Amritsar, Nov. 18 : Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday described anti Sikh riots of Delhi as “wrong” and incidents in Punjab that took place in 1984 as a “tragedy”.

He added that guilty people of the 1984 riots that followed his grandmother’s assassination ought to be brought to justice.

Wagah Border (Punjab), Nov 15 : India released 28 Pakistan nationals on Friday after they had completed their respective jail terms.

The prisoners, released on the recommendations of Pakistan-India Judicial Committee on Prisoners, crossed over from the Wagah checkpost in Punjab.

Recounting her plight Farzana, a released prisoner, said: "I am going to Pakistan after 18 months. Someone had put fake currency in my bag and I was caught. My case went on for seven months and that is over, so, I am going back."

Chandigarh, Nov. 14 : Not many people may know that modern-day Chandigarh city, mostly designed by Swiss born French architect and planner Le Corbusier, also has a pre-historic past.

About 5,000 years ago Chandigarh was home to the Harappans. The gently sloping plain, on which the city today exists, was once a part of Himalayas.

The stone implements, potsherds, ornaments and copper arrowheads discovered during the excavation in 1950s and 1960s in Chandigarh suggest that the city was once home to Harappans.

Ludhiana, Nov. 14 : More and more farmers in different parts of Punjab are today taking to turkey and pig farming. The shift from the conventional methods to new avenues is driven from the urge to earn better income.

In an effort to empower small and marginal farmers, Punjab government is encouraging farmer to take up turkey and pig farming in the rural parts of the State.

A look into the prospects of turkey breeding and pig farming, one learns how both of them are potentially more viable than conventional farming.

Chandigarh, Nov. 14 : Punjabi music which has today captivated a huge number of fans beyond Punjab, especially abroad, is creating a great influence in Bollywood films.

Almost every other film from Bollywood is found carrying a Punjabi number or lyrics in dialogues.

Amritsar, Nov 13: The 540th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev, the first Sikh Guru, is being celebrated across the nation today. Devotees thronged Gurudwaras to pay their obeisance

Hundreds of devotees thronged to the Golden Temple early this morning to pay obeisance at the Sikhs'' holiest shrine.

"Devotees are coming in large numbers to offer prayers. Everybody is excited and they are thronging the temple in large numbers," said Avtar Singh Makkar, President, Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee.