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THE PUNJAB Cricket Association on Saturday announced it would offer retainerships to 20 players each in all age groups and Ranji Trophy. 'The PCA is the first unit in the country to offer retainerships to its players,' said PCA president I.S. Bindra. More...

A Sikh group plans to challenge a ban on Sikhs in a volunteer reserve police force from wearing the turban while on duty. More...

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

THE ALL India Football Federation (AIFF) on Thursday announced the draw for this year's Federation Cup, to be held in Ludhiana on September 4-15. It will be after a gap of 33 years that a national-level football tournament will be held in Punjab - the Santosh Trophy in Jalandhar in 1974 was the...

Punjab police on Friday released the sketches of five suspected women suicide attackers, said to be having allegiance to Dera Sacha Sauda, and claimed they apprehend attack on some important persons of the state. More...

Sikh police officers from Britain have criticised a decision by the Irish police force to ban a Sikh recruit from wearing a turban on the job, according to reports in the Irish press on Tuesday. More...

British Sikh police officers criticise a decision by the Irish police force to ban a recruit from wearing a turban on the job. A Sikh community leader could lose his vision after an assailant threw corrosive chemicals on his face. More...

An 18th century Sikh shrine in Naolakha Bazaar in Lahore has been "taken over by a group hooligans" and the government is "hesitating to take action" against the Muslims who have locked the Sikhs out, Daily Times said on Tuesday. More...

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

Supporters of a paralysed Sikh refugee claimant, who is facing deportation early next week nearly four years after entering Canada on a fake passport, have sought his release on humanitarian grounds and urged the government to allow him to live in this country. More...

Dera Sacha Sauda chief Baba Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was on Friday questioned by Punjab Police in connection with a case filed against him for allegedly hurting the religious sentiments of Sikhs. More...

A city court on Wednesday awarded five years rigorous imprisonment (RI) to five government servants for misappropriation of funds meant for the 1984 anti-Sikh riot victims. More...

Another night just got added to the sunlight and shade of the mercurial life of Sanjay Dutt, Bollywood's mightiest stormrider. The last time he was in custody 13 years ago, Sanjay Dutt's source of strength was a group of Sikh men accused of being terrorists, who cooked for him, sang songs to...

THE PUNJAB Home Department has come in the eye of a storm after it was revealed that over 400 hardened criminals jumped parole from various jails in the state in the past seven years and never returned. Some even committed crimes after they were set free on parole and were booked by the state...

Dislodging the big fat Punjabi wedding is not going to be easy for the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) that tried to discipline the community by issuing a diktat banning non-vegetarian food and alcohol at Sikh weddings. More...

Canada nixes a policy that require Sikh immigrants to change their last names to avoid confusion with other Sikhs. More...

At least eight people were injured on Tuesday after gunshots were fired in a clash between followers of the Dera Sacha Sauda sect and members of the Sikh community in a village close to this Haryana town. More...

A Sikh group has slammed the long-standing Canadian immigration policy that forces Sikhs with the surname Singh or Kaur to change their last names if they want to migrate to the country. More...

At least eight people were injured on Tuesday after gunshots were fired in a clash between followers of the Dera Sacha Sauda sect and members of the Sikh community in a village close to this Haryana town. More...

Sixteen kilograms of heroin valued at Rs 160 million in the international market was recovered by Border Security Force (BSF) personnel from the India-Pakistan border in Punjab. More...