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2002 Jalandhar MiG-21 crash

On May 3, 2002, an Indian Air Force (IAF) MiG-21bis crashed into a bank in Jalandhar, Punjab, India, killing eight and injuring 17 people on the ground.

Avneet Kaur

--Birth date has been contested. Do not insert a date unless you also provide a reliably published source that verifies the date--> in Jalandhar, Punjab is an Indian dancer and television child actress.

Baba Kashmira Singh

Baba Kashmira Singh is head of the Sidhant Sant Samaj or Gurbani (Gurmati) Sidhant Pracharak Sant Samaj, a pro-Gurmat organization in Jalandhar, India.

Balti language

Before the invasion of Tibetans in 727, the official language of both the Palola shahis and the clergy was Brahmi, brought into the area after the 4th legendary Buddhist Conference in Jalandhar.

Bombay Vikings

The leader of Bombay Vikings, Neeraj Shridhar, is from Jalandhar in Punjab, India.

Central Leather Research Institute

Besides this, the institute has four regional extension centers in Ahmedabad, Jalandhar, Kanpur and Kolkata.

Communist Party of Canada candidates, 2004 Canadian federal election

Mattu was born in Jalandhar, Punjab, India, and for many years served as the vice-president of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions in Punjab.

Diwan Bhai Abdul Hamid

Diwan Sir Abdul Hamid (also known as Khan Bahadur Abdul Hamid) born in Jalandhar was Chief Minister of Kapurthala Princely State in India under the British Raj.

Doordarshan Kendra, Jalandhar

Gurdas Mann, Golden Star Malkit Singh, Hans Raj Hans, Sarabjit, Noori, Jaspal Bhatti, Savita Bhatti, Vivek Shauq, Satinder Satti, Pramod Moutho, Balwinder Bikki, Gurpreet Ghuggi, Jatinder Kaur, Neeta Mahindra, Harbhajan Jabbal, Harbhajan Mann,Gursewak Mann,Shivendra Joshi, Anil Chugh, Prakash Syal, Surinder Seth, Raman Kumar, Neena Rampal, Arvinder kaur, Barinder Kaur, Atamjeet Singh.

Doordarshan Kendra, Jalandhar also referred as Jalandhar Doordarshan is an Indian television station in Jalandhar, owned and operated by state-owned Doordarshan, the television network of Prasar Bharati (Broadcasting Corporation of India).

FC Punjab Police

FC Punjab Police, more commonly called The Policemen, is an Indian institutional football club based in Jalandhar, Punjab (India).

Gurdwara

Kartarpur Sahib, established in 1594 by the fifth Sikh Guru, Guru Arjan Dev ji, near river Beas, Jalandhar District, Punjab (India).

Guru Amar Dass Public School

The school has two wings, the secondary wing of the school is situated at Model Town, Jalandhar and the primary wing is situated at Guru Teg Bahadur Nagar, Jalandhar.

Gurwinder Singh Chandi

Gurwinder Singh Chandi (born 20 October 1989 in Jalandhar, India) in an Indian professional field hockey player.

Harjap Singh Bhangal

Bhangal is the founder of London Immigration Advice & Appeal Services Ltd, which has offices in Southall, West Bromwich, Leicester and Jalandhar.

Harjinder Singh Dilgeer

Dilgeer was born in the family of Gurbakhsh Singh and Jagtar Kaur, at Jalandhar, Punjab, India.

Harminder Dua

Harminder Singh Dua (born in Jalandhar, Punjab) is an Indian-British medical doctor and researcher (with MBBS, DO, DO (Lond), MS, MNAMS, FRCS, FRCOphth.

Jalandhar district

In Jalandhar Mughal forces were concentrated in 1555 when Humayun returned to deliver the battle that allowed him to regain the throne and the kingdom in the vicinity saw the defeat of the forces of Bairam Khan at the hands of the imperial forces in 1560.

John A. Millar

Born in Jalandhar, India, in 1855, he first came to New Zealand in 1870, but then embarked on a seafaring career.

Josh Malsiyani

After being trained as a teacher in Lahore Josh started teaching Urdu and Persian in a school in Jalandhar but in 1913 settled permanently in Nakodar where he spent the rest of his life as a school-teacher and guiding budding Urdu poets.

