Chandigarh, May 12 (IANS) A CBI team has raided the Punjab Vigilance Bureau office in Mohali, near here, and detained its Director S.S. Chauhan’s reader over bribery charges of Rs 25 lakh. The raid, which began late Monday evening, is still on, and the Vigilance office has been sealed.Sources said the CBI first raided a five-star hotel in Chandigarh where Inspector O.P. Rana, reader to the vigilance chief, along with “middleman” Raghav Goel, were striking a deal with a complainant. The Rs …
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Chandigarh, May 9 (IANS) With the arrest of Punjab Industries Minister Sanjeev Arora on Saturday by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) following a search operation at his official residence here in an alleged money laundering case, State Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Chief Sunil Jakhar accused the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government of shielding corruption and defending individuals involved in alleged land-related scams. Jakhar said that ED raids on the Punjab Minister are not aimed at targeting priva…
Chandigarh, May 8 (IANS) Punjab Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Sunil Jakhar said on Friday that the Enforcement Directorate (ED)’s action in Mohali has clearly exposed divisions within the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). Taking a jibe at the AAP, Jakhar added that the “infighting is entirely internal, yet whenever someone leaves the party, the BJP is blamed for it”. In a message shared on social media, the Punjab BJP President wrote: “The ED investigation is still underway, and only after the pro…
Chandigarh, May 7 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED)’s raids at multiple locations linked to builders and associates in Mohali and Chandigarh on Thursday triggered a fresh political storm in Punjab, with Leader of Opposition (LoP) Partap Singh Bajwa and Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Bikram Singh Majithia accusing the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government of running a “massive corruption network” in the state.The ED conducted searches at around 12 locations linked to the Suntec City project an…
Chandigarh, May 7 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday carried out raids at a flat near Kharar in Punjab’s Mohali district where two bags allegedly containing cash were reportedly thrown from a ninth floor of the house during the operation, officials said. The ED officials added that the raid was carried out in the flat of an IT professional, Nitin Gohal, in Western Towers and during the search operation two bags allegedly containing cash bundles were thrown within the building pr…
New Delhi, May 7 (IANS) Incubators are one of the key pillars of a successful startup ecosystem, playing a vital role in nurturing and scaling innovative ideas, said Deepak Bagla, Mission Director, Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog.At the Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), “we are focused on strengthening this pillar by enabling incubators with better infrastructure, mentorship, funding access, and market linkages,” he said at an event in Mohali, that brought together key stakeholders from gov…
Mumbai, May 6 (IANS) The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Wednesday unveiled an expansive home season schedule, headlined by the India women’s team hosting the Zimbabwe women’s national cricket team in a white-ball series in October 2026.”The schedule features a line-up of multi-format contests with India set to host Australia A (Men and Women), England A Women, Zimbabwe Women, Australia U19 Men, England U19 Women and Sri Lanka Women U19 during the upcoming domestic season,” BCCI …
Chandigarh, May 5 (IANS) In a breakthrough against organised crime, Punjab Police’s Anti-Gangster Task Force (AGTF), in an operation with Central agencies and Tripura Police, has apprehended Aditya Kapoor, one of the shooters involved in the sensational murder of kabaddi promoter Kanwar Digvijay Singh, alias Rana Balachauria, State Director General of Police (DGP) Gaurav Yadav said here. The accused, who was arrested from Agartala in Tripura and a resident of Amritsar, has a criminal background …
Mohali, May 1 (IANS) A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in Punjab’s SAS Nagar (Mohali) has convicted and sentenced two men to over five years rigorous imprisonment in a 2020 case involving the hoisting of a Khalistani flag at the Deputy Commissioner’s office in the state’s Moga, the agency said on Friday.The convicted accused, identified as Inderjeet Singh and Jaspal Singh, both residents of Moga, have been awarded five years and six months of imprisonment along with a fine of…
Chandigarh, April 29 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday conducted search operations this week under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) at 11 locations in Chandigarh, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, and Patiala linked to suspended Punjab Police Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) H.S. Bhullar, his associates, including property dealers and suspected benamidars, ED officials said. The ED’s Chandigarh Zonal Office initiated the investigation on the basis of …