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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...

Chandigarh, Dec 1 (ANI): The Punjab Government today its counterpart in Uttar Pradesh in banning Madhuri Dixit's come back film 'Aaja Nachle', alleging that the lyrics of a song in the movie were derogatory to Dalits. Harcharan Bains, Media Advisor to Punjab Chief Minister Prakash Singh Badal...

Murali Kartik has been officially promoted as the 12th man for the second India-Pakistan Test at Eden - not that he has much competition. The man who did that duty in the first Test at Ferozeshah Kotla was exempted this time around, and released officially from the team today morning to join his...

The ghost of the 1984 Sikh riots keeps haunting the Government. A short while ago there was uproar in the Rajya Sabha over witness Jasbir Singh s appearance on CNN-IBN on Thursday. More...

By Paramjeet Nawanshair (Punjab), Nov. 30 (ANI): Krishan Singh Ramgarhia of Punjab has earned a name as a maker of Sarangis, the traditional bowed string instrument used during Gurubani recitation and musical concerts. Sixty three-year-old artist Krishan Singh Ramgarhia's claim to fame is...

New York, Nov 30 (IANS) In what the police say may have been a hate crime, a Sikh taxi driver was brutally assaulted in Seattle by a passenger. More...

Contaminated ground water in the Indian state of Punjab is causing cancer in people, a study says. More...

Contaminated ground water in the Indian state of Punjab is causing cancer in people, a study says. More...

MUMBAI, Nov 29 - Punjab Chemicals & Crop Protection Ltd said on Thursday its board approved alloting 1.51 million warrants convertible to equity shares at 136 rupees each. More...

Shimla, Nov 29 (IANS) 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...

The CBI has virtually given a clean chit to Congress leader Jagdish Tytler in the 1984 anti-Sikh riot case, saying it has ‘no evidence’ or ‘witness’ to establish his complicity in the riots. Tytler had earlier been implicated by two judicial commissions for allegedly masterminding the Sikh...

Punjab won the second prize at the India International Trade Fair 2007 at Pargati Maidan, New Delhi. While disclosing this here on Tuesday, media advisor to the chief minister Harcharan Bains said that the jury, constituted by India Trade Promotion Organisation, has made the declaration of the...

By Ravinder Singh Robin Amritsar, Nov 27 (ANI): Sikh leaders of various countries on Tuesday met Pakistan's caretaker Prime Minister Muhammad Mian Soomro in Islamabad and urged him to set up a visa centre in Amritsar. They also asked for providing a corridor for Gurdwara Kartarpur Sahib, where...

Islamabad, Nov 25 (ANI): Police detained hundreds of supporters of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ahead of his return from exile, his party has said. In a crackdown that began late Saturday, some 1,800 activists of the PML-N were detained in Punjab, party spokesman Ahsan Iqbal said. There...

A MEET your Sikh neighbour event is being held in the Capital today as part of Inter-Faith Week. More...

A MEET your Sikh neighbour event is being held in the Capital today as part of Inter-Faith Week. More...

Chandigarh, Nov 24 (ANI): Pakistan Radio comments criticising Sikh leadership has evoked displeasure among members of the community here. Sikhs, particularly those living along the border, have questioned the credentials of Pakistan Radio. What has upset them are comments like "Sikh leadership...

By Sunil Sharma / Karan Kapoor Chandigarh, Nov 24 (ANI): Just like fashion, online gaming fever is now gripping young minds in Punjab. After a tiring day at school, playing on computer is one of the coolest relaxing activities for eight-year-old Khusi Sood. She accesses the internet and goes...

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...