Located in the northwest of India, the Punjab region has the distinction of being one of the earliest "cradles of civilization" with a 4000-year history. Bordering Pakistan and Kashmir, and near the foot of the Himalayas, the region...
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Located in the northwest of India, the Punjab region has the distinction of being one of the earliest "cradles of civilization" with a 4000-year history. Bordering Pakistan and Kashmir, and near the foot of the Himalayas, the region contains the Indus Valley, site of many archaeological excavations. It is also the homeland of the well-known, 2500 year-old Hindu text known as the Mahabharata. Living in this region with a large sikh population, Punjabi men are likely to be seen wearing a turban. Industrious and relatively liberal minded, the urban centers in the region -- Amritsar, Batala, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Mohali, Patiala, Ferozepur, Bathinda, Mandi Gobindgarh and Rajpura -- are growing quickly, though thanks to fertile land and its many rivers, much of the Punjab is still agrarian.
Chandigarh, Dec 24 (IANS) Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has assured the victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in the state of all government assistance, as also allotment of vending booths and low income group (LIG) and medium income group (MIG) dwellings to the eligible beneficiaries, an official said Thursday....
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The Punjab cabinet Tuesday refused to grant permission to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to prosecute state assembly speaker Nirmal Singh Kahlon in a corruption case.
The CBI had sought sanction from the Parkash Singh Badal-led Punjab government in March.
The corruption case pertains to Kahlon's alleged role in the appointment of over 900 panchayat secretaries during his tenure as state rural development and panchayat minister 1997 to 2002.
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The Punjab government has sanctioned Rs.23.73 crore (Rs.237.3 million) for construction of 21 model schools in educationally backward blocks, a state minister said here Sunday.
"Current academic year is declared as a 'qualitative year’ to bring out educational reforms in the state schools. These model schools will be set up on the pattern of the Kendriya Vidyalayas (KVs) in 21 educationally backward blocks spread across the state,” said Upinderjit Kaur, Punjab education minister... Read Full Story
The city police are seeking the help of local people, resident and market welfare associations, to curb organised crime, a senior police official said here Saturday.
''In a bid to keep a tab on organized crime, police have been engaged in a series of meetings with local people, resident and market welfare associations. We are getting full cooperation from all walks of life,'' Chandigarh senior superintendent of police S.S. Srivastava said.
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Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal Monday urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to take up with Islamabad the issue of a Pakistan-based Sikh lawyer's hair being forcibly cut by a group of Muslims. Read Full Story
India's first 2 MW commercial solar power plant was Tuesday inaugurated in Punjab's Amritsar district by Minister for New and Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah.
The capacity of plant in Awan village, being set up by American company Azure Power, is proposed to be expanded to 5 MW.
Abdullah switched on the plant here Tuesday and expressed his optimism of having more such projects in the coming years.
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Roads were closed, shops shuttered and police on guard in Hasan Abdal, near Pakistan's capital, as about 2,000 Indian Sikh pilgrims defied advice to honour the founder of the faith. Indian authorities urged the faithful to shun the annual pilgrimage to the neighbouring country, fearing for their safety as deadly attacks by Islamist extremists have soared in Pakistan, killing more than 340 people since October. Tensions between India and Pakistan, nuclear-armed powers that have fought three... Read Full Story
Roads were closed, shops shuttered and police on guard in Hasan Abdal, near Pakistan's capital, as about 2,000 Indian Sikh pilgrims defied advice to honour the founder of the faith. Indian authorities urged the faithful to shun the annual pilgrimage to the neighbouring country, fearing for their safety as deadly attacks by Islamist extremists have soared in Pakistan, killing more than 340 people since October. Tensions between India and Pakistan, nuclear-armed powers that have fought three... Read Full Story
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