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Pahre (74-78)
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Gurbani (151-185)
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Gurbani (347-348)
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ਰਾਗੁ ਗੂਜਰੀ | Raag Goojaree
Gurbani (489-503)
Ashtpadiyan (503-508)
Vaar Gujari (508-517)
Vaar Gujari (517-526)
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Gurbani (527-536)
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Gurbani (537-556)
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Gurbani (557-564)
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Ghoriaan (575-578)
Alaahaniiaa (578-582)
Vaar Wadhans (582-594)
ਰਾਗੁ ਸੋਰਠਿ | Raag Sorath
Gurbani (595-634)
Asatpadhiya (634-642)
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Gurbani (660-685)
Astpadhiya (685-687)
Chhant (687-691)
Bhagat Bani (691-695)
ਰਾਗੁ ਜੈਤਸਰੀ | Raag Jaitsree
Gurbani (696-703)
Chhant (703-705)
Vaar Jaitsaree (705-710)
Bhagat Bani (710)
ਰਾਗੁ ਟੋਡੀ | Raag Todee
ਰਾਗੁ ਬੈਰਾੜੀ | Raag Bairaaree
ਰਾਗੁ ਤਿਲੰਗ | Raag Tilang
Gurbani (721-727)
Bhagat Bani (727)
ਰਾਗੁ ਸੂਹੀ | Raag Suhi
Gurbani (728-750)
Ashtpadiyan (750-761)
Kaafee (761-762)
Suchajee (762)
Gunvantee (763)
Chhant (763-785)
Vaar Soohee (785-792)
Bhagat Bani (792-794)
ਰਾਗੁ ਬਿਲਾਵਲੁ | Raag Bilaaval
Gurbani (795-831)
Ashtpadiyan (831-838)
Thitteen (838-840)
Vaar Sat (841-843)
Chhant (843-848)
Vaar Bilaaval (849-855)
Bhagat Bani (855-858)
ਰਾਗੁ ਗੋਂਡ | Raag Gond
Gurbani (859-869)
Ashtpadiyan (869)
Bhagat Bani (870-875)
ਰਾਗੁ ਰਾਮਕਲੀ | Raag Ramkalee
Ashtpadiyan (902-916)
Gurbani (876-902)
Anand (917-922)
Sadd (923-924)
Chhant (924-929)
Dakhnee (929-938)
Sidh Gosat (938-946)
Vaar Ramkalee (947-968)
ਰਾਗੁ ਨਟ ਨਾਰਾਇਨ | Raag Nat Narayan
Gurbani (975-980)
Ashtpadiyan (980-983)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਾਲੀ ਗਉੜਾ | Raag Maalee Gauraa
Gurbani (984-988)
Bhagat Bani (988)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਾਰੂ | Raag Maaroo
Gurbani (889-1008)
Ashtpadiyan (1008-1014)
Kaafee (1014-1016)
Ashtpadiyan (1016-1019)
Anjulian (1019-1020)
Solhe (1020-1033)
Dakhni (1033-1043)
ਰਾਗੁ ਤੁਖਾਰੀ | Raag Tukhaari
Bara Maha (1107-1110)
Chhant (1110-1117)
ਰਾਗੁ ਕੇਦਾਰਾ | Raag Kedara
Gurbani (1118-1123)
Bhagat Bani (1123-1124)
ਰਾਗੁ ਭੈਰਉ | Raag Bhairo
Gurbani (1125-1152)
Partaal (1153)
Ashtpadiyan (1153-1167)
ਰਾਗੁ ਬਸੰਤੁ | Raag Basant
Gurbani (1168-1187)
Ashtpadiyan (1187-1193)
Vaar Basant (1193-1196)
ਰਾਗੁ ਸਾਰਗ | Raag Saarag
Gurbani (1197-1200)
Partaal (1200-1231)
Ashtpadiyan (1232-1236)
Chhant (1236-1237)
Vaar Saarang (1237-1253)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਲਾਰ | Raag Malaar
Gurbani (1254-1293)
Partaal (1265-1273)
Ashtpadiyan (1273-1278)
Chhant (1278)
Vaar Malaar (1278-91)
Bhagat Bani (1292-93)
ਰਾਗੁ ਕਾਨੜਾ | Raag Kaanraa
Gurbani (1294-96)
Partaal (1296-1318)
Ashtpadiyan (1308-1312)
Chhant (1312)
Vaar Kaanraa
Bhagat Bani (1318)
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Gurbani (1319-23)
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Gurbani (1327-1341)
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Gurbani (1352-53)
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Centre To ‘prune’ Sikh Blacklist
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<blockquote data-quote="Archived_Member16" data-source="post: 123425" data-attributes="member: 884"><p><span style="color: navy">source: </span></p><p><a href="http://www.tribuneindia.com/2010/20100328/main3.htm" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: navy">http://www.tribuneindia.com/2010/20100328/main3.htm</span></u></a></p><p> </p><p style="text-align: left"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: navy">Centre to ‘prune’ Sikh blacklist,</span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: left"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: navy">only 50 hardcore names to stay</span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: left"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: navy">Anita Katyal</span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: left"><strong><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="color: navy">Our Political Correspondent </span></span></span></strong></p><p></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="color: navy"><strong>New Delhi, March 27</strong></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="color: navy">Giving in to a two decades old demand by Punjab and its diaspora, the Centre has begun work on pruning the “blacklist” of Sikhs that debarred several members of the community from entering the country for their association with terrorists, it is learnt. Highly-placed sources in the Union Home ministry have said the list containing 300-odd names would be pared down to about 50 by next month-end. </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="color: navy">Notably, the list was prepared when terrorism was at its peak in Punjab in the eighties and mid-nineties. A large number of disenchanted Sikhs had left the country during that period and are presently settled in Canada, United Kingdom and the United States. While many of them actively took up the cause of Khalistan through militant outfits like Khalistan Liberation Front (KLF) and Babbar Khalsa International (BKI), others were involved indirectly. </span></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="color: navy">Sources said the Home ministry was currently in the process of identifying those who got involved with these groups in the rush of emotions at that time and have since distanced themselves from the movement. Officials admit there were several persons on the list who had made an occasional “anti-India” speech or attended an occasional meeting of separatist groups, and now their names would be struck off. </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="color: navy">“We will only retain the hardcore elements on the list and these should not account for more than 50-odd names,” said a senior Home ministry official, adding the sifting was being done on the basis of intelligence reports.