Jalandhar (Punjab), Nov 22 : Sports industry of Jalandhar in Punjab, which has a turnover of around 20 billion rupees, is reeling under the intense heat of global recession.

The industry, which is into manufacturing sports accessories of games like cricket, hockey, football and volleyball, started in late 40''s of the 20th century and has nearly
1000 units with almost 50,000 workers involved directly or indirectly.

Forty per cent of the produce is exported while the rest is sold in the domestic markets.

Ludhiana, Nov. 19: More and more farmers in different parts of Punjab are today taking to pig and turkey farming. The shift from the conventional methods to new avenues is driven from the urge to earn a better income.

In an effort to empower small and marginal farmers, Punjab government is encouraging farmer to take up pig farming and turkey breeding 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.

Amritsar, Nov. 18 : Radio Pakistan’s latest installment of Punjabi Durbar programme was oblivious of the festival being celebrated at Nankana Saheb where pilgrims in their thousands visited the birthplace of Guru Nanak.

The programme producer was also not aware that both Sikhs and Hindus visited the Golden temple to pray there.

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.