Following are some of the terror-related incidents that have taken place in Punjab between 2001 and 2016.
As part of the numerous educational offerings of Disney Youth Education Series (YES), 11 school groups from India will travel to the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida, USA to experience education Disney-style.
Leading Non-Resident Indian entrepreneur Raj Loomba, a campaigner of widows' rights, Surina Narula, champion of street children in India and 16 others have been chosen for the Queen's Birthday Honours this year.
The state-run BSNL on Friday set the ball rolling for 3G mobile services as the telecom major launched the next generation mobile services in 11 cities and announced a rate of Re 1 per minute for video call in the Rs 2,500-plan.
As many as 91 more youths from Punjab returned to India on Tuesday from strife-torn Iraq on special flights.
The Army has appointed Lt Gen NPS Hira as Deputy Chief of Army Staff with effect from March 14.
Stating that the change of government in the neighbouring country had strengthened their hope for the release of Sarbajit, Sarabjit Singh's sister Dalbir Kaur said she would go to the Pakistan High Commission to apply for the visas immediately after obtaining the passports.
A former senior British police officer has raised around Rs 50 lakh in the UK and rebuilt at least five elementary schools in rural Punjab after coming across a dilapidated village school building seven years ago.
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After yoga and meditation, it is now designer smiles, fresh crowns and tooth implants, which promise a refashioned "nirvana" for an increasing number of foreigners and Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) visiting Jalandhar.
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Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence is quite active in fomenting trouble in Punjab and the grenade attack in Amritsar was a pure act of terrorism, Singh said.
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The stabber was upset over not getting admission into a university.
The national highways selected for upgrade include -- Gurgaon-Jaipur, Surat-Dahisar, Chilkaluripet-Vijaywada and Panipat-Jalandhar. These four stretches together measure about 838 km.
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Ace Indian athlete Manjeet Kaur's preparations for the Beijing Olympics received a major boost when a New Delhi-based real estate group handed her Rs 34 lakh to train under an American coach in California. The cheque was presented to the 400 metres runner, a Punjab Police Inspector, by Rohtas Goyal, chairman of the Omaxe Group, in the presence Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Badal and state DGP N P S Aulakh.
Goals by Raghunath and Deepak Thakur gave Indian Oil Corporation a 2-0 victory over Indian Airlines in the final.
Badal claimed that even the Centre had promised to transfer Chandigarh to Punjab. His comments on Chandigarh, which is the common capital of Punjab and Haryana, comes amid the demands by the Congress government in Haryana for a separate high court and the tussle over sharing of river waters.
A letter purportedly by terror outfit Lashkar-e-Tayiba has threatened to blow up Haridwar railway station and temples which abound in the city on December 29, police said on Thursday.
'I sang Kala Chashma more than 20 years ago. I was not paid for it; I was a new and young singer then. It is a big thing for me that my song has been used in a Hindi film. This is my first song that has been used in a Bollywood film.' Meet Kala Chashma singer Amar Arshi.
In a statement issued on Friday, the British High Commission said the Visa Application Centres were being closed temporarily to facilitate technical upgrades and staff training at the visa departments and centres.
The new laws require even Sikhs to remove their turbans while being searched.
Lack of opportunities coupled with a desire to get rich quick in the West is fueling Punjab's human trafficking problem.
Defending champions Orissa Steelers completed the semifinal line-up, handing out a 2-0 drubbing to Sher-e-Jalandhar in the last league match of the Premier Hockey League at the Sector 42 Stadium in Chandigarh on Thursday night.
'Piyush Goyal is the chief and it is always the chief who is considered to be responsible.'
The water level rose above the danger mark in Haridwar and Delhi and the level at Bhakra dam was a foot above the permissible mark.
'Our biggest problem has been keeping this country together.' 'Nation building is never easy. It is a very difficult task.' 'Even 70 years is not too long a time.'
Archbishop Anil Couto's instructions, though politically charged, are not unusual or unprecedented.
New Delhi's overall air quality index read 456 at 4 pm, up from 425 at 4 pm on Tuesday.
the SAD president said that the Prakash Singh Badal government had failed to control the law and order situation in the state, arising out of the Dera Sacha Sauda controversy.
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In a press release, the congregation accused the victim, her five fellow nuns and four others of conspiring against the bishop.
Reader Vinod Kumar got a great pic of Ms Dhupia at the Golden Temple.
Punjab athletes have called the fast to highlight the plight of the jobless Physical Training Instructors.
Captain V S Vinay scored a brace of goals to help former champions Indian Airlines defeat Bharat Petroleum, Mumbai, 3-1 and storm into the final of the 24th Indian Oil Surjit Hockey Tournament in Jalandhar on Thursday.
In its third year, the PHL will comprise of seven teams in a single division rather than two levels of five teams each as in the earlier editions.
Among those who lived on rent, 56 per cent believed natural calamities were the biggest threat to their homes.
Senior IAF officers from the IAF Adampur base rushed to the spot of the accident. The MiG which was on routine flight from Adampur developed a technical snag soon after take off.
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