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Jalandhar: BJP has launched its biggest outreach to Ravidassia community so far by launching the 'Kalash Yatra', in which urns carrying soil from Guru Ravidas's birthplace, Seer Gowardhanpur in Varanasi, are being ta-ken in processions to mark the saint's 650th birth anniversary.

Phagwara: The Bhartiya Kisan Union (Doaba) on Wednesday announced plans to stage a protest from Aug 20, demanding the release of pending cane dues, including Rs 27.8 crore owed to farmers by the Phagwara sugar mill from the 2021-22 crushing season.

Kapurthala: Rail Coach Factory (RCF), Kapurthala, will roll out its first rake of 19 Linke-Hofmann-Busch (LHB) broad gauge passenger coaches for Bangladesh Railway on Wednesday, including three AC sleeper cars, three AC chair cars, 11 non-AC chair cars and two power cars.

Jalandhar: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and BJP may be moving closer after Sukhbir Singh Badal’s meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and SAD’s subsequent decision to support the women’s reservation and delimitation bills, but any alliance will face a key challenge: addressing apprehensions about the BJP among a section of SAD’s core Sikh voter base.

Nawanshahr: Two youths, including a 15-year-old, died and another 15-year-old is battling for life after the three friends allegedly consumed poison at a house in Garh Padhana village on Monday. Police and their families suspect they may have lost money in an online game.

KAPURTHALA: After a video clip of a man assaulting a woman beggar, who was holding her child, with his slipper just outside a temple in Kapurthala emerged on social media, police booked the accused for assaulting and attempting to outrage her modesty.

Kapurthala: After a video clip of a man assaulting a woman beggar, who was holding her child, with his slipper just outside a temple in Kapurthala emerged on social media, police booked the accused for assaulting and attempting to outrage her modesty. Accused Pawan Sharma runs a shop opposite the temple selling articles offered at the temple.

Jalandhar: Sant Harchand Singh Longowal, then Shiromani Akali Dal president, was assassinated on Aug 20, 1985, weeks after he signed the Punjab Accord with Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on Jul 24. An account by then Punjab DGP Kirpal Dhillon raises questions over alleged security lapses surrounding Longowal and the roles of senior police and security officials.

Jalandhar: Congress leaders paying tributes to late MP Sajjan Kumar, a convict in the Nov 1984 Sikh massacre cases in Delhi, has attracted sharp reaction from members of the Sikh community . The BJP and the Shiromani Akali Dal, too, launched scathing attacks on the Congress over these tributes.

Jalandhar: Jalandhar Rural Police have arrested the husband and mother-in-law of college lecturer Neha Bassi, who allegedly died after being forced to consume toilet cleaner. The couple’s daughter has also been recovered.