Tota Singh

Senior Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader and former Punjab minister Tota Singh, 81, died at a private hospital in Mohali on Saturday after prolonged illness.

Details of bank transactions running into crores, thousands of US and Canadian dollars and a large stock of expensive liquor were recovered from the home of a Punjab bureaucrat, police have said.

15-year- old Karamjit Kaur is in a state of shock, her father Sukhminder Singh, a 42-year- old farmer, consumed pesticide and hanged himself from a tree in his field, a day after he destroyed his pest ridden cotton crop. What is worrying the elders most is the repayment of Rs three lakh bank loan taken by the farmer.

A minister in Punjab, which is facing drug menace, today stoked a controversy by suggesting that there should be a mandatory "dope test" for politicians contesting elections.

A district court in Mohali has sentenced Punjab Agriculture Minister Tota Singh to one year in jail for misusing his official position. Mr Singh was found guilty for misusing his official vehicle while he was minister between 1997-2002 in the Shiromani Akali Dal-Bharatiya Janata Party coalition government.

Senior Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader and former Punjab minister Tota Singh, 81, died at a private hospital in Mohali on Saturday after prolonged illness.

Details of bank transactions running into crores, thousands of US and Canadian dollars and a large stock of expensive liquor were recovered from the home of a Punjab bureaucrat, police have said.

15-year- old Karamjit Kaur is in a state of shock, her father Sukhminder Singh, a 42-year- old farmer, consumed pesticide and hanged himself from a tree in his field, a day after he destroyed his pest ridden cotton crop. What is worrying the elders most is the repayment of Rs three lakh bank loan taken by the farmer.

A minister in Punjab, which is facing drug menace, today stoked a controversy by suggesting that there should be a mandatory "dope test" for politicians contesting elections.

A district court in Mohali has sentenced Punjab Agriculture Minister Tota Singh to one year in jail for misusing his official position. Mr Singh was found guilty for misusing his official vehicle while he was minister between 1997-2002 in the Shiromani Akali Dal-Bharatiya Janata Party coalition government.