Punjab Newspaper

A 21-day Refresher Course in English organized by Academic Staff College, Panjab University began here at the Department of English with the Inaugural Address of Prof. Alok Bhalla, Visting Professor, Jamia Milia Islamia, Delhi.

Prof. Bhalla pleaded for an inclusive cosmopolitan world-view, which offers us the possibility of composite present. Warning against the pathologies of soil, [...]

250 students were awarded prizes on the occasion of the annual prize distribution function of the Dev Samaj College for Women, Sector 45 at Chandigarh. Ms Sonia of BA (II) was awarded the best student prize. The principal of the college, Dr Meera Modi presented the annual college report and highlighted the progress made by [...]

Chandigarh administration awarded entrepreneurs at a function organized at the UT Guest House. M/s Essen Deinki won the first prize, while M/s Chandigarh Flour Mills Pvt. Ltd. bagged the second prize. M/s Azad Offset Printers (P) Ltd. received the third prize. The consolation prize winners were M/s Engraavepro and M/s Adharshila Potteries. The winners of [...]

Road Races of All India Inter-Varsity Cycling Championship, organized by Panjab University Chandigarh, culminated at Guru Nanak National College Doraha today. The winners of the championship were honoured in the prize distribution function, especially organized in Dr.Ishwar Singh memorial Hall of the college.

Principal Dr Narinder Singh Sidhu awarded prizes to the winners and declared the [...]

Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has sought diesel at 25 per cent reduced rates compared to the market price. He sought this concession from the Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh in a letter written to the PM today. The Punjab Chief Minister also asked the Union Government to announce a one time waiver [...]

Punjab wheat procurement is likely to touch 115 lakh MTs this year. This will be 10 lakh MTs greater than last year. This was revealed during a meeting held by Punjab Chief Minister Mr.Parkash Singh Badal to review the arrangements of wheat procurement in Punjab during the Rabi Marketing Season (RMS)- 2009.

According to food and [...]

The State Governments of Andhra Pradesh, Punjab, Maharashtra, Kerala, Uttarakhand, Goa have written to the Prime Minister / Finance Minister of India for inter-alia, provision of additional funds and for the relaxation of borrowing ceilings fixed for 2008-09 under the FRBM Act to tide over the impact of slowdown emerging in the various industrial sectors. [...]

A mega food park will be established in Punjab by the Ministry of Food Processing. In the 11th Five Year Plan, the Ministry has launched the Scheme of Mega Food Park, which is expected to have an average project cost of about Rs.150 crore. Out of this, upto Rs.50 crores would be funded as a [...]

Punjabi University’s Department of Physics has moved a step closer towards converting sunlight into electrical energy and making it available to the consumers at a cost nearly one-sixth of the present cost. While inaugurating the newly created Solar Energy Research Laboratory for running the project, Vice-Chancellor, Dr Jaspal Singh said that the effort to covert [...]

A new wing of the Government Medical College and Hospital was inaugurated by the Punjab Governor and UT Administrator, Gen. (Retd.) S F Rodrigues. Constructed at a cost of Rs 21 crore, Block-D of the Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector 32 is a five storey building covering a total area of 2,78,000 sq ft., [...]

The Punjab Governor and Administrator, Union Territory, Chandigarh, Gen. (Retd.) S F Rodrigues, in a meeting of senior officers of the Engineering Department of Chandigarh Administration and Municipal Corporation, after seeing the presentation based on a study of Storm Water Drainage in the City, asked them to set up a Task force to immediately tackle [...]

Strongly advocating the need for institutionalizing the Inter-State Bus Service Transport in the region, the Punjab Governor and Administrator, Union Territory, Chandigarh, Gen. (Retd.) S.F. Rodrigues, called for a comprehensive traffic and transportation plan, with the focus on integrating public transport operation in the area and finding short term, medium term and long term solutions [...]

Regional Institute of English, Sector- 32 today organized valedictory function of 90 Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching (PGCT) of English Course at its premises. UT Home Secretary, Mr. Ram Niwas was the chief guest at the function. While addressing the gathering, Mr. Niwas stressed on the importance of English language and said that special training for [...]

