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Jalandhar

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Jalandhar or Jullundur , city (1991 pop. 509,510), Punjab state, NW India. Jalandhar is located on the intensively irrigated plain between the Beas and Sutlej rivers. The city, which has major road and rail connections, is a market for agricultural products. Manufactures include textiles, leather goods, wood products, and sporting goods. Jalandhar was the capital of Punjab from India's independence (1947) until Chandigarh was built in 1953. Author not available, JALANDHAR. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2007 ... Read more

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...gurdwārā was built 1911–12.2 Town founded by Gurū Arjan Dev . Arjan founded Kartārpur in the Jalandhar (Jullundur) Doāb, Pañjāb at the end of the 16th cent. CE. The original copy of the Ādi Granth , compiled... Read more

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	THE GLOBE TROTTING INDIAN; JALANDHAR IN JAKARTA ; ...stand transfixed, taking in three twenty-something's from Jalandhar in a hotel, The Jakarta Marriott, best known for a suicide...Disha and Sonali. That's when I discovered that they're from Jalandhar...army kids...grew up all over the place...now based in Bombay... Read more
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	Resource Use Productivity of Sugarcane Crop in Central Punjab ; ...sugarcane cultivation in central Punjab. Jalandhar district of Punjab was randomly selected...and production of principal crops in Jalandhar district for calculating weighted average...productivity (highly developed block) and Jalandhar east block with the lowest productivity... Read more
	Army set for war exercise to test new doctrine. ; ...exercise, codenamed Vajra Shakti, near Jalandhar in Punjab, over the next few days to...exercise area, around 40 km south of Jalandhar, to practice drills before the actual...the Vajra (11) Corps headquartered in Jalandhar, will be followed by another division-lev... Read more
	Helping NRIs settle their problems back home ; ...Britain, returned to his native Goraya in Jalandhar, he sought to withdraw some of the Rs...Srivastava, the divisional commissioner of Jalandhar and chairman of the Sabha (association...sorted out even without actually visiting Jalandhar. Earlier this month it set up it own... Read more
	`Selective' satellite tracking of missiles alleged ; ...ballistic missiles to an air base near Jalandhar in Punjab as a military response to...told India Abroad. The distance from Jalandharto the international border was far more...Prithvi missiles to an air base near Jalandhar does not amount to deployment, but said... Read more
	Tanner Lotus Bawa eyes Europe, N. American markets again. ; Byline: Jyoti Kamal Jan. 27--JALANDHAR: They have made shoes for Nike and they have made shoes for...annually, based in the leather tannery heartland of the region Jalandhar. The company suffered a set back when the company lost its deal... Read more
	Exporter of basmati rice maintains companies in Britain, India, Pakistan. ; Byline: Yamini Dhall Dec. 20--JALANDHAR, India -- Kewal Dulai, 60, has come full circle. A UK-based NRI who migrated from Lyallpur (now in Pakistan) to Jalandhar during Partition, he eventually chose to settle down in Essex in his youth. Today... Read more
	Causa un avionazo 8 muertos en India.(Internacional) ; Se estrella un MIG-21 en una zona comercial JALANDHAR, India (AFP).- Por lo menos ocho personas murieron cuando...243; ayer en una concurrida zona comercial de la ciudad de Jalandhar (norte), informaron fuentes oficiales. Otras 16, la mayor... Read more
	Punjab, India, to see 12 new malls by 2007. ; ...of getting finalized in the region). Jalandhar could see two to three malls in the next...is now planning a bhoomipujan of its Jalandhar highway plaza this week, which would...for Ludhiana and hopefully another for Jalandhar. Almost 98 percent of the space is booked... Read more

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