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Border Security Force (BSF) expects a large-scale smuggling of heroin into India from Afghanistan via Pakistan. The reason, say BSF officers, is the bumper opium crop in that country and huge money being offered by smugglers to Indian farmers, especially rural women, living in border areas. This...

Chandigarh, Nov 16 (IANS) Paddy purchase in Punjab has hit a high this year, beating last year's figure well before the end of the procurement season and leaving farmers happier with record payments made within 72 hours of purchase. More...

By Ravinder Singh Robin San Jose, (USA), Nov 15 (ANI): In a bid to resolve the Sikh turban issue, particularly at airports, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) in the United States has offered jobs to Sikh youths based in America. A twelve-member TSA delegation led by Edward W...

Amritsar (Punjab), Nov 14 (IANS) The Punjab police Wednesday arrested a Nigerian national Nwabudu Chijioke Dasil and recovered one kilogram of heroin from him. More...

Chandigarh, Nov 14 (IANS) A newly formed British Army kabaddi team will participate in a kabaddi festival in Punjab this month. More...

London, Nov 14 (IANS) Prominent London-based human rights organisation Liberty is mounting a legal challenge against a school in Wales for excluding a Sikh student for wearing a kada, a symbol of Sikhism. More...

London, Nov 14 (ANI): A fourteen-year-old Sikh girl, who was suspended from her school in South Wales for wearing a 'Kara'-- a religious bracelet-- is planning to challenge the matter in the court of law. Sarika Singh, a student of Aberdare Girls' School, was suspended for a week after she...

Chandigarh, Nov 13 (IANS) An eco-friendly building in an integrated forest complex will be the new home of Punjab's forest department. More...

Ludhiana (Punjab), Nov 12 (IANS) A woman in a Punjab village Monday poisoned herself and also her two children. More...

Chandigarh, Nov 12 (IANS) Punjab's Director General of Police N.P.S. Aulakh Monday instructed field officers to monitor activities of former terrorists and their sympathisers in the state. More...

The Punjab government, whose new industrial policy is being framed by international agency, Unido, has decided to "delink" agro processing units from the purview of the proposed industrial policy and come up with a separate agro industrial policy. The decision follows a recent meeting between...

Patiala (Punjab), Nov 10 (IANS) Three members of a family were killed when their Maruti van fell into the Bhakra main line canal while returning after Diwali festival celebrations Friday night. More...

Ludhiana, Nov 10 (IANS) Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal Saturday called upon leaders of all political parties to come forward for the development of the state, saying his government had not unleashed any vendetta against its opponents. More...

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London, Nov 8 (IANS) Sarika Watkins-Singh, the Sikh teenager who has been excluded from her school in south Wales for refusing to remove the 'kada', a symbol of Sikhism, has been backed by the local race equality council. More...

London, Nov 8 (IANS) Sarika Watkins-Singh, the Sikh teenager who has been excluded from her school in south Wales for refusing to remove the 'kada', a symbol of Sikhism, has been backed by the local race equality council. More...

London, Nov 7 (IANS) A Sikh teenager in South Wales has been temporarily barred from attending school after she refused to remove her kara -- a bracelet worn for religious reasons. More...

London, Nov 7 (PTI) A Sikh student of Indian origin has been excluded from her school in Britain for refusing to take off her iron bangle. More...

London, Nov 7 (ANI): A Sikh teenager has been sent back from her school for wearing a Kara (steel bracelet), one of the religious symbols which reminds a Sikh of his or her bondage to the Guru. Sarika Singh (14) refused to remove her Kara because she felt that it is "a constant reminder to her...

Islamabad, Nov 7 (IANS) Seven relatives of a 100-year-old Kashmiri Sikh who died in September and was cremated in Indian Kashmir have arrived in Pakistan to immerse his ashes in the Jhelum river in accordance with his last wish. More...