At least two persons have been killed and one other injured when an old shell exploded at a metal scrap shop in Mamun Cantonment area of Pathankot today.
The shop owner, dealing in discarded junk of army, and his employees were extracting metal out of the shell when the blast occurred at around 2.30 pm.
According to [...]

Around six member of a marriage part have been killed and 27 others were injured in a head-on collision between two private buses near Mamugoia village between Jalalabad and Guru Harsahai in the Ferozepur district tonight.
Deputy Commissioner Kamal Kishore Yadav said both the buses were carrying ‘Baratis’. While one was on its way to Abohar, [...]

At least half-a-dozen trains in Ferozepur railway division were today cancelled after followers of the Dera Sacha Sauda went on rampage in protest of registration of a fresh case against Dera head Gurmit Ram Rahim Singh by the CBI in connection with the murder of one Faquir Chand. The followers took to the streets and [...]

The Punjab Government has declared public holiday on March 1, 2010 on the eve of “Holi”. A spokesman of the Punjab government disclosed this today in Chandigarh.
The spokesman said that Punjab Government partially amended its first notification and declared public holiday (Holi) on March 1, 2010 instead of February 28, 2010.

Carving a niche in Bollywood is an uphill task. But nothing is impossible for them those are determined to break the gist. Neeru Singh, the artist, believes it.
Singh is an artist from Punjab. Singh decided to test the water in Mumbai and crack the hard nut and got a role.
She will be appearing in an [...]

People in Punjab can now adopt wild animals and birds in major zoos of the state after the introduction of a new government scheme. Under the Animal Adoption Scheme, a person can adopt an animal from the stock of animals in the zoo by paying for the maintenance, safety and food of the animal.
After adoption, [...]

Former Punjab Chief Minister and ex-Haryana Governor Harcharan Singh Brar passed away at his native village Sarai Naga of Muktsar today after protracted illness. He was 87 years old. He breathed his last in Sarai Naga village in Punjab’s Muktsar district and would be cremated tomorrow.
A veteran Congress leader, Brar also held the post of [...]

Indian cricket team player Harbhajan Singh was today fined for driving his car without Number Plate. He was fined Rs 3,000 by Chandigarh Traffic Police for driving his dream Hummer on the city road without a number plate.
ACP (traffic) told mediapersons, “It should set a precedent for the general public”. Harbhajan had imported the Hummer [...]

An air-conditioned coach of Mumbai-Amritsar Golden Temple Express caught fire in Amritsar today but no one was hurt in the mishap. The fire occurred when the vacant AC coach was parked in the railway yard for cleaning and washing.
The fire apparently began in the airconditioner of the coach and the airconditioning system was badly damaged [...]

BJP MP Navjot Singh Sidhu has on Friday resigned from his Lok Sabha seat to protest against his party accommodating a leader who had worked against him in the recently concluded Lok Sabha polls. Mr Sidhu dashed off his letter to Leader of the Opposition L K Advani stating that he could not work in [...]