TV presenter and journalist Hardeep Singh Kohli is urging Leicester Mercury readers to sign up to the bone marrow register. The presenter spoke out in support of a recruitment drive by blood cancer charity Anthony Nolan to add 3,000 Asian people to the database by March next year. Leicester police officer Rik Basra, who is recovering from leukaemia after undergoing a transplant of donated blood stem... 

Raja Malwinder Singh, who parted ways with his elder brother and Punjab Congress president Capt Amarinder Singh just before the January 30 assembly polls, has claimed that he is being ignored by the party he joined – the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD). Malwinder, a scion of the Patiala royal family, said he was not being invited to functions organised by the SAD as well as the Punjab government.... 

The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Thursday granted bail to former Akali minister Bibi Jagir Kaur seven months after she was jailed for forcible abduction, kidnapping and wrongful confinement in connection with the killing of her daughter Harpreet Kaur. While granting bail to her, a division bench of the court comprising Justice Ajay Kumar Mittal and Justice G.S. Sandhawalia directed Kaur to seek... 

LONDON – International Panthic Dal (I.P.D) urges all to sign November 1984 Genocide Petition. petitioning the prime minister Manmohan Singh to be delivered on 3rd November 2012 by Senior Advocate HS Phulka and Jarnail Singh (Journalist). Sign here The genocide of Sikhs in 1984 has raised questions about the secular character of our country and about democracy and the rule of law. It is with... 

Pakistan has accorded the status of ‘holy city’ to Nankana Sahib – the birthplace of Guru Nanak Dev, the first Sikh guru. Nankana Sahib is one of the most revered pilgrimage destinations for Sikhs around the world. Pakistan interior minister Rehman Malik made the announcement at a dinner hosted recently for a delegation of Indian lawyers, comprising bar representatives, at a hotel... 

THE RECENT attack in London on Lt Gen (retd) KS Brar, who led soldiers and tanks into the Golden Temple during 1984’s Operation Blue Star, and the Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee’s decision to honour the killers of former army chief Gen AS Vaidya by building a memorial have made many people wonder whether these incidents signal the resurgence of the Khalistan insurgency. Former Punjab... 

Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) general secretary and spokesman Prem Singh Chandumajra on Friday blamed Punjab’s Congress leaders for the non-payment of drought relief to the state by the Centre. Talking to mediapersons here, Chandumajra said union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar had announced to provide a drought relief package to Punjab in New Delhi as well as during his visit to the state for... 

Lord Indarjit Singh, the first member of the House of Lords to wear a turban, has been presented with the Punjab Ratan (Jewel of Punjab) award by the World Punjabi Organisation (WPO) in recognition of his contribution to promoting Punjabi culture, heritage and inter-faith services. Grant Shapps, MP, and Lord Andrew Feldman, co-Chairs of the Conservative Party, presented the award to Lord Indarjit Singh... 

Chief minister Parkash Singh Badal has asked the Congress leadership to refrain from playing with fire by amending the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Act, 1971, which could disturb the hard-earned peace of the state. Talking to mediapersons after inaugurating the Punjab Institute of Technology (PIT) here on Saturday, the chief minister said the move to amend the Act by Delhi was a testimony to the fact that the... 

AMRITSAR: The attack on Lt Gen (retd) KS Brar renewed the debate on Punjab government’s decision to allow the construction of a memorial dedicated to militants killed during the Operation Bluestar in Amritsar’s Golden Temple in 1984. Though the construction is going on in full swing, the Sikh community is still divided over it. The ruling Shiromani Akali Dal (B) has been giving tacit support...