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The Sikh community in Jharkhand has taken out processions in different parts of the state and have demanded the removal of Health Minister Bhanu Pratap Shahi over his reported remarks disparaging the community. More...

Monica Bedi, who walked free Wednesday after spending five years behind bars in Portugal and India, reached her ancestral village Chabewal in Punjab where she was born in 1976. More...

Punjab, Haryana and the union territory of Chandigarh have decided to jointly market the region for making it a knowledge and information technology hub. More...

Thanking the Indian government for speedy clearance of his group's joint refinery project in Punjab, London-based steel mogul L.N. Mittal Wednesday injected Rs.5 billion ($120 million) in the company that would set up the $4.6 billion venture. More...

At least eight people were injured Tuesday after gunshots were fired in a clash between followers of the Dera Sacha Sauda sect and members of the Sikh community in a village close to this Haryana town. More...

District police chiefs in Punjab will have their field performances reviewed every month, Director General of Police N.P.S. Aulakh announced Saturday. More...

Sixteen kilograms of heroin valued at Rs.160 million in the international market was recovered by Border Security Force (BSF) personnel from the India-Pakistan border in Punjab. More...

The Punjab government Wednesday signed an agreement with the National Cadet Corps (NCC) to tap the national potential of up to 2 million jobs for Punjabi youth. More...

Congress legislator Joginder Pal Jain was Monday arrested by the Punjab police for his alleged involvement in a nine-year-old case of illegal money transfer registered in Kolkata. More...

Sportspersons from Punjab winning an individual gold medal at any Olympic Games - a feat not yet achieved in the 111-year history of the modern Olympics - will become millionaires. More...

An undercurrent of tension prevailed in south Punjab Saturday following the death of Dera Sacha Sauda sect follower Jaswinder Singh at a hospital in Rohtak in neighbouring Haryana earlier in the day. More...

Stagnating and polluted ponds in rural Punjab will get cleaned under a new Rs.800 million scheme announced by the state government Thursday. More...

The Punjab government Thursday said it had initiated an inquiry into allotment of prime land to an educational trust owned by a relative of B.I.S. Chahal, then media adviser to former chief minister Amarinder Singh. More...

Leading Japanese financial institution, Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), will fund a Rs.30 billion public health project in Punjab to provide 100 percent water supply and sewerage connectivity in all major cities. More...

Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal Tuesday ordered the setting up of five citrus estates this year, bringing 18,000 acres in 400 villages under citrus cultivation. More...

Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Friday accused the Akali Dal government in Punjab of violating his fundamental rights as the ongoing controversy between the sect and Sikhs reached the Punjab and Haryana high court. More...

The Akal Takht, highest temporal seat of Sikhism, Wednesday kept in abeyance its decision on the second apology from Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmit Ram Rahim Singh to the Sikh community for hurting their sentiments even as it maintained its tough stance. More...

The Punjab government late Wednesday gave permission to the state police to execute the non-bailable warrant issued against Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmit Ram Rahim Singh on the charge of hurting religious sentiments of the Sikh community. More...

Sikh high priests from five temporal seats of the religion met here Wednesday to discuss a sealed letter sent by Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmit Ram Rahim to resolve the ongoing controversy between the clergy and the sect leader. More...

Thousands of farmers in Punjab Monday protested against the acquisition of their land at nominal prices for setting up industrial units. More...