New18 Punjab-Haryana-Himachal is Punjabi news channel based in Mohali, Punjab, India. [1] [2] It was launched as ETV Haryana Himachal Pradesh. [3] It took its current name in April 2017. [4] It also broadcasts news in Hindi focussing on Haryana and Himachal Pradesh. Main anchors-reporters are Yadwinder Karfew and Bhupinder Singh. [5] [6]
DD Free Dish is an Indian free-to-air satellite television provider. It is owned by state broadcaster Doordarshan. It has approximately 50 million households which is 25% of the total TV households in the country, DD Free Dish is earning Rs.400 crore annually with just 40 employees.
The Tribune is an Indian English-language daily newspaper published from Amritsar, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Bathinda, Chandigarh and New Delhi. It was founded on 2 February 1881, in Lahore, Punjab, by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a philanthropist, and is run by a trust comprising five persons as trustees. It is a major Indian newspaper with a worldwide circulation. In India, it is among the leading English daily for Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, and the Union Territory of Chandigarh. The present editor of The Tribune is Rajesh Ramachandran. He was appointed on 14 May 2018. Previously he was editor-in-chief of Outlook magazine. Ramachandran succeeded Harish Khare, who was appointed editor-in-chief of the Tribune Group of newspapers on 1 June 2015, serving until 15 March 2018.
Dera, Dero, Daro, Dhoro, Dahar or Dehra is a Pashto, Balochi, Sindhi, Gujarati, Kutchi, Saraiki, Punjabi, and Dogri-language word meaning camp, mound or settlement. In Punjabi, it is usually used as a place where men meet and socialize in the village.
Malwa is a region of India in the south-east of the state of Punjab and parts of Haryana and Rajasthan, between the Sutlej and Yamuna rivers.
Maharaja Sir Bhupinder Singh or Bhuppa GCSI GCIE GCVO GBE was the ruling Maharaja of the princely state of Patiala in British India from 1900 to 1938.
Chaudhary is one variant spelling of Chowdhury, an Indian hereditary title of honor. It is also a surname.
Dera Sacha Sauda is an Indian non-governmental organization described as a "religious cult" and "non-profit social welfare dera" that was established on 29 April 1948 by Mastana Balochistani, an ascetic follower of Baba Sawan Singh, as a centre for religious learning. After Baba Sawan Singh, the movement split into four groups, one of them led by Mastana Balochistani. After the death of Mastana Balochistani, his movement was split into three groups, with Satnam Singh leading the Sirsa group, who selected Gurmeet Ram Rahim to be his successor. Dera Sacha Sauda's main centre is situated in the city of Sirsa in Haryana state, northern India. The organisation has 46 ashrams (divisions) across India and other countries.
Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Insan is the head of the Indian social group Dera Sacha Sauda (DSS) since 1990 and a convicted rapist and murderer of journalist Ram Chander Chhatrapati.
Puadh is a historic region in north India that comprises parts of present-day Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and the U.T. of Chandigarh, India. It has the Sutlej river in its north and covers the regions immediately south of the Ghaggar river. The people of the area are known as Puadhi and speak the Puadhi dialect of Punjabi.
Zee News is a Hindi-language news channel owned by the Essel Group. It is associated with several other sister news channels which provide coverage in Hindi, English and several regional languages of India. Zee News was launched on 27 August 1999, as Zee Sports Ltd. The company was reincorporated on 27 May 2004, as Zee News Ltd. In 2013, Zee News Ltd changed its name to Zee Media Corporation Limited. The Zee News channel is the flagship channel of the company.
Captain Abhimanyu Singh Sindhu is an Indian politician. He was cabinet minister with independent charge of eight departments in the Government of Haryana state in India in the first-ever government led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Haryana.
Jaswant Singh Rahi was a Punjabi poet, writer, communist and freedom fighter. He was born in and lived his whole life in Dera Baba Nanak town of Gurdaspur district of Punjab, India. Columnist Joginder Singh Bedi stated, "Born in the holy town of Dera Baba Nanak in Gurdaspur district, the Sahit Shiromani Poet Jaswant Singh Rahi's contribution to Punjabi world of letters is no less than that of Dhani Ram Chatrik, Prof Mohan Singh (poet) and Prof Puran Singh. Rahi is popularly known for his slogan Jai Mitarta.
The Bazigar, Goaar, or Guar, language is spoken by the Bazigar ethnic group of north-western India who are found primarily in Punjab, but also in Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Chandigarh, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and Rajasthan.
The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) is a centre-right Sikh-centric state political party in Punjab, India. The party is the second-oldest in India, after Congress, being founded in 1920. Although, there are many parties with the name Akali Dal but the party recognised as "Shiromani Akali Dal" by the Election Commission of India is the one led by Sukhbir Singh Badal. It controls Sikh religious bodies Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee, Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee and is the largest and most influential Sikh political party worldwide. The basic philosophy of Akali Dal was to give a political voice to Sikh issues and it believed that religion and politics go hand in hand but after 1996 Moga Conference party adopted moderate Punjabi secular agenda. On 26 september 2020, they left the NDA over the BJP's controversial agriculture bill.
The Punjab Reorganisation Act was passed by the Indian Parliament on 18 September 1966, dissolving the former state of East Punjab. Out of the former East Punjab, the modern state of Punjab was created, the new state of Haryana was created; territory was transferred to Himachal Pradesh, then a Union territory; and the city of Chandigarh became a temporary Union territory to serve as the provisional capital of both the Punjab and Haryana. This separation was the result of the Punjabi Suba movement, which agitated for the creation of a Punjabi-speaking state ; in the process a majority Hindi-speaking state was created.
Teshan is a 2016 Indian Punjabi-language romantic comedy film directed by Sukhbir Singh, written by Prince KJ Singh and starring Happy Raikoti and Diljott in lead roles, with Yograj Singh, Shavinder Mahal, Karamjit Anmol, Prince KJ Singh in supporting roles in the film. The Film is about the relations and simplicity of the village people, shown through different perspectives. The shooting commenced in March 2016 and release on 23 September 2016.
Ravinder Singh Dhull is a politician of the State of Haryana, India. He is Additional Advocate General for the State of Haryana and posted as such in the Punjab and Haryana High Court. He is State Media Penalist for Bhartiya Janta Party, Haryana. Earlier he has served as State Spokesperson for the Indian National Lok Dal from August 2014 till June 2019. His father Parminder Singh Dhull served as two time Member of Legislative Assembly of Haryana from Julana constituency in Jind District. His grand father Chaudhary Dal Singh was a noted politician of the area and six time M.L.A. from District Jind.
On 25 August 2017, widespread rioting in northern India broke out after Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, the religious leader of Dera Sacha Sauda, was convicted of rape. The riots began in Panchkula and later spread to other parts of the northern Indian states of Haryana, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and the capital, New Delhi. At least 41 people were killed, the majority of them in Panchkula, where 32 people were allegedly killed by police gunfire. More than 300 others were injured.
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