Goals by Raghunath and Deepak Thakur gave Indian Oil Corporation a 2-0 victory over Indian Airlines in the final.
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.
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.
The Army has appointed Lt Gen NPS Hira as Deputy Chief of Army Staff with effect from March 14.
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.
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.
Delivery will be made at 12 selected stations.
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.
A new study uncovers the unhealthy trends and hidden reality of body shaming in India.
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.
The stabber was upset over not getting admission into a university.
'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.
Lack of opportunities coupled with a desire to get rich quick in the West is fueling Punjab's human trafficking problem.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
BSF routed Bharat Petroleum 4-1 while Air India scored a 3-0 victory over Army XI in the Bombay Gold Cup hockey tournament.
The former India ace scored the only goal of the match in the final against Border Security Force.
A group of Sikh leaders on Tuesday conferred the status of "great martyr" on Beant Singh, one of the assassins of former prime minister Indira Gandhi, at a function organised by the Dal Khalsa in Jalandhar.
In another match of the knock-out stage of the National Hockey Championship, Mumbai will meet Chattisgarh.
India and Pakistan need to improve to survive in world hockey, thinks PHF secretary Akhtar Ul Islam.
'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.'
Take a look at the famous faces who exercised their democratic right.
'Sonam is my lucky charm.' 'Because of her, 2018 went well for me, as I got four big weddings.' 'It started with Sonam's in November, then Deepika Padukone-Ranveer Singh's in December, Kapil Sharma's wedding and then Isha Ambani's wedding.'
Aslam Hunani/Rediff.com gives the lowdown on the 59 seats spread across seven states and one Union territory going to polls in the last and final phase of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections on May 19, 2019.
Rains lashed Karnal, Rohtak, Ambala and Panchkula in Haryana, while Patiala, Jalandhar, Phagwara and Nangal Dam\n\narea in Punjab also received light showers.
Speaking in Punjabi, Dr Singh immediately struck a chord with the masses, recalling the days he spent in the holy city.
Hyderabad Sultans beat title contenders Sher-E-Jalandhar 1-0 in the Premier Hockey League.
Reader Bhavdeep Virdi sent us pictures of Rehan Butt and Imran Warsi from Chennai.
The India-Pakistan Peace Cup snooker and a kabaddi series between the countries was cancelled owing to the 'tense' situation in the wake of the recent serial blasts in Mumbai.
Among those who lived on rent, 56 per cent believed natural calamities were the biggest threat to their homes.
The prime accused in the murder of a Punjab non resident Indian has been arrested while two other co-accused gave themselves up, police said in Hoshiarpur Thursday.
Government has no plans to make the retail selling price of petrol and diesel uniform across the country, Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas Dinsha Patel informed Lok Sabha on Thursday.
Northern Railway won the women's crown in the Surjit hockey tournament.