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="color: navy">Sikh NRIs and political parties like the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and Punjab Congress had been pressing the Centre to review and revise the list on the plea that it was prepared “arbitrarily” and that the situation in Punjab had improved after those dark days of militancy. </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="color: navy">While several NRIs whose names figured on the list had now undergone a change in ideology, their children were being denied visas for no fault of theirs, it has been pointed out. Besides, many who fled the country then on the grounds of police atrocity were actually using militancy as an excuse to migrate to the West. </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="color: navy">Apart from the overwhelming demand for the revision of the blacklist, the Home ministry had another reason too for giving a go-ahead to the exercise: Recent intelligence reports had warned that Islamabad was working on the hardcore Babbar Khalsa International members who had been given refuge in Pakistan to cross over to India and “stir up trouble here”. In addition, there was information that Sikh fundamentalists were regrouping. Under these circumstances, the Centre does not want to provide an opportunity for the disgruntled elements to create trouble in Punjab.</span> </span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Archived_Member16, post: 123425, member: 884"] [COLOR=navy]source: [/COLOR] [URL="http://www.tribuneindia.com/2010/20100328/main3.htm"][U][COLOR=navy]http://www.tribuneindia.com/2010/20100328/main3.htm[/COLOR][/U][/URL] [LEFT][B][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=5][COLOR=navy]Centre to ‘prune’ Sikh blacklist,[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/B] [B][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=5][COLOR=navy]only 50 hardcore names to stay[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/B] [B][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2][COLOR=navy]Anita Katyal[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/B] [B][SIZE=2][FONT=Verdana][COLOR=navy]Our Political Correspondent [/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/LEFT] [SIZE=2][FONT=Verdana][COLOR=navy][B]New Delhi, March 27[/B][/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=Verdana][COLOR=navy]Giving in to a two decades old demand by Punjab and its diaspora, the Centre has begun work on pruning the “blacklist” of Sikhs that debarred several members of the community from entering the country for their association with terrorists, it is learnt. Highly-placed sources in the Union Home ministry have said the list containing 300-odd names would be pared down to about 50 by next month-end. [/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=Verdana][COLOR=navy]Notably, the list was prepared when terrorism was at its peak in Punjab in the eighties and mid-nineties. A large number of disenchanted Sikhs had left the country during that period and are presently settled in Canada, United Kingdom and the United States. While many of them actively took up the cause of Khalistan through militant outfits like Khalistan Liberation Front (KLF) and Babbar Khalsa International (BKI), others were involved indirectly. [/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=Verdana][COLOR=navy]Sources said the Home ministry was currently in the process of identifying those who got involved with these groups in the rush of emotions at that time and have since distanced themselves from the movement. Officials admit there were several persons on the list who had made an occasional “anti-India” speech or attended an occasional meeting of separatist groups, and now their names would be struck off. [/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=Verdana][COLOR=navy]“We will only retain the hardcore elements on the list and these should not account for more than 50-odd names,” said a senior Home ministry official, adding the sifting was being done on the basis of intelligence reports.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=Verdana][COLOR=navy]Sikh NRIs and political parties like the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and Punjab Congress had been pressing the Centre to review and revise the list on the plea that it was prepared “arbitrarily” and that the situation in Punjab had improved after those dark days of militancy. [/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=Verdana][COLOR=navy]While several NRIs whose names figured on the list had now undergone a change in ideology, their children were being denied visas for no fault of theirs, it has been pointed out. Besides, many who fled the country then on the grounds of police atrocity were actually using militancy as an excuse to migrate to the West. [/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=Verdana][COLOR=navy]Apart from the overwhelming demand for the revision of the blacklist, the Home ministry had another reason too for giving a go-ahead to the exercise: Recent intelligence reports had warned that Islamabad was working on the hardcore Babbar Khalsa International members who had been given refuge in Pakistan to cross over to India and “stir up trouble here”. In addition, there was information that Sikh fundamentalists were regrouping. Under these circumstances, the Centre does not want to provide an opportunity for the disgruntled elements to create trouble in Punjab.[/COLOR] [/FONT][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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