A 13-year-old boy was killed allegedly by three villagers for stealing a pigeon in Punjab's Mansa district, police said on Sunday.

Punjab's ruling Aam Aadmi Party and the opposition BJP are at loggerheads over the law and order situation, with gangsters like Lawrence Bishnoi and Jaggu Bhagwanpuria operating with impunity in the state.

Usha Devi from Bihar's Purnea district wanted to elope with her lover but with her husband's return to the village, the plan was in shambles.

On the first day of the special session of the Punjab Assembly, political leaders across party lines addressed the alleged involvement of gangster Lawrence Bishnoi in the murder of Abohar-based businessman Sanjay Verma.

Two members of a gang linked to jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi were shot dead in an encounter with the police in Punjab's Panj Peer Tibba, a day after they killed a businessman in Fazilka district. A policeman was also injured in the gunfight.

The Aam Aadmi Party-led Punjab government is facing a barrage of questions and the heat from the Opposition after a businessman was shot dead in Abohar in Fazilka district Monday.

Well-known fashion designer and showroom co-owner Sanjay Verma was shot dead in broad daylight by three people outside his store. Eyewitnesses said three assailants arrived on a motorcycle and opened fire on him as Verma stepped out of his showroom.

On a late May afternoon in 2022, Sidhu Moose Wala, the popular Punjabi musician, was driving his black Mahindra Thar SUV near his native village in Punjab's Mansa district when two vehicles began to tail him.

The Amritsar Commissionerate Police has dismantled an organised crime network linked to the foreign-based Kishan Gang, arresting 4 operatives within 8 hours. The arrests were made in connection with the murder of Municipal Councilor Harjinder Singh.

Pakistan fired at least 300 drones, some of Turkish origin, toward India in a bid to target military installations in 36 cities in northern and western India, from Jammu and Kashmir to Punjab to Jaisalmer in Rajasthan.

The grenade attack at BJP leader Manoranjan Kalia's home in Punjab's Jalandhar was masterminded by Zeeshan Akhtar, a close associate of gangster Lawrence Bishnoi and a wanted accused in the murder case of NCP leader Baba Siddiqui, sources said

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Earlier on Friday three motorcycle-borne assailants shot dead Mangat Rai Manga, the district president of Shiv Sena, in Punjab's Moga district, owing to "personal rivalry", the police said.

A Shiv Sena leader was chased and shot dead by the three bike-borne men in Punjab's Moga late Thursday night. A chilling CCTV video shows how he tried to evade the shooters just minutes before he was killed.

Police on Monday arrested a local AAP leader, his girlfriend and four alleged contract killers in connection with the murder of his wife, who is also a party leader.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed a chargesheet against two operatives of the Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) terror group in connection with the murder of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Vikas Prabhakar

A serial killer, who allegedly murdered 11 people within a span of 18 months in Punjab after offering lifts and then robbing them, was arrested on Tuesday from Rupnagar district.

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.

Leaders across political parties on Wednesday condemned the assassination attempt on Shiromani Akali Dal leader Sukhbir Singh Badal at the Golden Temple in Amritsar, and lauded the Punjab Police for averting a "very big" tragedy.

Balwant Singh Rajoana, who is convicted for his involvement in an explosion that killed then Punjab chief minister Beant Singh, has filed a petition for commutation of his death sentence.

A Fazilka-based person was held by Punjab Police in a joint operation with the Maharashtra Police in connection with the murder of NCP leader and former Maharashtra minister Baba Siddique, a top police officer said on Saturday.

A gangster was shot dead on Wednesday while trying to escape police custody when he and a few other accused in a murder case were taken to a place here to make some recoveries, officials said.

Police have arrested one more person in connection with the murder of NCP leader and former Maharashtra minister Baba Siddique from Ludhiana, an official said on Friday, taking the number of those held in the case to 15.

Seven 'shooters' working for the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, linked to the gunfire outside Bollywood star Salman Khan's home and the murder of ex-Maharashtra minister Baba Siddiqui, have been arrested across Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, and Delhi.