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    Sikh News Volvo Follows BMW Into Punjab (Indian Express Via Yahoo! India News)

    Swedish car major-Volvo Car Corporation (VCC) is now set to woo Punjab customers, after Germany based DaimlerChrysler and BMW entered the state with their luxury car segments. The company is planning to debut in Punjab market by launching two models-S80 and XC90 priced at Rs 38 lakh and Rs 45...
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    Sikh News Sikh Priests To Discuss DSGMC's Proposal On Simple Marriages (Indian Express Via Yaho

    Five Sikh high priests will meet at Akal Takht on Wednesday to discuss the proposal of the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee to put a ban on extravagant marriages. The Sikh clergy might issue some directions, asking the community to not to be pompous and organise night marriage parties...
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    Sikh News 'Chak De India' Enters Punjab Police D (Indian Express Via Yahoo! India News)

    Having won wide appreciation nationwide, Shah Rukh starrer Chak de India has also managed to reach the D of Punjab Police and score a goal. Punjab Police cops posted in Bathinda district would be watching two special shows of the movie at Ajaib theatre in Bathinda after the theatre authorities...
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    Sikh News Punjab To Give Sops To Bathinda Refinery (Indian Express Via Yahoo! India News)

    The Punjab government has agreed to allow special concessions to Guru Gobind Singh Refinery Ltd (GGSRL), also known as Bathinda Refinery, a joint venture between Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) and steel tycoon LN Mittal's Mittal Investments. Sources in Punjab chief minister...
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    Sikh News Cola Drinks High On Punjab (Indian Express Via Yahoo! India News)

    Do you know the high you get from your cola or energy drink comes from Punjab? The caffeine that gives you this kick is being produced by a Punjab company, Kudos Chemie, which is now among the top five caffeine producers of the world and has global cola majors and energy drink makers as its...
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    Sikh News POP Held At Punjab Police Academy (Indian Express Via Yahoo! India News)

    "A policeman is a citizen in uniform just as a citizen is a policeman without uniform. Therefore police personnel must understand the grievances of the people and empathise with them in the times of their grief." With these words, Chander Shekhar, ADGP (Law and order)-cum-Director of Punjab...
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    Sikh News For Well-lit Punjab, PSEB Needs To Illuminate Its Balance-sheet (Indian Express Via Y

    Is it power purchases or complete financial mismanagement that is responsible for the current financial mess in which the Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) is wallowing? Instead of carrying out cover-up operations, the senior PSEB officials are proposing power cuts in the state to overcome...
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    Sikh News Punjab Jail Says No To Hawara, Balwant Singh (Indian Express Via Yahoo! India News)

    Putting an end to speculations, the Punjab Jails Department has communicated it to the Chandigarh Police that they cannot accommodate Jagtar Singh Hawara and Balwant Singh in Patiala Jail. Citing "apprehension of trouble in Patiala Jail considering the profiles of both the convicts, who could...
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    Sikh News 527 Teachers Promoted To Master Cadre In Punjab Schools (Indian Express Via Yahoo! In

    4,000 educational service providers to be recruited: Upinderjit Kaur The Punjab Education Department has promoted 527 ETT, classical and vernacular (C & V) teachers and non-teaching staff to master cadre in the state and initiated recruitment process of 4,000 educational service providers for...
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    Sikh News 'Same Relief As For Sikh Riots' (Indian Express Via Yahoo! India News)

    In an interim report, the Justice N N Singh Inquiry Commission on Tuesday recommended that victims of the 1989-90 Bhagalpur communal riots be treated at par with those of the 1984 Sikh riots and handed over a similar compensation package. "Looking into various aspects and looking at all the...
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    Sikh News Punjab's Success With Lok Adalats Reaches ILO Meet (Indian Express Via Yahoo! India N

    A former Chief Justice of India once called it "the Punjab experience", while the Government of India has officially acknowledged it as an experiment worth emulating. Now, even the United Nations has given its stamp of approval to the concept called lok adalats. The mega success of lok adalats...
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    Sikh News Reinstate Punjab's Lost Pride, Says PAU V-C (Indian Express Via Yahoo! India News)

    "Unless everyone gets sufficient food to eat, there will be no peace in the world," said Punjab Agricultural University Vice-Chancellor Dr Manjit Singh Kang at a panel discussion on 'Punjab's lost pride: what should be done?' organised by NGO Kadam today. He stressed that the investing in...
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    Sikh News 'Punjab Turning Into An Ecological Nightmare' (Indian Express Via Yahoo! India News)

    With an all time high cropping intensity of 189 per cent and the highest per hectare use of fertilisers (192.5 kg) and pesticides (923 grams) in the country, Punjab is not only overdrawing its water and soil resources but is also producing crops laced with poison. The state with a yen for the...
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    Sikh News Ex-intelligence Officer 'books' Terror-torn Punjab Of The '80s (Indian Express Via Ya

    THE book is fiction, but the events that it talks about or refers to are real. At that point of time, there were many forces that were out to destroy India; divisive forces which only plotted for their benefits and nobody suffered more than the people of Punjab," says Maloy Krishna Dhar on his...
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    Sikh News Anti-Sikh Riots Victim, Whose Father Was Burnt Alive, Is Now MP Minister (Indian Expr

    It WAS a minor Cabinet expansion by Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Saturday, except for one detail: when Harendrajit Singh 'Babbu' walked up to take the oath of office, he probably became the only victim of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots to become a minister in the country. The...
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    Sikh News Iam Committed To Punjab: Dharmani (Indian Express Via Yahoo! India News)

    The Indian Cricket League should have been a natural choice for someone like Punjab's Pankaj Dharmani. The 33-year-old played his only One-Day International in 1996 against South Africa in Jaipur. And the wicketkeeper batsman is not even in contention for a comeback to the national team. So he...
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    Sikh News Punjab Hockey League From (Indian Express Via Yahoo! India News)

    THE Punjab Sports Department is planning to hold the Punjab Hockey League from August 29. The Punjab Education Department will also conduct a Hockey league for all Education Departments of the state which will see the participation of 12 School Wings in which six boys and girls teams, said...
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    Sikh News PIL On Graft Cases: HC Issues Notices To Punjab Government, Vigilance Bureau (Indian

    The Director General of the Punjab Vigilance Bureau and the Punjab Government were issued notices by the Punjab and Haryana High Court on a public interest litigation (PIL), filed by Advocate H C Arora. The petioner urged the Court to direct the government and Vigilance Bureau to ensure that the...
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    Sikh News Olympic Bhavan For Punjab In Mohali Sports Stadium (Indian Express Via Yahoo! India N

    The Punjab Olympic Association will construct a Punjab Olympic Bhavan in the two acres of land inside the Sports Stadium, Phase IX, Mohali. President of the Punjab Olympic Association Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa (Member of Parliament and Secy Gen. SAD), today visited the sports stadium along with...
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    Sikh News Punjab Monsoon Deficit By 22 Pc (Indian Express Via Yahoo! India News)

    Experts say the scanty rainfall could spell doom for the crops, especially paddy Monsoon in Punjab this year has been deficit by 22 per cent. The state, which till date should have received at least 480 mm of rainfall, has received only 300 mm. While districts of Abohar and Muktsar have been...
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