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Hundreds of Indians thronged the UK visa application centre here to seek visas in a bid to beat the October 1 deadline when new and stricter visa guidelines will come into effect. People came in from Punjab and Haryana to submit their visa applications at the Visa Facilitation Services (VFS) centre for UK, but could not succeed even after waiting for over 24 hours as the counter closed before the scheduled time due to the heavy rush. Reportedly, the authorities had to call in the police to control the

There is no discipline here. Nobody is giving us any information. The police are also baton charging us. First police asked us to sit, then after about ten minutes, they started beating us. One boy started bleeding after being hit in the leg   -Khushwant Singh

 

Twelve teams will participate in the 18th All India Baba Farid Gold Cup hockey tournament commencing at Government Barjindra College Hockey Stadium here from September 19 to 23. Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB), Patiala will meet local outfit, Baba Farid Hockey Club in the opening match. Stating this here today Mr Khushwant Singh, general secretary and organiser of the tournament said that besides Baba Farid Hockey Club and PSEB the other teams participating in the tournament are-- Border Securit  

The police are on a lookout for an employee of a private hospital who allegedly used to send obscene e-mails and morphed photos of a female colleague to his boss from a fake ID to malign her character and get her sacked. The Cyber Crime Cell of the UT police has booked Khushwant Singh, an employee of Grewal Eye Institute in Sector 9, under Section 66 A of the IT Act. Singh is on the run. The matter came to light when Dr S P S Grewal, the recipient of the mails, lodged a complaint.  

It is said that India is a singular country with plural expression. As we go through the four volumes of Knit India Through Literature we realise how the multiplicity of literary experiences has merged into one. In this whole project, Sivasankari has covered eighteen languages, the various regions where the languages are spoken and nearly a hundred writers.  

Omar Khayyam's immortal lines greet me on a wet Wednesday morning. I am on a 'world tour', right here in Delhi, and my starting point is the Iran Culture House on Tilak Marg. Here, I meet Omar Khayyam and Hafiz Shirazi — the greats of Persian poetry — in translation. Among the many Farsi books, I find a couple in English, and enter a world of soulful poetry and calligraphy, longing and grief.  

David Godwin is literary book agent, and he told me not to straddle the two genres even when I wrote my first novel. I was feeling that I wasn't writing my natural stuff, and my current agent, Judith Murdoch nudged me into commercial fiction. It was a bit of a gamble, but the publishers recognised there is a huge market for British Asian popular fiction.  

It was an emotional moment as I took a bow in the Rajya Sabha last Friday. My nomination to the House of Elders came in the summer of 2003, taking me by surprise as, unlike many formidable contenders, I had not lobbied for it. I was named in the Nominated Member category at the relatively young age of 49, considering that my predecessors from the media were venerable, grey-haired editors such as Kuldeep Nayar and Khushwant Singh.  

Veteran journalist Bikram Vohra has been invited to join UAE's leading English daily Khaleej Times in the capacity of senior editorial advisor for the third time. Vohra has over 37 years' experience and over 22,000 articles in more than 100 newspapers and magazines to his credit. He started his career with The Illustrated Weekly of India under its then Editor and one of India's leading columnists and author Khushwant Singh.