Marking a shift from its earlier high-profile annual NRI meets, the Punjab government has decided to opt for a comparatively low-profile events for the diaspora early next year.
A woman died and three other people were injured in a low-intensity blast near a restaurant in the city centre Sunday, a top police official said.
It was a bone-chilling day across northern India Sunday, as Jammu and Kashmir's Leh recorded its coldest temperature at minus 17 degrees Celsius and Delhi saw the season's coldest day at 2.6 degrees.
As intense cold swept across Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh, the minimum temperatures at most places were recorded between two and four degrees Celsius, weather officials said Sunday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday hailed Guru Gobind Singh on his birth anniversary Sunday and said he epitomized "ultimate courage" and the spirit of sacrifice.
India Saturday asked Pakistan to hand over the "country's most wanted" and 1993 Mumbai blasts' mastermind Dawood Ibrahim, while the Congress said it was time for the Narendra Modi government to "walk the talk" and sought to know what it had done so far.