Chandigarh, June 6 (IANS) At least eight people, comprising women and children, were killed and 11 suffered grievous injuries on Saturday in a head-on collision between an overcrowded pick-up (a commercial vehicle usually used for transporting people) and a heavy-duty truck in Punjab’s Ferozepur district, police said. Nearly 25 people, all belonging to a close-knit family from Jalabad village, were travelling to a religious place Beas in Amritsar district to perform the last rites of a family …
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Chandigarh, May 17 (IANS) The Punjab Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) unit on Sunday submitted a complaint to the state Election Commission and the Director General of Police Gaurav Yadav, seeking deferment of the Mudki Municipal Council elections in Ferozepur district, owing to large-scale violence, intimidation, obstruction in filing nomination papers and partisan misuse of police machinery. In the complaint submitted by BJP office Secretary Suneel Dutt Bhardwaj, the party alleged that Opposition …