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HT Punjab news digest: Gounder’s check-in at Bangkok, Capt dials Sushma, and INLD protest on SYL
Been away? Need the news in one go? Here’s a wrap-up from Punjab, the neighbourhood and the diaspora for July 10.
Gangster Gounder posts Facebook check-in at Bangkok club, police not sure he’s abroad
Punjab’s most wanted gangster who escaped in the Nabha jailbreak last year, Harjinder Singh Bhullar, better known as Vicky Gounder, posted a Facebook ‘check-in’ at a Bangkok nightclub on Monday, conveying that he has managed to flee to Thailand. But the police said they had no such information and it could be a diversionary hoax. Read full story here
Capt Amarinder dials Sushma Swaraj, urges her to bring back Punjabis stuck in Iraq
Reacting to reports that the families of the Indian hostages, mostly from Punjab, were trying to locate their kin after the release of Mosul by Iraq from the ISIS forces, Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Monday called external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj and urged her to trace and facilitate their return. Read full story here
HT Spotlight | Chandigarh airport records 1000% jump in passenger footfall in a decade
A civil terminal since 1967, the Chandigarh airport had to make do with a single flight to Delhi for nearly four decades before it finally got wings. In the last 10 years, the airport traffic has grown exponentially from 1.5 lakh passengers in 2006 to 18 lakh now. Read full story here
Ludhiana-based hotelier gives Thai food at langar in Bangkok
In a bid to spread awareness about Sikhs in Thailand, a city-based hotelier, Harjinder Singh Kukreja, organised a langar with a Thai menu at a railway station in Bangkok. The response was overwhelming as thousands of homeless and needy got their takeaways from Kukreja. Read full story here
INLD protest on SYL issue begins, activists block some roads
Haryana’s main opposition Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) on Monday began its protest over the issue of the Sutlej Yamuna Link (SYL) canal by blocking roads, including in Ambala and Sirsa districts, disrupting movement of vehicles entering Haryana from Punjab. Read full story here
Presidential polls: Battle of ideologies, not individuals, says Meira Kumar
United Progressive Alliance (UPA) presidential candidate Meira Kumar on Sunday said her party was fighting against the surge of communalism in the country and it was a battle between ideologies and not individuals. Read full story here
Four rape woman in Muktsar, make video and upload on WhatsApp
Police have booked Jagjeet Singh alias Ravi; Satnam Singh, Ramjeet Singh and Abhijeet Singh, all of Rkhala in Muktsar, for rape and under Sections of the Information Technology Act after they circulated the video of a woman they allegedly gangraped on Wednesday. Read full story here
Five years on, Punjab and Haryana high court brings smile on Kashmiri migrant’s face
A Kashmiri migrant, whose allotment of a booth for business purposes in Sector-11 was cancelled by the Chandigarh administration for delay in paying the requisite fee, has finally got relief from the Punjab and Haryana high court. Read full story here
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