He was born in a poor family in the Aquilpur locality of Malsian, a small town near Jalandhar which town was the domain of Bedi Family till Sir Kalim Singh Bedi’s migration to Rawalpindi in the 19th century A.D. Josh’s father, who mostly lived in Peshawar, was an illiterate small-trader.

Jullandar

Jullandar is an alternate spelling of Jalandhar.

Kagyu

Gotsangpa's disciple Ogyenpa Rinchenpal (1230—1309), who was also a disciple of Karma Pakshi, became a great siddha who traveled to Bodhgaya, Jalandhar, Oddiyana and China.

Kayako

Kayako was established in 2001 by Varun Shoor, who formed the company and its first office in Jalandhar, Punjab after dropping out of college.

Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 1, Jalandhar Cantonment

Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 1, Jalandhar Cantonment popularly known as KV-1, JRC is a government school in Jalandhar Cantonment, Punjab, India.

Mata Gujri Institute of Nursing

Mata Gujri Institute of Nursing is a nursing college located in village of Mehmadpur in district of Jalandhar, Punjab.

Mohammad Din

Mohammad Din was born on October 9, 1936 in Jalandhar, India later moving to Faisalabad, Pakistan in 1947 where he began his wrestling career.

Navtej Sarna

He was born in Jalandhar, India to noted writer in Punjabi, Mohinder Singh Sarna, and did his schooling from St. Joseph's Academy, Dehradun.

Paras Rampur

Parasrampur hosts the annual Shaheed Banda Singh Bahadur Ji Jor Mela which is a big attraction in Jalandhar.

R. M. Shankara

He has also been a several-time Indian national champion, beginning with this victory at Jalandhar in 2000.

Ram Rai Pur

1846 AD John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence was appointed the commission of the Jalandhar Doaba on its annexation in 1846.

S. K. Sahni

On February 19, 2011, he was sentenced to jail by a general court martial in Jalandhar on six charges of "intent to defraud" relating to food past its expiry date which was supplied to Indian Army troops in Jammu and Kashmir.

Salempur

Salempur Masanda, a village in Jalandhar District in Punjab, India

Salima Sultan Begum

In December of 1557, at the age of eighteen, Salima Begum was married to the considerably older Bairam Khan, (who was in his fifties) at Jalandhar, Punjab.

Sardar Hukam Singh

After about ten days, Hukam Singh came to know that his family had arrived safely in Jalandhar.

Sardarji joke

In 2013, Atul Kumar was arrested in Jalandhar for texting offensive Santa-Banta jokes, under Section 295 (A) and IT Act.

Saskia Rao-de Haas

Saskia Rao de Haas has performed at a number of traditional festivals, such as the Dover Lane Conference in Kolkata and the Harvallabh Sangeet Samelan in Jalandhar.

Shaheedan Misl

His successor, Suddha Singh, later led the misl into a skirmish against the Afghan government of Jalandhar City The first two leaders of the misl were considered Shaheeds, or martyrs, by their contemporaries so the misl became known as, Shaheedan, or the followers of the martyrs.

Shahkot

Shahkot, India, a town and Nagar Panchayat of Jalandhar district, Punjab

Sherrin

A follow-up investigation by Fairfax Media in September 2013 revealed that another brand of rugby balls were being stitched using illegal child labour in Jalandhar, Punjab for sale in Australia.

Sindh Sagar Doab

He named the area between the Sutlej and the Beas as Bist Jalandhar, between the Beas and the Ravi as Doaba Bari, between the Ravi and the Chenab as Doaba Rachna, between the Chenab and the Behat (the river Jehlam) as Chenat and the area between the River Sindh and the Behat as Sindh Sagar Doab.

Swraj Paul, Baron Paul

According to his official biography, Swraj Paul was born in Jalandhar, Punjab in 1931.

Turna clan

In post-partition years, many Turnas from Jalandhar area moved to and settled in the 'Terai' region of Uttar Pradesh where they now own huge agricultural farms.

Zhangzhung

The Zhang Zhung culture was centered around sacred Mount Kailash and extended west to Sarmatians and present-day Ladakh & Baltistan, southwest to Jalandhar, south to the Kingdom of Mustang in Nepal, east to include central Tibet, and north across the vast Chang Tang plateau and the Taklamakan Desert to Shanshan.


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