New York,– Over the years, millions of South Asians have migrated to the United States, Canada, Europe and South America, yet each of them retains a warm and vibrant link with their motherland through the medium of movies. The Bollywood Group and Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. are proud to announce the 9th Annual Bollywood Movie Awards. The eagerly anticipated annual awards ceremony, officially sponsored by Wal-Mart, will be held at the Nassau Coliseum in New York City on May 26. The event will honor the outstanding achievements of Indian film-makers and artists over the last year

PATIALA: Several senior Shiromani Akali Dall leaders here Monday hailed the verdict of the delhi additional sessions judge court convicting three persons a 22-year-old anti-Sikh riots of 1984 case in which three members of a family were lynched in east Delhi.

Jalandhar: Deepika Sharma (28) is suffering from acute mylogenous leukaemia. Resident of Deep Nagar in Jalandhar Cantonment, she has undergone a prolonged treatment at Patel Hospital after which there were superficial signs of recovery

Justice Rana Bhagwan Das, the senior-most judge of the Supreme Court was sworn in as acting Chief Justice of Pakistan in Karachi amid complete boycott by the Bar that refused to accept any acting chief justice in the presence of Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry who has been suspended by President Musharraf.

Jalandhar, “Parliamentarians from Punjab need to participate in a debate for the betterment of the state. I feel Punjab is in need of a great degree of lobbying with various ministries in New Delhi for the solution of various long-standing problems and issues. But to achieve this goal, we have to do a lot of networking in the Capital.” These are views of Naresh Gujral, the newly elected Rajya Sabha member from Punjab.

New Delhi:, Television news channels in Punjab added one more member to its ranks last week. PTC News is the fourth such channel to be launched in the state in the past six months. The 24-hour news and infotainment channel has been launched by Entertainment Television Network (ETN), the company that runs the Punjabi music channel ETC Punjabi.

CHANDIGARH: Giving in to the temptations that come with positions of power seems too hard to resist, if a couple of incidents in the past days are anything to go by. A day after former ministers were chargesheeted in the J&K sex scam, a Punjab police head constable, posted as a reader to DSP, crime, in Punjab Police headquarters, was arrested with a history-sheeter near a CITCO hotel in sector 24 on Wednesday night when they were striking a deal with a decoy customer for two prostitutes accompanying them.

Amritsar: After 60 years of bitterness following the Indo-Pak partition for the first time India and Pakistan collaborated in the medical facilities sector. Dr Daljit Singh a renowned Eye surgeon and Director Daljit Singh Eye Hospital, Amritsar laid the foundation stone of “Nankana Medical Complex” in Pakistan, recently.

Bhoma (Amritsar) More than one lakh ‘devotees’ today visited the tomb of Baba Rode on the Amritsar-Fatehgarh Churian road to offer liquor as offering on the first day of the three-day annual fair here. The young and old, kids and even women folk were seen partaking ‘liquor prasad’ in the presence of police. Many policemen even believe that they would earn the wrath of Baba Rode, if they stopped the devotees from consuming the “prasad.â€? Stalls selling fish and chicken dotted both sides of the road at Bhoma.

Chandigarh, Former Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, his cabinet colleague Chaudhary Jagjit Singh and former Chairman of the Ludhiana Improvement Trust P S Sibia are among 19 accused named in the Ludhiana City Centre scam case registered by the Vigilance Bureau today.