In a show of strength during its public rally at Maur Mandi on Thursday, Shiromani Akali Dal, a key ally of the NDA, has set the political agenda for the coming Lok Sabha elections in 2014. Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal called upon the people to give a befitting reply to the “discriminatory and apathetic attitude” of the Congress-led UPA Government by showing them the door to install... 

MANSA: In an apparent setback for the Congress, former Congress MLA Mangat Rai Bansal joined the Shiromani Akali Dal on Tuesday. Considered a firebrand Hindu leader of the district, Bansal was elected as Congress MLA in 2007 elections from Budhlada in Mansa, but had lost to SAD’s Janmeja Singh Sekhon in 2012 elections from Maur assembly segment. News Source: Times of India  Read More »

A month-long campaign for early detection of cancer will be launched on a pilot basis in Faridkot district of Punjab on October 2. The door-to-door campaign would be extended in the entire state during December, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal said today. The campaign, which will involve over 50,000 personnel, will seek to create awareness about early symptoms for detection of the disease. The massive... 

A complaint has been filed in a court here against Bollywood actor-producer Ajay Devgn for allegedly maligning and defaming Sikhs in his upcoming film “Son of Sardar”. The complaint, filed by one Ravinder Singh who claims to be a member of a sikh organisation Sikhi Sidak, seeks action against Devgn and the film’s director Ashwini Dhir for hurting religious sentiments of the sikh... 

Priest who was one of the founders of Derby’s first Sikh temple has died, aged 102. Amarjit Singh Banga helped raise money to establish the Guru Arjan Dev Ji Gurdwara, which opened in Shaftesbury Street in 1969. He was also a devoted family man who had four sons, two daughters, 12 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. His grandson, Rajdeep Banga, said he became a “prominent figure” in... 

Karnal, September 12 Additional district and sessions judge of Karnal Ravi Sondhi today convicted Baksheesh Singh, main accused in the blast on the convoy of Dera Sacha Sauda chief on February 2 , 2008, and two other accused Swaran Singh and Mahinder Singh and sentenced them to 10 years’ imprisonment. The court also convicted four other accused and sentenced them to seven years’ imprisonment and... 

It’s a day woman constable Pramila Padhi won’t be able to erase from memory even if Congress leader “Jagdish Tytler apologises profusely”. Three days after she was chased and overpowered by a mob of Congressmen on the road leading to Orissa Assembly during the Parivartan Samavesh of Orissa Pradesh Congress Committee, Padhi (39) breaks into cold sweat when she remembers the moment. Doctors have... 

Senior Congress leaders Jagdish Tytler and Niranjan Patnaik were on Saturday booked by the police for the clash between party supporters and policemen during a rally that left over 260 people injured in Bhubaneswar, with the Congress filing a counter FIR against BJD President Naveen Patnaik and related stories the police. “Cases have been registered against several Congress leaders including... 

A day after a youth allegedly shot at a suspect in a lock-up at the Sahnewal police station, the police beefed up security in Sahnewal and surrounding areas on Saturday. They also held a flag march in Sahnewal, Focal Point, Dhandhari, Jamalpur and Sherpur area. The police have related stories man hurt in firing in police station deployed around 500 personnel in these areas to avoid any untoward incident.... 

Sikh farmers settled in Gujarat have accused the Narendra Modi government of harassing them by taking drastic measures to take over their agricultural land cultivated by them for decades. A delegation of these ryots, some of them born in Kutch district of Gujarat, has gone to their home states of Punjab and Haryana to sensitise the two state governments about the gravity of the situation after the...