P K Sinha, ADGP intelligence, gets additional charge of vigilance bureau. Others who got suspension orders are AIG Swarandeep Singh & SSP Harpreet Singh.
32-year-old has been in preventive detention under NSA for past two years since his arrest 23 April 2023 in Punjab. His second detention ends 22 April.
Punjab reported 33,000 drug-related cases between 2022 & 2024, second only to Kerala. While a police crackdown is limited to choking the supply of drugs, the demand remains intact.
SFJ chief Pannun claimed responsibility for vandalism and labelled Ambedkar ‘a devil’. FIR has been registered against unidentified miscreants over latest incident from Phillaur.
Amidst a deepening drug crisis, Punjab’s crackdown reveals a grim underbelly of unlicensed de-addiction centres exploiting desperate families and flouting regulations.
Gurjant Singh alias Gurjant Jenta, now on radar of Indian security agencies, once held influence in Punjab but is expanding his reach beyond the state, it is learnt.
Since December, over a dozen youths from areas like Batala, Amritsar, SBS Nagar have been arrested on charges of attacking police stations & posts at the behest of banned terror outfits.
Protesting farmers have issued call for nationwide protest outside offices of deputy commissioners and ‘chakka jam’ across Punjab after police action at Shambhu, Khanauri borders.
Harbhajan's latest comments on the Mann government's actions against drug smugglers in Punjab while party supremo Arvind Kejriwal is in the state have raised eyebrows.
In 2024-25, India exported $387.54 bn worth of services, against imports of $198.14 bn, earning all-time high surplus of $189.40 bn. This offset 2/3rd of goods trade deficit.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
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