With RSS hardliner Bakshi Ram Arora (70) being ‘unanimously’ elected the Amritsar Mayor, the junior partner in the ruling alliance in Punjab, the Bharatiya Janata Party, has finally managed to force the stand it had taken on the Shiromani Akali Dal. In the 65-member Amritsar Municipal Corporation, SAD with 25 seats has a slight edge over the BJP, which has 24 members. However, instead of the saffron... 

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... 

UK: Sikhs are demanding the amendment of the Article 25 of the Indian Constitution as it currently states “reference to Hindus shall be construed as including a reference to persons professing the Sikh, Jaina or Buddhist religion, and the reference to Hindu religious institutions shall be construed accordingly” For some time now, the Sikh community have been demanding the change of this article... 

Mandeep Singh Khattra and his family received Michelle Obama with an embrace Thursday as the first lady consoled relatives of worshippers gunned down earlier this month at a Sikh temple in suburban Milwaukee. “She gave us a hug and said, ‘I’m sorry for what happened,’” said Khattra, 26, whose grandfather, Suveg Singh Khattra, was one of six people killed Aug. 5. “She... 

First lady Michelle Obama is scheduled to travel to Wisconsin Thursday to meet with family members of those killed and injured in a Sikh temple shooting earlier this month, White House officials announced Sunday. The shooting – which left six people dead and four others injured – occurred Aug. 5 in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. The shooter, identified by police as 40-year-old Army veteran Wade Michael... 

AMRITSAR: After evoking sharp criticism from various Sikh organizations, state governments’ Casino plan has met another roadblock after Sant Samaj assembly. Shiromani Gurdwara Parabandhak Committee (SGPC) elections warned the state leadership to review its decision and not go ahead with its plan of making Punjab a den of gambling. Various constituents of Sant Samaj including Damdami Taksal, Nirmalayae,...