Indian Express (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Punjab has received a proposal for opening an international airport from Bengal Aerotropolis Projects Limited.
Hindu (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Ludhiana: An undertrial allegedly snatched a weapon from a policeman escorting him and opened fire injuring two persons in the district court complex here on Monday. Police sources said that the undertrial had been brought to the court ...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Moga: Five senior Bharti Kisan Union (Ekta) leaders and several others have been booked under the Indian Railway Act for allegedly disrupting rail traffic on the Moga-Ludhiana railway line on October 2 and 3, police said on Sunday. ...
Hindu Press International (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
LUDHIANA, INDIA, October 3, 2008: Angered by the soaring list of film shootings at the Golden Temple, the most revered shrine of the Sikhs, priests have said the gurdwara could soon be put out of bounds for most of Bollywood. Because film crews have inconvenienced the devotees and there is a perception that they don't care about "maryada" (a Sikh term for proper conduct), temple officials say...
Times of India (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Angered by the spurt in film shootings at the Golden Temple, the SGPC will now be very choosy about which shoots to allow. Bollywood is urging it to rethink.
Times of India (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Angered by soaring film shootings at the Golden Temple, SGPC has decided to be more wary in allowing shoots at the temple. The film fraternity wants SGPC to rethink.
Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
... Chief Executive Officer, Prabhat Pani, said.The seven new Ginger hotels would be opened in Ludhiana, Ahmedabad, Mangalore, Guwahati, Jamshedpur, Pune and Durgapur, he said."The Ludhiana and Ahmedabad hotels will be opened in the next two months followed by Guwahati, Mangalore and Durgapur by March 2009. The hotels at Pune and Jamshedpur will be operational by early FY 10," he said.Different...
Indian Express (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
The 30 mw captive power plant at Ropar which was commissioned in 2004 uses agricultural waste for power generation. The plant is presently using 24 types of biomass at the plant. This biomass is collected from villages of Ropar, Ludhiana, Hoshiarpur, Phagwara, Fatehgarh Sahib, Patiala and other districts. It includes biomass, rice husk, cow dung cakes, sunflower stems, maize cobs, sugar mills...
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
The company has invested Rs 800 crore each in Mumbai and Delhi to set up 2,500 towers. It has invested another Rs 1,750 crore to set up 700 towers in Ahmedabad, 1,000 in Bangalore, 1,500 in Chennai, 1,250 in Hyderabad, 1,000 in Pune and 400 in Ludhiana.
WATblog (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
Company has been giving. The company has distributed around 10,000 test SIM cards to its employees. RCom has invested around Rs.800 crore and erected 2500 towers. By mid-December, the company plans to launch the full GSM service. The testing began in the cities of Mumbai, Bangalore, Surat, Ahmedabad, Lucknow and Ludhiana. The second stage of funding will involve [...]
World Affairs Board (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
... support from Babbar Khalsa and KCF to rebuild their network. The blast in Shingar cinema hall in Ludhiana is also stated to be the handiwork of these groups. The instability in Pakistan is also helping ISI in its network rebuilding process as the Indo-Pak peace dialogue has taken a back seat. The report further reveals that ISI had conspired to disrupt peace in Punjab during the Dera-Sikh...
