Punjab Newspaper

Dr. [tag]Upinderjit Kaur[/tag], Education and Languages, Civil Aviation, Vigilance and Justice Minister [tag]Punjab [/tag]has directed the all the departments, boards/corporations, subordinate courts and educational institutions to make official use of [tag]Punjabi[/tag] language in the right earnest keeping in view the spirit of  ordinance to amend [tag]Punjab Languages Act[/tag]  ([tag]PLA[/tag]).
Dr. Upinderjit Kaur categorically said that no [...]

[tag]Punjab[/tag] Government has given the additional charge of the office of Registrar Punjab to Dr.[tag]Parmpal Singh Cooner[/tag], Joint Director Medical Education and Research.
Mr. [tag]Jagjit Puri[/tag], Secretary Medical Education & Research disclosed that earlier Dr. [tag]A S Thind[/tag], Associate Professor Forensic Medicine Department,  Sri [tag]Guru Gobind Singh Medical College[/tag], [tag]Faridkot[/tag] was holding the charge of Registrar [...]

[tag]PHD Chamber[/tag], today, under the PHDCCI-KAF ([tag]Konard Adenauer Stiftung[/tag]) Cooperation, organized a one-day workshop on New [tag]Foreign Trade[/tag] Policy. Over 40 delegates representing various exporting houses participated in the workshop.
Mr [tag]Tapan Mazumder[/tag], Joint Director General of Foreign Trade (JDGFT), Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India, Prof. [tag]Sahib Singh[/tag], Visiting Faculty and Consultant, Indian [...]

[tag]Punjab[/tag] will set up a task force to chalk out a long-term strategy to provide clean and uncontaminated canal drinking water and fight the alarming menace of water, soil and air pollution in the state.
According to Mr. [tag]Harcharan Bains[/tag], Media Advisor to Chief Minister, the task force which would function as advisory cell would comprise [...]

by Khushlabh Singh

A Canadian Company [tag]Econoler[/tag] International is all set to light the streets of Municipal Areas of [tag]Punjab[/tag].
Mr. [tag]Leon Biaou[/tag], Managing Director of Econoler International today held a meeting with Mr. [tag]Bikram Singh Majithia[/tag], Science, Technology & Environment Minister to explain the conceptual plan of the company to provide energy efficient street [...]

[tag]Bathinda[/tag] today moved a step closer  towards a  place on the [tag]civil aviation[/tag] map as Ministry of Defence gave its all important clearances for operating four civilian  commercial [tag]flights[/tag] daily from the Air force Station at [tag]Bhisiana[/tag]. This was disclosed by Mr [tag]Harcharan Bains[/tag], to the Media Advisor Punjab Chief Minister.  This would be the [...]

[tag]Punjab[/tag] Chief Minister Mr [tag]Parkash Singh Badal[/tag] today sought  personal intervention of the Prime Minister Dr. [tag]Manmohan Singh[/tag] to ban forward trading in [tag]Steel[/tag] besides scraping [tag]import duty[/tag] on the import of [tag]scrap[/tag]. He also demanded a 25 % cess on the export of basic [tag]iron[/tag] or steel. He said that the government should either [...]

by Razan Zed from Reno (Nevada, USA)
Area [tag]Sikhs[/tag] today started the move to a newly built three million Dollar [tag]Sikh[/tag] [tag]Temple[/tag] ([tag]Gurudwara[/tag]) with carrying their holy scripture [tag]Guru Granth Sahib[/tag] in a decorated vehicle in a procession of devotees from old Temple on Second Street to the new one on 1380 Selmi Drive in [tag]Reno[/tag].
The [...]

The Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India has cleared the [tag]Punjab[/tag] government’s proposal to set up a ‘World Class Central [tag]University[/tag]‘ at Amritsar.
A decision to this effect has been conveyed by Union Human Resource Development Minister Mr.[tag]Arjun Singh[/tag] through a letter to the Punjab Chief Minister Mr. [tag]Parkash Singh Badal[/tag].
Disclosing this, Media Advisor [...]

[tag]Wheat[/tag] procurement in [tag]Punjab[/tag], which appeared to be a source of anxiety for the country for sometimes,  is likely to touch the record figure of 90 lakh Metric tones. This was stated by the Punjab Chief Minister Mr. Parkash Singh Badal here this morning.
Talking to media persons here, Mr. Badal said that despite the delay [...]

The [tag]Punjab[/tag] Chief Minister today called for a decisive war on [tag]global warming[/tag] and [tag]environmental pollution[/tag] in order to save this planet as a home for our future generations.”
Addressing a galaxy of distinguished [tag]environmentalists[/tag], scholars and media luminaries at the [tag]Ecology[/tag] Awards Function held at New Delhi late last evening on the ‘[tag]World Earth Day[/tag]‘, [...]

The [tag]Punjab[/tag] government todaydecided to introce e-tendering for all major government projects. The government virtually threw the decision making process in government investments in development projects  open for transparent and objective  scrutiny  by  introducing external auditing by independent Quality Assurance Consultants.
A panel of 22 agencies had been finalized by the [tag]Punjab Infrastructure Development Board[/tag] ([tag]PIDB[/tag]), [...]

The [tag]Punjab[/tag] Government would add 100 more AC buses in its existing fleet of Punjab Roadways and [tag]Pepsu[/tag] Roadways Transport Corporation ([tag]PRTC[/tag]) from this month after finding successful running and profitable operations of existing eight integral AC coaches on various routes.
This was disclosed by Mr. [tag]Mohan Lal[/tag] Transport Minister Punjab in a meeting with department [...]

Wheat procurement in Punjab is all set to exceed the figure achieved last year.
According to Mr. [tag]Harcharan Bains[/tag], Media Advisor to Chief Minister, the state and the central agencies had procured 69 lakh Metric Tonnes of [tag]wheat[/tag] from markets across the state for the central pool last year while the present trends indicated that the [...]

Six government agencies and private millers have procured more than 26.68 lac tonnes of [tag]wheat[/tag] in [tag]Punjab[/tag].
According to an official spokesman Government agencies and private millers procured more than 26.68 lac tonnes of wheat till Saturday evening. Out of total procurement of 26, 68,962 tonnes of wheat in all the procurement centers of Punjab, Government [...]

[tag]Punjab[/tag] Chief Minister Mr.[tag]Parkash Singh Badal[/tag] today reviewed the arrangements of the [tag]wheat[/tag] procurement in the State during the current [tag]Rabi[/tag] Marketing season (RMS) to ensure smooth, efficient and quick procurement and directed the Deputy Commissioners to personally oversee the procurement operations in unison with the functionaries of the Food and Civil Supplies department and [...]

Mr. [tag]Bikram Singh Majithia[/tag] Minister for Information and Public Relations, Water Supply and Sanitation, Science Technology and Environment Punjab questioned the mysterious silence maintained by Bibi [tag]Rajinder Kaur Bhattal[/tag] president [tag]PPCC[/tag]  and Capt. [tag]Amarinder Singh[/tag] former Chief Minister  on inflation issue.  He said that the [tag]Punjab Congress[/tag] silence has casted serious doubts over party’s so [...]

[tag]Punjab[/tag] Chief Minister Mr.[tag]Parkash Singh Badal[/tag] today expressed profound grief and sorrow over the sad demise of Smt.[tag]Raj Rani Sharma[/tag], the mother of [tag]Haryana[/tag] MLA Mr.[tag]Venod Sharma[/tag].
Mr. Badal expressed his heartfelt sympathies with the members of the bereaved family and prayed to the Almighty to grant peace to the departed soul and give strength and [...]

[tag]Punjab[/tag] Chief Minister Mr.[tag]Parkash Singh Badal[/tag] today felicitated to the people of the State on the auspicious occasion of [tag]Mahavir[/tag] Jayanti.
In a message Mr.[tag]Badal[/tag] called upon the different sections of the society to follow the philosophy and teachings of Lord Mahavir, who propagated the principles of simple living and high thinking to achieve the ultimate [...]

[tag]Punjab[/tag] Chief Minister Mr.[tag]Parkash Singh Badal[/tag] today dedicated [tag]Mata Jaswant Kaur[/tag] Memorial Primary [tag]School[/tag] to the people with a view to imparting quality education to the underprivileged children to enable them to compete at par with the students of the public schools.
Addressing a gathering on the occasion, Mr.Badal said that this school in the memory [...]

[tag]Punjab[/tag] Chief Minister Mr. [tag]Parkash Singh Badal[/tag] today announced that village [tag]Badal[/tag] would be soon developed as a hub of quality educational institutions right from primary to post graduate level in the diverse curriculum encompassing arts, humanities, science, commerce, nursing and biotechnology.
In his presidential address on the first annual convocation held here at [tag]Dasmesh Girls [...]

Registered [tag]Medical[/tag] Practitioners ([tag]RMP[/tag]s), of [tag]Homoeopathy, [tag]Ayurveda[/tag] and [tag]Allopathic[/tag] issuing advertisements and promising assured treatment of various ailments including [tag]sexual[/tag] ailments are in for trouble, as [tag]Punjab[/tag] Government has decided to tighten noose on them.
Secretary Medical Education & Research Mr. [tag]Jagjit Puri[/tag] today issued directions to initiate action against all those doctors who are advertising [...]

Eminent writer Dr Dalip Kaur Tiwana has been elected president of Punjabi Sahit Academy defeating Gurbhajan Singh Gill.
The [tag]Punjab[/tag] Chief Minister Mr. [tag]Parkash Singh Badal[/tag] today congratulated the renowned [tag]Punjabi[/tag] writer Dr. [tag]Dalip Kaur Tiwana[/tag] on her election as President of [tag]Punjabi Sahit Academy[/tag]. He said that with the election of Dr. Tiwana as President of Academy the status of the Academy would touch the pinnacle of glory. He also congratulated [...]

The [tag]Punjab[/tag] Government has set in motion the process of promotions and recruitments under various categories in the Education Department thereby fulfilling its promises made to the teaching community.
Disclosing this here today, [tag]Dr. Upinderjit Kaur[/tag], Education Minister Punjab said that 14000 teachers would be recruited before the onset of this academic session 2008-09 and with [...]

[tag]Punjab[/tag] Chief Minister Mr. [tag]Parkash Singh Badal[/tag] today announced that Punjab government would soon set up a World Class Multi-disciplinary University in the state to impart quality higher education to the students to enable them to compete globally.
Mr.Badal announced that the state government would involve the corporate sector in streamlining, modernizing and broad basing education [...]