Karnataka. (PTI Photo)

Steep rise in active COVID cases recorded across India

Kerala had reported the maximum fall in active cases, while Maharashtra had shown the maximum hike in active cases in...

12 March 2021 1:50 AM IST

In recent months terrorists from Pakistan have been increasingly using drones to drop weapons and drugs across the international border in Jammu and Punjab. (Representational Photo:AFP)

Drone attacks likely to alter threat perception in India

Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police Dilbag Singh termed the blasts on the Air Force Station at Jammu a terror...

28 Jun 2021 1:37 AM IST

Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi, are in touch with Sachin Pilot and are trying to placate him. (PTI Photo)

Gandhis, Prashant Kishor meet over Punjab, LS polls

The meeting assumes significance as the Congress is all set to announce a major decision on its Punjab crisis

14 July 2021 7:06 AM IST

Union minister of state for food and public distribution system, Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, stated in Lok Sabha that in terms of rice, Punjab had contributed 135.89 LMTs while Telangana contributed 94.57 LMTs. (Representational image: PTI)

Punjab, Telangana on top in contributing PDS rice

Punjab contributed 202.82 LMTs of paddy in 2020-21 till August 3, 2021, while Telangana contributed 141.15 LMTs during...

10 Aug 2021 11:57 PM IST

Oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan said India will gradually end central controls on gas pricing as it seeks to attract foreign investment. (PTI Photo)

BJP appoints election in-charges for poll-bound Uttar Pradesh and...

Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has been appointed as the election in-charge for Uttar Pradesh

8 Sept 2021 12:29 PM IST

Rishi Sunak, front-runner to the British PM post (Photo: AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Are days already numbered for Hedgie Sunak? Third...

Already the unions, railway workers and medical staff, including 80,000 nurses, have declared that they will go on...

5 Nov 2022 12:05 AM IST

Pakistani officials said Thursday, Nov. 3, 2022, that a gunman opened fire at a container truck carrying Khan, wounding him slightly and also some of his supporters. (Photo: AP)

Imran Khan receives bullet injury after gunfire attack on his...

The incident occurred near Allahwala Chowk of Wazirabad town of Punjab when Khan was leading the protest march

3 Nov 2022 5:59 PM IST

BJP MPs protest against Congress party over Ferozepur incident, in front of Mahatma Gandhi statue at Parliament, in New Delhi, Friday, Jan.7, 2022. (PTI Photo/Atul Yadav)

SC asks HC to preserve travel records of PM Modi's Punjab visit

Centre on Thursday constituted a three-member committee headed by Sudhir Kumar Saxena to inquire into the security lapse

8 Jan 2022 12:37 AM IST

Security personnel stand guard following crack down on Waris Punjab De chief Amritpal Singh and his supporters, in Jalandhar, Sunday March 19, 2023. (PTI Photo)

AA Edit | Restore order in Punjab, with zero tolerance for extremism

The extremist preacher Amritpal Singh has used foreign funding and brainwashing techniques to create an atmosphere for...

21 March 2023 12:14 AM IST

Waris Punjab De chief Amritpal Singh (C) speaks to the media, at the Golden Temple in Amritsar on March 3, 2023. (Photo: PTI)

Pavan Varma | Khalistan 2.0 & the fallacy of Hindutva supremacy

Today, the separatist movement for Khalistan has once again reared its ugly face. Why has this happened?

5 March 2023 12:00 AM IST

Waris Punjab De founder Amritpal Singh visits Golden Temple after the release of his associate Lovepreet Toofan from the Amritsar Central Jail, in Amritsar, Friday, Feb. 24, 2023. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | Threat to Punjab growing: Centre needs to act swiftly

On a continual basis in the state there have been incidents of masses of men wielding firearms and other weapons going...

2 March 2023 12:10 AM IST

Dilip Cherian | Exodus of babus from Punjab amid Khalistan' uproar

The situation is fluid and it does not help that the administration has been shown up as meek and submissive

2 March 2023 12:05 AM IST