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Punjab beat Manipur 2-0 to win the National School Games football title at the SAI on Monday. The sides were locked goalless at half-time. Manipur squandered a penalty in the second session. More...

A young model, said to be suffering from depression after the death of her child, committed suicide at her apartment in the industrial town of Derabassi in Punjab. More...

The Punjab police Wednesday arrested a Nigerian national Nwabudu Chijioke Dasil and recovered one kilogram of heroin from him. The contraband is worth Rs.10 million ($250,000) in the international market. More...

A newly formed British Army kabaddi team will participate in a kabaddi festival in Punjab this month. More...

The Punjab government will build an integrated forest complex with a green building certification at an estimated cost of Rs. 120 million. More...

A top British cop came visiting Punjab six years ago and so appalled was he at the quality of education in rural areas that he took on the task of raising funds for building proper schools. More...

The Punjab government has decided to auction vehicle registration numbers, taking a cue from the union territory of Chandigarh that auctions all VIP and preferential vehicle numbers, generating millions in revenue annually. More...

Ten members of a family, including seven children, were killed when their overloaded car fell into a drain in Tarn Taran district of Punjab, 80 km from here. More...

A consumer court here has slapped a fine of Rs.500,000 on Punjab's biggest milk supplier, Milkfed, for selling an underweight milk pouch to one of its customers four years ago. More...

At least 100 students from a technical college in Punjab were admitted to hospital for food poisoning Wednesday after they ate food served at a langar (community kitchen) following a religious ceremony on the college campus Tuesday. More...

A business school in Punjab Tuesday celebrated published reports that Indian industrialist Mukesh Ambani has become the world's richest man Monday, even though his company clarified that the conclusions were based on wrong calculations. More...

The Punjab government Monday announced that a world-class professional university, the Guru Granth Sahib World University, would be set up in the Sikh holy city of Fatehgarh Sahib. More...

The Spinning Wheel Film Festival (SWFF) showcasing outstanding Sikh films and movies made by Sikh men and women the world over will get under way in Hollywood next month. More...

Close relatives of Louisiana Governor-elect Bobby Jindal in a Muslim dominated town of Punjab are eagerly awaiting his visit to the ancestral home -- which in all probability will happen next year. More...

The Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC), the mini parliament of Sikhs, Monday sought the excommunication of two Delhi-based Sikh leaders from the community for 'anti-religious activities'. More...

The remnants of Sikh separatists hiding in Punjab or living abroad are under increasing pressure from Pakistan's premier intelligence agency to rekindle terrorism in the border state, say Indian counter-terrorism officials and security experts. More...

Though his 'Loins Of Punjab Presents' hasn't done half as well at the box office as he hoped it would, director Manish Acharya is now gearing up to release a longer edition of the 90-minute film on DVD. More...

Ludhiana/Punjab's hard-earned peace was shattered by the blast inside a cinema hall in the bustling industrial city of Ludhiana Sunday, at a time when the people of this largely prosperous state were preparing for the upcoming festival season. More...

Attari (India-Hundreds of acres of fertile land that belong to India but fall outside its fenced border with Pakistan are now being acquired by the Punjab government, but farmers are fuming that they are getting only half the market price. More...

Government agencies and private millers in Punjab have procured over 4.87 million tonnes of paddy by Saturday, a government spokesman said here. More...