Dera Baba Jassa Singh has the distinction of being a place of penitential austerity of four great saintly figures - Baba Hardit Singh, Baba Jassa Singh, Baba Nand Singh and Baba Gurmukh Singh Ji - really a holy place located on Sular Road in Patiala. Baba...

Late His Highness Shri Maharana Sahib of  erstwhile princely state of Dholpur visited princely state of Patiala in the year 1889 and brought Ponies and Players pertaining to the game of Polo first time in erstwhile princely state of Patiala.There was...

The pious and compassionate Rajmata Mohinder Kaur, the Patiala Royal Matriarch was born on 14 September, 1922 in Ludhiana. She was the daughter of S. Harchand Singh Jaijee of Patiala State and a member of the Patiala State Peoples’ Forum which was an affiliate...

Kya hai ye barish, choti choti boonde bohut khubsurat manzar bana deti hai. Kaash ye lamha yuhi dham jaye. Surkh aasman aur us par surkh lali yakinan khuda ka banaya hua ek karishma hai. Kala aasman jaise poori duniya ko dhake ek chadar ki tarha hai.Wo ek...

Debutante Actor Arjun Manhas, who is geared up to play main...

In many cultures around the worldnewborn babies are swaddled to help them settle and fall asleep.Parents are inneed to be warned about the risks and after effects of wrapping their little ones too tight.Although the popular cloth-wrapping method, which...

According to the recent data recorded by World Health Organisation (WHO), India still accounts for 60% of global burden of leprosy. Despite the official claims of achieving eradication of leprosy in 2005, the country is witnessing a resurgence of the disease with...

Women are the heart of the family and a family is the basic unit of civilized society.  If women are emotionally, physically, and spiritually healthy than the society will be healthy as well. If women are broken, unhealthy and depressedthen society will...

Income Tax is subjected to be paid by each and every person and every business that earns an income through any savings account, products, services, pensions, businesses, etc. in the subcontinent of India. The Income Tax returns are taxes that re - funded to...

Deepawali is one of the most famous festivals of India. Deepawali means "Festival of Lights". The festival is celebrated on the 13th lunar day of Krishna Paksha.  This festival is celebrated continuously for five days. It starts with the 1st day of Dhanteras...

Kashmir is the replica of Palestine not because of its cultural or ethical identities but due to mutual sufferings and correlated suppression by the alien hands.the  struggle for free and independent kashmir to emancipate It from the clutches of colonial...

Young people enjoy a critical junction of human lives, where the transition from childhood to adulthood takes place. This phase goes beyond physical transformation rather a set of transformation which entails biological, psychological, socio-cultural and political...

The most beneficial planet in Vedic astrology, Jupiter, mostly gives auspicious results even though it may be malefic in the horoscope. Jupiter represents religion-spirituality, Prosperity, wealth, progeny, success, wisdom and knowledge. Transiting Jupiter...

Two weeks ago, President Obama announced that the US will draw down its troops in Afghanistan from 9,800 to 8,400, altering his original plan to reduce the number to 5,500. His decision suggests that conditions on the ground are not as promising as he expected...

So far, Prashant Kishor has only wins to his credit but it is a cruel world out there - one loss and the reputations come crumbling down. According to some poll pundits, BJP’s massive win in the general elections cannot be attributed solely to ‘PK’ as it...

The influx of millions of Syrian refugees to Europe is more than likely to become another source of radicalization that could increase the number of violent extremists among the refugees and lead to further acts of terror in their host countries. Depending...

The perennial question‘What’s in a name?’ is no more relevant. For there is actually ‘a lot’. Especially in this age and time, when name-gamesport has acquired a pivotal place in the profusely creative minds of our torch-bearers and has become a national...

The horrific attacks in Brussels by terrorists affiliated with ISIS that claimed the lives of 35 people and injured more than 200 was all but inevitable. These attacks may well increase in frequency and intensity in many European cities where citizens travel...

Maha Shivaratri is a famous Hindu festival. Usually Shivratri is observed on the night of  Phalgun month Krishna Paksha Trodashi. As per convenience, this is observed every year during the  Chaturdarshi (Feb-March) in Krishna Paksha of  Phalgun...

The demagoguery of Prime Minster Netanyahu seems to have no limit—demagoguery in a sense that he says and acts on anything to buttress Israel’s hold on the West Bank in the name of national security. This time around, Netanyahu came up with another absurd...

The struggle for peaceful and dignified life has marked the history of Kashmir ever since ages but the present epoch has now reached to a stage which is in the hands of a generation knowing nothing but for a stone to find answers to their decades old question...

This festival is celebrated based on the solar year. As per Vedic astrology, Sun transits from Saggitarius to capricorn sign on the zodiac. Sun changes its position from  Dakshinayan (South) to Uttarayan ( North). Makar Sankranti is also known to be...

No new format for peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians can succeed unless it carefully considers the reasons behind the failure of past negotiations to ensure that the same mistakes are not repeated. The following highlights some of the...

Deepawali is a 5 day festival which begins on the 13th lunar day of Krishna Paksha. It starts with the 1st day of Dhanteras (Bhagwan Dhanwantari), followed by the 2nd day of Narakcharturdashi (Shotti Deepawali), the 3rd day of Deepawali (Lakshmi puja), the 4th...

The word tragic has often been used to describe the civil war in Syria, but it is a pale description of the raging madness on the ground. The bloodletting and massive destruction that has swept the nation is not a mere tragic event; the magnitude of the...

As part of the Model SAARC Summit 2015, delegates congregating  from all over  South Asia came together to discuss the role of SAARC in terms of ensuring better disaster management for the region as a whole. The session was inaugurated with the...

Region’s influential policy-based youth organization, South Asian Youth Society (SAYS) for the first time ever hosted a shadow SAARC conference titled, ‘Model SAARC Summit 2015 in Dhaka.U.S. Embassy Dhaka sponsored the summit with collaboration from the Ministry...

The deal with Iran has been generally characterized as either good or bad, and many pronounced it as historic with far-reaching regional and even global implications. I completely disagree with the characterizations of the deal as entirely good or bad, and...

South Asian Youth Society (Says), in collaboration with TraumaLink recently kicked off a basic first-aid training for a few selected health volunteers from national settings.Titling as ‘SAYS-TraumaLink Community First Responder Training Program 2015’, TraumaLink...

Today we argue here some of the issues, which are long-settled couple of centuries back—so not supposed to even raise in modern-day, but we do as feel needed, though unfortunately.  Starting with racial manipulation of identity tags (we been delicately...