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Punjab Newsline Network Friday, 06 August 2010 CHANDIGARH: Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal sought personal intervention of Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh to ensure complete security and safety of Sikh Community in wake of ongoing turmoil in Kashmir valley and its impact on the...

PARIS: The Sikh Organisation for Prisoner Welfare (SOPW)denounces the illegal abduction and detention of Sikh Civil Rights campaigner Pal Singh in Punjab, India. Balbir Singh Bains Chairman of the Sikh Organisation for Prisoner Welfare said the 54 year old French National, who has...

Chandigarh, Aug 4 (IANS) The exit of a seven-year-old participant from the “India’s Got Talent” reality show after judge Sajid Khan commmented that the martial arts dance form he performed was too violent has angererd Sikh groups in Punjab. ‘Gatka’ (a traditional martial arts dance form of the...

PDRM Waiting For Official Request To Track Down Sikh Militants <!--By: Ramjit --> <!-- You are not an authorised user. Please contact us 03-20504478 immediately so we may assist you.-->KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 1 (Bernama) -- Malaysian police (PDRM) is waiting for an official request from...

Once again we are hearing tell of the imminent danger of Sikh militants. The connection between Malaysian and the Commonwealth games is has been made once more - though initially these were separate reports. What is Patiala police chief Senior Superintendent Ranbir Singh getting at with the...

Amritsar: Punjab police on Saturday recovered 15 kg of RDX 3 detonators, a sub-machine gun along with its cartridges following the interrogation of an arrested terrorist of Sikh separatist outfit Babbar Khalsa International (BKI). The special operation cell of Punjab police's intelligence...

CHICAGO(USA): Institute for Conflict and Peace Studies (IFCAPS) in collaboration with Asian American Seniors Association (AASA) and Akal Foundation (Chicago) organized a special function in honor of Sheikh Ajhar Ehsan, a most revered person among Pakistani Sikhs. The debate focused on...

Punjab: An environmental toxicity hotspot heading towards death? Dr Amar Singh Azad - South Asia Post - July 31, 2010 IT is increasingly becoming obvious that Punjab is turning into a hotspot of Environmental Toxicity. We have more than two hundred dangerous chemicals in our environment...

Jagmohan Singh Thursday, 29 July 2010 AMRITSAR: Director General Schools Krishan Kumar of Punjab Government department of Education along with other officials including Joginder Singh, Parkash Singh, Jasbir Singh and Ashok Kumar here Thursday appeared before Sikh High priest Jatehdar...

'Valmiki' and 'Mazhabi' Sikhs on Sunday called off their proposed bandh on July 27 after being assured that the Punjab government would file a petition in the Supreme Court seeking restoration of 12.5 per cent quota for them in various jobs and educational institutions. An assurance to...

The repeat of devastation of Sindhu Valley Civilization By Umendra Dutt About two years ago my friend the famous singer Rabbi Shergill in one of his Punjabi article says “There is no doubt that it was just because of a major environmental change that the great civilization of Indus valley had...

Chandigarh: The Punjab government has suggested that the Centre delete the names of all black-listed Sikhs, except for the 28 persons facing criminal cases in the state for militancy. The Punjab government has found that out of the 169 persons listed by the Centre, there were only 28 who...

The jobless of Punjab find a new way to government jobs — threaten suicide from atop high water tanks AS SHE looked down at thousands of people below, and at news cameras broadcasting her story through the country, Kiranjit Kaur Attwal, 27, knew she would have to die. She had...

NEW DELHI: A day after Punjab Police arrested four Sikh militants in Ludhiana district, the intelligence agencies here on Monday submitted reports to the home ministry, stating that a number of former Khalistani militants based in Germany had been trying to revive militancy in the state...

I would like to point out that the headline used by this news organization is misleading, bordering on fraud. The headline states Tat Khalsa supports terrorist activity, when the article text states that nowhere and instead names Babbar Khalsa. Tat Khalsa and Babbar Khalsa are not...

In a significant but secret move, the Punjab government has recommended deletion of the names of 46 people from the Centre’s ‘black list’, including top Khalistan protagonists and former militants, who have been found to uninvolved in any criminal case. Of these, 39 are Punjab-origin foreign...

money, ask Indians in Canada The Punjab government's decision to seek $143 million from Canada for forcibly sending back 376 passengers - mostly Sikhs - of the Komagata Maru ship in 1914, has not found much favour in the Indo-Canadian community. [/COLOR The Komagata Maru was a...

Chandigarh, July 13 (IANS) Political failure led to the spread of terrorism in Punjab in the eighties and Pakistani involvement in it came only at a 'later stage', former police chief K.P.S. Gill, credited with stamping out terrorism from Punjab in the late 1980s and early 1990s, has said. Gill...

Political failure led to spread of terror in Punjab: K.P.S. Gill Punjab Newsline Network Tuesday, 13 July 2010 : Political failure led to the spread of terrorism in Punjab in the eighties and Pakistani involvement in it came only at a "later stage", former police chief K.P.S. Gill...

Family Donates Art, Jewelry to Asian Art Museum T.S and Jogi Khanna recently donated to the museum a chunni, 3 chogas and gold jewelry that were worn during the marriage of T.S Khanna's grandfather, Dr. Sewa Singh, to his wife in 1915. Singh...