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Setback for SAD, Manjit Singh Calcutta to support Congress Punjab Newsline Network Tuesday, 17 January 2012 Manjit Singh Calcutta announces support to Congress CHANDIGARH: In a major setback to SAD, Senior Akali leader and renowned Sikh scholar Manjit Singh Calcutta on Tuesday extended...

source: http://www.punjabnewsline.com/content/view/25282/38/ World Sikh Convention revives Panthic agenda: Manjit Singh Calcutta JAGMOHAN SINGH Monday, 19 April 2010 AMRITSAR: Notwithstanding its criticism, the World Sikh Convention has revived the Sikh agenda that has been abandoned...

http://www.tribuneindia.com/<wbr>2010/20100102/punjab.htm#10 Tribune News Service Amritsar, January 1 Veteran Akali leader and Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) member Manjit Singh Calcutta has alleged that the SGPC Sikh scholars and experts were not being consulted on the issue...

The presence of rare freshwater dolphins in the Harike wetland and wildlife sanctuary in Ferozepur district in Punjab was confirmed by the wildlife experts Friday, bringing cheer to wildlife experts. More...

The Punjab police Thursday raided the premises of a travel and foreign placement agency here and recovered 616 passports and over Rs.2.8 million from its office. More...

A court in Punjab Wednesday sentenced a para-military officer along with three others for getting his 20-year-old son murdered in 2003. More...

Sikhs cannot be considered a 'minority' in Punjab and cannot claim 50 percent reservation in seats for admission to educational institutions run by the Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC), the Punjab and Haryana High Court ruled Monday. More...

The burst from a malfunctioning automatic weapon may have injured her but not her spirit to be where the action is. Ranbir Kaur, 21, a Jat-Sikh girl born in India, is headed back to Iraq - one of the most troubled spots in the world - to make up on lost work as part of the US armed forces. More...

The Punjab police Thursday arrested three terrorists of the dreaded Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) and recovered over seven kilograms of RDX from them in Punjab. More...

The Punjab government Thursday announced that no new proposal for setting up nursing colleges will be considered till a new policy governing nursing institutions is framed and approved. More...

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...

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...

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...

The Punjab government Sunday allowed screening of Madhuri Dixit's comeback film 'Aaja Nachle', but asked officials to ensure that the offending portion of the title song with alleged derogatory references to Dalits was deleted. More...

The Punjab government Saturday banned Bollywood star Madhuri Dixit's comeback film 'Aaja Nachle' from being screened in the state for allegedly derogatory reference to a caste in a song. More...

The Haryana government Saturday followed Punjab in banning actress Madhuri Dixit's comeback film 'Aaja Nachle' for alleged derogatory references to Dalits in a song. More...

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...

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...

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 Badal, will make the cut...

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...