East

Manpreet and his party on slippery slope as poll battle intensifies

Chandigarh, Punjab: In a short span of eight months, the People’s Party of Punjab (PPP) headed by Manpreet Singh Badal has faced enormous challenges at the political and other levels. Its troubles continue to breed. The latest jolt came for ...

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Bhai Fauja Singh shares how his life has turned around

Chandigarh, Punjab: Young at 100, the Turbaned Tornado Fauja Singh is all that one associates youth with — active, amusing and ambitious! In Chandigarh for book-signing with his biographer Khushwant Singh at Capitol Book Depot-17, the world’s oldest marathon runner ...

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Coming to Amritsar, the Pod Car

Amritsar, Punjab: ULTra Fairwood, an engineering company in India, announced this week that it reached an agreement with the Punjab government to build a personal rapid transit system in Amritsar, an Indian city of 1.5 million. The system would be ...

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The Sikh seat of power that is now an ‘official’ garbage dump

Lahore, Pakistan: The condition of Lahore’s heritage sites seem to be growing from bad to worse. In a recent discovery Pakistan Today learnt that the baara-dari of Sikh Maharaja Sher Singh, the third son of Ranjit Singh, has become an ...

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