Finding fault with the SGPC’s move to challenge the Punjab and Haryana High Court’s decision revoking voting rights of Sehajdharis, the Sehajdhari Sikh Party on Sunday claimed that SGPC secretary is “not a valid authority” to file a plea in the apex court. SGPC secretary Dalmegh Singh has filed a special leave petition in the Supreme Court challenging HC’s judgment dated December 20, 2011,... 

Kishori Lal (48), lodged in Tihar Jail since 1996, will soon be a free man. Lal, convicted of multiple murders in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in Delhi, is serving life term. Acting on the recommendations of the state Sentence Review Board (SRB), Lieutenant-Governor (L-G) Tejendra Khanna recently commuted the sentence of Lal and 14 other life convicts to give them a chance to “reform and rehabilitate... 

Members of the Canada-based Nach Baliye dance group, which is actively working against the menace of dowry and female foeticide, reached Khalsa College here today to motivate students to take a ‘No Dowry’ pledge. More than 300 students of the college participated in this international anti-dowry campaign that was initiated by Dr Harshinder Kaur in Canada. She, along with her husband, was... 

Candidates of the People’s Party of Punjab (PPP) today opined that in case of a hung assembly, the party should not join hands with any of the mainstream parties, the Congress or the SAD. They told the party leadership that they should insist on re-election. PPP chief Manpreet Singh Badal had convened a meeting of party candidates and office-bearers here today. Even as the candidates hoped to win... 

Home News Education News Smethwick could be set for Sikh ethos free school by Kat Keogh, Birmingham PostFeb 9 2012 inShare.1 5The West Midlands could be set for another Sikh ethos free school after parents and teachers revealed proposals for a new school for four to 19-year-olds. A consortium of parents, teachers and other education professionals are preparing to submit an application to the Department... 

Jalandhar, Feb 12 (PTI) The Doaba region of Punjab, know for the high rate of migration to foreign countries, is witnessing a rise in number of people being deported after falling victim to illegal racketeeres who promise high paying jobs at foreign shores. Nearly 45 per cent of the total number of Punjabis who go abroad in search of better jobs are from this region, which is often called the “NRI... 

Predicting a hung assembly in Punjab, People’s Party of Punjab supremo Manpreet Singh Badal today claimed no political outfit would be able to form a government in the state without his party’s support. Manpreet along with his father Gurdas Singh Badal was here to express grief over the demise of PPP’s Bathinda (Urban) constituency candidate Sukhdeep Singh Bhinder’s father... 

AMRITSAR: Jathedar of Akal Takht, Giani Gurbachan Singh, has asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to consider severing of diplomatic and economic ties with France until its government gives the right to wear turban to the minuscule Sikh community of France. In the light of United Nations Human Rights Committee’s (UNHRC) directions to French government to take remedial measures for violation of... 

LAHORE: Record yield of 19 million tonnes wheat, 3.3 million tonnes rice and 43 million tonnes sugarcane has been witnessed in Punjab during the year 2010-11 following a policy of the provincial government to provide maximum facilities to the farmers, said Punjab Agriculture Minister Ahmed Ali Aulak while talking to media here on Thursday. He said that total production of wheat in 2007-08 was 15 million... 

CHANDIGARH: Potatoes from Punjab are turning globetrotters. While last year the state supplied these tubers to Russia, this time, growers are eyeing Europe as a market. A three-member European Union (EU) food and veterinary office audit team is touring Punjab to examine whether state’s potato crop is pest-free. As part of that, the team met principal secretary (agriculture and Markfed). Director...