Archive for January, 2011
Set back to SAD Badal; Youth wing leader joins Manpreet Badal camp
CHANDIGARH: Sharomani akali dal Monday suffered a jolt when Yadwinder Singh Buttar, a prominent youth akali leader of district Gurdaspur and a close confident of Sukhbir Singh Badal deputy chief minister Punjab bid Good-bye to ruling party badal and joined hands with Manpreet Singh Badal, former finance minister in his Jago Punjab Yatra programme. Buttar [...]
January 31, 2011
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Sad tale of Minorities in Hindustan: Indian Muslims blamed for Hindutva terror want justice
Dr Farogh Maqdoomi was arrested by Indian police in 2006 – a month after blasts at a Muslim cemetery in the town of Malegaon killed 37 people and injured 125 others. Police said they had cracked the case and arrested nine men, including Dr Maqdoomi, for involvement in the attack in the western Indian state [...]
January 30, 2011
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Punjab approves regional plan for Greater Mohali and six sattelite towns
CHANDIGARH: Sukhbir Singh Badal Deputy Chief Minister Punjab today sanctioned Rs. 192 crore for providing 100 percent sewerage and water supply to satellite towns of Mohali including Kurali, Derabassi, Lalru, Kharar, Banur, Zirakpur and also to village including Sohana, Mauli Baidwan, Chilla, Lakhnour, Chachumajra, Bakarpur, Madanpura, Kambli and Kumbhra. Reviewing the progress of ongoing development [...]
January 30, 2011
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11 years after his escape, Karmapa remains as controversial
By Jaideep Sarin DHARAMSALA (Himachal Pradesh):) His flight to freedom from a monastery near Lhasa, the capital of Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) in China, was as mysterious as controversial. The Indian government has banned him from going to the Rumtek Monastery in Sikkim. And now, the 17th Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, has landed in another [...]
January 30, 2011
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Radical Sikhs seeks personal Sikh law
AMRITSAR: A radical Sikh organization Dal Khalsa in memorandum to Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh through Deputy Commissioner Amritsar Kahan Singh Pannu has sought honouring of all commitments –oral and written by the Indian leadership to Sikhs before and on the eve of India’s independence in 1947. Reasserting that the Sikhs should be treated as [...]
January 30, 2011
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Anti Terrorist Front led by Bitta splits, New group supports Punjab Congresss
By Prabhmeet Luthra MOHALI: Anti Terrorist Front India A.T.F.I. which is separated from All-India Anti-Terrorist Front (Bitta) A.I.A.T.F. has announced to support the P.P.C.C. president captain Amrinder Singh for upcoming vidhan sabha elections. Talking with media on Saturday, Viresh Shandilya president Anti Terrorist Front India told that ATFI will support Captain Amrinder Singh for the [...]
January 30, 2011
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CBI OFFICIAL CROSS-EXAMINED
Patiala January 29: As the hearing in the high-profile murder case of Harpreet Kaur, daughter of former SGPC chief Bibi Jagir Kaur, resumed in the Court of Special Judge (CBI Cases), Patiala, the counsel for Bibi Jagir cross-examined DK Tanwar, CBI’s Senior Scientific Officer, Central Laboratory, New Delhi. During today’s court proceedings, the defence counsel, [...]
January 29, 2011
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2 SUSPECTED B’DESHIS SHOT BY BSF
Amritsar January 29: The Border Security Force (BSF) shot two persons late last night when they were trying to cross over to Pakistan illegally from Indo-Pak International Border near Attari. Talking to reporters, BSF IG (Frontier) Himmat Singh said the duo aged 25 plus had reached near the border under the cover of darkness last [...]
January 29, 2011
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AVTAR MAKKAR URGES PM TO INTERVENE
Amritsar January 29: Taking serious note of the turban-frisking incident involving NRI Jaswinder Singh Dhaliwal in Italy, SGPC chief Avtar Singh Makkar today shot off a missive to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, urging him to take up the matter with the Italian Government on top priority. In his letter to the Prime Minister, Makkar said [...]
January 29, 2011
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LAW ON CONTRACT FARMING PROPOSED
Chandigarh January 29: With shrinking land holdings making farming non-viable, the Punjab Government has decided to infuse new hope in agriculture by way of cooperative and contract farming. To ensure that cooperatives and companies do not take farmers for a ride, the state is contemplating bringing in legislation that will bind those undertaking contract farming [...]
January 29, 2011
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