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BSF to undertake IED detection drive along Indo-Pak border

“A massive sanitation drive to find possible improvised explosive devices (IED) will be undertaken in the Punjab frontier following the incident on Wednesday where two such bombs were recovered from a farming field ahead of the fence in Gurdaspur district,” a senior officer said.

The 2,289-kilometre-long India-Pakistan international border runs from Jammu in the north to Punjab, Rajasthan and Gujarat in the west and the Border Security Force (BSF) is tasked with guarding it. (ANI)

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Published on Apr 11, 2025 08:42 AM IST

ByPress Trust of India, New Delhi

Ambedkar’s statue vandalised in Punjab’s Batala

Dalit organisations held protests around the statue early in the morning, alleging the statue’s finger was broken and it was pelted with stones.

Batala deputy superintendent of police (DSP City) Sanjeev Kumar said it is to be investigated if the finger broke naturally, or some person did it as it has been learnt that this finger was seen broken before the alleged incident.

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Published on Apr 03, 2025 09:18 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Batala

Punjab: Cops-farmers clash over land acquisition in Gurdaspur

The farmers’ unions have claimed that at least seven to eight farmers have been injured during the scuffle

The farmers had gathered in front of the gurdwara in Nangal Jhor village, Gurdaspur district, to start a sit-in against the police’s attempt to forcefully acquire land for a national highway project . (HT Photo)

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Published on Mar 12, 2025 05:02 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Amritsar

BSF recovers ammunition in Gurdaspur

On the input about presence of a suspected item ahead of border security fence in the border area, a search operation by BSF was conducted in the suspected area.

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Published on Jan 31, 2025 05:26 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Gurdaspur

Punjab: Trio killed in police encounter belonged to marginal families

The three — Gurwinder Singh (25) of Bhaini Bania Mohalla, Virendra Singh alias Ravi (23) of Agwan and Jasan Preet Singh alias Pratap Singh (18) of Shur Khurd — were involved in the December 18 grenade attack on the police posts in Gurdaspur district

Three suspected Khalistani terrorists killed in an encounter with police in Pilibhit early on Monday. (HT File)

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Updated on Dec 24, 2024 06:08 AM IST

BySurjit Singh, Amritsar

Now, ‘blast’ outside police post in Punjab’s Gurdaspur

In an unverified post circulating on social media, terror outfit Khalistan Zindabad Force (KZF) has claimed responsibility for the alleged attack.

This is the second incident in Punjab in past two days and the sixth overall since November 23.

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Updated on Dec 20, 2024 09:32 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Amritsar

Punjab: Voting peaceful in Dera Baba Nanak barring minor clash

Barring a minor clash between the Congress and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) workers, polling remained peaceful in Dera Baba Nanak segment, which falls in Gurdaspur district

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Updated on Nov 21, 2024 05:56 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent

Three dead, 19 hurt as bus hits roadside shed in Batala

As per staff of the Batala civil hospital, 19 passengers were injured and seven of them were critical so they were referred to the Government Medical College in Amritsar

A view of bus accident near Batala on Monday. (HT)

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Updated on Oct 01, 2024 08:56 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Batala/chandigarh

Punjab: NRI nabbed with 15 cartridges from Amritsar airport

The arrested NRI Amardeep Singh visited his village in Gurdaspur district a few months back and was returning to New Jersey in the United States when CISF personnel held him on the airport.

The NRI was arrested after CISF personnel found the cartridges from his handbag. (HT File)

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Published on Sep 14, 2024 10:51 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Amritsar:

To ‘cast out evil’, pastors thrash Gurdaspur man to death

As many 10 pastors have been booked for allegedly beating up a 30-year-old person to death in the name of exorcism in Singhpura village, falling under the Dhariwal police station of Gurdaspur district, the police said on Sunday evening

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Updated on Aug 26, 2024 10:48 AM IST

BySurjit Singh, Amritsar

Hurt in freak mishap, Golden Temple volunteer dies

Balbir Singh, a resident of Dhariwal village in Gurdaspur district, had accidentally fallen into a cauldron of boiling water in the langar hall while performing sewa recently.

