Manmohan Kalia was a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party from Punjab, India. He was a member of Punjab Legislative Assembly elected from Jalandhar in 1967,1969,1977 and 1986. He served as minister in Government of Punjab, India in 1967 and 1970. He was imprisoned in the emergency for 19 months. He was killed in a road accident in 1986. [1]
Manmohan Singh is an Indian economist, academic, and politician who served as the 13th Prime Minister of India from 2004 to 2014. Currently, he is a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha, representing the state of Rajasthan. A member of the Indian National Congress, Singh was the first Sikh Prime minister of India. Singh was also the first prime minister since Jawaharlal Nehru to be re-elected after completing a full five-year term.
Sunil Dutt was an Indian actor, film producer, director and politician. He was the Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports in the Manmohan Singh government (2004–2005). He was a former Sheriff of Mumbai. He is the father of actor Sanjay Dutt and politician Priya Dutt.
Arjun Singh was an Indian politician from the Indian National Congress, who served twice as the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh in the 1980s. He also served twice as the Union Minister of Human Resource Development, in the Manmohan Singh and P.V. Narasimha Rao ministries.
Manmohan Waris is an Indian Punjabi folk/pop singer. He is the elder brother of record producer Sangtar and singer Kamal Heer. Waris is considered one of the most gifted singers of Punjabi folk music.
Established in 1875, Government Mohindra College Patiala, Punjab, India is the oldest institution of contemporary higher learning in Northern India.
Manmohan Singh is an Indian film director and cinematographer. He is a director of Punjabi films and cinematographer of Bollywood films. In the past he had frequently collaborated with Yash Chopra, for whom he shot Chandni (1989), Darr (1993), Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995), Dil To Pagal Hai (1997), and Mohabbatein (2000). Besides his Bollywood career as a cinematographer, he is also known as a pioneering director in Punjabi cinema. He directed his first Hindi film, Pehla Pehla Pyar in 1994 and first Punjabi film Jee Ayan Nu in 2003. He received "Lifetime Achievement Award" in PTC Punjabi Film Awards 2019.
Saurabh Kalia was an officer of the Indian Army who was killed during the Kargil War while being held as a prisoner of war by the Pakistan Army. He and five soldiers in his patrol group were captured by Pakistani troops following a gunfight at the Line of Control and allegedly tortured prior to their execution; the Government of Pakistan has rejected all allegations of Indian military personnel being tortured while in Pakistani custody.
Gah is a village of Chakwal District, Punjab province of Pakistan. It is located in the Union council of Begal at 33°3'45N 72°39'8E, the Naib Nazim or vice president of Begal is from Gah. Gah or Gai is believed to have derived from 'Gohar' a former chieftain of the village. Gohar later became "Garaha" and subsequently shortened to "Gah".
Balraj Puri (1928-2014) was an Indian Political commentator and human rights activist.
Punjabi cinema, sometimes metonymously referred to as Pollywood, is the Punjabi language film industry centred around the state of Punjab in India based in Amritsar and Mohali.
Ilyas Kashmiri was a veteran Pakistani film actor.
Manoranjan Kalia is a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party legislature party in Punjab in India and was cabinet minister in Akali Dal- BJP government. His residence is at Jalandhar City. He contested for the seat of MLA from Jalandhar Central. Manoranjan Kalia is basically a lawyer, later on he joined politics. In the previous SAD-BJP Government in Punjab, Manoranjan Kalia had the status of Cabinet Minister and was representing Bhartiya Janta Party in the Government.
Mohinder Singh Randhawa or M. S. Randhawa was a Punjabi civil servant, botanist, historian, art and culture promoter and prominent writer. He played major roles in the establishment of agricultural research in India, the Green Revolution in India, resettling Punjabis uprooted by Partition as the Director-General of Rehabilitation, establishing the city of Chandigarh and documenting the arts of Punjab, the history of agriculture in India. A biographer, Gulzar Singh Sandhu, gave him the sobriquet Punjab da Chhewan Dariya, the sixth river of Punjab.
Vijay Kumar Chopra is the chief executive officer and editor in chief of the Punjab Kesari print news organisation. He is involved in social welfare work and has received a Padma Shri award. In August 2009, he was elected by the Chairman of the Press Trust of India.
Master Mohan Lal is an Indian politician and a member of Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP). He is a former Minister for Transport in Punjab Government.
Aman Singh Dhaliwal is an Indian model-turned-actor, who works in Punjabi cinema, where he is known as action hero. He is from a small rural town, Mansa, Punjab. Best known for his changing looks with each role, he has worked in Bollywood, Pollywood, Pakistani and Telugu movies including Big Brother (2007), Jodhaa Akbar (2008), Virsa (2010), Ik Kudi Punjab Di (2010) and Ajj De Ranjhe (2012).
The Municipal Corporation Chandigarh (MCC), also known as Chandigarh Municipal Corporation, is the civic body that governs the city of Chandigarh, the capital of Punjab and Haryana.
Man Mohan Suri (1928–1981) was an Indian mechanical engineer and the Director of Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute (CMERI), Durgapur. He is best known for inventing Suri Transmission, a hydromechanical transmission unit, reported to increase the efficiency of diesel locomotives and he held the patent for the inventions. The technology is known to have led to 36 patent specifications in eleven countries. He is also credited with the conceptualization of Swaraj farm tractor, a product of Punjab Tractors Ltd. and held another patent for his development of Railway truck wheel assembly. He received the fourth highest Indian civilian award of the Padma Shri in 1961. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards for his contributions to Engineering Sciences in 1962. The Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi has instituted an annual award, Padmashri Manmohan Suri Project Award, for honoring the best mechanical project by its alumni.
Ghuram is a village in the Patiala district of Punjab, India.
Sumit Kalia was an Indian cricketer. He played in two Twenty20 matches for Punjab in the 2006–07 Inter State Twenty-20 Tournament. He also played in the Indian Cricket League in 2008, and was registered for the players' auction for the 2014 Indian Premier League. He died by drowning in Govind Sagar Lake in Himachal Pradesh. He was 30 years old.
