Navrajdeep Singh is a senior staff correspondent. He covers agriculture, crime, local bodies, health and education in the Patiala district of Punjab.
Articles by Navrajdeep Singh
Doctors’ 3-hr daily strike begins today, to hit OPD services across Punjab
Over 2,500 Punjab doctors will strike for three hours from Sept 9-11, suspending OPD services to demand better security and career progression.
Updated on Sep 09, 2024 05:02 AM IST
Karam Prakash/Navrajdeep Singh, Patiala/jalandhar
Register FIR against those involved in ₹9.8-cr fund bungling: NHM to civil surgeon
The National Health Mission (NHM), Punjab, has directed the Jalandhar civil surgeon for the registration of an FIR against the officials and employees involved in an alleged misappropriation of funds to the tune of ₹9.85 crore.
Updated on Sep 05, 2024 10:48 PM IST
Navrajdeep Singh, Jalandhar
Punjab foodgrain scam: ED arrests former minister Ashu’s aide in Khanna
Rajdeep Singh Nagra, an aide of former Punjab food and civil supplies and consumer affairs minister Bharat Bhushan Ashu, remanded in seven-day custody in connection with ₹2,000-crore foodgrain transportation-linked money-laundering case.
Published on Sep 05, 2024 03:52 PM IST
After 2 years in limbo: Work on 100-bed CCU begins at Jalandhar civil hospital
A centrally-sponsored project faced hiccups due to the failure of the state health department to acquire adequate land within its premises
Updated on Sep 05, 2024 08:48 AM IST
Navrajdeep Singh, Jalandhar
Punjab: Gangster Jaggu Bhagwanpuria’s aide injured in Jalandhar police encounter
Kannu Gujjar, wanted in cases of murder and extortion, was critically injured in retaliatory fire by police team tracking his movement in Jalandhar city. Nine shots fired from both sides.
Published on Sep 03, 2024 03:32 PM IST
SEBI slaps ₹63 crore fine on Rana Sugars
The firm is owned and managed by Kapurthala MLA Rana Gurjit Singh and his son and Sultanpur Lodhi MLA Inder Pratap Singh Rana, who is managing director and promotor of RSL, and other family members as chairman and promotors.
Updated on Aug 30, 2024 05:58 AM IST
Navrajdeep Singh, Jalandhar
Closure cloud on illegal cold storage, potato farmers predict ₹20cr loss
Congress MLA from Kapurthala Rana Gurjit Singh has written PPCB chairman Adarsh Pal Vig asking him to reconsider board’s decision as the potato stock will rot if power supply not resumed.
Updated on Aug 24, 2024 07:14 AM IST
Navrajdeep Singh, Kapurthala
{‘Donkey route’ to Russia} Two travel agents booked 7 months after 18-year-old youth goes missing
Seven months after an 18-year-old boy, who was on his way to Russia through ‘donkey route’ went missing under mysterious circumstances in Latvia in Northern Europe, two travel agents have been booked for duping Kapurthala family of lakhs of rupees.
Updated on Aug 23, 2024 06:06 AM IST
Mann’s Independence Day speech from bullet-proof glass shield triggers row
Opposition slams the chief minister and the AAP government over ‘poor law and order’ situation in the state.
Updated on Aug 17, 2024 05:36 AM IST
Navrajdeep Singh, Jalandhar
‘Over excavation’ by NHAI contractors led to clash, claim cops
The villagers and farm unions have accused the NHAI contractors involved in the construction of the Delhi-Amritsar-Katra Expressway of ‘over excavation’ of land which was posing a threat to their fields.
Updated on Aug 14, 2024 08:44 AM IST
Navrajdeep Singh, Jalandhar
Punjab: Jalandhar court hands down 9-year jail term to drug lord Raja Kandola in PMLA case
Kandola’s wife Rajwant Kaur gets three-year jail, while their son Bally has been acquitted in the ED case registered in 2015.
Published on Aug 13, 2024 12:37 PM IST
{Paris Games} Back-to-back bronze medals In hockey glory, Punjab has a special reason to cheer
Punjab had a special reason to rejoice in the back-to-back Olympic bronze medals in hockey. The state, which is considered a nursery of the game, has a maximum of eight players in the 16-member squad and on Thursday, the team inspired by skipper Harmanpreet Singh’s brace, clinched a historic bronze medal defeating Spain 2-1 in a keenly contested match.
Updated on Aug 09, 2024 07:04 AM IST
Navrajdeep Singh, Chandigarh/jalandhar
Foodgrain transportation scam: ED gets Ashu’s custody for another five days
The court dismissed former minister’s pleas challenging his arrest and remand. An ED official said investigators found new key facts related to Ashu’s alleged involvement in the whole scam.
Published on Aug 07, 2024 10:24 PM IST
Navrajdeep Singh, Jalandhar
India-Pak border: 3,000 AI-enabled cameras to check smuggling: Mann
The state government is going to install 3,000 Artificial Intelligence-enabled CCTV cameras at the India-Pakistan International Border to keep check on drug smuggling, chief minister Bhagwant Mann said
Updated on Aug 07, 2024 07:48 AM IST
Diarrhoea deaths: Kapurthala councillors seek action against MC commissioner
Municipal commissioner has rubbished the allegations, saying the grievances of councillors are being redressed.
