Chandigarh, March 10 (IANS) Chandigarh has achieved a major milestone by attaining a literacy rate of 99.93 per cent, making it a fully literate Union Territory (UT). To celebrate this achievement, the Education Department of the Chandigarh Administration on Tuesday organised a felicitation ceremony under the ULLAS-Nav-Saksharon ka Alankaran Samaroh (felicitation ceremony of neo-literates), where newly literate individuals were honoured for their accomplishment. The event saw the presence…
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Chandigarh/Amritsar, Jan 1 (IANS) Braving biting cold, hundreds of devotees thronged the Golden Temple complex in Amritsar, Punjab and other shrines in the region early on Thursday to usher in the New Year.At the Golden Temple complex, around 250 km from here, the devotees queued up since midnight to offer prayers. Long queues could be seen on Thursday morning with people waiting for their turn to offer prayers inside the ‘Harmandir Sahib’, the sanctum sanctorum.Several devotees could be seen ta…