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Amritsar, Nov 21 - 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...

London, Nov 21 - As the issue involving a Sikh girl's suspension from a Welsh school for wearing a kada, a symbol of Sikhism, appeared headed for the courts, hundreds of people from around the world backed the girl through a website set up to support her. More...

London, Nov 21 - As the issue involving a Sikh girl's suspension from a Welsh school for wearing a kada, a symbol of Sikhism, appeared headed for the courts, hundreds of people from around the world backed the girl through a website set up to support her. More...

New York, Nov 20 - 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...

New York, Nov 20 - 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...

Chandigarh, Nov 18 - 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...

Chandigarh, Nov 16 - 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...

London, Nov 14 - 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...

Chandigarh, Nov 12 - Punjab's Director General of Police N.P.S. Aulakh Monday instructed field officers to monitor activities of former terrorists and their sympathisers in the state. More...

London, Nov 8 - 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...

Hamburg - Indian men armed with knives and swords arrived by car at a Sikh centre in the German port city of Hamburg on Sunday and attacked those inside, according to witnesses quoted by police. One man was seriously injured during the attack and was... More...

Amritsar, Nov 3 - 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 here. More...

Chandigarh, Nov 2 - Health officials in Punjab are not going to like this. State Health Minister Laxmi Kanta Chawla, known as an upright and no-nonsense person, is engaging detectives to keep a tab on officials and doctors accepting gifts on Diwali. More...

Chandigarh, Oct 29 - The Punjab government Monday announced that a world-class professional university, the Guru Granth Sahib World University, would be set up in the Sikh holy city of Fatehgarh Sahib. More...

Lahore, Oct 28 - Pakistani Punjab's Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi is making an independent bid to become the country's prime minister after next year's general elections, raising the hackles of incumbent Shaukat Aziz and other policymakers of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q)...

New Delhi, Oct 19 - The remnants of Sikh separatists hiding in Punjab or living abroad are under increasing pressure from Pakistan's premier intelligence agency to rekindle terrorism in the border state, say Indian counter-terrorism officials and security experts. More...

New Delhi - Indian police on Monday said they suspected that Muslim militant groups and separatist Sikh militants were behind the bomb blast in a cinema hall in the northern state of Punjab which claimed seven lives, officials and news reports said. ... More...

Attari (India-Pakistan border), Oct 14 - Hundreds of acres of fertile land that belong to India but fall outside its fenced border with Pakistan are now being acquired by the Punjab government, but farmers are fuming that they are getting only half the market price. More...

Chandigarh, Oct 13 - Government agencies and private millers in Punjab have procured over 4.87 million tonnes of paddy by Saturday, a government spokesman said here. More...

Chandigarh, Oct 9 - Ludhiana - one of the biggest industrial cities in Asia located in Punjab - will soon have a metro rail. A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed between the Punjab government and the Delhi Metro Rail Corp (DMRC) Tuesday for setting up the state's first mass rapid...