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Punjab minister sentenced to jail for car misuse
Days after Bibi Jagir Kaur, the lone woman cabinet minister in Punjab, was jailed for five years, the Akali-BJP government led by chief minister Parkash Singh Badal got another jolt after another cabinet minister faced conviction for misusing the official machinery.
Agriculture minister Tota Singh was sentenced to one year in jail. The minister, however, got bail enabling him to approach a higher court....
The memorial will come up near Gurdwara Thara Sahib in the Golden Temple
Twenty-eight years after the Army stormed into the Golden Temple complex to evict Sikh hardliners led by Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, the SGPC executive at a meeting in Anandpur Sahib today approved Operation Bluestar Memorial.
The memorial will come up near Gurdwara Thara Sahib in the Golden Temple complex. The SGPC House had given the green signal to the memorial a decade back and the matter had been...
Badal in race for Vice-President’s post?
The name of Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal is doing the rounds as a potential candidate for the post of the Vice-President of India.
Sources in the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) said the party has not so far received any official communication from the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) to field Badal as the alliance nominee, but politicians in Punjab have started debating if he would be willing...
Expelled Bains brothers to rejoin Akali Dal?
LUDHIANA: The Bains brothers who had been expelled from Shiromani Akali Dal during the Punjab assembly elections are going to make a comeback to the party. As the civic polls are approaching, the brothers declared that their coming back is just a formality as they never had any differences with the party high command.
Simarjit Singh Bains and his brother Balwinder Singh had contested independently...
Work on Operation Bluestar memorial to begin soon
AMRITSAR: Work on the memorial to Operation Bluestar could start before what Sikhs call the “Genocide Day”, observed every year on June 6 to mark the Army operation at Golden Temple.
Sources said the five-member committee constituted by the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee to prepare a draft proposal for the memorial is ready with its report, which would be submitted to the executive...
Private school bans wearing turban in Shimla, Singh Sabha says
SHIMLA: The 18-year-old Sikh boy studying in a Christian private school in Shimla was banned wearing a turban in the school, said Guru Singh Sabha, Shimla, an apex body of the Sikhs in the capital of the state.
“A Sikh boy studying in plus 2 class in St. Edward’s School here in Shimla was denied wearing turban. The Guru Singh Sabha wrote a letter to the Principal in the Month of March when the...
Amritsar Jaspal’s ‘bhog’ held peacefully amid tight security in, around Gurdaspur
The ‘bhog’ ceremony of Jaspal Singh (18), who was killed in police firing on March 29, passed off peacefully at his native village Chorh Sidhwan, 7 km from here, on Saturday. Gurdaspur was converted into a virtual police cantonment due to elaborate security arrangements made by the administration in and around the town, with shops opening during the day.
As a precautionary measure, all...
Security beefed up in Gurdaspur ahead of youth’s ‘bhog’
Over 2,000 personnel of Punjab Police and para-military BSF and CRPF have been deployed in Gurdaspur to prevent any untoward incident during the ‘bhog’ ceremony of Jaspal Singh (18), who was killed in police firing during a bandh in the town on March 29, at Chor Sidhwan village, 7km from here on
Saturday.
Gurdaspur SSP Surinder Kumar Kalia maintained on Friday that police would not prevent...
