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The dream project of Punjab governmnet to make the state power surplus by allocating Rs 12,948 crore of a total of Rs 37,314 crore during 2007-2012 Plan to the sector might never see the light of the day as the state might fail to stick to its deadline of December 9 for unbundling of Punjab...

Chandigarh, Dec 5 (IANS) Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court Vijender Jain Wednesday administered the oath of office to five new judges - including the first woman lawyer from the bar to be elevated. More...

An FIR has been lodged against Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group Chairman Anil Ambani and senior officials of Reliance Communications for allegedly circulating derogatory jokes against the Sikh community through its mobile Internet services. The FIR was lodged by Lucknow Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee...

Vancouver, Dec 4 (IANS) The Indo-Canadian community in Canada's British Columbia province has come out in support of paralysed Sikh Laibar Singh who has been ordered to be deported to India on Dec 10. More...

RED CROSS societies in Punjab, which receive huge central government grants for 'specifically earmarked projects', are spending a major chunk of that money for purposes that are not even authorised under Red Cross aims and objectives. More...

The government will give money to families that allow the birth of a girl child in Fategarh Sahib, Punjab, the district with lowest sex ratio in the country. This means all pregnancies will have to be registered and the number of girls born be monitored. More...

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MUMBAI, Dec 3 - India's state-run Punjab National Bank is looking to raise 5 billion rupees through a sale of Upper Tier II bonds on Wednesday, merchant bankers close to the deal said on Monday. More...

MUMBAI, Dec 3 - India's state-run Punjab National Bank is looking to raise 5 billion rupees through a sale of Upper Tier II bonds on Wednesday, merchant bankers close to the deal said on Monday. More...

Chandigarh, Dec. 2: Less than 24 hours since they banned the screening of Madhuri Dixit’s comeback film Aaja Nachle, the state governments of Punjab and Haryana have separately communicated the decision to permit screening of the film. More...

The government will give money to families that allow the birth of a girl child in Fategarh Sahib, Punjab, the district with lowest sex ratio in the country. It would mean that all pregnancies would have to be registered and the number of girls being born will be monitored. More...

IT WAS going to be a battle of attrition and Bengal won all the rounds on Day Two to occupy the driver's seat in this Ranji Trophy Elite Group B match against Punjab on Sunday. More...

Chandigarh, Dec 2 (IANS) The Haryana and Punjab governments Sunday allowed the screening of Madhuri Dixit's comeback film 'Aaja Nachle', but asked officials to ensure that the offending portion of its title song with alleged derogatory references to a community was deleted. More...

Chandigarh, Dec 2 (ANI): A day after banning the screening of Madhuri Dixit's come back film 'Aaja Nachle', the Punjab Government today lifted the bar. The Uttar Pradesh Government, yesterday, lifted the ban after an apology from film producer Yash Chopra and chopping of lines from the title...

Chandigarh, Dec 1 (ANI): The Punjab Government today its counterpart in Uttar Pradesh in banning Madhuri Dixit's come back film 'Aaja Nachle', alleging that the lyrics of a song in the movie were derogatory to Dalits. Harcharan Bains, Media Advisor to Punjab Chief Minister Prakash Singh Badal...

Murali Kartik has been officially promoted as the 12th man for the second India-Pakistan Test at Eden - not that he has much competition. The man who did that duty in the first Test at Ferozeshah Kotla was exempted this time around, and released officially from the team today morning to join his...

New Delhi, Nov 30 (ANI): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today demanded a statement from the UPA government on media reports of a key witness in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots that he was very much traceable after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) decided to close the case against former...

The ghost of the 1984 Sikh riots keeps haunting the Government. A short while ago there was uproar in the Rajya Sabha over witness Jasbir Singh s appearance on CNN-IBN on Thursday. More...

By Paramjeet Nawanshair (Punjab), Nov. 30 (ANI): Krishan Singh Ramgarhia of Punjab has earned a name as a maker of Sarangis, the traditional bowed string instrument used during Gurubani recitation and musical concerts. Sixty three-year-old artist Krishan Singh Ramgarhia's claim to fame is...

New York, Nov 30 (IANS) In what the police say may have been a hate crime, a Sikh taxi driver was brutally assaulted in Seattle by a passenger. More...