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.

Ludhiana (Punjab), Sept 2 : A large number of people who lost their houses and property in Bihar, due to the ravages of floods, have started migrating to Ludhiana in Punjab in search of employment.

These migrants are hopeful that Ludhiana, being an industrial city, will provide them opportunities for employment.

"I have come here to earn a living as there was a flood in Bihar. Our houses were destroyed and we suffered a huge loss," said Bhola Yadav, a worker.

Chandigarh, Aug. 30 : Pakistan Radio in its latest anti-India diatribe has tried to provoke public sentiments again over the 1984 Blue Star Operation and incidents of farmers'' suicides citing non-remunerative prices of their agriculture produce as the reason for the latter.

In this week''s Punjabi Durbar programme, Radio Pakistan has tried to win the sympathy of Punjabis'' by condemning the operation and reiterating that the farmers'' facing a difficult time.

Ludhiana, Aug. 27 : To overcome the increase in petrol and diesel prices, travellers in Punjab are taking to bikes powered by electricity, which reduce pollution and also reduce the commutation costs.

In Punjab, the low-cost, easy to maintain and "cool" e-bikes are all set to replace motorcycles and scooters. E-bike manufacturers in Punjab are gearing up to meet the demand for `plug in'' and `ply'' bikes.

These electric motorized bicycles or E-bikes are safe, convenient as well as economical. And, they are now catching the fancy of the common man in Punjab.