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Punjab Infotech in line with its initiative to promote IT/ ITES industry in the state, hosted an investor’s meet under the chairmanship of Mr. R.K Verma, Managing Director, Punjab Infotech inviting entrepreneurs from Mohali and Chandigarh region for investing in the IT Park at Railmajra, here today.
Situated on NH 21 near Ropar, the IT [...]

The fourth Capability Enhancement Training Programme (CETP), a Corporate Social Responsibility initiative of the Vardhman Group, began on 6 May 2010 at the Vardhman Training and Development Center. Training is being imparted to the graduate students who belong to the Scheduled Castes and Other Backward Classes of the society.
The Prime Minister of India had [...]

The Annual Convocation of the SCD Government College Ludhiana held today and around 900 students were awarded the degrees of B.Com/BA/BSc/M.A and M.Com. The Convocation was started with arrival of the “Academic Procession” which was lead by D.P.I college Punjab Mrs Jasmeet Kaur Nayyar along with the Principal of the College Mrs Jasbir Kaur Makkar. [...]

The dream of the hundreds of research aspirants of Ludhiana district comes true when Panjab University Chandigarh declares SCD Government College Ludhiana as Research Centre to undertake doctorate research in Hindi. Recently Panjab University invited the colleges to get the approval as research centre to under take Ph.D research and a high powered research team [...]

“Public Private Partnership (PPP) projects are the need of hour in India. India cannot grow fast without the PPP project in infrastructure sector including Power, road, Airways, Telecom, education, health etc.”
This was said by Dr. Manoj Anand, Professor, Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, in a national seminar on “Public-Private partnership (PPP) in Infrastructure sector in [...]

Punjab Government has recommended a tranche of eight Projects worth Rs 1000 crore to the National Bank of Agriculture and Rural
Development (NABARD) for assistance during the current Financial Year
(2010-2011), after the formal approval of Sardar Parkash Singh Badal,
Chief Minister, Punjab.
Disclosing this here today Mr. Manpreet Singh Badal, Finance
Minister, Punjab said that a [...]

A two-day international conference on “Women and Development: Issues and Initiatives”, being organised by the Punjabi University’s Women’s Studies centre got underway in University’s Senate hall here today. The experts expressed deep concern over vast gaps in theory, practice and implementation of policies regarding gender inequality and empowerment of women. Dealing with issues and initiatives [...]

The Youth Welfare Department of Punjabi University organised its annual prize distribution function in the University’s Kala Bhawan to honour its students, who had won laurels at zonal, north zone and All-India Inter-University youth festivals during 2009-2010. According to Director, Youth Welfare, Dr Satish Kumar Verma, the awards constituted cash prizes worth Rs 1.25 lakhs, [...]

A galaxy of top researchers and computer scientists from India shared their thoughts about the latest trends in digital image processing during the National Seminar on “Recent Advances and Future Trends in Digital Image Processing”, organised by Department of Computer Science, Punjabi University, Patiala.
Dr. Gurpreet Singh Lehal, HoD, said that the first Gurmukhi OCR system [...]

Amidst the thunderous applause and eloquent presence of legal experts, law teachers, judicial doyens, academia from the field of Law and the other important functionaries from legal fraternity, All India Law Congress was inaugurated in the Law Auditorium. The event started with the lightning of ceremonial lamp by the present dignitaries. Prof. R.C Sobti, vice- [...]

The ongoing two day All India Law congress concluded at PU today. In the five academic sessions, around 130 papers were presented. The Congress was a success as it was a confluence of various thought processes from the side of legal luminaries and academia from other disciplines.
In the morning of the concluding day, a [...]

The ICSSR North-Western Regional Centre is organizing a Training Workshop on “Qualitative Methods & Techniques in Social Science Research” from 15th to 20th March 2010 at ICSSR Complex, P.U. Campus.
According to Prof. Bhupinder Brar, Honorary Director, ICSSR North-Western Regional Centre, the present workshop is meant for beginners and is introductory in nature. It aims [...]

A 2-day National Seminar on “Population Environment Linkages in North West India” concluded today. Issues related to degradation of environment, climate change, population growth and its implications for exploding urban areas received a scholarly treatment at the seminar. It was emphasized that human survival is directly linked to environmental restoration and conservation.
The valedictory address delivered [...]

The Music Department of Panjab University today arranged stage performance of eminent vocalist Dr. Suhasini Karotkar from Pune. A disciple of Pt. T.D. Janorikar of Bhindi Bazar Gharana, she presented three compositions in Raga Jog and enthralled the participants as well as listeners.

The second resource person was senior Prof. Of the Dept., Dr. Saroj Ghosh. [...]

The Valedictory Function of the on going Refresher Course in “Classic and Modern Indian Languages” was held at ICSSR Complex, P.U. Campus here today. The main attraction of the function was celebrated Punjabi Poet, Surjit Patar. He recited many of his choicest poems on the occasion, which included his old and new poems. One of [...]

Masters in Human Rights and Duties (CEASS) organized a ‘Human Rights Film Festival’ on Nov. 6, 2009 at Aruna Ranjit Chandra Hall, Panjab University, Chandigarh in association with Indian Social Action Forum (INSAF, National Secretariat, New Delhi). The film festival showcased documentaries to sensitize students
about the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, 1958 and to put [...]

“The biggest challenge in front of all the policy makers was food security. Food is vital for India’s prosperity and the state Punjab being the harbinger of green revolution has an important role to play in it. Export Inspection and Accreditation has facilitated acceptability of Produce of Indian origin in foreign markets. This along with [...]

Hydroelectricity, agri-business, engineering, education, textiles and research as areas for bilateral trade between India and Canada, according to a CII Session on Navigating Globalisation: Canadian Experience” organized by CII at Chandigarh. “Canada and India are natural business partners as both share more complementarities and less competition”, according to Kevin Lynch, Clerk of the [...]

The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has decided to field former Punjab governor Lt Gen (Retd.) B K N Chhibber from Amritsar constituency. Chhibber was earlier associated with the Congress.
The BSP, which is headed by Mayawati has announced 12 candidates so far in Punjab. Punjab, which has the highest percentage of dalit population in India gave [...]

An amount of 120 million has been sanctioned by the Government of India to help create Chandigarh as a destination city. A scheme has been initiated by the Chandigarh Home Secretary- cum –Secretary Tourism, “Development of Chandigarh as a Tourism Destination” in this regard.

The scheme envisages upgradation and beutification of the existing tourist spots [...]

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 [...]

The Union government today announced a minimum support price of Rs 1080 per quintal (Rs 10.8 per kg) for wheat purchase. This amounts to an increase in wheat procurement price by Rs 80 per quintal compared to last year. The announcement was made by the Union government after a meeting of the Union cabinet today. [...]

Petrol, diesel and LPG became cheaper in Punjab after a decision by the Union government. According to the latest rates petrol shall cost Rs 40.44 per litre in the capital city of Chandigarh which is Rs 5 less than the previous rate Diesel shall now cost Rs 30.69 which is Rs 2 less than the [...]

Veteran communist leader Balwant Singh and a close associate of late Harkishen Singh Surjeet has been removed from the CPI (M). Balwant Singh was suspended by the party in October 2008 following the submission of an inquiry report against him. Officiating general secretary of the Punjab unit of CPI (M), Charan Singh Virdi said the [...]