Dhanauri , Sep. 5 (ANI): While floods have caused havoc in north Bihar marooning millions of people, farmers in Punjab’s Dhanouri Village have made a fortune of it, by using the floodwaters for lotus cultivation.

Sukhwinder Singh of Dhanouri has demonstrated by personal example how to make best use of the devastating floods.

Amritsar, September 5, : Union Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs Dr. M. S. Gill has expressed a wish and hope that Indian sportspersons bring more glory to the country by increasing their medal tally at the 2012 London Olympics.

Citing the example of China, which got its first medal in Olympics in 1982 and now stood first in the medal list of Olympics, Gill said; “Though we have won three medals in Beijing Olympics, we would certainly achieve more medals in the next London Olympics in many more games.”

Amritsar, Sep. 5 : Punjab agriculture department has developed a novel method to preserve green fodder by making silage and hay to feed the cattle when there is shortage of green fodder around September and October every year.

The novel technique recently formulated by the Department of Animal Husbandry, Punjab which has been successfully implemented in the border areas of Amritsar.

Due to the sowing of new crops, the scarcity of non-leguminous fodders such as maize, Jowar, Bajra and ryegrass has become real.

Patiala, Sep. 5 : Punjab being an erstwhile princely State today boasts of several heritage buildings. These edifices are now being converted into heritage hotels while opening an entirely new industry in the state.

Once a famous princely state, the city of Patiala has inherited a bouquet of historically and culturally significant buildings.

The grandeur of the past was lying either in an abandoned state or remained unattended till the Punjab government realized it as a latent treasure.

Amritsar, Sept 5 : Punjab police has seized fake currency worth one million rupees from a woman who arrived here from Pakistan on Thursday.

Additional Commissioner, Customs Jasbir Singh informed the media in Amritsar on Friday.

According to the police, the movements of the woman, who had gone to Pakistan apparently to visit her relatives were suspicious.

When the officials carried out search they recovered from her counterfeit currency notes concealed in her belongings.

Tarn Taran, September 3, : Union minister for Sports and Youth Affairs M. S. Gill has supported the Sikh leaders’ demand to provide a safe passage to the devotees to Gurdwara Kartarpur Sahib situated in Pakistan as “Kartarpur Corridor”.

Speaking to media on Tuesday, after inauguration the “drug de-addiction center at Tarn Taran, nearly 30 kilometers from Amritsar, Gill reiterated the demand of establishing a Pakistan visa centre in Amritsar and Lahore to felicitate travel for people of both sides.