Chandigarh is a city,a metropolitan city and and union territory in India that serves as the capital of the two neighbouring states of Punjab and Haryana. It is 195 km away from international border.
Panjab University (PU) is a collegiate public university located in Chandigarh. Funded through both State and Union governments, it is considered a central, as well as a state university. It originated as an integral part of the University of the Punjab in Lahore, which was founded in 1882. After the partition of India, the University of the Punjab was divided into two distinct institutions, one in each of the two separate nations, with the Indian university initially called East Punjab University (EPU), situated at Shimla. Renamed Panjab University, it relocated to Chandigarh on October 1, 1947.
Beant Singh was an Indian politician and the Chief Minister of Punjab from 1992 to 1995. He was a member of Indian National Congress. He was killed in a car bombing.
Rupnagar is a city and a municipal council in Rupnagar district in the Indian state of Punjab. Rupnagar is a newly created fifth Divisional Headquarters of Punjab comprising Rupnagar, Mohali, and its adjoining districts. It is also one of the bigger sites belonging to the Indus Valley Civilization. Rupnagar is nearly 43 km (27 mi) to the northwest of Chandigarh. It is bordered by Himachal Pradesh to the north and Shahid Bhagat Singh Nagar district to its west.
Morinda is a city with Municipal Council in Rupnagar District in the Indian state of Punjab.
Kurali is a city of district S.A.S. Nagar (Mohali) and a municipal council in Greater Mohali area, Mohali district in the Indian state of Punjab.
Jagtar Singh Hawara who was convicted as a conspirator in the assassination of 12th Chief Minister of Punjab, Beant Singh. He is serving life imprisonment at Tihar Jail, New Delhi.
Chandigarh Capital Region (CCR) or Chandigarh Metropolitan Region (CMR) is an area, which includes the union territory city of Chandigarh, and its neighboring cities of Mohali, Kharar, Zirakpur, New Chandigarh and Panchkula. Chandigarh Administration, Greater Mohali Area Development Authority (GMADA) and Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) are different authorities responsible for development of this region.
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Guru Gobind Singh Super Thermal Power Plant is located at Ghanauli near Ropar in Punjab. The power plant is one of the coal based power plants of PSPCL.
Raipur, located in the Sardulgarh tehsil of Mansa district in Punjab, India, is an old and noted village of the area. The famous Babbar martyr Bhai Gurmel Singh from the village was martyred during an operation in Maujia on 8 September 1991.
Husnar is a village located in the Giddarbaha tehsil of Sri Muktsar Sahib district in Punjab, India.
Jiwan Singh Umranangal was an Indian politician belonging to the Akali Dal. He served as the revenue minister of Punjab. He is the grandfather of Paramraj Singh Umranangal, a senior IPS Officer of the Punjab Cadre.
Sanjay Tandon is an Indian politician in the Bhartiya Janata Party. He is currently the State president of Bhartiya Janata Party from Chandigarh. His father was Balramji Das Tandon, who was a BJP leader of Punjab, who served as a Municipal Councilor in Punjab for 14 years and won 6 assembly elections in Punjab. Sanjay has written his father's biography titled "Balramji Dass Tandon: Ek Prerak Charitra" which was released by Shri L. K. Advani at the Tagore Theatre in Chandigarh along with Sardar Parkash Singh Badal. His father-in-law was Justice Madan Mohan Punchhi who retired as Chief Justice of India in 1998.
Vatika High School for Deaf & Dumb is a special school for deaf and dumb children in Sector 19-B of Chandigarh. Neelam Dutta is the current principal of the school. Affiliated by the Punjab School Education Board, Mohali, the school runs classes from 1st to 10th.
Jagmohan Kaur was an Indian singer of Punjabi-language folk songs. She is known for her songs like Bapu Ve Add Hunni Ain, Ghara Wajjda, Gharoli Wajjdi.
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 the Moga Conference party adopted a moderate Punjabi secular agenda. On 26 September 2020, they left the NDA over the farms bill.
Parkash Singh Badal is an Indian politician who was Chief Minister of Punjab state from 1970 to 1971, from 1977 to 1980, from 1997 to 2002, and from 2007 to 2017. He is also the patron of Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), a Sikh-centered regional political party. He was the president of the party from 1995 to 2008, when he was replaced by his son Sukhbir Singh Badal. As the patron of SAD he exercises a strong influence on the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee and Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee. The Government of India awarded him the second-highest civilian award, Padma Vibhushan, in 2015.
Sukhbir Singh Badal is an Indian politician and President of Shiromani Akali Dal, and is currently a member of Parliament from the Ferozpur. He served as Deputy Chief Minister of Punjab from 2009 to 2017. He is the son of Parkash Singh Badal, who has served several times as Chief Minister of Punjab.