The deceased used to come to the langar hall of Sri Darbar Sahib (Golden Temple) twice a week to perform sewa (voluntary service).

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Updated on Aug 11, 2024 05:04 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Amritsar

Damdami Taksal-managed gurdwara head murdered in Punjab’s Gurdaspur

Balwinder Singh, who was associated with Damdami Taksal for decades, was from the Sangrawan faction led by Giani Ram Singh. He was the nephew of the Sikh seminary’s 13th chief, Sant Kartar Singh Bhindranwale. He was also an office-bearer of the Sant Samaj.

Balwinder Singh, 60, who headed the Damdami Taksal-managed gurdwara near Ghuman village of Gurdaspur district, was murdered on the premises on Tuesday night. (Representational image)

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Updated on May 01, 2024 01:12 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent

Gurdaspur youth hacked to death by drug addicts

The victim had objected to addicts sitting near his house. Police have registered a case on the complaint of victim’s father.

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Updated on Mar 16, 2024 08:54 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Amritsar

Minor siblings found dead at home in Gurdaspur, parents missing

A six-year-old girl and her three-year-old brother were found dead at their home in Kalanaur town of Gurdaspur district on Monday. Their parents are missing.

The incident took place in a house near Shiv Mandir. A neighbour, Ajmer Singh, told the cops that the children’s father, Harpal Singh, worked as a tailor, and their mother was Amanpreet Kaur

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Updated on Mar 05, 2024 09:18 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Gurdaspur

Lt Col Natt cremated with military honours in Jalandhar

He had been in a coma since November 2015 after sustaining gunshot injuries in an anti-terror operation in Jammu and Kashmir and died in a Jalandhar hospital

He had saved the lives of three men in his unit during the gunfight that took place in November 2015 and killed one terrorist. (Source: X)

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Updated on Dec 27, 2023 07:04 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Jalandhar

Batala BDPO arrested for taking ₹15,000 bribe

A VB spokesperson said the arrest of the BDPO was made following a complaint lodged by Happy Gill, a resident of Sekhwan village in Gurdaspur

Upon receiving the complaint, the Amritsar range VB conducted a preliminary investigation and subsequently laid a trap in which the BDPO was arrested red-handed while accepting a bribe of <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>15,000 from the complainant in the presence of two official witnesses.

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Updated on Nov 23, 2023 07:52 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Chandigarh

Punjab: BSF, cops recover 6kg heroin from near border in Gurdaspur

In a joint operation, the Border Security Force (BSF) and Punjab Police on Thursday recovered six packets containing suspected heroin from Adhian village in Gurdaspur district

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Updated on Oct 27, 2023 08:22 AM IST

ByAgencies

6kg heroin found hidden in battery along border in Gurdaspur

BSF recovers 6kg of heroin hidden in a battery near the border in Gurdaspur, and 2.6kg of heroin dropped by a drone in Amritsar.

The packets of narcotics and the battery in which they were concealed near the border fence at Dostpur village in Gurdaspur district. (HT Photo)

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Updated on Aug 31, 2023 12:44 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Amritsar

Flood threat looms over 3 border districts as water released in Ujh river

The administrations of Pathankot, Gurdaspur and Amritsar have issued advisories asking people living near Ujh and Ravi rivers to stay alert after 2.8 lakh cusecs of water was released

Around 2.8 lakh cusecs of water has been released in the Ujh river in Jammu posing threat to three Punjab districts. (HT Photo)

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Updated on Jul 19, 2023 10:14 PM IST

ByAnil Sharma, Amritsar

Gurdaspur: Water level recedes in Ravi

The water level in Ravi dipped by 2 feet in Gurdaspur district on Tuesday even as the army rescued around 500 people, including children and women, stuck at Kasowal and Ghanieke Bet villages in Dera Baba Nanak area

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Updated on Jul 12, 2023 12:43 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent

Truck carrying consignment of liquor meant for sale in Punjab seized in Gurugram

Police said a crime branch team from Sikandarpur had received intelligence input that a huge consignment of liquor meant to be sold only in Punjab, was on its way to either Gujarat or Bihar. Police were soon able to track a 12-wheeler container truck that was found parked in Sector 2, IMT Manesar on Friday

The 12-wheeler container truck at Manesar police station. (HT Photo)

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Updated on Jun 10, 2023 10:51 PM IST

ByDebashish Karmakar

Gurdaspur: Drug addict kills woman, throws body in gutter after looting jewellery

A drug addict killed a 55-year-old woman and threw the body in the gutter of her house in Awankha village of Gurdaspur district, police said on Friday.

