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New road to link Anandpur Sahib with Chandigarh
Ropar, December 11
The district administration Ropar has proposed a new road linking Chandigarh to Anandpur Sahib that would boost the economy of the area.
The road has been planned along the Shivalik hills from Siswan road linking Kurali with
Chandigarh. It would reduce the distance between Chandigarh and Anandpur Sahib by about 20 km. The distance between Chandigarh and Anandpur Sahib after the road would be made operational would be just 50 km.
Advani right for PM’s post, says Badal
Chandigarh, December 11
Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has welcomed L.K. Advani as the Bharatiya Janata Party's candidate for the post of Prime Minister, saying it was "as a very significant and positive development for the country."
Sena bandh; SAD(A) ‘fateh’ march
DGP tells officers to be effective
Chandigarh, December 11
Director- general of Punjab Police N.P.S. Aulakh today cautioned officers that complacency during the bandh called by the Shiv Sena (Hindustan) and the “fateh” marches planned by Simranjit Singh Mann-led Shiromani Akali Dal ( Amritsar) would not be tolerated. Both things are scheduled for December 14.
Don’t interfere in Sikh matters, BJP told
Fatehgarh Sahib, December 11
President of the SGPC Avtar Singh here today stated that the leadership of the BJP should not interfere in the Sikh religious matters.
Mian Mir’s descendant calls on Badal
Chandigarh, December 11
Sain Makhdoom Syed Chan Pir Qadri, the 19th descendant of Sain Hazrat Mian Mir Ji who laid the foundation stone of Sri Harmandar Sahib, today called on Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal at his residence to show him glimpse
(darshan) of the belongings of Sri Guru Arjun Dev Ji, including Guru ji's Simrana
(mala) and necklace of Mata Ganga ji.
Cong protest from tomorrow
Chandigarh, December 11
The Punjab Pradesh Congress has decided to launch statewide protest march starting from Patiala from December 13 to highlight “misdeeds” and “misgoverance” of the
SAD-BJP government. The march will be led by Punjab Pradesh Congress president Rajinder Kaur Bhattal according to a statement issued here today. It will move to other cities later.
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Eyeing Beauty
Models display a new range of sun glasses at a showroom in Amritsar on Tuesday. — PTI |
Passport trouble: Jalandhar girl held up in Spain
Blames Indian embassy for her plight
Chandigarh, December 11
Rajbir Teja, a girl from Jalandhar, is held up in Spain because Indian embassy there is not extending her helping hand on a very minor issue of passport renewal.
Rajbir, who spoke to Rajya Sabha member from Punjab, Manohar Singh Gill,on the phone today from
spain, told him she was feeling harassed and disappointed over the attitude of Indian embassy that she could take any desperate step.
Another Punjab student meets tragic end abroad
Muktsar, December 11
On the heels of the death of a Ropar student by robbers at Santiago (US), another youth, Avneet
Kaur, has met with tragic end in Australia as she drowned on the sea shore of Melbourne yesterday.
Rally stops paralysed Sikh’s deportation
Vancouver, December 1
In one of their biggest anti-government rally, thousands of Indo-Canadians forced authorities to stop the deportation of a paralysed Sikh.
Laibar Singh, a failed refugee claimant who had entered Canada on a forged passport in 2003 and was paralysed last year, was ordered last week to be deported Monday at 2.30 pm.
Protesters raise slogans against Laibar Singh’s deportation, in Vancouver on Tuesday.
Father of pension schemes is no more
Amritsar, December 11
The man behind pension schemes in India, Parduman Singh (83), who fought a relentless fight against militancy in Punjab died after a brief illness at his residence here late last night. He will be cremated here tomorrow.
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Parduman Singh
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Tiwana Foundation to reward Ishmeet
Chandigarh, December 11
The Harpal Tiwana Foundation is all set to confer the Harpal Tiwana awards for promotion of Punjabi culture on the late litterateur Harcharan Singh and educationist Satish Verma, former head, Punjabi department at Punjabi university.
Utilisation of MPLAD funds
Punjab among top 5
Chandigarh, December 11
Punjab figures in the top five states as far as utilisation of the funds released under the Member of Parliament Local Area Development
(MPLAD) programme is concerned.
Dept of Employment Generation seeks files from
c-pyte
Chandigarh, December 11
The Department of Employment Generation is facing problems in the absence of transfer of official files by the Centre for Punjab Youth Training and Employment
(c-pyte) to it by the authorities concerned.
CM launches software at office of
Advocate General
Chandigarh, December 11
Welcoming the projection of L.K. Advani as the prime ministerial candidate, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today said he was an able and experienced administrator.
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