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The export of software from Punjab and Haryana is witnessing a hefty increase. This is evident from Haryana rising atleast six points to emerge at number nine position in the country from its number 15 position in 2006. The Mohali centre of Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) has also...

Early next week, when Punjab and Haryana High Court senior advocate Daya Chaudhary takes oath as an additional judge of the High Court, she will make history in two states notorious for their poor sex ratio. In its history of over 88 years-the High Court was established on March 31, 1919 at...

The burgeoning hospitality scenario in the northern region seems to be attracting major developers to set up their properties here. Another player to join the race is the Sarovar Hotel Group that has plans to develop three new hotels in Punjab and Chandigarh. The group has about 30 properties...

The burgeoning hospitality scenario in the northern region seems to be attracting major developers to set up their properties here. Another player to join the race is the Sarovar Hotel Group that has plans to develop three new hotels in Punjab and Chandigarh. The group has about 30 properties...

Nobody can match the doggedness of the Punjab Police. Since 1973, they have been pursuing a case of buffalo theft till three months ago when the two accused, natives of a village near Jalandhar, were sent behind bars. On Tuesday, the Punjab and Haryana High Court came to the rescue of the two...

The cash-strapped Punjab Government, whose revenue collection is at an all-time low, has decided to sell off its properties and land under the recently revived Optimum Utilisation of Vacant Government Land (OUVGL) Scheme. The Government hopes to mop up Rs 2,000 crore from this exercise. This...

Even as the Mohali International Airport in Punjab, on the outskirts of Chandigarh, is on the way to becoming a reality, the Congress Government in Haryana has written to the Union Government to consider setting up another airport in its territory, sources said. The state Government, in a...

Punjab tail-enders Manpreet Gony and Ankur Kakkar put up a stiff resistance on a bouncy wicket at the PCA Stadium here today as Hyderabad's Pragyan Ojha and Ashwin Yadav pegged on at them. That effort lasted one and-a-half hours, and 71 runs accumulated from the seventh-wicket stand after the...

Border Security Force (BSF) expects a large-scale smuggling of heroin into India from Afghanistan via Pakistan. The reason, say BSF officers, is the bumper opium crop in that country and huge money being offered by smugglers to Indian farmers, especially rural women, living in border areas. This...

The Punjab PWD (B&R) department has decided to introduce the policy of e-tendering and e-procurement from January 2008 to ensure transparency and accountability in the functioning of department. Presiding over the meeting of Executive Board of Punjab Roads Bridges Development Board here on...

The Punjab government, whose new industrial policy is being framed by international agency, Unido, has decided to "delink" agro processing units from the purview of the proposed industrial policy and come up with a separate agro industrial policy. The decision follows a recent meeting between...

The Punjab government, whose new industrial policy is being framed by international agency, Unido, has decided to delink agro processing units from the purview of the proposed industrial policy and come up with a separate agro industrial policy. The decision follows a recent meeting between...

This Diwali could well be a dark one for Punjab with Ropar and Bathinda thermal plants on the verge of closure due to paucity of coal stocks. Sources say the two thermal power plants, responsible for the majority of power produced in the state, are left with coal stocks for only two days. Though...

In a major move that is certain to boost investors sentiments, the Punjab government s empowered committee on mega projects, under the chairmanship of chief minister Parkash Singh Badal, on Tuesday cleared industrial projects worth Rs 1,345 crore. Disclosing this, a spokesman of the Punjab...

The Congress-led UPA Government's much flaunted National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) is gasping for breath in Punjab. Not a single person has benefited from the scheme since April 1. The scheme was first introduced in the districts of Amritsar, Jalandhar, Nawanshahr and Hoshiarpur...

Vodafone Essar has come out as the fastest growing telecom provider in the last year-and-a-half in one of the fastest growing telecom GSM subscriber market in Punjab. The company has notched a growth of 127% in its subscriber base during March 2006 and September 2007 followed by Bharti Airtel...

Punjab has decided to spare apex cooperative institutions, Markfed and Milkfed, from the disinvestment axe. The decision follows reservations expressed by cooperation minister Kanwaljit Singh. "How can one disinvest consistently profit-making cooperatives", he told the media recently. "The...

The land records of Punjab will be fully computerised by July 2008. The government has engaged Microsoft to perform the task that suggested the model being implemented in Andhara Pradesh fro digitalisation. Incidentally, Andhra Pradesh was the first state in the country to achieve 100%...

Majitha (Punjab), Oct 30 (ANI): Ignoring the fact that Punjab is known as the granary of India, Radio Pakistan's 'Punjabi Durbar' programme continues to broadcast the view that Sikh farmers are struggling to obtain proper water and electricity supply. The broadcast that is aired from Lahore...

One person stood out among the latest batch of smartly turned out cadets that graduated from the Pakistan Military Academy - the country's first Sikh army officer Harcharan Singh. Singh, who was conspicuous due to his green turban and beard, marched in step with his fellow cadets before the...