Everything you need to know about Faridkot: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Everything you need to know about Faridkot: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Chandigarh, April 6 (IANS) It has lost but it is still fighting. Ironical as it may sound, that is the state of affairs in the Punjab Congress these days.
Faridkot (Punjab), June 16 (ANI): The tests conducted on the hair samples of 150 neurologically disabled children in Punjab's Faridkot District have revealed high levels of Uranium and other harmful chemicals.
Faridkot (Punjab), Mar 25 (ANI): Two persons were killed and nine others injured after an oil tanker overturned and exploded on Muktasar-Ferozepur Road in Punjab on Wednesday evening.
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Kotkapura (Punjab), Mar 15(ANI): Three-year-old Gurshan Singh, who was found dead near Australia's Melbourne airport on March 4, was cremated in his native village in Punjab's Faridkot district on Monday.
Kotkapura (Punjab), Mar 15(ANI): A memorial service for three-year-old Gurshan Singh, who was found dead near Australia's Melbourne airport on March 4, will be held in his native village in Punjab's Faridkot district on Monday.
Faridkot, Mar 5 (ANI): A pall of gloom enveloped the household of the three-year-old toddler Gurshan Singh Channa whose body was found in Melbourne, Australia on Thursday.
Ludhiana, Jan 18(ANI): Many small and marginal farmers in Punjab have switched to integrated fish farming, and among them is Rajvinder Pal Singh of Mullanapur in Ludhiana district, who is a successful fish farmer.
New Delhi, Dec.30 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission and the Indira Gandhi National Open University today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly develop and conduct three types of courses on human rights awareness for police personnel at cutting edge level.
Faridkot, Dec 20(ANI): Bollywood actor Aamir Khan sprung a surprise at an unknown village near Faridkot in Punjab when he made his presence felt dressed as a foreigner on Saturday.
Mumbai, Dec 18 (ANI): Mohd Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone surviving Pakistani gunman, whose statement was to be recorded today in the 26/11 special trial Court in Mumbai, has withdrawn from all the confessions made by him earlier.
Muktsar (Punjab), Oct.24 (ANI): Situated 30 miles from Faridkot, Muktsar in Punjab commemorates the martyrdom of 40 Sikh soldiers three centuries ago.
New Delhi, Oct.9 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) will celebrate its Foundation Day on October 12.
Faridkot (Punjab), Oct 6(ANI): A five-day-long annual fair promoting communal harmony and dedicated to Baba Sheikh Farid, a 12th century Sufi saint, was recently organized in Punjab's Faridkot city.
Faridkot (Punjab), Sep 24(ANI): A five-day-long annual fair marking communal harmony and dedicated to Baba Sheikh Farid, a Sufi saint, concluded in Punjab's Faridkot district on Wednesday.
Abohar, Aug.10 (ANI): Life of a large number of villagers in Punjab's Muktsar district has transformed since they have been enabled to have safe drinking water with the initiative of a non-governmental organization here.
Chandigarh, June 20(ANI): The microbiology department of Punjab Agricultural University has developed a water testing kit to help people test water at their homes and ward off numerous water borne diseases.
Chandigarh, June 20 (ANI): Punjab Agricultural University's microbiology department has developed a water testing kit to help people ward off numerous water borne diseases.
Abohar, June 9 (ANI): Many farmers in Punjab are doing away with the usage of pesticides and fertilizers and increasingly taking to natural farming methods for better financial returns.
Kotkapura (Punjab), May 24 (ANI): A major fire destroyed a power sub-station at Kotkapura near Faridkot on Saturday. Although the inferno caused enormous damage, there have been no casualties reported.
Kotkapura (Punjab), May 23 (ANI): In a major incident in Punjab's Faridkot district's Kotkapura area, around 8,000 new and old electricity transformers along with power cables were gutted into fire on Saturday evening.
Chandigarh, May 16 (IANS) The prestige fight between Punjab's leading political families of Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and his predecessor Amarinder Singh of the Congress in the Bathinda Lok Sabha constituency was Saturday won by the Badals even though the Congress won eight out of the state's 13 seats.
Chandigarh, May 16 (IANS) The prestige fight between Punjab's leading political families of Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and former Congress Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on the Bathinda Lok Sabha seat was Saturday won by the Badals even though the Congress had the upper hand on eight out of the state's 13 parliamentary seats.
Chandigarh, May 16 (IANS) Punjab's ruling Akali Dal-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) alliance and the opposition Congress shared the honours in initial leads in Punjab's 13 parliamentary constituencies Saturday morning.
Mumbai, May 13 (ANI): A fourth eyewitness in the Mumbai terror attack case on Wednesday testified before the special court that Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone surviving gunman, had revealed his age as 21 on November 26.
Chandigarh, May 13 (IANS) Between 10-15 percent voting was recorded in the nine parliamentary constituencies of Punjab and the lone seat in Chandigarh in the first three hours (till 10 a.m.) of polling Wednesday.
