CHANDIGARH NEWS: The Punjab government on Friday started a campaign to motivate citizens to get their names included in their birth certificates, and that too free of cost. According to an official spokesman, this campaign has been launched in public interest so that citizens should not face any legal hassles in ...

CHANDIGARH: The first-of-its-kind land purchase policy started by the Punjab forest department has received offers from farmers for the sale of 2,012 acre. Forest and wildlife minister Arunesh Shakar said the Punjab government had called for tenders for purchasing barren and agriculturally unsuitable land from farmers so that forests could be ...

AMRITSAR: The India-Pakistan friendship train is carrying extra baggage these days. A few days after fake currency was seized from a goods train coming in from Pakistan, custom officials reportedly found 3 kg of heroin stacked on the roof of the Samjhauta Express at Attari railway station. The consignment of drug was ...

CHANDIGARH: In view of increased demand for more rooms to accommodate children in schools, the Haryana government has chalked out a plan to provide prefabricated class rooms. Director school education; Vijayendra Kumar said that the department realised that more class rooms needed to be provided urgently so that children were ...

ATTARI: Commerce secretary Rahul Khullar, who on Tuesday crossed over to Pakistan for two­ day trade talks, said Pakistan, should adhere to trade obligations under the South Asia Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA). Khullar, who will be meeting his Pakistani counterpart in Islamabad on April 27 and 28, said, "Pakistan is hesitant ...

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The “Amritsar Sacred Heart Alumni (ASHA)” while paying rich tributes to great martyr ‘Bhagat Singh’ on his Death Anniversary ‘held its first project of “Heritage Walk -2011”in collaboration with Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH).The ‘walk’ was to sensitize members and other keen citizens of the city ...

AMRITSAR: BBK DAV College for Women organised its 39th annual convocation here on Monday. The vice-chancellor of Baba Farid University of Health Sciences, Faridkot, Dr SS Gill, was the chief guest on the occasion. In his convocation address, Dr Gill motivated students to always aspire for things that cannot be ...

GURDASPUR: Youth Akali Dal patron and former cabinet minister Bikram Singh Majithia, while addressing a historic rally of the district Youth Akali Dal here on Tuesday, sought special economic package for residents of border areas of Punjab who stood guard in the Indo-Pak wars of 1965 and 1971.He demanded that ...

PATHANKOT: The city residents greeted the science train with great enthusiasm when it reached Pathankot Railway Station on Monday. The 16 coaches, including few equipped with pictorial, video conferencing facilities and other science apparatus, remained a centre of attraction for visitors. Station supervisor GB Lal said that the train ...

BATHINDA: Four years into the Akali government, the demand for a rail link to Talwandi Sabo has remained just that, a demand. Deccan Odyssey, the special luxury train that runs the Sikh religious circuit, will reach Bathinda on Saturday from where passengers will travel by buses to the Takht Damdama Sahib ...

CHANDIGARH: A unique pilgrimage of Sikh shrines across India on board the Deccan Odyssey luxury train is all sold out, never mind if the nine-day journey costs a minimum of Rs 2,10,000 per person. Billed as "A spiritual journey to the Guru's abode on the Deccan Odyssey", all 80 seats for ...

JAMMU: The Centre-appointed interlocutors have said the people of Jammu and Kashmir are yearning for a negotiated and peaceful "political settlement" and anything that responds to their political, administrative and economical aspirations would alone be a "durable solution" to the problem. Concluding their four-day­ long visit to the Jammu ...