The Gurdaspur city, situated on the Amritsar – Jammu National Highway Road, 36 km from Pathankot and 32 km from Batala is the district headquarter.

Batala () is a municipal council in Gurdaspur district in the state of Punjab, India.

Batala is an important place for Sikh devotees.

One of the older towns in the province of Lahore in the earlier times, Batala is home to many monuments of religious and historic importance.

Batala is the home town of Sardar Bhupinder Singh Mann, Ex Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha and National President of Bharti Kisan Union.

The foundry sand is found from Dharamkot near Batala.

Another deposit which is about 4 metres thick, occurs at about 6 km from Batala on the Batala Qadian road.

Batala is an important industrial town famous for the manufacture of machine tools and woolen products.

Batala Junction ( station code BAT ) is on the Amritsar — Pathankot railway line of the Firozpur division of the Northern Railway zone of the Indian Railways.

Train to Qadian is the another diversion from Batala.

Pathankot Airport in Pathankot, situated 70 km away from Batala is the nearest military airport.

Miguel de Loarca ( Relacion de las Yslas Filipinas, 1582 ) asked them why the sacrifices were offered to the anitos, and not to Batala, they answered that Batala was a great lord, and no one could speak to him directly because he lives in heaven ( Kaluwalhatian ), so he descended the anitos to provide for them.

The Sandhus migrated from Valtoha settled in Shankerpur Gurdaspur ) ( one of the oldest village of Sandhu Jatts near Batala, an other village kot yograj near Batala, in Gurdaspur ) Other villages in Amritsar and Gurdaspur area are Argan Manga ( near mehta chowk ), Bal Purian, DuniaSandhu, Mehta Pind, Sandhuaana, Misharpura.

During the Political integration of India, Batala was included in the Punjab state.

Batala was once called as Iron bird of Asia as it produced highest amount of C. I. Casting, Agricultural and mechanical machinery.

Nearly fifty thousand Sikhs gathered in the Golewal village about 25 km from Amritsar to fight the army, thirty thousand converged from the side of Batala in Gurdaspur district and about twenty thousand Sikhs gathered at Chauk Mehta, the headquarters of Damdami Taksal.

In ancient Tagalog Theology Bathala ( Batala ) was the Supreme Being ; the Omnipotent Creator of the universe.

The spelling of the name “ Bathala ” given by Pedro Chirino in “ Relacion de las Islas Filipinas ” ( 1595-1602 ) was perhaps a combination of two different spellings of the name from older documents such as “ Badhala ” in “ Relacion de las Costumbres de Los Tagalos ” ( 1589, Juan de Plasencia ) and “ Batala ” in “ Relacion de lasYslas Filipinas ” ( 1582, Miguel de Loarca ), the latter was supposedly the correct spelling in Tagalog ( or Filipino ) since the letter “ h ” was silenced in Spanish.

Bathala or Batala was apparently derived from Sanskrit “ bhattara ” ( noble lord ) which appeared as the sixteenth-century title “ batara ” in the southern Philippines and Borneo.

He would often confront them in public debates, especially the ones based in the town of Batala.

* Maulvi Muhammad Hussein of Batala who was a significant leader of Ahl-e-Hadith sect.

The district itself was administratively subdivided into four tehsils: Shakargarh, Gurdaspur, Batala, and Pathankot.

Guru Nanak, born in 1469 in the Lahore district, married in 1485 with Sulkhani, daughter of Mool Chand, a Khatri of Pakhoke ( Dera Baba Nanak ) in the Batala Tehsil.

During British Rule the district of Gurdaspur was a subdivision of Lahore Division, the district itself was administratively subdivided into four tehsils: Gurdaspur, Batala, Shakargarh and the disputed claimed Pathankot.

Banda crossed the Beas into Majha, and fell upon Batala.

These men were tortured to the extreme and were asked to divulge the place where they had buried all the treasures that had been looted from Sirhind, Batala and other towns during their better days.

Other historic Places in Batala are Gurdwaras where Guru Nanak stayed during his lifetime.

Let me pass over the trip to Sante Fe with something of the same speed which made Mrs. Roebuck `` wonduh if the wahtahm speed limit '' ( 35 m.p.h. ) `` is still in ee-faket ''.

Even though in most cases the completion of the definitive editions of their writings is still years off, enough documentation has already been assembled to warrant drawing a new composite profile of the leadership which performed the heroic dual feats of winning American independence and founding a new nation.

Truman Capote is still reveling in Southern Gothicism, exaggerating the old Southern legends into something beautiful and grotesque, but as unreal as -- or even more unreal than -- yesterday.

He is still concerned, however, with a personal event.

nearby, another sits motionless, while still another is twirling an umbrella.

We are desperately in the need of such invention, for man is still very much at the mercy of man.

There is still the remote possibility of planetoid collision.

Even in domains where detailed and predictive understanding is still lacking, but where some explanations are possible, as with lightning and weather and earthquakes, the appropriate kind of human action has been more adequately indicated.

Each is still glorified as a national hero.

This favorable image of America in the minds of Russian men and women is still there despite years of energetic anti-American propaganda ''

Incest is still a durable theme, but if it wants to get written about it will have to find ways to surprise the emotions, and there is no better way to do this than that of concealment and symbolic representation.

If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.

Even if people do, in a not far distant future, begin to read one another's minds, there will still be the question of whether what you find in another man's mind is especially worth reading -- worth more, that is, than what you can read in good books.

There is another side of love, more nearly symbolized by the croak of the mating capercailzie, or better still perhaps by the mute antics of the slug.

But still, the proposition is worth examination.

The other is that the charge for cabanas and parasols, though modest from an American point of view, still is a little high for many Athenians.

In spite of the armistice negotiated by Amadee two years earlier, the war between Bishop Guillaume of Lausanne and Louis of Savoy was still going on, and although little is known about it, that little proves that it was yet another phase of the struggle against French expansion and was closely interwoven with the larger conflict.

Behind him lay the Low Countries, where men were still completing the cathedrals that a later Florentine would describe as `` a malediction of little tabernacles, one on top of the other, with so many pyramids and spires and leaves that it is a wonder they stand up at all, for they look as though they were made of paper instead of stone or marble '' ; ;

On the other hand, the consensus of opinion is that, used with caution and in conjunction with other types of evidence, the native sources still provide a valid rough outline for the English settlement of southern Britain.

The image of man which enters into force with Aeschylus is still vital in Phedre and Athalie.