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New Delhi, July 26 (IANS) The Punjab government Thursday moved the Supreme Court to stop neighbouring Haryana from building a water channel off the Bhakhra canal to irrigate its farming land. More...

By P S Mitha Devivada (Punjab), July 26 (ANI): Farmers in Punjab's Faridkot District are using locally brewed liquor as pesticide to get better yield of their crops. According to farmers, it is not only cheap but gives better results than pesticides available in the market. Farmers claim...

Ranchi, July 26 (IANS) The Sikh community in Jharkhand has taken out processions in different parts of the state and have demanded the removal of Health Minister Bhanu Pratap Shahi over his reported remarks disparaging the community. More...

Chicago, July 26 (IANS) A teenager was charged with the murder of a Sikh cab driver whose burnt body was found early this month in Seattle. More...

Amrit Singh Rai, once a prominent Sikh activist, was sentenced to three years in a federal prison on Wednesday for robbing a bank in Surrey, B.C., last October. More...

AN effort is on to make PAU, the lungs of the city, even greener. Van Mahautsav was organised by the university authorities today to increase the green cover on the campus. Dr MS Kang planted 'neem' on the campus to mark the occasion. Speaking at the function, Dr Kang said Punjab cannot dream to...

Hoshiarpur (Punjab), July 25 (IANS) Monica Bedi, who walked free Wednesday after spending five years behind bars in Portugal and India, reached her ancestral village Chabewal in Punjab where she was born in 1976. More...

MUMBAI, July 25 (Reuters) - Punjab Chemicals & Crop Protection Ltd. said on Wednesday its board approved raising up to 4 billion rupees. More...

Chandigarh, July 25 (IANS) Punjab, Haryana and the union territory of Chandigarh have decided to jointly market the region for making it a knowledge and information technology hub. More...

New Delhi, July 25 (IANS) Thanking the Indian government for speedy clearance of his group's joint refinery project in Punjab, London-based steel mogul L.N. Mittal Wednesday injected Rs.5 billion ($120 million) in the company that would set up the $4.6 billion venture. More...

Toronto, July 25 (IANS) A Sikh group has slammed the long-standing Canadian immigration policy that forces Sikhs with the surname Singh or Kaur to change their last names if they want to migrate to the country. More...

The Division Bench of Punjab and Haryana High Court comprising Chief Justice Vijender Jain and Justice Mahesh Grover expressed shock over the manner in which the common village land, shamlat land, at Kansal village got mutated in favour of VVIPs like Sumedh Singh Saini, who is Director of...

A day after the unusual order by Justice Uma Nath Singh of the Punjab and Haryana High Court directing the CBI to send Advocate Tahar Singh to a mental asylum created a furore in the legal fraternity, the High Court Bar Association announced an indefinite boycott of the judge and demanded his...

Dera Sikh clash near Sirsa erupt again More...

Mallawala (Sirsa), July 24 (ANI): Dera Sacha Sauda sect followers and Sikhs clashed in Mallawala village in Haryana's Sirsa District on Tuesday. At least eight people were injured. Trouble began when some Sikhs objected to a congregation of Dera followers. Sikhs, however, alleged that the Dera...

Sirsa (Haryana), July 24 (IANS) At least eight people were injured Tuesday after gunshots were fired in a clash between followers of the Dera Sacha Sauda sect and members of the Sikh community in a village close to this Haryana town. More...

A Team of Punjab government officials, including four senior IAS officials, are on a three-day visit to Gujarat to study the state's urban development plan and replicate it in their own state. The officials were on Monday shown a film on the urbanisation policy of the state. They were also given...

Chandigarh, July 23 (IANS) The Punjab and Haryana High Court Monday directed the Punjab government and its vigilance wing to produce Bharat Inder Singh Chahal, an aide of former chief minister Amarinder Singh, before it Tuesday to ascertain allegations of torture levelled by him. More...

MUMBAI, July 23 (Reuters) - Indian private sector lender Centurion Bank of Punjab said on Monday its board had approved setting up a subsidiary to undertake pension funds management. More...

The sprawling lounge at the Punjab Cricket Association (PCA) pavilion proudly displays a group photograph of 1992-93 with a beaming Gursharan Singh posing in front of the Ranji Trophy. It was his first year as skipper and that, incidentally, remains the only season when Punjab went on to win the...