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PTU shuts till Oct 3 after dandiya night row sparks protest

Kapurthala, Oct. 1 -- A row erupted after IK Gujral Punjab Technical University (IKGPTU) denied students permission to organise 'dandiya' night on varsity premises. Seeing a commotion among the stude... Read More


JE held for taking rRs.r4,000 bribe from Kapurthala schoolteacher

Kapurthala, Sept. 30 -- The Vigilance Bureau (VB) has arrested a junior engineer posted in the Kapurthala education department for accepting a bribe of Rs.4,000 from a schoolteacher. The accused, ide... Read More


Kapurthala: One feared dead in mattress factory inferno

Kapurthala, Sept. 26 -- One person was feared dead in a fire incident at a mattress manufacturing factory in Kapurthala's Nurpur Donna village on Thursday. The blaze broke out at around 8:15 am. At t... Read More


Crackdown on cybercrime: Kapurthala police arrest 39, over rRs.r2 crore seized

Kapurthala, Sept. 24 -- In an ongoing probe into a multi-crore cyber scam, Kapurthala police have so far arrested 39 people, including a Rajasthan native held on Tuesday. The latest arrest was of Paw... Read More


Punjab: VB nabs ASI, constable for accepting rRs.r50,000 bribe

Kapurthala, Sept. 10 -- The vigilance bureau (VB) has arrested an assistant sub-inspector (ASI) and a constable for demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs.50,000, officials said on Tuesday. The accused... Read More


Brother-sister duo drowns in seasonal rivulet in Kapurthala

Kapurthala, Sept. 6 -- A brother-sister duo drowned in a rain-fed rivulet at Kapurthala district's Ranipur village on Saturday. The deceased have been identified as Sandeep Kumar, 35, and Preeti, 27,... Read More


Kapurthala admn on high alert amid rising water level in Beas

Kapurthala, Aug. 25 -- Deputy commissioner Amit Kumar Panchal on Sunday stated that the administration is continuously monitoring the water levels in the Beas river and urged people in the Mand area t... Read More


3 killed as PRTC bus hits pickup truck in Kapurthala

Kapurthala, Aug. 19 -- Three persons were killed after a PRTC bus collided with a light commercial vehicle near Mand village on the Kapurthala-Jalandhar main road on Tuesday, police said. The decease... Read More


Kapurthala drug smuggler detained under PIT-NDPS Act

Kapurthala, Aug. 15 -- The Kapurthala police have taken a notorious drug smuggler into one-year preventive detention under the Prevention of Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substanc... Read More


'Abducted' 11-year-old US citizen found from Kashmir

Kapurthala, Aug. 5 -- An 11-year-old US citizen, who was allegedly abducted by his Jalandhar-based caretakers, has been recovered from Kulgam in Jammu and Kashmir on Monday, officials said. Superinte... Read More