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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. More...

Chandigarh, Nov 23 (IANS) 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. More...

Chandigarh, Nov 23 (IANS) 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...

New Delhi, Nov 23 (ANI): Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari and Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh today greeted the nation on the occasion of Guru Nanak's birthday, which will be celebrated on Saturday. Extending greetings to the people in his message, Ansari said that Guru Nakak Dev Ji, the...

MUMBAI, Nov 22 - Punjab Chemicals & Crop Protection Ltd said on Thursday its board would meet on November 29 to consider raising funds though debt or equity. More...

MUMBAI, Nov 22 - Punjab Chemicals & Crop Protection Ltd said on Thursday its board would meet on November 29 to consider raising funds though debt or equity. More...

The election for the next president of the Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC), the world's richest Sikh organisation, takes place Friday and speculation is rife on whether sitting president Avtar Singh Makkar, a protege of Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, will make the cut...

Amritsar, Nov 22 (IANS) The election for the next president of the Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC), the world's richest Sikh organisation, takes place Friday and speculation is rife on whether sitting president Avtar Singh Makkar, a protege of Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh...

Early next week, when Punjab and Haryana High Court senior advocate Daya Chaudhary takes oath as an additional judge of the High Court, she will make history in two states notorious for their poor sex ratio. In its history of over 88 years-the High Court was established on March 31, 1919 at...

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...

Amritsar, Nov 21 (IANS) 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...

By Ravinder Singh Robin Amritsar, Nov 21 (ANI): Over three thousand Indian Sikh pilgrims left for Pakistan on Wednesday to attend the celebration of 538th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev. The Sikh community is celebrating this auspicious occasion on November 24. The groups left for Nankana...

London, Nov 21 (IANS) 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 (IANS) 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...

Nobody can match the doggedness of the Punjab Police. Since 1973, they have been pursuing a case of buffalo theft till three months ago when the two accused, natives of a village near Jalandhar, were sent behind bars. On Tuesday, the Punjab and Haryana High Court came to the rescue of the two...

New York, Nov 20 (IANS) 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 (IANS) 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...

Governor of Punjab, Lt. Gen. (Retd) Khalid Maqbool said that health and prosperity can be brought into every home in Pakistan by providing pure milk through the adoption of a modern milk processing system and the best breeding of cattle. More...

By Ravinder Singh Robin Yuba City (California), Nov.19 (ANI): Sikhs have been a part of the American landscape for over 130 years. And, the Yuba Sutter area has some of the best agricultural land is known for the largest Sikh population of farm owners. A visit to Yuba city that commemorated the...

The cash-strapped Punjab Government, whose revenue collection is at an all-time low, has decided to sell off its properties and land under the recently revived Optimum Utilisation of Vacant Government Land (OUVGL) Scheme. The Government hopes to mop up Rs 2,000 crore from this exercise. This...