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Chandigarh, Oct 30 (IANS) A business school in Punjab Tuesday celebrated published reports that Indian industrialist Mukesh Ambani has become the world's richest man Monday, even though his company clarified that the conclusions were based on wrong calculations. More...

By Ravi Khandelwal Muktsar (Punjab), Oct 30 (ANI): Farmers in Punjab are taking to horse breeding as an alternative source of income. Farmers in south-west Punjab have adopted horse breeding as an allied profession. The fertile soil and green pastures give Punjab a natural advantage to breed...

By Ravinder Singh Robin Amritsar, Oct 30 (ANI): Bhawna, the youngest BJP councillor of Punjab, could be a role model for many of her senior. She has been working hard to eradicate drug abuse among the youth of her constituency. Twenty one-year-old Bhawna, a second-year student of Bachelor of...

Majitha (Punjab), Oct 30 (ANI): Ignoring the fact that Punjab is known as the granary of India, Radio Pakistan's 'Punjabi Durbar' programme continues to broadcast the view that Sikh farmers are struggling to obtain proper water and electricity supply. The broadcast that is aired from Lahore...

Chandigarh, Oct 29 (IANS) The Punjab government Monday announced that a world-class professional university, the Guru Granth Sahib World University, would be set up in the Sikh holy city of Fatehgarh Sahib. More...

Twenty-one-year old Harcharan Singh from Western Punjab is the first Sikh cadet officer of the Pakistani Army. More...

One person stood out among the latest batch of smartly turned out cadets that graduated from the Pakistan Military Academy - the country's first Sikh army officer Harcharan Singh. Singh, who was conspicuous due to his green turban and beard, marched in step with his fellow cadets before the...

Lahore, Oct 28 (IANS) Pakistani Punjab's Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi is making an independent bid to become the country's prime minister after next year's general elections, raising the hackles of incumbent Shaukat Aziz and other policymakers of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q)...

By Sunil Sharma Chandigarh, Oct 27 (ANI): Equestrian sport is the latest craze among youngsters in Punjab. Youngsters love riding horses. They also hope that one day equestrian sports will be a paying career. The Chandigarh Horse Riding School which started four years ago, with three horses and...

Britain-based Indian actor Archie Punjab has not set her eyes on Bollywood, but says that she would not miss the opportunity if she gets a chance to act with someone like megastar Amitabh Bachchan. More...

The Punjab government on Thursday issued guidelines for clearing mega projects, hotels and agro-processing and housing schemes. Manoranjan Kalia, industries and commerce minister Punjab, said that the investors can submit their applications on prescribed format for industrial park...

CHANDIGARH (Reuters) - The prices of premium varieties of non-basmati rice bounced back in spot markets in Punjab and Haryana on Thursday after the government partly relaxed the ban on non-basmati exports, traders said. More...

Punjab government has failed to bring out the promised "White Paper" on economy seven months ago. With no White Paper on economy, confusion prevails about the state of the economy as the chief minister Parkash Singh Badal and the finance minister view differently most of the economic issues. The...

A farmer from Nayagaon village has approached the Punjab and Haryana High Court claiming that the Punjab Inspector General of Police (IGP) Sanjeev Gupta, his family members and others have threatened him as they want to grab his land in the village. The petitioner has also apprehended threat to...

Two blind NRIs have founded an ashram in Punjab, where they support more than 100 visually challenged people. More...

Chandigarh, Oct 24 (IANS) The Spinning Wheel Film Festival (SWFF) showcasing outstanding Sikh films and movies made by Sikh men and women the world over will get under way in Hollywood next month. More...

New Delhi, Oct 23 (IANS) Punjab Governor Gen. (retd) S.F. Rodrigues will deliver the 12th Field Marshal K.M. Cariappa Memorial Lecture on 'Resurgent India - The Way Ahead' here on Wednesday. More...

Chandigarh, Oct 23 (PTI) Farmers in Punjab and Haryana are paying the price for ban on exports of non-basmati rice as rates of this crop have dropped by Rs 200-250 per quintal with exporters More...

Chandigarh, Oct 23 (IANS) Close relatives of Louisiana Governor-elect Bobby Jindal in a Muslim dominated town of Punjab are eagerly awaiting his visit to the ancestral home -- which in all probability will happen next year. More...

Chandigarh, Oct 22 (IANS) The Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC), the mini parliament of Sikhs, Monday sought the excommunication of two Delhi-based Sikh leaders from the community for 'anti-religious activities'. More...