Nitish promises ‘Guru circuit’

Patna : Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar laid the foundation stone of Bahudeshiya Prakash Kendra and released the Hindi edition of a coffee table book on Guru Gobind Singh here today during the closing ceremony of Parkash Utsav to mark the Guru’s 350th birth anniversary. H also released a coffee table book on the “Guru […]

ASI, two other cops booked for framing villager in drug case

Moga, December 23 : The police today registered a case against Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Pahara Singh and Head Constables Gulab Singh and Harbhajan Singh for allegedly framing Joginder Singh of Sangatpura village in a drug case. A senior official of the local police said the cops had been booked under Section 58 of the NDPS […]

Parties to shun political conferences at Jor Mela

Chandigarh : The Congress and the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today announced not to hold political conferences during Shaheedi Jor Mela in Fatehgarh Sahib. The mela, held every year in December-end, commemorates the martyrdom of Guru Gobind Singh’s younger Sahibzade. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had yesterday decided not to organise its conference on the […]

Sahitya awards for Megh, Nachhattar

Chandigarh, December 22 : Founder head of the Hindi Department at Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, and literary critic Ramesh Kuntal Megh has been conferred with the Sahitya Akademi Award for Hindi literature for his book of literary criticism, Vishw Mithak Sarit Sagar. Delhi-based writer Nachhattar too has been awarded for his Punjabi novel “Slow […]