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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...

Retail **Governor of Punjab, Lt. Gen. (Retd) Khalid Maqbool said that health and prosperity can be brought into every home in Pakistan by providing pure milk through the adoption of a modern milk processing system and the best breeding of cattle. More...

Governor of Punjab, Lt. Gen. (Retd) Khalid Maqbool said that health and prosperity can be brought into every home in Pakistan by providing pure milk through the adoption of a modern milk processing system and the best breeding of cattle. 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...

Border Security Force (BSF) expects a large-scale smuggling of heroin into India from Afghanistan via Pakistan. The reason, say BSF officers, is the bumper opium crop in that country and huge money being offered by smugglers to Indian farmers, especially rural women, living in border areas. This...

Chandigarh, Nov 16 (IANS) Paddy purchase in Punjab has hit a high this year, beating last year's figure well before the end of the procurement season and leaving farmers happier with record payments made within 72 hours of purchase. More...

By Ravinder Singh Robin San Jose, (USA), Nov 15 (ANI): In a bid to resolve the Sikh turban issue, particularly at airports, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) in the United States has offered jobs to Sikh youths based in America. A twelve-member TSA delegation led by Edward W...

Amritsar (Punjab), Nov 14 (IANS) The Punjab police Wednesday arrested a Nigerian national Nwabudu Chijioke Dasil and recovered one kilogram of heroin from him. More...

Chandigarh, Nov 14 (IANS) A newly formed British Army kabaddi team will participate in a kabaddi festival in Punjab this month. More...

London, Nov 14 (IANS) Prominent London-based human rights organisation Liberty is mounting a legal challenge against a school in Wales for excluding a Sikh student for wearing a kada, a symbol of Sikhism. More...

London, Nov 14 (ANI): A fourteen-year-old Sikh girl, who was suspended from her school in South Wales for wearing a 'Kara'-- a religious bracelet-- is planning to challenge the matter in the court of law. Sarika Singh, a student of Aberdare Girls' School, was suspended for a week after she...

Chandigarh, Nov 13 (IANS) An eco-friendly building in an integrated forest complex will be the new home of Punjab's forest department. More...