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S oon after completing his Bar-at-law in London in 1927, my father Gurbakhsh Singh Gyani started his legal practice in Khanewal, then a tehsil of Multan district (in 1985, it became a district of the Punjab province of Pakistan). By 1947, he was well established as a criminal lawyer and…

New Delhi, July 9Thousands of anti-government protesters stormed into the President’s House on Saturday, forcing President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee with his family for an unknown destination. Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s house was set on fire by the protesters as Sri Lanka slid further into the economic morass.Before…

Shimla, July 9 A four-storey commercial building housing two banks (UCO bank and land mortgage bank), a dhaba and a beer bar collapsed in the Chopal market today. Cracks started developing in the foundation of the building first. However, no casualty was reported. Luckily, it was a bank…

New Delhi, July 9In a rare joint condolence statement by three countries, the leaders of Australia, India and the US together expressed shock at the assassination of former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe.The joint statement signed by leaders of three of the four Quad members — US President Joe Biden, Prime…

New Delhi, July 9 Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar today raised several issues concerning the state, including the SYL canal and a new building for the Haryana Vidhan Sabha in Chandigarh, during a Northern Zonal Council meeting chaired by Union Home Minister Amit Shah. He also raised the issues…

New Delhi, July 9 The Delhi Police on Saturday said one of the key conspirators of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala’s killing fled India over a month before the incident. The Interpol had earlier issued a Red Corner Notice against Satinderjeet Singh alias Goldy Brar who claimed responsibility for Moosewala’s killing….

Garhshankar (Hoshiarpur), July 9 Three officials have been suspended by the Punjab government after a video of re-carpeting a road in Hoshiarpur in heavy rains had gone viral. The Punjab Department of Public Works suspended Tarsam Singh, sub divisional engineer, Vipan Kumar, junior engineer and Jasbir Singh, also a junior…

Sukhmeet Bhasin Bathinda, July 9 Punjabi-origin MP from Brampton West Kamal Khera got married to Jaspreet Dhillon in Canada. Kamal Khera was first elected as the Member of Parliament for Brampton West in 2015, and has previously served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International Development, Parliamentary Secretary to…

New Delhi, July 9 A 29-year-old man was arrested for allegedly killing his wife after she broke his mobile phone during an altercation in southeast Delhi’s Badarpur area, police said on Saturday. The accused has been identified as Dhrijesh, a resident of Budh Vihar, they said. The police received a…

Birmingham, July 9 Rohit Sharma’s inspirational leadership and an aggressive brand new approach saw India completely outclass England by 49 runs in the second T20 International to seal the three-match series with an unassailable 2-0 lead here on Saturday. Batting first, India once again showed a start-to-finish aggressive intent while…

Chandigarh, July 9 It was a miraculous escape for Punjab tourists as their car was hit by a huge boulder in Kausali. The car had Punjab registration number. The boulder came shooting down the hill in speed and hit the car parked on a roadside. A car’s roof was…

London, July 9 Elena Rybakina beat Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur 3-6 6-2 6-2 to become the first player from Kazakhstan to win a Grand Slam singles title at Wimbledon on Saturday. With Russian and Belarussian players banned from the grasscourt major following Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, Rybakina would have been excluded…

Chandigarh, July 9 It was a total mayhem as thousands of people were seen waiting in lines at the Lulu Mall outlets in Thiruvananthapuram and Kochi after the mall announced midnight sales with a special 50 per cent discount. While initially it was pleasant, the outlets witnessed turmoil as the…

Nara, Japan, July 9 The man who killed Shinzo Abe believed the former Japanese leader was linked to a religious group he blamed for his mother’s financial ruin and spent months planning the attack with a homemade gun, police told local media on Saturday. Tetsuya Yamagami, an unemployed 41-year-old, identified…

Chandigarh, July 9 Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled his official residence on Saturday as thousands of anti-government protesters barged into his residence demanding his resignation. Videos have surfaced on the social media of suitcases being loaded on a Sri Lanka Navy ship. Local media claimed that the suitcases were…