Chandigarh, May 13 (IANS) Amidst hope of high voter turnout, polling in nine parliamentary constituencies of Punjab and the lone seat of the union territory of Chandigarh began Wednesday morning for the the fifth and final round of the general elections.
Chandigarh, May 12 (IANS) The Punjab Police Tuesday said that all measures were in place to ensure safe and peaceful voting in nine constituencies that go to polls Wednesday.
Ludhiana/Chandigarh, Dec.15 (ANI): The global economic slowdown not withstanding, the hospitality industry of Punjab is continuing to prosper.
Islamabad, Dec.14 (ANI): While the Mumbai mayhem has raised millions of questions and speculations about the global war on terror the war mongering between Pakistan and India, an editorial in the Dawn says Pakistan would do well to attend threats rather than focussing on external ones. Pakistan is being referred to as the 'epicenter' of terrorism, the question is why? The answer is that it is facing the brunt of the wounds that it has inflicted in the past.
Islamabad, Dec.14 (ANI): An editorial in a Pakistani paper has said that both Pakistan and India are currently engaged in a media war that if not stopped, will act as a major obstacle to arriving at any solution to the crisis emanating out of the November 26-29 terror attack in Mumbai.
Islamabad, Dec.14 (ANI): An editorial in a Pakistani paper has said that both Pakistan and India are currently engaged in a media war that if not stopped, will act as a major obstacle to arriving at any solution to the crisis emanating out of the November 26-29 terror attack in Mumbai.
Mumbai, Dec. 13 (ANI): Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone Pakistani gunman arrested in connection with the November 26 to 29 Mumbai terror attacks forwarded a written appeal to the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi on Saturday, seeking legal help.
Islamabad, Dec 13 (IANS) The Pakistani media has begun doing a lot of 'soul-searching' in the wake of the Mumbai carnage that has shocked civil society in this country as much as it has shocked the rest of the world, with the English language newspapers warning the government about how class conflict and religion were fuelling the jehadi movement.
Islamabad, Dec 13 (IANS) Class conflict and religion are in equal measure fuelling the jehadi movement in Pakistan, and the sooner the government moves against this the better, editorials in three leading English dailies said Saturday.
As major Jihadi groups in Pakistan went underground with the highhandedness of Pakistan Government under immense international pressure
New Delhi, Dec 12 (IANS) India has 'enough evidence' to link elements in its territory to the Mumbai terror outrage and sees Pakistan's demand for evidence as 'nothing but a delaying tactic' to avoid dismantling 'terrorist infrastructure' in that country, government sources said here Friday.
Karachi, Dec 12 (IANS) The family of the lone surviving Mumbai attacker may have left their Faridkot village in Pakistan, but before leaving Amir Kasab told a Pakistani reporter that the terrorist captured by Indian police was his son.
Karachi, Dec.12 (ANI): Pakistan's Dawn newspaper has confirmed that there is a link between Faridkot in Punjab province and the terror attacks that were launched on Mumbai last month.
Hyderabad, Dec 11 (IANS) The Urdu media here has strongly condemned the terror attacks in Mumbai and called for bringing the culprits to book to prevent such attacks in future.
Washington, Dec 9 (IANS) The Lashker-e-Taiba will not be crippled by the arrest of the purported mastermind of the Mumbai attacks and at least 19 other members of the militant group, an LeT coordinator has told a US daily.
Faridkot (Pakistan''s Punjab province), Dec.7 (ANI): A British daily, the Guardian, has claimed that it has tracked down the family of the lone surviving gunman involved in the last week's terrorist attack on Mumbai in Pakistan' Punjab province.
Washington, Dec 6 (IANS) Pakistan has agreed to a 48-hour timetable set by India and the US to formulate a plan to act against Lashker-e-Toiba (LeT) and to arrest at least three Pakistanis who Indian authorities say are linked to the Mumbai terrorist assaults, the Washington Post reported citing a high-ranking Pakistani official.
London, Dec.6 (ANI): Indian police and government officials have said that they are likely to give the lone surviving terrorist behind last week's terror attacks in Mumbai truth serum to make him spill the beans on the entire operation, but experts familiar with the drug and its uses, are skeptical about the results.
Mumbai, Dec.4 (ANI): Interrogators in Mumbai are likely to administer a "truth serum" on Azam Amir Kasab, the sole surviving terrorist captured during last week's attacks on Mumbai to settle once and for all the question of where he is from.
Mumbai, Dec.3 (ANI): The sole surviving terrorist that attacked Mumbai last week, killing about 195 people and injuring 295 others, has revealed that his father was paid by a Pakistan-based militant group to hand him over.
Mumbai, Nov.30 (ANI): Captured terrorist A. A. Qasab has told his interrogators that he had no regrets about carrying out his mission of mayhem in Mumbai this week, in which the death toll so far is 195 and the injury toll 295.
Mumbai, Nov 29 (IANS) Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister R. R. Patil's revelation Saturday that the terrorists had planned to kill at least 5,000 people in the Mumbai attacks has stunned people and authorities alike while investigations are underway to get to the root of the conspiracy.