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Updated on May 20, 2023 01:19 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Amritsar

GRP puts up Amritpal’s ‘wanted’ posters at rly stations in Amritsar

The Government Railway Police (GRP) on Thursday put up ‘wanted’ posters of pro-Khalistan leader and Waris Punjab De head Amritpal Singh, who continues to evade arrest since March 18, at railway station Amritsar district

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Updated on Apr 14, 2023 12:35 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent

Punjab Police ASI shoots wife, son dead in Gurdaspur village

Punjab Police ASI Bhupinder Singh allegedly killed his wife and son with his service revolver in Gurdaspur district and is now absconding.

A search is on for Punjab Police assistant sub-inspector (ASI) Bhupinder Singh, 48, who is absconding after allegedly killing his wife and son with his service revolver at their house in Bhumbli village of Gurdaspur district on Tuesday. (Representational photo)

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Updated on Apr 04, 2023 02:21 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent

Punjab: 6 trains cancelled due to farmers’ protest in Gurdaspur

The farmers launched their indefinite protest on Sunday in support of their demands, including a fair compensation for land acquired for road projects and crop loss due to inclement weather

Farmers staging a protest in Amritsar on Monday against the imposition of National Security Act (NSA) on Sikh hardliners and also demanding compensation for their crops damaged by the rain. (Sameer Sehgal/HT)

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Updated on Apr 03, 2023 03:32 PM IST

ByPress Trust of India

Three of family die by suicide over monetary dispute in Punjab’s Gurdaspur

Share video on social media, blaming nine people, including relatives, for driving them to take the extreme step

A 42-year-old sugarcane juice seller, his 38-year-old wife and their 16-year-old daughter died by suicide in Gurdaspur district on Tuesday night.(Representational photo)

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Published on Dec 23, 2020 01:03 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Amritsar | ByHT Correspondent

2 men held in plush Mohali society for IPL betting racket, drug dealing

Investigations revealed that the men had been living in the apartment for two months and had placed bets on around 35 cricket matches so far

Mobile phones and other items seized during police raids at Homeland Heights in Mohali.(Gurminder Singh/HT)

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Published on Oct 11, 2020 07:56 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Mohali

Pakistani team to meet Indian authorities at Dera Baba Nanak for building bridge in Kartarpur Corridor

The engineers will discuss the construction of a bridge on a low-lying stretch near the border on the Pakistan side besides surveying the bridge constructed on the Indian side

Police personnel and residents near the Indian stretch of the bridge on the Kartarpur Corridor near Dera Baba Nanak town of Gurdaspur district in Punjab in November 2019. India built its 100-metre stretch before the inauguration of the corridor last year, while Pakistan expressed its inability to build the 320-metre portion in the stipulated time but promised to complete the construction in due course.(Sameer Sehgal/HT file photo)

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Published on Aug 27, 2020 06:30 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | ByHT Correspondent

Difficult to pay ₹100/quintal incentive for not burning paddy stubble, Manpreet tells House

The state has, so far, paid ₹24 crore as incentive to at least 30,000 farmers. The state is pressing the Centre to make the incentive a part of the Minimum Support Price.

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Published on Mar 02, 2020 06:30 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | ByHT Correspondent

1 held for attack on Shiv Sena leader in Dhariwal

Mahajan was injured while trader Ashok Kumar was killed in the attack.

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Updated on Mar 01, 2020 10:22 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Gurdaspur | ByHT Correspondent, Gurdaspur

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“A massive sanitation drive to find possible improvised explosive devices (IED) will be undertaken in the Punjab frontier following the incident on Wednesday where two such bombs were recovered from a farming field ahead of the fence in Gurdaspur district,” a senior officer said.

