As per the state’s new sports policy — drafted in 2011 and amended in October 2018 — all Padma, Arjuna and Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna awardees, from Punjab, are automatically eligible for the Maharaja Ranjit Singh award. read more

The soldier is being discharged from the Paraplegic Rehabilitation Centre, Phase 6, in Mohali in the last week of this month. read more

The family denied claims that the 18-year-old suspect’s head was injured when the family allegedly pelted stones after a petty fight over cricket. read more

Senior SAD leaders, including former minister Bikram Singh Majithia and party candidate from Khadoor Sahib Bibi Jagir Kaur, took digs at the sitting MP one by one. read more

Three days after the tragedy, the then Punjab director general of police (DGP) Suresh Arora directed the government railway police (GRP) to hold a probe into the incident. read more

Hockey has come a long way in terms of skill and playing methods, says former Indian coach Col. Balbir Singh. read more

The baby was fully naked and had been sought to be strangulated with a dupatta (stole) when he was pulled out from the toilet by the sweepers at the washing platform in Amritsar railway station read more

Balbir Singh was part of India’s first post-Independence hockey team that won gold in the 1948 London Olympics. read more

Trouble began when Congress leader Teja Singh’s wife Manjit Singh, who has been elected as a zila parishad member, arrived at the accused’s ration depot and started to give instructions. read more

Cheema alleged that the poll panel was conducting the zila parishad and block samiti elections in a “perfunctory manner” read more

AAP blames government, leader of opposition Harpal Singh Cheema says the incident reflects on the deteriorating law and order; says polls only after paramilitary deployment read more

By 1947, India were already a hockey powerhouse having been Olympic champions thrice in 1928, 1932 and 1936 when the team comprised mostly Army men and Anglo-Indians, playing as a British colony. No Games were held in 1940 and 1944 because of World War... read more

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) state unit co-president Dr Balbir Singh appointed new general secretaries and district chiefs as well as assigned duties to 14 other office-bearers in the state. read more

Sixteen AAP leaders, including six district chiefs, had quit their posts on Sunday to register protest against state co-president Dr Balbir Singh’s ‘‘arbitrary decisions’’. read more

Chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh said the AAP leader was “backing secessionism” by supporting the campaign. read more