Ludhiana, City residents who had cheered Ishmeet Singh as Voice of India today were in deep grief as the news of his tragic death in the Maldives, by drowning in the sea, reached here late evening. Ludhianvis literally wept at the untimely death of their hero.

Chicago :-Legendary poet Ahmed Faraz is in a critical but stable condition at a Chicago hospital. Faraz’s close friend Ifti Nasim called the Editor-in-Chief of Sada-e-Watan Zafar Hussain and informed him on his mobile that the 76-year-old poet’s vital signs are normal.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh won India’s first confidence vote in a decade, giving him a mandate to pursue the nuclear energy accord with the U.S. that brought his government to the brink of collapse.

You are invited to

PHO’s annual PUNJABI MELA

on Saturday, July 19, 2008

at Busse Woods Forest Preserve, Grove #5

Elk Grove Village, IL. 60007

(Southwest corner of Higgins Road and Arlington Heights Road)

Starts 10 A.M.

Cleveland, OH: “Indian Americans have arrived in the US and it is only a matter of time before we see them break the next level in politics,” thinks Jay Goyal.

Kolkata, India — There are many web sites that list all kinds of jobs in the commercial world. Still, one may be surprised to learn that there is one such job site meant only for Sikh priests.