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86-year-old Sikh pilgrim visited his birth place in Pakistan after 64 years By Gurpreet Singh Mehak FATEHGARH SAHIB: A Sikh pilgrim Nidhan Singh(86) who along with his daughter is visiting currently Pakistan to mark Baisakhi was allowed to visit his birth place in Jehlum region of...

Kristin M. Swenson, Ph.D. Author, 'Bible Babel: Making Sense of the Most Talked About Book of All Time' "Did you know," a bright-eyed young woman breathlessly exclaimed to me, "that when King James wrote the Bible, he didn't actually put everything in?!" I was riding the D.C. metro a...

Panghali gets life sentence in wife's killing No chance of parole for 15 years CBC News Posted: Mar 25, 2011 9:15 AM PT Last Updated: Mar 25, 2011 10:24 AM PT Mukhtiar Panghali listens to the prosecutor during his trial in which he is charged with murdering his wife. ((CBC))...

(CNN) -- If the moon looks a little bit bigger and brighter this weekend, there's a reason for that. It is. Saturday's full moon will be a super "perigee moon" -- the biggest in almost 20 years. This celestial event is far rarer than the famed blue moon, which happens once about every...

Mar 16, 2011 In 20 years, 20% more men than women Kounteya Sinha, TNN | Mar 16, 2011, 03.05am IST NEW DELHI: India will have 20% more men than women in the next two decades, thanks to sex-selective abortion and craze for male child in some states, according to a new study...

As the Afghan government and its international allies intensify efforts to bring the conflict to an end, the role and influence of mystics is being sought to help bring the Taliban into talks on a political solution. Sufism or Islamic mysticism was once suppressed by the Taliban, but the sect...

781 Punjab girls go missing in 10 years Aman Sood Tribune News Service <TABLE border=1 cellSpacing=0 borderColor=#e9f2f8 cellPadding=3 width=100 align=right><TBODY><TR><TD width="100%"> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> Patiala, February 24 Despite Punjab Government’s tall claims to save girl...

Chandigarh February 18: 26 years after Sikhs were killed in organized and systematic attacks across India, a crime scene consisting of a complete village of torched houses, burnt Gurudwara and scattered human bones was discovered at the site of village Hondh-Chillar, in District Rewari...

ABBOTSFORD – Sikh Research Institute (SikhRI) headed to Abbotsford, British Columbia (BC), to participate in the first series of events as part of a year-long celebration of the Gur Sikh Temple, the oldest standing gurduara in Canada. On the way north, there was also a stop in the Pacific...

http://www.merinews.com/article/global-muslim-population-to-grow-at-double-rate-of-non-muslims-in-next-20-yrs/15841095.shtml Global Muslim population to grow at 'double rate' of non-Muslims in next 20-yrs The world's Muslim population is expected to grow at about twice the rate of the...

Air India Bomber Gets Nine Years For Perjury THE TORONTO STAR - January 07, 2011 Inderjit Singh Reyat, the only man ever convicted in the Air India bombings of 1985, waits outside B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver, B.C., on Friday September 10, 2010. DARRYL DYCK/THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER...

Bradley Manning will wake up tomorrow, at a military base in Virginia, to his 189th day in custody for the alleged leak of more than 250,000 diplomatic cables to WikiLeaks. Manning, 23, a US army intelligence analyst brought up in the Oklahoma Bible belt and west Wales, is locked up with...

Waheguru ji ka Khalsa Waheguru ji ki Fateh Our Toronto (Canada) circle has launched on line moral education course, brief of which is given below: Eligibility: Children age group 10-18 years Duration : Six months Fees: No fee On sucessful completion, the students will be...

(AP) -- FORT JACKSON, S.C. (AP) - The first Sikh to go through U.S. Army basic combat training in 30 years is graduating at a South Carolina military installation, just hours after becoming an American citizen. Spc. Simran Lamba was completing his training Wednesday at Fort Jackson outside...

Layers of dust on old paintings, rusting weapons of historical importance, dirty floors of the rooms housing rare artifacts and an almost crumbling heritage building — this is what greet you at the Anglo-Sikh War Memorial located on the banks of Ferozeshah canal here. It goes without saying that...

India win second track gold medal after a 52-year wait India surprisingly won the women’s 4x400m relay yesterday at the Commonwealth Games, with Ashwini Akkunji overtaking a Nigerian opponent just before the final handoff and Mandeep Kaur sprinting to victory. The gold was only the second on...

http://www.hindustantimes.com/China-has-no-regrets-about-one-child-rule/Article1-604684.aspx An only child, Vicky Zhang is almost as old as China's one-child policy that turned 30 this weekend. But...

Posted for SPN member Tejwant Singh ji Malik Jupiter Making Closest Approach To Earth In Nearly 50 Years MARCIA DUNN | 09/17/10 06:14 PM | The planet Jupiter is seen in an undated handout file image provided by NASA, released Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009, taken by the refurbished Hubble...

25 years after Rajiv-Longowal Accord Badal scuttled it, says Arjun; no, it was treachery: Badal Kamlendra Kanwar The Tribune - August 20, 2010 Editorial: Exclusive Sant Harchand Singh Longowal flanked by GS Tohra (R) and PS Badal hours before he was assassinated. (right) Longowal with...

Posted on August 7, 2010 under Amritsar, Punjab: A Tarn Taran family alleged on Friday that 75year-old Subegh Singh has died at the PGIMER due to police torture and demanded action against the officials. Baldev Singh, son of the deceased, said that Tarn Taran police picked up his father from...