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Dera Sacha Sauda, which is involved in a conflict with the Sikh clergy, today moved the Punjab and Haryana High Court seeking quashing of the Bhatinda court's non-bailable arrest warrant against its head Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh on charges of hurting the religious sentiments of Sikhs. More...

Trouble for Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh increased today with Bathinda police receiving formal sanction from the state government to arrest him even as the sect moved the Punjab and Haryana High Court seeking quashing of the non-bailable arrest warrants issued against him by a...

Punjab government tonight gave the sanction for arrest and prosecution of Dera Sacha Sauda head Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, who is in conflict with the Sikh clergy, on the charge of hurting religious sentiments of Sikhs. More...

Chennai, June 26 (PTI): Gurpreet starred in Punjab's 7-1 rout of Uttaranchal, slamming in all the goals to ensure his team reached the quarterfinals, while Karnataka blew away Tripura 14-0 in the 34th junior hockey championship here today. More...

Sikh organisations, including radical bodies, have agreed to change the name of their "awareness" march here after persuasion by the authorities. The organisations' heads also agreed on not taking any kind of weapon with them and not shouting any slogans. More...

Acting on a court directive, the Bhatinda police have moved an application to the Punjab government seeking its approval to prosecute embattled head of Dera Sacha Sauda, Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh for allegedly hurting the religious sentiments of Sikhs. More...

Trouble for Dera Sacha Sauda head Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh has increased, with police seeking Punjab government's approval to arrest him for allegedly hurting the religious sentiments of Sikhs. More...

Hours after a conditional arrest warrant was issued against the Dera Sacha Sauda chief, members of Sikh community today clashed with Dera supporters in a village in Sirsa prompting the authorities to beef up security in the tense areas. More...

In a bid to mount pressure on the state government to arrest the Dera Sacha Sauda head, various Sikh organisations have decided to undertake a protest march from Gurdwara Zafarnama in this district to Damdama Sahib, Talwandi Sabo, in Bathinda on June 24. More...

In an apparent effort to cool tempers of some radical Sikh outfits demanding the arrest of Dera Sacha Sauda chief, Punjab police today moved a local court seeking arrest warrants against sect head Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh for allegedly hurting the religious sentiments of Sikhs. More...

Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, heading a SAD-BJP alliance government in the state, today praised the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre for its "positive approach" to the state in the execution of centrally-sponsored schemes. More...

Although the Sacha Sauda Dera crisis has been defused, an atmosphere of uncertainty looms over the industry amid fears that it may cause a setback to investments in land-locked Punjab. More...

Various Sikh bodies today demanded the resignation of Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, saying the state government had "failed" in arresting the head of Sirsa-based Dera Sacha Sauda, recently embroiled in controversy for his reported blasphemous acts. More...

The BJP today said if a deputy chief minister is appointed from its party, the functioning of SAD-BJP government in Punjab would become "more smooth". More...

A group of Sikh organisations today asked the Centre and the governments of Punjab and Haryana to arrest Dera Sacha Sauda Chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh by June 18, failing which their activists would court arrest in front of the Raj Bhawan in Chandigarh on June 19. More...

The Punjab Goverment today moved the Supreme Court seeking quashing of the anticipatory bails granted by the High Court to the son and son-in-law of former Chief Minister Amrinder Singh allegedly involved in the Ludhiana City Centre scandal. More...

Achin Bansal from Punjab topped this year's All India Joint Entrance Examinations (JEE) conducted by Indian Institute of Technology while Ankita Sharma from Mumbai topped among girls. More...

In a new revealation, a public inquiry has been told that the Sikh militants had warned the Indo-canadian community not to fly on Air India weeks before the deadly 1985 Kanishka bombing. More...

In an overhaul of his party management in states, BJP chief Rajnath Singh today removed general secretary Arun Jaitley as in charge of Punjab, despite the recent electoral success there, and gave him Uttar Pradesh, where the party suffered a crushing defeat. More...

Top Sikh clerics will meet tomorrow in Amritsar to decide the future course of action in the wake of an apology tendered by the Dera Sacha Sauda chief even as Punjab Police remained on high alert across the state which remained calm today. More...