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Financial crunch has forced Punjab government to sell prime lands under various jail premises in the state to set up multiplexes and shopping malls. Highly placed sources told FE on Friday that the issue was discussed in a Cabinet meeting chaired by the chief minister Parkash Singh Badal. On...

Prime suspect in the 1985 Air India bombing Talwinder Singh Parmar had reportedly told Punjab Police that leaders of a Sikh youth organisation might be behind the attack that claimed 329 lives, according to evidence presented to a public inquiry on Monday. He reportedly told his interrogators...

With neighbouring Haryana having given in-principle approval to 57 Special Economic Zone (SEZ) proposals, 12 notified and 5 functional, Punjab is getting its act together to set the ball rolling. With the state all set to enact the SEZ Act by this December, formal approval has been given to four...

In a significant decision, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has quashed the "arbitrary" rule framed by the Bar Council of Punjab and Haryana banning persons over the age of 45 from getting enrolled as advocates in the Bar . Quashing the order, a Division Bench of the High Court held that the...

Punjab is getting tough with builders and developers. The state government has issued instructions that ''no housing project would get government approval unless the colonizer gives clear proof of acquiring at least 50% of the land mentioned in the project''. The new instructions, issued last...

Movie: Loins of Punjab Presents Rating: *** Cast: Shabana Azmi ( Rrita Kapoor ), Seema Rahmani ( Sania Rehman ), Jameel Khan , Michael Raimondi ( Josh Cohen ), Manish Acharya ( Vikram Tejwani ), Ajay Naidu ( Turbanotorious B.D.G. ), Ayesha Dharker ( Opama Menon ), Darshan Jariwala ( Sanjeev...

The Congress on Friday accused the SAD-BJP Government in Punjab of harassing its workers, forcing many of them to commit suicide and being instrumental in the death of others. Presenting a delegation of the relatives of some victims brought by Punjab CLP leader Rajinder Kaur Bhattal at the AICC...

Lahore, Sept 21 (ANI): Indian Sikh pilgrims on their way to attend 468th death anniversary (Jyoti Jot) of Guru Nanak Dev at Gurdwara Kartarpur Sahib in Narowal received a warm welcome here by local Sikh bodies and government authorities. Seventy pilgrims in three different groups crossed the...

The RSS has sought to blame Prime Minister Manmohan Singh directly for the controversial affidavit on Lord Ram and pointed to his Sikh faith and its sacred texts that contain numerous references to the revered figure. An editorial in RSS mouthpiece Organiser alleged that Congress chief Sonia...

National Minorities Commission Chairman Mohammed Shafi Qureshi told Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Thursday that the Maharashtra Government will implement the Srikrishna panel recommendations and dole out a compensation package, which will be at par with that...

Who are police cats? Cats are persons who are used for pseudo-terrorist techniques to infiltrate terrorist groups. In Punjab, they were specially recruited and helped the police to track down listed terrorists. These cats, on making contact with the terrorists, provided actionable intelligence...

Lawyers for Human Rights International and Global Human Rights Council today condemned the arrest of the former DGP Punjab SS Virk as unlawful. The advocates also tried to meet the former DGP, but they were not allowed to go inside the hospital. Talking to media persons, chairman of Lawyers for...

A team of the Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB) arrested former Punjab Director General of Police and Maharashtra-cadre IPS officer S.S. Virk in New Delhi on Sunday. The case against the officer, who is considered close to former Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh, is that he misused his official...

Agriculture, the mainstay of Punjab's economy since the Green Revolution, has become the main cause for the slow growth of the state's economy. For, enquiries reveal that the growth rate in the primary sector, which comprises agriculture and allied sectors, was just 2.17% in 2004-05. It went...

Armies of India and Thailand are sharing anti-terror tactics in a joint exercise underway at The Sikh Regiment Centre at Ramgarh in Jharkhand. A hundred army personnel, 50 from each side, are participating in the 17-day joint exercise that began on Sep 3 and will end on Sep 19. More...

Ranchi, Sep 9 (IANS) Armies of India and Thailand are sharing anti-terror tactics in a joint exercise underway at The Sikh Regiment Centre at Ramgarh in Jharkhand. More...

By Sunil Kataria Amritsar, Sept 9 (ANI): The rise in value of the Indian rupees in dollar terms appears not to have augured well for country's export community, affecting exporters' competitiveness in the global market and causing the closure of many companies. In Punjab, the textile industry...

When Sweden-based Volvo Car Corporation announced its foray in the country with its premium sedan S 80 and SUV XC 90, the first city that will get to ride the vehicles will not be any of the metros but Chandigarh. While that may be a first, it does not come as a big surprise as Punjab with its...

Following incidents of clashes between Dera Sacha Sauda followers and Sikh groups, former minister and senior BJP leader Balramji Dass Tandon today said the general impression fast building up is that "perhaps the Punjab government has proclaimed an undeclared ban on all religious ceremonies of...

The first Punjab State Ranking Table Tennis Tournament is being organised by the Mohali District Table Tennis Association at the Table Tennis Hall in Sector 23 here from September 15 to 17. More than 250 players from all over Punjab will take part in the tournament. The events would be played...