Published on Aug 05, 2024 09:37 PM IST
Navrajdeep Singh, Kapurthala
Foodgrains transportation scam: Jalandhar court sends Ashu to 5-day ED custody
The additional sessions court here on Friday sent former Punjab food and civil supplies and consumer affairs minister Bharat Bhushan Ashu to five-day Enforcement Directorate (ED) custody in an alleged ₹2,000-crore foodgrain transportation-linked money-laundering case
Updated on Aug 03, 2024 09:22 AM IST
Navrajdeep Singh, Jalandhar
{Foodgrains transportation scam} ED arrests ex-Congess minister Ashu in money-laundering case
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday arrested former Punjab food and civil supplies and consumer affairs minister Bharat Bhushan Ashu in an alleged ₹2,000-crore foodgrain transportation-linked money-laundering case.
Updated on Aug 02, 2024 05:44 AM IST
Punjab ‘ignored’ in budget, will boycott Niti Aayog meet: Mann
Bhagwant Mann slams BJP-led NDA government for withholding Punjab’s funds, including rural development fund and those under the National Health Mission
Updated on Jul 26, 2024 07:40 AM IST
Punjab: Six soldiers injured as vehicle overturns on Jalandhar-Amritsar highway
All six admitted to military hospital in Jalandhar Cantt; truck driver, who hit their vehicle, flees
Published on Jul 20, 2024 12:56 PM IST
Ice case: Amritpal’s brother in two-day police custody
Amritpal’s family has already termed the police action as a conspiracy to defame the radical Sikh preacher who is detained under the National Security Act at Dibrugarh jail in Assam.
Published on Jul 19, 2024 10:40 PM IST
Navrajdeep Singh, Jalandhar
{Jalandhar} ICE recovery case Cops to move sessions court seeking police remand of MP Amritpal’s brother
The Jalandhar rural police will move sessions court seeking police custody of Harpreet Singh, elder brother of Khadoor Sahib MP Amritpal Singh, who was arrested with 4gm of ICE (Methamphetamine) on the Jalandhar-Panipat national highway near Phillaur on July 11, officials said on Tuesday.
Updated on Jul 17, 2024 05:18 AM IST
Navrajdeep Singh, Jalandhar
Punjab bypoll: AAP’s Mohinder Bhagat wins Jalandhar West seat
Bhagat has defeated Sheetal Angural, who had quit as AAP legislator in March to join BJP, by 37,725 votes.
Published on Jul 13, 2024 09:24 PM IST
Navrajdeep Singh, Jalandhar
Punjab byelection: AAP’s Mohinder Bhagat wins Jalandhar West seat
Defeats Sheetal Angural, who had quit as AAP legislator in March to join BJP, by 37,725 votes; shot in arm for Bhagwant Mann-led AAP in state after below par Lok Sabha outcome.
Updated on Jul 13, 2024 01:19 PM IST
Punjab: Amritpal Singh’s brother Harpreet among 3 arrested in drug case in Jalandhar
Khadoor Sahib MP’s brother Harpreet Singh caught consuming drugs in car parked along national highway near Phillaur town at 11pm on Thursday
Updated on Jul 12, 2024 01:43 PM IST
Jalandhar West records lowest voter turnout in 3 decades
Jalandhar West assembly bypoll recorded the lowest voter turnout in its assembly polls history in the past three decades.
Updated on Jul 12, 2024 07:00 AM IST
Navrajdeep Singh, Jalandhar
55% turnout in Jalandhar West bypoll, voting remains peaceful
Sharp decline in percentage as the segment saw 67.31% turnout in 2022; Hot, humid weather conditions stated to be reason behind low voting percentage
Updated on Jul 11, 2024 08:34 AM IST
Navrajdeep Singh, Jalandhar
Punjab byelection: Voting underway in Jalandhar West assembly segment
Jalandhar West bypoll litmus test for Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann, particularly after the Lok Sabha election debacle in which the AAP managed to win only three out of the 13 seats in Punjab.
Updated on Jul 10, 2024 04:07 PM IST
Stage set for high-stakes Jalandhar West bypoll as 1.71 lakh electors to vote today
The bypoll was necessitated after Sheetal Angural, who is now fighting as a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate, had resigned as an Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA ahead of the Lok Sabha elections.
Updated on Jul 10, 2024 07:18 AM IST
Navrajdeep Singh, Jalandhar
Cong, BJP cite drug, law & order issues, CM vows growth as campaign for Jalandhar West bypoll ends
Security personnel hold flag march in the constituency. As many as 700 cops with three BSF companies will guard the assembly segment.
Published on Jul 08, 2024 10:43 PM IST
Navrajdeep Singh, Jalandhar
3 months after ex-militant’s killing, Pak-based terror module member held in Jalandhar
Member of Babbar Khalsa International module operated by Pakistan-based terrorist Harwinder Singh Rinda and US-based gangster Gopi Nawanshehria arrested for killing Bhindranwale Tiger Force of Khalistan former chief Rattandeep Singh in Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar on April 3
Updated on Jul 08, 2024 04:35 PM IST