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Punjabi culture as rich as any other in world, says expert
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Chandigarh, December 31
“We will soon have an important resource to study Punjabi through the Internet,” says the
kurta-pyjama
-clad professor from the University of California, Santa Barbara, who is on a trip to Punjab, once again to serve his mother tongue.
“I was invited to attend the inauguration of the World Punjabi
Centre, Punjabi University, Patiala,” says Prof Gurinder Singh
Mann, Founder-Director of the Center for Sikh and Punjab Studies
at the UCSB.
Prof Gurinder Singh Mann |
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Tribune
Impact
NRI’s New Year gift for 70-year-old cart-puller
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Bathinda, December 31
His story had moved Indians settled abroad help for Deewan Singh, a cart-puller in his 70s, first came from a US-based good Samaritan after almost 15 months of the news report carried in The Tribune. “I couldn’t have asked for more on the New Year eve.
Mr Ramneet Singh, an NRI, hands over Rs 20,000 in cash to cart-puller Deewan Singh at his house in Bathinda on Sunday.
— Tribune photo by Kulbir Beera
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Poll announcement spurs political activity
Chandigarh December 31
The announcement of Punjab elections has spurred political activity in Chandigarh's periphery. With the Shiromani Akali
Dal, riding on the wave of anti-incumbency, releasing the first list of 62 candidates, the candidates and their supporters have started the mass contact programme in a bid to woo the electorate for the February 13 elections.
CBI probe raises questions
1994 case of missing persons
Chandigarh, December 31
Several questions are being raised against the CBI investigations into the case relating to the alleged disappearance of three persons from Ludhiana almost 13 years ago, in March 1994.
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World War veteran still
prefers to ride buggy
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Amritsar, December 31
Even as horse-driven tongas and buggies have become a rare sight these days, Major Mohinder Singh Sarkaria (84), a war veteran is seen doing rounds of the holy-city in his cart in Army uniform along with his six-year-old grandson, Adeeshwar Singh (6), first standard student.
Major Mohinder Singh Sarkaria and his grandson Adeeshwar Singh ride a buggy in Amritsar on Sunday.
— A Tribune photograph
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Shopkeepers pull down kiosks, seek probe
Amritsar, December 31
The locals have expressed their resentment against the illegal construction of temporary kiosks in the highly-congested IDH market near bus
stand. The spokesman of the market said though they had lodged complaint with the commissioner but the administration failed to take any action in this regard.
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Ringing in the new year |
Girls welcome the New Year in Amritsar on Sunday. — PTI |
SGPC Flashback-2006
Year of anniversaries
Amritsar, December 31
The year 2006 would go down into the history of the Sikhs as the ‘year of Sikh anniversaries’ when the leaders of various Akali factions tried to take ‘political mileage’ with an objective of winning the forthcoming Assembly elections.
Out of the four significant anniversaries two were marred by clashes.
Amarinder extends greetings
Chandigarh, December 31
The Punjab Chief Minister, Capt Amarinder Singh, in his messages wished the people of state on the eve of Id-ul-Zuha and also a very happy New Year. In his message on Id-ul-Zuha, he extended greetings saying that this festival symbolizes love, sacrifice, goodwill, compassion and trust.
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