Former militant Gurbaksh Singh Khalsa, who had been protesting for the last several years demanding the release of Sikh prisoners, allegedly committed suicide at his native Thaska Ali village in the district on Tuesday evening.
Turbans were tossed as police tried to prevent SAD-BJP leaders from marching towards the Punjab Assembly here to register their protest on Tuesday.
Thirty years after an elderly man died in a road rage case allegedly involving now Punjab Tourism Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu, the Supreme Court on Tuesday commenced hearing the final arguments on his appeal challenging a Punjab and Haryana High Court verdict convicting him.
All 39 Indian construction workers kidnapped by the Islamic State in 2014 from Iraq's city of Mosul have been killed, the government said on Tuesday, confirming the worst fears after keeping alive hopes over their survival for the last nearly four years.
With a powerful combination of brainpower, entrepreneurial energy and favourable demographics, India is the world's greatest land of opportunities, says American author Richard M. Rothman, who has come up with a book that aims to help ordinary Indians do extraordinary things.
After the rally, the MNS workers, carrying party flags, ransacked a few roadside eateries near Vasai, on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway, last night and destroyed their signboards written in Gujarati.