Abohar Jan. 7 : Even since the partition of the sub-continent and the migration of a large number of Punjabi refugees from Pakistan to India, the Punjabi language and cuisine has become popular all over the country. The All India Radio and Doordarshan beam Punjabi programmes in many of their broadcasts and telecasts.

But the Punjabi Durbar programme of Pakistan Radio seems to think otherwise. For the Punjabi Durbar, Hindi `imperialists' are working hard to eliminate Sikhism and Punjabi from India.

Washington, January 7 : American singer-songwriter Katy Perry's fans have a golden chance to be the one to sing with her at the Grammy Awards, and all they have to do for this is to win a new onlin

Bangalore, Jan 7 : The Chairman of Satyam Computers, B Ramalinga Raju, today resigned after admitting to major financial wrong-doings.

The resignation of Ramalinga Raju has come as a shock to the board. In his letter to the board, he wrote that company has accounted exaggerated revenues over the years.

Raju, in his resignation letter, admitted to have inflated cash and bank balances of Rs 5,040 crore as against Rs 5,361 crore reflected in the books of accounts.

Serene beauty Bipasha Basu has turned 30 today.

Fondly called Bips, this Kolkottan beauty was born on January 7, 1979 in New Delhi, to a Bengali family. Presently, she is one of the top actresses in Bollywood. She is often cited by popular magazines and newspapers as one of Asia's sexiest celebrity women.

Washington, Jan 7 : Scientists have attributed the dark eclipsed moon and cold weather in 1761 to a mysterious volcanic eruption.

According to Dr. Kevin D. Pang, an independent research scientist, "A high altitude volcanic dust cloud that cuts off the sunlight illuminating an eclipsed Moon would also reduce the solar energy reaching the Earth's surface, thus causing a cold spell."

Dr. Pang recently learned that the May 18, 1761 totally eclipsed Moon appeared very dark or invisible to many observers worldwide.

Suspecting that this was also due to a very powerful volcanic eruption, he searched for evidence of a "volcanic winter" in Chinese weather chronicles, tree rings and polar ice cores.

Hong Kong - Hong Kong welcomed a record 29.5 million visitors in 2008 but fell short of its target of 30 million for the year, officials announced Wednesday.

The figure represents a 4.7 per cent increase on the previous record set in 2007 but will disappoint tourism board leaders who in early 2008 predicted the city would welcome 30 million visitors.