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CHANDIGARH: Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal responded to the call of the workers of the Shiromani Akali Dal and the BJP and gave the people of the state a festival-season gift, announcing that the additional burden of the increased power tariff imposed by the Punjab State Electricity...

CHANDIGARH: In the backdrop of differences between ruling BJP-SAD alliance in Punjab, the seven-member Coordination Committee panel set up by Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal to resolve various issues between the two parties held its first meeting on Monday. More...

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab police are on the lookout for an absconding non-resident Indian who is alleged to have murdered his wife, an employee at London's Heathrow airport, while the couple was on a visit to Ludhiana for Diwali. More...

ISLAMABAD: Ten thousand pilgrims, including 4,000 of Indian origin, are expected to visit Hasanabdal in Pakistan's Punjab province this month to participate in religious rituals in connection with the birth anniversary of Guru Nanak, the founder of the Sikh religion. More...

CHANDIGARH: Punjab police has decided to start the system of weekly-offs for its non-gazetted officers, including constables and inspectors. DGP NPS Aulkah on Thursday said a proposal in this regard has already been sent to the government, which was expected to issue a notification soon. More...

A Sikh teenager has been suspended from school for refusing to remove a religious bangle. More...

Sarika Watkins-Singh, who was barred from school over wearing kada , has been backed by the local race equality council. The “temporary” exclusion of 14-year-old Sikh girl Sarika Singh from her school in Aberdare, South Wales, for refusing to take off her kada (iron bangle) seems to have all the...

Sarika Watkins-Singh, the Sikh teenager who has been excluded from her school in south Wales for refusing to remove the kada , a symbol of Sikhism, has been backed by the local race equality council. More...

Sarika Watkins-Singh, the Sikh teenager who has been excluded from her school in south Wales for refusing to remove the kada , a symbol of Sikhism, has been backed by the local race equality council. More...

A Sikh youth has approached the US justice department after he was allegedly denied entry into two nightclubs in California because he was wearing a turban. More...

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

A Sikh girl who was suspended from school when she refused to remove a religious bracelet, is to take legal advice in an effort to overturn the decision. More...

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab government, on Tuesday, approved new industrial projects worth Rs 1345 crore in a meeting of Empowered Committee on mega projects held under the chairmanship of state Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal here today. More...

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab government, on Sunday, notified the new poloicy to sell the small digit vehicle registration numbers in each series by open auction, amending Motor Vehicle Rules 1989. More...

Ten members of a family, including seven children, were killed when their overloaded car fell into a drain in Tarn Taran district of Punjab, 80 km from Amritsar. More...

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has also directed former Punjab police chief S S Virk not to tamper evidence as apprehended by the state. More...

A new book on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in the Capital claims that the Ranganath Misra Commission which probed the carnage presented a diluted version of events. More...

NEW DELHI: A new book on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in the Capital claims that the Ranganath Misra Commission which probed the carnage presented a "diluted" version of events and also blames the police for the mass killings. More...

Investment to the tune of about Rs 4,000 crore is learnt to have shifted out of Punjab to Madhya Pradesh. More...

ISLAMABAD: One person stood out among the latest batch of smartly turned out cadets that graduated from the Pakistan Military Academy - the country's first Sikh army officer Harcharan Singh. More...