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By Karan Kapoor Ludhiana, July 10 (ANI): Unlike most beauty pageants, where the contestants are budding chic girls in their teens and early twenties, Ludhiana recently played host to its maiden 'Mrs. Punjab' contest, featuring married aspirants from across the state. The Malhaar Art Gallery...

Mohali (Punjab), July 9 (ANI): Punjab police on Monday halted a march by hundreds of Sikhs here protesting delay in the arrest of Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Raheem Singh, charged with "blasphemy". The march organized by Khalsa Action Community, a Sikh organization from Mohali to...

By Savinder Singh Amritsar, July 9 (ANI): While a summer camp would mean mountaineering, camping in woods, crash courses in foreign languages or other hobby classes, for children in Amritsar a different kind of camp was organised this summer to teach them about the...

By Ravi Khandelwal Ludhiana, July 9 (ANI): If you want to see the real Punjab, go to its villages and if you want to see what its villages looked like 50 years back, then visit Ludhiana's Museum of Rural Life. The old tools, symbols, motifs and images have been carefully preserved, taking...

By Savinder Singh Amritsar, July 9 (ANI): While a summer camp would mean mountaineering, camping in woods, crash courses in foreign languages or other hobby classes, for children in Amritsar a different kind of camp was organised this summer to teach them about the...

Ferozpur (Punjab), July 8 (ANI): Several people were injured here today after police intervened to disperse Sikhs, who were clashing with Dera Sacha Sauda members. The incident occurred when a mob of Sikh followers armed with spears, swords and sticks were demonstrating against the Dera sect...

M and M ups stake in Punjab tractors to 64.6% More...

By Ravinder Singh Robin Washington D.C., July 4 (ANI): US Congressman Mike Honda has assured the Sikh community in the United States that he would take up the issue of ban on turbans with the French Government. Talking to ANI, Honda said that the decision to ban the wearing of turbans in schools...

By Sunil Sharma Chandigarh, July 2 (ANI): The green revolution that changed the face of Punjab decades ago is now being followed by the industrial revolution. The State Government is joining hands with industrialists and exporters to set precise policies. Drish Shoes Limited (Exporter), a...

Chandigarh, June 30 (ANI): The Hofstra University, New York, has introduced an international prize named after the founder of Sikhism, Guru Nanak. Guru Nanak Inter-faith Prize carrying a cash prize of 50,000 dollars will be awarded to an individual or for a collective effort in promoting...

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Lahore, June 28 (ANI): The police in Pakistan's Punjab province have been declared the best revenue-generating outfit. If the Opposition in the provincial Assembly is to be believed, the police collect four times more 'revenue' from the people on a 'self-help basis', over and above the amount...

Lahore, June 26 (ANI): West Punjab Assembly Speaker Afzal Sahi is not ready to condemn the attacks carried out by NATO forces on Pakistan-Afghanistan border in which several innocents Pakistanis were killed, though he is ready to fly to the US to to kill Salman Rushdie. This came to light during...

Lahore, June 22 (ANI): Punjab Assembly Speaker Afzal Sahi has said that he will kill controversial writer Salman Rushdie if he comes across him. "Death is the only punishment for a blasphemer," said Sahi, and declared that according to Islam, a blasphemer should be killed and if any blasphemer...

Bathinda (Punjab), June 20 (ANI): A Bathinda court today issued an arrest warrant against Dera Sacha Sauda head Baba Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh for allegedly hurting the religious sentiments of Sikhs, even as the sect sent a fresh apology letter to Sikh leaders. However, Duty Magistrate K L Khitchi...

By Ravinder Singh Robin Dyalpur (Jalandhar), June 15 (ANI): In an initiative to motivate farmers to take up export quality Basmati rice crop, the Punjab Agriculture Department has opened Kisan-Khet schools (Farmers-Farm schools) under a crop diversification programme here. Various agricultural...

By Ravinder Singh Robin Amritsar, June 15 (ANI): Sikh Diaspora has demanded the Pakistan Government to maintain transparency while using donations either for setting up the International Guru Nanak Dev University or for the up keeping of Sikh shrines located in that country. They have also...

Cheema (Punjab), June 14 (ANI): Fresh clashes between Sikhs and followers of the Dera Sacha Sauda sect erupted in Punjab's Sangrur District on Wednesday evening. The clashes started at a busy marketplace in Cheema village of Sangrur District after a Sikh boy was beaten up by alleged followers of...

By Ravinder Singh Robin Amritsar, June 11 (ANI): Representatives of various Sikh organizations will assemble in Lahore from Friday to attend a two-day meeting to finalise the draft of the proposed International Guru Nanak Dev University (IGNDU) in Pakistan. Last year, on the occasion of 400th...

By Ravinder Singh Robin Amritsar, June 9 (ANI): Advocate General of Punjab, Hardev Singh Mattewal has said that the Centre should expeditiously form a National Judicial Commission (NJC) to resolve the public complaints against judiciary Speaking to ANI, Mattewal said that though the formation of...