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Amritsar, Dec 21 - 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...

Ludhiana, Dec 17 - At least 14 volleyball players were injured, four of them seriously, when the van carrying them after a village tournament rammed into a Ludhiana-Ferozepur train Sunday night at an unmanned railway crossing near Jagraon town in central Punjab...

Chandigarh, Dec 16 - 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...

Toronto, Dec 13 - The World Sikh Organisation (WSO), which claims to represent the Sikhs of Canada, has welcomed the interim report of the Air India public inquiry commission, saying it paid a fitting tribute to the devastating loss which has been experienced as a result of the Air India...

Vancouver, Dec 11 - 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...

Sydney, Dec 11 - Two Indian students in Australia who were killed after being swept away while taking a dip in the sea have been identified as 19-year-old Pradeep Singh from Delhi and 22-year-old Avneet Kullar from Malout in Mukhtsar district of Punjab. More...

Washington, Dec 11 - US democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama's 'Punjab jab' against his rival contender Hillary Clinton has made it to Time magazine's list of Top 10 Campaign Gaffes. More...

Patiala (Punjab), Dec 7 - 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...

Toronto, Dec 7 - 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...

Chandigarh, Dec 6 - 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 - 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 Joke of the Day in India wasn't too funny to the Sikh community and has landed a cell phone company and a local tycoon in court. Police in the state of Uttar Pradesh charged Reliance Communications and Anil Ambani with insulting a religion over a re... More...

Vancouver, Dec 4 - 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 - 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...

Chandigarh, Dec 2 - 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...

Chandigarh, Dec 1 - 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...

New York, Nov 30 - 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 - 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 - 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...

Chandigarh, Nov 23 - 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...