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After their cars collided with each other at the Fountain Chowk, president of Sikh Student Federation (Mehta), Gurdeep Singh allegedly assaulted Gajinder Pal Singh, a resident of Kichlu Nagar, today evening. The two sides kept on fighting until the police intervened. Later, the parties agreed to...

Guru Gobind Singh College for Women, Sector 26, wants to produce students with well-rounded personalities, who can compete in every field. Started in 1973 by the Sikh Educational Society, it also happens to be the only girls college which offers a course in Masters in Information Technology...

Manoranjan Kalia, local self-government and industries minister of Punjab, was deeply impressed by all round progress made by Gujarat and said that Punjab has to learn a lesson or two from Gujarat, said an official release here on Sunday. Kalia was leading a delegation here. During a...

Lahore, June 9 (ANI): Around eight hundred Indian Sikh pilgrims, mostly elderly, have arrived here to participate in the 401st death anniversary of their fifth Guru, Guru Arjun Dev Jee. The devotees were overwhelmed to receive the warm welcome be the people of Pakistan upon their arrival at...

Barely a month after CITCO managing director Jasbir Singh Bir elicited widespread publicity from various quarters for opening India's first condom bar in the city, the Punjab government has sent a panel of three IAS officers asking for Bir's repatriation. Though the officers on deputation...

This piece of news will rock the state government out of its deep slumber and push it to implement by-laws for making buildings quake-resistant. More than half of Punjab comes under highly-earthquake-prone Zone IV category. And if a quake rocks Himachal Pradesh, soft alluvial soil-rich Punjab...

AN army recruitment rally for soldiers (Sikh, Sikh Mazbi and Ramdasia), clerk/SKT and technical entry is being organised at Rayya-Beas, Amritsar, from July 3 to July 14. As per Director Recruitment Ludhiana CS Azimuddin, this will be an open rally for candidates hailing from various districts of...

The Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) is holding meetings with industry representatives throughout the state to make them comply with pollution control norms. "We are encouraging industries towards self-compliance. The board is willing to lie low for three months and give them relief period...

New Delhi - Police in Indian capital New Delhi have zeroed in on Sikh militants based in Germany as the masterminds behind twin bombings in the city's cinema halls in 2005, a newspaper report said Tuesday. The Delhi Police have traced hide-outs of thr... More...

Security has been beefed up for the 23rd anniversary of Operation Bluestar, being observed as Ghalughara Divas (genocide day), here at Akal Takht tomorrow. Sikh radicals will organise bhog of an Akhand Path to mark the occasion. It is likely that the issue of Dera Sacha Sauda will be raised...

Punjab Cultural Society is organising its annual cultural camp, Perfect Summer Camp-2007 at Punjabi Bhawan. According to Dr Davinder, the advisor of the society, the purpose of the camp is to promote folk dance and music. Boys and girls of various age groups are participating in the camp. Dr...

To meet Chief Minister to press for arrest of Dera chief With Sant Samaj activists announcing to court arrest if Dera Sacha Sauda chief is not arrested by June 18, various Sikh organisations in the city have decided to meet Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal for a solution to the impasse. The...

The golden jubilee celebrations of Sher-e-Punjab Bomb Disposal Unit commenced in the Western sector on Friday. The event began with a prayer, followed by a special Sainik Sammelan addressed by Lt Gen Noble Thamburaj, GOC, Corps and Colonel Commandant, the Bombay Sappers. Col SK Sharma...

The Punjab Junior girls and boys softball teams advanced to the semi-finals of the 25th Junior National Softball Championship being held at the Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) grounds here today. In the girls super-league stage, Punjab drubbed Chattisgarh 11-9 while in another closely...

Pakistani activists of Sikh Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee Gurdwara Dera Sahib protest against the Dera Sacha Sauda sect in Lahore, 24 May 2007. Sikh priests have rejected an apology from a religious sect for adverts showing its leader dressed as a revered guru which triggered violence in Punjab...

AMRITSAR, India (AFP) - Sikh priests have rejected an apology from a religious sect for adverts showing its leader dressed as a revered guru which triggered violence in Punjab, a senior cleric said Wednesday. More...

Sikh priests have rejected an apology from a religious sect for adverts showing its leader dressed as a revered guru which triggered violence in Punjab, a senior cleric said. More...

In a delicate balancing act, seen as a move to avoid hardliners from hijacking the agenda, the Sikh high priests today came up with a calibrated response to the Dera Sacha Sauda s apology for portraying its chief in clothes associated with Guru Gobind Singh. The priests of the Akal Takht...

The Anglo-Sikh War Memorial Trust will commemorate the anniversary of the war on June 2 at Hasanpur village near Ludhiana. Addressing mediapersons on Monday, Surat Singh Khalsa, an office-bearer of the Trust, said the Anglo-Sikh War of 1846, and not the 1857 war, was the first freedom struggle...

A religious sect has apologised for adverts showing its leader dressed as a revered Sikh guru, which triggered violence in India's Punjab state, reports said Monday. More...