Dr R C Sobti, Vice-Chancellor, Panjab University released a book titled “United Nations and Empowerment of Women” authored by Dr. Surinder K. Shukla in his office today. He appreciated the efforts of the author for highlighting the complexities in society’s in transformation which come in the way of execution of reforms, according to Punjab [...]

Congress MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira today asked the Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal to implement the clauses within the Anandpur Sahib resolution in his own home. Khaira claimed that Badal should implement prohibition, distribute excess land to the poor and nationalize Trident Hotel at Gugraon and Orbit Buses since these are according to the [...]

Punjabi University, Patiala has further expanded its wings keeping in mind to fulfill its statutory obligation of promoting Punjabi in all its dimensions. Having organized first-of-its-kind All-India Punjabi Conference to marks its foundation Day on April 30 last year, it has planned to hold a three-day national seminar on “Punjabi Language, Thought and Culture: Development [...]

Eight times national wrestling champion and two times Commonwealth Games Wrestling Champion Geetika Jakhar, Punjabi litterateur and recipient of Sahitya Akademi Award Dr Dalip Kaur Tiwana, winner of more than 16 gold medals in national, asian & international events in 400 m race Manjeet Kaur “Olympian” and inventer of Hake (Breathless Alaap) singer Gurmeet Bawa [...]

Noted historian, Prof. J S Grewal, former Vice- Chancellor GNDU, Amritsar and former Director IIAS, Shimla, delivered the Annual Shaheed Bhagat Singh Memorial Lecture on “Halemi Raj: A State within a State” at P.U. Campus here today. This lecture was organized by the Department of Political Science, Panjab University. Prof. M M Puri, Professor Emeritus [...]

The third mediation centre for Alternative Dispute Resolution [ADR] shall be launched from 2nd February 2009 from Rohini Courts. This was announced by Hon’ble Justice Madan B Lokur, Delhi High Court, today at a conference on “Alternative Dispute Resolution {ADR} as an effective means for handling business disputes” organized by PHD Chamber in the capital [...]

Secretary and spokesman of the All India Congress Committee, Manish Tewari today ridiculed the claims of the Shiromani Akali Dal-Bharitya Janata Party government in the state of being “pro farmers”. Addressing a series of meetings in different villages in the assembly segments of Jagaron, Dakha and Raikote, Tewari said the SAD-BJP alliance had never ever [...]

Congress MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira took objection to the statement by the newly appointed deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal’s claim that he would root out corruption. Khaira said the statement smacks of hypocrisy since Sukhbir himself has been chargesheeted on a corruption charge. “Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones at [...]

Sukhbir Singh Badal today formally assumed the office of Deputy Chief Minister Punjab amidst lot of fanfare and enthusiasm shown by the senior leaders and party workers of SAD-BJP alliance. Immediately after taking over the office as Deputy Chief Minister, Mr. Sukhbir Singh Badal had an interaction with media persons and outlined his vision to [...]

The Punjab government has now posted Additional Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Mr. Ajay Kumar Mahajan and Officer on Special Duty (OSD) to Chief Minister Mr. SP Singh in CMO as Additional Principal Secretary and OSD to Deputy Chief Minister Mr. Sukhbir Singh Badal respectively with immediate effect.

It may be recalled that the Punjab government [...]

The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today announced the candidature of the Chief Parliamentary Secretary S. Sher Singh Ghubaya from the Ferozpur constituency for the next Lok Sabha elections. S. Sher Singh Ghubaya is sitting MLA from Jalalabad and won by more than 44000 votes in last Vidhan Sabha elections.

Addressing a massive rally here, the announcement [...]

While the BJP, the alliance partner of the Shiromani Akali Dal has been making noises regarding the proposed elevation of Sukhbir Singh Badal in the Punjab council of ministers, the opposition Congress is surprisingly silent on the elevation of Sukhbir. Former chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh, the acting president of the Punjab state unit Mohinder [...]