Punjab, India News

Patna, Dec 26: : About a dozen armed robbers shot dead a passenger, seriously injured another and looted others on the Howrah-Amritsar Punjab Mail in Bihar's Jamui district early Saturday, police said.

Saturday, December 26, 2009 LAHORE: WAPDA Chairman Shakil Durrani has directed the project authorities of Gomal Zam Dam and Jinnah hydropower projects to expedite efforts for early completion in view of the increasing requirements of water and power in the country.

In this five-combo file photo released by Sargodha Police Department on Friday, Dec.

United News of India Patiala, Dec 24: Fast food major McDonald's India will open more restaurants-cum-drive throughs in Punjab as state has great potential in food industry.

Pakistani police are pursuing terrorism charges against five detained American men, police said Friday, a move that could complicate efforts to bring the men back to the United States where they could also land in the courts.

ISLAMABAD: The detailed judgment in the case of the restoration of the Chief Justice of Pakistan on July 20, 2007 reveals that not only Pervez Musharraf but the then Director General ISI and the DG Military Intelligence had also insisted that the chief justice resign during his illegal detention at the Army House Rawalpindi on March 9, 2007.

New Delhi: In a noteworthy progress, a Working Group of the Prime Minister has suggested autonomy for Jammu and Kashmir, asserting that the Central Government may consider an offer made by the ruling National Conference in this regard.

In a chilling account of the days when Haryana police officials in connivance with former state DGP S P S Rathore targeted Ruchika Girotra's family, her brother Ashu had said that he was mercilessly beaten inside a police station in the presence of senior police official.

Ten years after the hijacking of Indian Airlines flight IC 814, on its way from Kathmandu to New Delhi, India remains vulnerable to such assaults but key protocols are in place to thwart such incidents, say security experts and strategists.

Pakistani intel officials say 15 dead in suspected US strike involving multiple drones, missiles.

Thursday, December 24, 2009 AMRITSAR: Notwithstanding the economic slowdown, bilateral trade between India and Pakistan through Wagah border registered almost two-fold rise during April-October 2009 as compared to corresponding period last year.

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee is likely to attend the Salaana Jalsa of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community at its international headquarters at Qadian town in Punjab's border district of Gurdaspur, around 250 km from here.

Most parts of the north India on Tuesday experienced a chilly day as mercury dropped further by a few notches amid foggy conditions, with the national capital recording its lowest temperature this season.

They were top police officers in Punjab and Haryana and both were found guilty. While one was caught molesting a teenaged girl, another slapped the posterior of a senior woman civil servant.

Staff Report RAWALPINDI: Fatima Jinnah Women University Department of Communication Sciences students have won laurels for the university by winning first prize in Story Board Competition.

President Asif Ali Zardari, four cabinet ministers and 8,000 bureaucrats, politicians, businessmen and others may face legal action after the Supreme Court annulled a two-year amnesty protecting them from charges.

Ludhiana/ Amritsar: Todaya s business environment in the country is favourable for both trade and investment, and Punjab is cashing in on this opportunity through international tie-ups and trade shows.

News Desk RAWALPINDI: The PPP Punjab President Rana Aftab Ahmad Khan and senior provincial minister Raja Riaz Ahmad Khan have declared that enough is enough and from now on the party would adopt the course of confrontation instead of the traditional conciliatory policy so far adopted.

The Border Security Force had foiled an infiltration attempt by a group of militants who fired at Indian positions in Jammu and Kashmir's Ramgarh sector in an attempt to sneak in, a senior official said Tuesday.

If the Punjab government cannot hold bye-elections in the constituencies lying vacant since long, the Supreme Court itself will direct Attorney General of Pakistan to hold bye-elections with the help of Governor Punjab Salman Taseer, remarked Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry here on Monday.