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Vancouver, Dec 11 (IANS) In their biggest anti-government rally since the Komagata Maru incident of 1914, thousands of Indo-Canadians forced authorities to stop the deportation of a paralysed Sikh. More...

Patiala (Punjab), Dec 7 (IANS) Over 11 years after they kidnapped a man from a village on a petty charge of stealing utensils from a gurudwara and killed him, six Punjab police officials were Friday given life imprisonment by a court here. More...

New York, Dec 7 (IANS) A US based Sikh leader has been nominated trustee of the Council for Parliament of the World's Religions (CPWR). More...

Toronto, Dec 7 (IANS) The death of a Sikh bus driver from Brampton, a South Asian-dominated suburb of Toronto, in a hospital, allegedly due to negligence, has snowballed into a controversy with calls for a thorough probe into it. More...

Toronto, Dec 7 (IANS) The death of a Brampton Sikh bus driver in a new hospital allegedly due to negligence has snowballed into a controversy, with calls for a thorough probe into it and a P-3 scheme under which the hospital operates. Brampton is a South Asian-dominated suburb of Toronto. More...

Chandigarh, Dec 6 (IANS) A local court in Patiala in Punjab Thursday found six Punjab police officials, including a deputy superintendent of police (DSP), guilty of murdering a villager and throwing his body in a canal 11 years ago. More...

Chandigarh, Dec 5 (IANS) Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court Vijender Jain Wednesday administered the oath of office to five new judges - including the first woman lawyer from the bar to be elevated. More...

Vancouver, Dec 4 (IANS) The Indo-Canadian community in Canada's British Columbia province has come out in support of paralysed Sikh Laibar Singh who has been ordered to be deported to India on Dec 10. More...

Chandigarh, Dec 2 (IANS) The Haryana and Punjab governments Sunday allowed the screening of Madhuri Dixit's comeback film 'Aaja Nachle', but asked officials to ensure that the offending portion of its title song with alleged derogatory references to a community was deleted. More...

New York, Nov 30 (IANS) In what the police say may have been a hate crime, a Sikh taxi driver was brutally assaulted in Seattle by a passenger. More...

Shimla, Nov 29 (IANS) Himachal Pradesh police have finally nabbed a man from the neighbouring state of Punjab, almost a decade after he had allegedly abducted and raped a local woman, the police said Thursday. More...

Chandigarh, Nov 23 (IANS) 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...

Chandigarh, Nov 23 (IANS) The central government has given the nod for a nearly 2,500-km-long inter-state highway that will link important Sikh religious shrines in seven states in the country. More...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...