

Saturday 7 November '09
The 12th Special Olympics was inaugurated here today. A torch march was taken out from Nehru Garden school to Guru Gobind Singh Stadium in presence of chief patron of the district special Olympics Association, Commissioner, Jalandhar division, S R Ladhar.Wednesday 28 October '09
Along with rare documents of Indian struggle for freedom, including Komagata Maru incident of Canada, the Singapore mutiny and the San Francisco case, a copy of the epic Heer...Monday
26 October '09The Rail Coach factory in Kapurthala has rolled out 40 coaches of the ambitious Duronto or “non-stop” trains, announced by Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee in her budget speech this year.Monday
26 October '09The teachers in Punjab staged a dharna in the constituency of Punjab education minister, and demanded abolition of the post of Director General School Education.Saturday
24 October '09The Jalandhar Chamber of Industries and Commerce has asked Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal not to increase power tariff in the state.Thursday
22 October '09Police Martyrs’ Day celebrations on Punjab Armed Police (PAP) campus here on Wednesday was marked by protests as families of hundreds of police martyrs criticised the attitude of the Punjab government towards them.Thursday
22 October '09A scam worth Rs 1.5 crore has come to light at the primary health centre (PHC) in Muzaffarpur, near here. A senior medical officer (SMO), a pharmacist-cum-accountant — the alleged kingpin — and a multipurpose health worker have been arrested.Thursday
24 September '09Families of over 150 men gone missing in foreign countries held a protest march here on Wednesday.Monday
21 September '09Three men died due to starvation, one committed suicide and 63 others have been allegedly held captive in a camp on the Melilla island-an autonomous Spanish city located on the Mediterranean sea on the north coast of North Africa.Friday
3 July '09The Punjab government spent over Rs 60 lakh on the swearing-in ceremony of Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal...Monday
25 May '09Curfew was imposed in Jalandhar district as tension prevailed after the news of the Vienna attack on the Dera Sachkhand head spread here on Sunday....Saturday
23 May '09The last surviving member of the Ghadar Party, Baba Bhagat Singh Bilga, popularly known as Baba Bilga, passed away....Thursday
21 May '09Friday
8 May '09Who else can better understand the pains of poverty and hunger than the son of a labourer.Wednesday
22 April '09The SAD’s rally organised today after the filing of nomination papers of its candidate Hans Raj Hans led to traffic jams on busy roads of the city.Wednesday
22 April '09Unlike many other crorepati candidates who do not own a car, SAD’s Hans Raj Hans, who is contesting from Jalandhar (reserved) constituency, owns four four-wheelers, while his wife has one.Friday
17 April '09Cabinet minister Manoranjan Kalia and candidate from Jalandhar Central for 2007 Assembly polls was booked in two cases.Friday
10 April '09Rana Gurjit Singh was repeatedly accused of nurturing only his wife’s Vidhan Sabha constituency, Kapurthala, which is one of the nine Assembly segments in this Lok Sabha seat.Thursday
9 April '09The ‘rail roko’ call given by Sikh organisations today to protest the CBI clean chit to Congress leader Jagdish Tytler and Lok Sabha tickets given by the Congress to him and Sajjan Kumar caused great inconvenience to the public.Monday
6 April '09The bad blood between two Bholath leaders, former SAD MLA Bibi Jagir Kaur and Bholath MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira, reached a flashpoint when their charged-up supporters got caught in a scuffle today afternoon in Ramgarh village.Saturday
4 April '09In the 2004 elections, more than Rs 10 lakh of his campaign fund remained unutilised, and he returned this money to the contributors.Friday
3 April '09The influence of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), which used to have a good base in Doaba, is on a downswing in Punjab. The party is fighting elections on all the 13 Lok Sabha seats on its own.Thursday
2 April '09A 30-year-old merchant navy officer from Jalandhar, Kunal Mohanty, was stabbed to death in Glasgow in Scotland, on March 27.Thursday
26 March '09A congress bastion even during the dark years of militancy, the Jalandhar Parliamentary constituency witnesses a straight fight this time between SAD candidate Hans Raj Hans and PPCC state president Mohinder Singh Kaypee.Saturday
21 March '09The District Electoral Officer (DEO)-cum-Deputy Commissioner, Kapurthala, has served notices to the Vice-Chancellor of Punjab Technical University for the two reports of alleged violation of the model code of conduct by him published in the media.