Tuesday, Jun 28, 2022
Jan 12, 2022 Outlook Web Desk The Punjab model will have a 10-point agenda which will include providing free power to people up to 300 units per billing cycle and controlling the drug menace, he said.
Jan 03, 2022 Outlook Web Desk Badal was addressing a gathering at Manji Sahib Diwan Hall in the Golden Temple complex to protest the alleged sacrilege attempts, including at the sanctum sanctorum of the Golden Temple last month.
Police have listed 100 other unnamed people in the Kapurthala lynching case. Amongst them 25 to 30 of them were armed during the incident
Dec 24, 2021 Outlook Web Desk Channi said he had spoken to Home Minister Amit Shah hours after the explosion and that the Centre has dispensed teams to Punjab to investigate the case.
Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi confirmed that there is no evidence of ‘sacrilege’ committed by a man who was beaten to death in Punjab's Kapurthala district.
According to the autopsy report, the unidentified man had deep cuts on neck, head, chest and right hip of the body and he would have become breathless after a deep cut on the neck.
Three back-to-back incidents in Punjab have once again stirred the long-simmering controversy around what usually defines sacrilege.
Two men were beaten to death for their alleged desecration bids at the Golden Temple in Amritsar and at a gurdwara in Kapurthala district.
Uk's first woman Sikh Parliamentarian Preet Kaur Gill deleted her tweet on the Golden Temple sacrilege incident which said, 'Hindu terrorist prevented from an act of violence at the Sikh Holy shrine of Harminder Sahib (Golden Temple) against Sikhs.'
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SGPC chief Harjinder Singh Dhami told reporters that the SGPC task force had stopped the perpetrator from entering the Golden Temple suspecting foul play. He managed to enter the sanctum sanctorum in the evening after the shift of task force members changed.
Politicians across the political spectrum condemned the 'sacrilege' in Golden Temple without making any further comments on the lynching of the man.
Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu said the sacrilege attempts in Punjab are part of the conspiracies hatched to disturb peace in the state.
Deputy Chief Minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, after holding a meeting with police officials in Amritsar, said that an SIT has been constituted under the deputy commissioner of police (law and order).
Assuring that the perpetrators would be exposed, Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Channi said that some 'inimical' forces might be involved in the lynching in view of the upcoming Assembly polls.
The accused was caught and beaten to death on Saturday evening after he jumped the golden grills inside the sanctum sanctorum, picked a sword and reached near the place where a Sikh priest was reciting the holy Guru Granth Sahib
A farmer sits near his red chillies at a deserted APMC market, during the weekend curfew imposed by the Karnataka government to curb the spread of COVID-19, in Hubballi.
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Delhi Chief Minister & AAP National Convenor Arvind Kejriwal being welcomed by women supporters during his door-to-door campaign ahead of the Goa Assembly elections, in Goa.
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A health worker collects swab sample of a woman for COVID-19 test, amid concerns over rising Omicron cases, in Gurugram.
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Traffic jam on a road at Shalimar Bagh during the weekend curfew imposed by the Delhi government to curb the spread of Covid-19, in New Delhi.
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The Lajpat Nagar market wears a deserted look during the weekend curfew imposed by the Delhi government to curb the spread of Covid-19, in New Delhi.
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He would take his colour, brushes and canvas outside to paint and talk with his love. He would stand close to the window and paint, keeping an eye on his muse.
They say the violin mimics the human sound. In his case, it was that of love, of longing. He didn’t know any other way of loving.
Younger people do not have much progressive beliefs; a 2017 survey found that one-third of young people opposed inter-caste marriage.
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