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Amritsar, Nov 22 (IANS) The election for the next president of the Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC), the world's richest Sikh organisation, takes place Friday and speculation is rife on whether sitting president Avtar Singh Makkar, a protege of Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh...

Early next week, when Punjab and Haryana High Court senior advocate Daya Chaudhary takes oath as an additional judge of the High Court, she will make history in two states notorious for their poor sex ratio. In its history of over 88 years-the High Court was established on March 31, 1919 at...

Amritsar, Nov 21 (IANS) A 3,000-member delegation of Sikh devotees Wednesday left for the holy Sikh shrine of Nankana Sahib in Pakistan amid concerns of the recently imposed emergency in the neighbouring country and a word of caution from their leaders here. More...

By Ravinder Singh Robin Dehriwal (Punjab), Nov.21 (ANI): Overcoming problems like shortage of land or rising costs related to traditional crops, many farmers in Punjab's Dehriwal Village, 35 kilometers of Amritsar, have taken to mushroom cultivation. Mushroom cultivation is known to be a...

By Ravinder Singh Robin Amritsar, Nov 21 (ANI): Over three thousand Indian Sikh pilgrims left for Pakistan on Wednesday to attend the celebration of 538th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev. The Sikh community is celebrating this auspicious occasion on November 24. The groups left for Nankana...

By Ravinder Singh Robin Amritsar, Nov.21 (ANI): U.S. President George W. Bush has sent his warm greetings to Sikhs in America and India ahead of the 538th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev, the founder of Sikhism. The Sikh community is celebrating this auspicious occasion on November 24. The...

London, Nov 21 (IANS) As the issue involving a Sikh girl's suspension from a Welsh school for wearing a kada, 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...

London, Nov 21 (IANS) As the issue involving a Sikh girl's suspension from a Welsh school for wearing a kada, 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...

Nobody can match the doggedness of the Punjab Police. Since 1973, they have been pursuing a case of buffalo theft till three months ago when the two accused, natives of a village near Jalandhar, were sent behind bars. On Tuesday, the Punjab and Haryana High Court came to the rescue of the two...

New York, Nov 20 (IANS) US presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton's abrupt cancellation of a scheduled appearance at a festival in a California town to mark the birth anniversary of Sikhism's founder Guru Nanak has reportedly annoyed the Sikh community. More...

New York, Nov 20 (IANS) US presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton's abrupt cancellation of a scheduled appearance at a festival in a California town to mark the birth anniversary of Sikhism's founder Guru Nanak has reportedly annoyed the Sikh community. More...

By Ravinder Singh Robin Yuba City (California), Nov.19 (ANI): Sikhs have been a part of the American landscape for over 130 years. And, the Yuba Sutter area has some of the best agricultural land is known for the largest Sikh population of farm owners. A visit to Yuba city that commemorated the...

The cash-strapped Punjab Government, whose revenue collection is at an all-time low, has decided to sell off its properties and land under the recently revived Optimum Utilisation of Vacant Government Land (OUVGL) Scheme. The Government hopes to mop up Rs 2,000 crore from this exercise. This...

By Karan Kapoor Jalandhar, Nov.19 (ANI): Born in a Sikh family of farmers in Shafipur Village near Jalandhar, the popular singer Hans Raj Hans drew inspirations from street musicians and singers at holy shrines. He learnt music under the stewardship of Ustad Puran Shah Koti who motivated him...

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...

Even as the Mohali International Airport in Punjab, on the outskirts of Chandigarh, is on the way to becoming a reality, the Congress Government in Haryana has written to the Union Government to consider setting up another airport in its territory, sources said. The state Government, in a...

Chandigarh, Nov 18 (IANS) The weight-shedding 'bhangra' dance exercise technique successfully adopted by the Bathinda police in Punjab will be replicated for the entire state to make cops fitter and healthier. More...

Punjab tail-enders Manpreet Gony and Ankur Kakkar put up a stiff resistance on a bouncy wicket at the PCA Stadium here today as Hyderabad's Pragyan Ojha and Ashwin Yadav pegged on at them. That effort lasted one and-a-half hours, and 71 runs accumulated from the seventh-wicket stand after the...

Vijay Dabur Chandigarh, Nov 18 (PTI) In a victory of sorts in rural versus urban competitive politics, the smaller partner, BJP, of Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD)-led coalition in Punjab has been More...

By Ravinder Singh Robin Amritsar, Nov 17 (ANI): Hindus and Sikhs took centre stage at the recently held 28th InterFaith Concert in Washington, where nearly 1400 people from different religion participated. Sikh Kirtani Jatha and the participants of Hindu religion of the Pushpanjali group and...