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The government will give money to families that allow the birth of a girl child in Fategarh Sahib, Punjab, the district with lowest sex ratio in the country. This means all pregnancies will have to be registered and the number of girls born be monitored. More...

The government will give money to families that allow the birth of a girl child in Fategarh Sahib, Punjab, the district with lowest sex ratio in the country. It would mean that all pregnancies would have to be registered and the number of girls being born will be monitored. More...

IT WAS going to be a battle of attrition and Bengal won all the rounds on Day Two to occupy the driver's seat in this Ranji Trophy Elite Group B match against Punjab on Sunday. More...

The 48-year-old driver is in hospital for kidney and respiratory damage caused by the attack over the weekend. A veteran Sikh lawyer and activist may be stripped of his Order of Canada, the country's highest civilian honour, as early as next month after being disbarred for professional...

The comeback film of actress Madhuri Dixit courted further trouble on Saturday with Punjab and Haryana governments also banning its screening offended by controversial lyrics in a song and the National Commission for Scheduled Castes also issuing summons. More...

The Punjab government on Saturday banned Bollywood star Madhuri Dixit's comeback film Aaja Nachle from being screened in the state for allegedly derogatory reference to a caste in a song. More...

In what the police say may have been a hate crime, a Sikh taxi driver was brutally assaulted in Seattle by a passenger. The 48-year-old driver, Sukhvir Singh, is in a hospital for kidney and respiratory damage caused by the attack over the weekend. More...

Film star Amitabh Bachchan, senior Congress leaders and police officials figure in a list of 200 persons against whom Sikh organizations will file a fresh petition in the Supreme Court, seeking action against them for their role in anti-Sikh riots in Delhi in 1984. More...

Over 40 sitting and former MLAs, including ministers, are on the list of housing and car loan defaulters compiled by the Punjab Accountant General’s office. More...

Gender testing and selection kits made in the US and Canada have flooded the market in Punjab, a state with one of the lowest sex ratios in the country (874 females per 1,000 males as per Census 2001). More...

As the issue involving a Sikh girl's suspension from a Welsh school for wearing a kara , a symbol of Sikhism, appeared headed for the courts, hundreds of people from around the world backed the girl through a website set up to support her. More...

People from around the world back the girl, who is suspended from a school in London for wearing a kara, through a website. Sarika Watkins-Singh, the Sikh teenager who has been excluded from her school in south Wales for refusing to remove the kada , a symbol of Sikhism, has been backed by the...

As the issue involving a Sikh girl's suspension from a Welsh school for wearing a kara , a symbol of Sikhism, appeared headed for the courts, hundreds of people from around the world backed the girl through a website set up to support her. More...

People from around the world back the girl, who is suspended from a school in London for wearing a kara, through a website. Sarika Watkins-Singh, the Sikh teenager who has been excluded from her school in south Wales for refusing to remove the kada , a symbol of Sikhism, has been backed by the...

The country's highest Sikh body, the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) has announced it would take full responsibility of the abandoned girl child to curb female foeticide. Following the announcement, SGPC chief Avtar Singh Makkar a pragmatic policy will soon be planned and...

Two Indian nationals in the Philippines perform the "Gatka", or self defense technique, during a program celebrating the 539th birth anniversary of the founder of Sikh religion, Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ji on Sunday, November 18, 2007 in Manila, Philippines. More...

According to latest official figures of high fee-paying overseas students, nearly 16,000 Indian students came to the UK for higher education during 2005-06. More...

Paddy purchase in Punjab has hit a high this year, beating last year's figure well before the end of the procurement season and leaving farmers happier with record payments made within 72 hours of purchase. More...

A Sikh man belonging to a volunteer reserve police force in Ireland has been banned from wearing his headgear. More...

A Sikh girl in UK has been suspended for the second time as she refuses to take off her kara , reports Vijay Dutt. More...