Punjab Newspaper

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President of Pakistan Chapter of World Peace Foundation and former Member, National Assembly of Pakistan Ch.Jamil Ahmed Khan, conferred a ‘Peace Award’ on Punjab Chief Minister Capt. Amarinder Singh here at late last evening for fostering goodwill, peace, friendship and mutual understanding through people to people contact between India & Pakistan in general and [...]

The World Bank has approved the setting up of State Water & Sanitation Mission (SWSM) in Punjab and District Water & Sanitation Committee (DWSC) in line with the concept of Swajaldhara Programme of Government of India. The Mission would implement the World Bank aided Water Supply and Sanitation Project of Rs.1819 crore.
Disclosing this here today [...]

Vatavaran, the three day film festival on environment was kicked by at Tagore Theatre.
Ms. P.N. Vasanti, Director, Centre for Media Studies, New Delhi emphasized upon the commitment of spread environmental awareness to every nook and corner of the country. She added that CMS Vatavaran Traveling Festival is an effort in that direction. Apart from the [...]

The BJP in Punjab has kicked off its pre poll election media campaign ahead of coming Punjab Elections in a different style. Punjab BJP started a unique “SMS to CM” campaign at Chandigarh today. With mobile phones in their hands party leaders initiated BJP’s much awaited mobile SMSing campaign against the Congress Government generated Power [...]

The SAD today demanded an “un conditional apology” from the Punjab Chief Minister Capt. Amrinder Singh for what it termed as “a shocking violation of Sikh maryada” in the latter’s reported resort to recitation of Sikh scriptures to solicit “divine wrath for causing physical harm to the SAD president Mr. Parkash Singh Badal.”
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Diversity continues to explode in America. In the 2000 census, California, the largest state, became the first state to have a majority of minorities. Now, four other states, including Texas, have joined California. All the states except West Virginia have experienced rapid growth in their minority population. This fact was revealed [...]