Dalit organisations held protests around the statue early in the morning, alleging the statue’s finger was broken and it was pelted with stones.

The farmers’ unions have claimed that at least seven to eight farmers have been injured during the scuffle

On the input about presence of a suspected item ahead of border security fence in the border area, a search operation by BSF was conducted in the suspected area.

The three — Gurwinder Singh (25) of Bhaini Bania Mohalla, Virendra Singh alias Ravi (23) of Agwan and Jasan Preet Singh alias Pratap Singh (18) of Shur Khurd — were involved in the December 18 grenade attack on the police posts in Gurdaspur district

In an unverified post circulating on social media, terror outfit Khalistan Zindabad Force (KZF) has claimed responsibility for the alleged attack.

Barring a minor clash between the Congress and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) workers, polling remained peaceful in Dera Baba Nanak segment, which falls in Gurdaspur district

As per staff of the Batala civil hospital, 19 passengers were injured and seven of them were critical so they were referred to the Government Medical College in Amritsar

The arrested NRI Amardeep Singh visited his village in Gurdaspur district a few months back and was returning to New Jersey in the United States when CISF personnel held him on the airport.

As many 10 pastors have been booked for allegedly beating up a 30-year-old person to death in the name of exorcism in Singhpura village, falling under the Dhariwal police station of Gurdaspur district, the police said on Sunday evening

Balbir Singh, a resident of Dhariwal village in Gurdaspur district, had accidentally fallen into a cauldron of boiling water in the langar hall while performing sewa recently.

Balwinder Singh, who was associated with Damdami Taksal for decades, was from the Sangrawan faction led by Giani Ram Singh. He was the nephew of the Sikh seminary’s 13th chief, Sant Kartar Singh Bhindranwale. He was also an office-bearer of the Sant Samaj.

The victim had objected to addicts sitting near his house. Police have registered a case on the complaint of victim’s father.

A six-year-old girl and her three-year-old brother were found dead at their home in Kalanaur town of Gurdaspur district on Monday. Their parents are missing.

He had been in a coma since November 2015 after sustaining gunshot injuries in an anti-terror operation in Jammu and Kashmir and died in a Jalandhar hospital

A VB spokesperson said the arrest of the BDPO was made following a complaint lodged by Happy Gill, a resident of Sekhwan village in Gurdaspur

In a joint operation, the Border Security Force (BSF) and Punjab Police on Thursday recovered six packets containing suspected heroin from Adhian village in Gurdaspur district

BSF recovers 6kg of heroin hidden in a battery near the border in Gurdaspur, and 2.6kg of heroin dropped by a drone in Amritsar.

The administrations of Pathankot, Gurdaspur and Amritsar have issued advisories asking people living near Ujh and Ravi rivers to stay alert after 2.8 lakh cusecs of water was released

The water level in Ravi dipped by 2 feet in Gurdaspur district on Tuesday even as the army rescued around 500 people, including children and women, stuck at Kasowal and Ghanieke Bet villages in Dera Baba Nanak area

A drug addict killed a 55-year-old woman and threw the body in the gutter of her house in Awankha village of Gurdaspur district, police said on Friday.

The Government Railway Police (GRP) on Thursday put up ‘wanted’ posters of pro-Khalistan leader and Waris Punjab De head Amritpal Singh, who continues to evade arrest since March 18, at railway station Amritsar district

Punjab Police ASI Bhupinder Singh allegedly killed his wife and son with his service revolver in Gurdaspur district and is now absconding.

The farmers launched their indefinite protest on Sunday in support of their demands, including a fair compensation for land acquired for road projects and crop loss due to inclement weather

Share video on social media, blaming nine people, including relatives, for driving them to take the extreme step

Investigations revealed that the men had been living in the apartment for two months and had placed bets on around 35 cricket matches so far

The engineers will discuss the construction of a bridge on a low-lying stretch near the border on the Pakistan side besides surveying the bridge constructed on the Indian side

The state has, so far, paid ₹24 crore as incentive to at least 30,000 farmers. The state is pressing the Centre to make the incentive a part of the Minimum Support Price.

Mahajan was injured while trader Ashok Kumar was killed in the attack.

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