Amritsar, Oct. 31 : Apart from its agricultural success, Punjab has also excelled in educational field, with universities and institutions imparting quality education and carrying out research work.

The State’s Guru Nanak Dev University in Amritsar is one among the five existing universities in the state that focus on nurturing and rewarding talent.

Established in 1969, to mark the 500th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev, the Guru Nanak Dev University in Amritsar is today viewed as ‘a leader in education''. Having demonstrated its impact on the national level in nurturing talents, the university is now all set to scale new heights internationally.

New Delhi, Oct. 31 : Meera, the Canada-based businesswoman of Indian origin, recently launched her debut Punjabi music album `My Ranjha''.

For Meera, her debut album is a celebration of her feelings and value for the vibrant Punjab. The singer, on the release function in New Delhi recently said that she shared a special bond with Punjab and was on a promotional tour to India recently.

Meera''s `My Ranjha'' is a fusion of earthy Punjabi lyrics with new age music.

Born and brought up in Jalandhar, Meera started singing at a very young age. She said that her first teacher happened to be her mother, who was also a trained singer.

Guwahati, Oct 31: Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil today visited Kokrajhar to to take the stock of the situation after Thursday''s serial blasts in the state in which 70 people were killed and over 300 injured.

The Home Minister visited the blast sites to access the intensity of the blast. He also visited Kokrajhar Rupnath Brahma Civil Hospital and meet some of the blast victims.

Talking to reporters, he said that he would take the matter with the state government and assured all possible help from the Centre.

Senior BJP leader and Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha, L K Advani, is also arrived here this morning and visited the blast sites at Panbazar, Kachari Ghat and Ganeshguri and the injured in the hospitals.

Moenchengladbach - Bundesliga club Borussia Moenchengladbach will travel to Israel in December and play against the club coached by their former star Lothar Matthaeus, it was announced on Friday.

Vatican City - Pope Benedict XVI met Friday with Lebanese President Michel Suleiman and expressed hope for the safeguard of Lebanon's "peculiar identity", the Vatican said.

Talks between Benedict and Suleiman, the Maronite Christian president of the majority Muslim nation, lasted for 25 minutes with St Peter's Square closed off to the public amid tight security.

Benedict conveyed his "appreciation for the efforts" made by Lebanese leaders to restore their Middle East nation along "the rails of a normal political dialectic," the Vatican said in a statement.

Suleiman took office in May following intense wrangling between Lebanon's political and religious factions.

Amman - Most Arab stock markets rebounded in the last two days of the week curtailing losses they incurred earlier.

But analysts said Friday regional bourses would remain "cautious" pending developments on world markets after the US Fed's decision to slash interest rates by 50 basis points.

"I believe Arab stock markets will continue to assume vigilance because investors are still lacking in appetite for risk and alert to what takes place on leading world markets," Wajdi Makhamreh, Chief Operating Officer of the Amman-based Sanabel International Holding, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.