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 [...]
Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today inaugurated drinking water plants in Kauni and Kotli Ablu villages in the Gidderbaha Assembly constituency of finance minister Manpreet Singh Badal, assuring people that Malwa villages would soon get rid of contaminated groundwater for consumption.
The Rs 3.22-crore project, the first of its kind in Punjab, will have villagers’ [...]
History was made on Wednesday (February 20) as cricket’s biggest names were auctioned today at Hilton Towers, Mumbai. A total of 79 players both Indian and international went under the hammer for the multi-million dollar Indian Premier League.
Team IPL MOHALI was also a part of the big IPL Championship.
Owner: This team was purchased by Bollywood [...]
The biggest merger in Indian banking is about to happen. HDFC Bank will take over Centurion Bank of Punjab (CBoP) in an all-stock deal.
The respective bank boards are likely to meet on Saturday to consider the merger proposal. The share-swap deal, worth over Rs 10,000 crore, may be worked around the current market price of [...]
He is the man chosen to lead Preity Zinta-Ness Wadia’s Mohali team in the inaugural DLF Indian Premier League Twenty20 tournament on April 18 and he is satisfied with the team acquired.
Speaking exclusively to CNN-IBN Chief Cricket Correspondent Nishant Arora in Melbourne, Yuvraj, one of the ‘icon players’, says, “It an honour to be [...]
There was no confrontation between the Punjab government and the Punjab State Electricity Regulatory Commission (PSERC) on the issue of payment of subsidy arrears of Rs 1,361.66 crore in lieu of free power to farm sector and poor.
Namita Sekhon, secretary, PSERC said, “Commission had done its constitutional and legal duty by asking the Punjab [...]
A Museum of Resistance. Yes, this will be the name of the museum of its own kind to come up in Gujarat, and also in India for the first time. The museum will map several instances of communal violence and victimization perpetuated over decades in India.
Be it the survivors from Meerut or Bhagalpur, victimised Kashmiri [...]
Some franchisees said at the IPL auction that teams should have been given an icon player to level the playing field. They were told that the rules were given to all much before the auction began.
However, they were promised that the IPL governing council would look into the suggestions to see whether anything could [...]
Caretaker Chief Minister Punjab, Justice (Retd.) Ejaz Nisar has said that setting up of modern wholesale centers and growing investment by international companies in various sectors in Punjab is a welcome step and has accelerated the pace of economic development of the province. He said that Metro Corporation is playing an important role with regard [...]
Chandigarh’s founder, the French architect Le Corbusier, will finally get a place in his name in the city that he designed over 55 years ago. The Chandigarh administration has decided to set up a Le Corbusier Centre in an old building complex in Sector 19 here.
The building is the same where Corbusier and his team [...]