A senior police officer of Punjab has been sacked for facilitating the recording of an interview with gangster Lawrence Bishnoi by a private television channel while he was in the custody of the CIA (Crime Investigation Agency) in Kharar.

The Punjabi romantic drama Kaka Ji is set to stream on the Chaupal OTT platform from December 30, 2024. Originally released in cinemas in 2019, the film features Dev Kharoud and Aarushi Sharma in the lead roles. Set against the backdrop of 1990s Punjab, Kaka Ji explores themes of love, crime, and familial loyalty. Directed by Mandeep Benipal, the film also features an...

A migrant worker was brutally killed by a person allegedly following an argument while drinking alcohol in the fields at Chak Singha village in Garhshankar subdivision here, police said on Tuesday.

In a shocking incident, a pregnant woman was killed allegedly by her mother-in-law who along with her three accomplices chopped her body in dozens of pieces before dumping it in a drain in the Punjab province of Pakistan, police said on Sunday.

Mafia boss Lawrence Bishnoi's interviews last year - to a private channel while, supposedly, incarcerated in jail - was red-flagged, again, by the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Monday.

The chilling murder of popular Punjabi singer Sidhu Moose Wala in Punjab's Mansa district in 2022 brought gangster Lawrence Bishnoi international attention. Fast forward a couple of years, and he is once again under the spotlight.

The Amritsar Police Commissionerate, in a 10-day operation, busted a trans-border illegal arms and narco-terrorism hawala racket with the arrest of eight accused, Director General of Police, Punjab, Gaurav Yadav said on Thursday.

The Cyber Crime Division of Punjab Police has busted two fake call centres running in Mohali, near here, and arrested 155 employees for making fraudulent calls to people living in the US and duping them, police said on Friday.

In a horrifying incident, a pregnant woman in Punjab was set on fire allegedly by her husband after an argument on Friday.

The man who allegedly killed a Punjab Police constable was on Monday shot dead in an encounter with police on the Jalandhar-Pathankot national highway here, officials said.

The Bathinda police on Friday arrested two people for allegedly killing a friend of theirs over a dispute in Punjab's Bathinda, police said on Friday.

An accused in the murder of former model Divya Pahuja on Friday confessed to the police that he had dumped her body in a canal in Punjab on January 3, a day after her alleged murder.

A key operative of Pakistan-based terrorist Harvinder Rinda, who was supplying weapons to the associates of a terror outfit to carry out "sensational crimes" in Punjab, has been arrested, Director General of Police (DGP) Gaurav Yadav said on Friday.

Police have booked a government primary school teacher in this Punjab district for allegedly sexually abusing three girls aged around 10 years, officials said on Friday.

Three unidentified men allegedly snatched a luxury car in Amritsar at gunpoint and fired at police personnel when they were intercepted more than 200 km away in Mohali on Sunday, officials said.

Three members of a family were killed by some unidentified people at their house in Tarn Taran district on Wednesday, the police said.

Actor Sonu Sood has taken a strong stand against drugs abusein Punjab. In a video released by the Director General of Punjab Police on X (formerly known as Twitter), the actor urges everyone to help in eradicating drugs abuse from the state.

Reacting to Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh's statement that the Aam Aadmi Party-led Punjab government had failed to maintain law and order in the state, AAP MP Raghav Chadha said that the law and order situation has witnessed improvement

Three men, including a Punjab resident, were injured in a firing incident following a clash between two groups near a bus stand in Samba district's Ramgarh sector along the India-Pakistan border early Monday, officials said.

An Act like PCOCA can go a long way in instilling confidence by providing a robust mechanism to deal with organised crime. However, due caution, along with checks and balances, must be inherent in the Act to prevent its abuse.

Punjab Kings' Arshdeep Singh bowled two different Mumbai Indians batters in the final over of the IPL match on Sunday by breaking their stumps.

"He saw a few hooligans playing inappropriate songs in a car in full public view," the family alleged.

During the investigation, the police tracked down the mobile number through electronic surveillance and conducted raids in Punjab and Madhya Pradesh.

The North American Punjabi Association on Wednesday raised "serious concern" over increasing incidents of gang wars and the recovery of sophisticated weapons in the state.