For months, Dera Sacha Sauda has been a target of hatred and violence because of the controversial attire and mannerisms that its chief Ram Rahim Singh adopted to emulate 10th Sikh guru Gobind Singh. Over a dozen people died and an attempt was made on Ram Rahim’s life after clashes broke out between Sikhs and [...]
The Centre on Friday announced the waiver of both the principal and the interest on special term loans given to the Punjab Government for combating terrorism from 1984 to 1994. The amount comes to Rs. 5,000 crore.
An official release said the decision was taken at the Union Cabinet meeting held here on Thursday. The [...]
Pandit Shri Bhagwati Charan Sharma, the senior priest of the Hindu Temple of Greater Cincinnati in Summerside, Clermont County, died Sunday of heart failure at Bethesda North Hospital. He was 62.
Known to community members as “Punditji,” he was head priest of the temple for the past 18 years. He performed weekly services as well as [...]
Remaking a film is no cakewalk and actor-producer Kamal Sadanah realized this recently!
When Kamal started the remake of ViCTORiA NO. 203, he went looking for an original Victoria at places like Hyderabad, Chandigarh, Patiala and Jalandhar, till he almost gave up hope. He finally found a man in Patiala who created a new but [...]
Hosts Rajasthan stunned last year’s runners-up Punjab in a keenly fought Group B men’s encounter in the 57th Senior national basketball championship at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium here today.
The hosts, who were trailing 29-41 at half-time, fought back to score a 71-69 victory. Rajasthan levelled the score at 69 just three seconds before the [...]
Mohali police is all set to go hi-tech. Right from installing close circuit cameras to launching an interactive website to installing global positioning system in their vehicles, the city police is all geared up to become one of the best equipped security forces in the country.
Talking to media persons, SSP Gurinder Singh Dhillon said [...]
Major political parities in Punjab Friday welcomed the announcement of Feb 13 as the date for assembly elections in the state.
The Election Commission in New Delhi Friday announced elections to 117 assembly seats would be held Feb 13.
The main contest will be between the ruling Congress and the Shiromani Akali Dal and Bharatiya Janta [...]
The Punjab Golf Association (PGA), the nodal body for Golf in the state, conferred the first ‘Punjab Golf Rattan’ award on Chiranjeev Milkha Singh today. The world’s highest ranked indian golfer and the 2006 UBS Asian Order of Merit winner was felicitated today by PGA president SK Sharma and other association members.
Jeev’s father Flying [...]
Commuters travelling between Chandigarh and Ambala are recommended to use the Chandigarh-Panchkula-Ramgarh-Dera Bassi-Ambala route, in wake of the ongoing construction at Zirakpur lightpoint and Dera Bassi on the National Highway-21.
The 48-km route could be covered in 1 hour and 20 minutes during peak hours. in comparison, the most-frequently used route on NH-21 is Chandigarh [...]
“i was sexually exploited in the police station lock-up by two police personnel on the night of November 28″ : The shocking disclosure was made by Santosh, wife or Surjit Kumar, a Karnal resident, who was wrongly arrested on charges of selling 100 liquor pouches six years ago and lodged in Model Jail, Burail, for [...]