Mumbai, Nov.29 (ANI): The terrorists who attacked Mumbai over the last three days were trained in Lashkar-e-Toiba camps. This startling revelation has been made by the terrorist who was nabbed alive by the Mumbai Police.
Mumbai, Nov.29 (ANI): Arrested Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Amir Kasab has confessed that the terror group that spread mayhem across Mumbai, had received instructions to reduce the prestigious Taj Mahal Hotel to rubble, if the need arose.
Mumbai, Nov.28 (ANI): Latest reports from the area around Nariman House and the Trident-Oberoi Hotel say that the firefight between the holed up terrorists and National Security Guard (NSG) commandos is still raging on.
Mumbai/New Delhi, Nov.28 (ANI): Almost 48 hours after nearly twenty terrorists carried out planned and synchronized serial attacks across southern Mumbai, leaving 125 people dead and 327 injured, the National Security Guard (NSG) said on Friday morning that they were close to mopping their search and counter-attack operations inside the Taj hotel and at Nariman House.
Mumbai, Nov 28 (IANS) As dawn broke in India's commercial capital Friday, silence prevailed at two luxury hotels as commandos moved in to flush out gunmen who had unleashed the most audacious terror attack the country has witnessed, with at least 125 people already dead and 327 injured.
Mumbai, Nov 27 (IANS) More than 24 hours after terrorists sneaked into Mumbai from the sea to unleash India's most audacious terror attack, commandos were Thursday night set to flush out gunmen holding hostages in a luxury hotel, with at least 125 people already dead and 327 injured.
Mumbai, Nov 27 (IANS) More than 10-12 terrorists are still hiding in the three places where fierce fighting is raging on with security forces and the attackers ere conversing in Punjabi language, a senior army officer supervising the operations here said Thursday evening.
Islamabad, Nov 22 (IANS) He is back home now, but Pakistani teenager Nasir Sultan says he would love to return to India legally someday - not only to meet superstar Shah Rukh Khan but also those wonderful ordinary Indians who wished him well and ensured his release from jail.
Wagah Border (Amritsar), Nov 21 (ANI): The 15-year-old Pakistan boy, Nasir Sultan, who had illegally crossed over to India to meet Bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan, was released after nearly three months of detention and sent back to his country on Friday. Sultan crossed over to Pakistan at Wagah border check post.
Amritsar, Nov 21 (IANS) Nasir Sultan, the Pakistani teenager who returned to his homeland Friday after having been imprisoned in India for over two months for illegally crossing the border, says he will come to India again to meet his idol - Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan - but with a valid passport this time.
Amritsar, Nov 21 (IANS) Nasir Sultan, a 15-year-old Pakistani boy who was jailed in Punjab after illegally crossing the border to meet Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan, will be handed over to Pakistani authorities Friday.
Islamabad/Chandigarh, Nov 14 (IANS) The father of Nasir Sultan, a 15-year-old Pakistani boy who has been imprisoned since August for having entered India illegally to meet Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan, is hopeful that the Punjab and Haryana High Court will soon order his son's release.
Chandigarh, Oct 29 (IANS) Ansar Burney, a leading human rights activist from Pakistan who has come here to seek the release of a Pakistani boy, Wednesday said that India and Pakistan needed to evolve a mechanism to return those who inadvertently cross the international border on either side.
Islamabad, Oct 26 (IANS) Some dreams can go horribly wrong. Nasir Sultan, 15, a resident of a semi-tribal area in North West Frontier Province (NWFP), wanted to act in films like his favourite Bollywood star, Shah Rukh Khan. He crossed the border to chase his dream. He is now in a jail in India.
Chandigarh, Oct 14 (IANS) Burdened with complaints of slow paddy procurement this season, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal Tuesday ordered top-ranking bureaucrats out of their offices in Chandigarh and directed them to supervise procurement in the grain markets.
Faridkot, Oct 6 (ANI): Baba Farid, a 12th century sufi saint, is described by many as the first major Punjabi poet. He is known to have once performed penance for 40 days at Mokhalpur and impressed the King.
Faridkot, Oct 6 (ANI): Baba Farid, a 12th century Sufi saint, is described by many as the first major Punjabi poet. He is known to have once performed penance for 40 days at Mokhalpur and impressed the King.
Ferozepur, Sep.28 (ANI): Every year Sikhs in Punjab's Ferozepur district mark Saragarhi Day to remember the unparalleled valour, demonstrated by 21 Sikh soldiers on September 12, 1897 while participating in the battle of Saragarhi against a 10,000 strong enemy force.
Ferozepur, Sep.28 (ANI): Every year Sikhs in Punjab's Ferozepur district mark Saragarhi Day to remember the unparalleled valour, demonstrated by 21 Sikh soldiers on September 12, 1897 while participating in the battle of Saragarhi against a 10,000 strong enemy force.
Patiala, Sept 23 (ANI): Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi has said that active involvement of youth was imperative in politics for the development of the country.
Amritsar, Sept 22 (ANI): Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi began his three-day Punjab visit from here today.
