For months, Dera Sacha Sauda has been a target of hatred and violence because of the controversial attire and mannerisms that its chief Ram Rahim Singh adopted to emulate 10th Sikh guru Gobind Singh. Over a dozen people died and an attempt was made on Ram Rahim’s life after clashes broke out between Sikhs and [...]
Cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu (BJP) was among 34 candidates who filed their nominations on Wednesday for the nine Lok Sabha seats in Punjab going to the polls on May 13.
Other prominent candidates who filed their papers were Om Parkash Soni (Congress), bureaucrat-turned-politician Som Parkash (BJP) and Gurcharan Singh Ghalib of the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal, [...]
The Punjab and Haryana High Court adjourned till March 6 the hearing on the issue of importance of hair for Sikh in the context of the definition of Sikh as contained in the Sikh Gurdwara Act, 1925, after hearing submissions made by some individuals, including a Sikh scholar.
However, no lawyer appeared due to the going [...]
A team of police personnel from Canada on Tuesday held talks with the top brass of Chandigarh police and CBI here in connection with the bombing of Air India flight ‘Kanishka’ in 1985.
The five-member team is on a visit to Chandigarh and Punjab to probe a few leads in connection with the incident in which [...]
Punjab will introduce crop insurance for all marginal farmers from the next rabi season. The department of food and supplies has generated adequate funds that will be used for the purpose of insurance, without seeking any monetary help from the state government.
Minister for food and supplies Adesh Partap Singh Kairon said all modalities had been [...]
After a bumper wheat crop earlier this year, Punjab and Haryana seem to be heading for a bumper paddy crop as well. Nearly 3.3 million tonnes of paddy was procured in both states till Tuesday evening.Officials from both states Wednesday said paddy arrivals in grain markets across the two states were in full swing.
A Punjab [...]
The Congress-led UPA government has done for the SAD-BJP government what it did not do for its own Chief Minister - Capt Amarinder Singh. It has increased the wheat quota under the Antodaya scheme manifold to ensure the government can sustain the populist “aata-daal†(wheat-pulses) scheme, which was universally accepted to have become a white [...]
The Congress on Monday put up a united show of strength at Lambi in Muktsar district in the heartland of Punjab’s Malwa region where former Chief Minister Amarinder Singh sounded the bugle for the party’s campaign for the next Lok Sabha elections.
Capt. Singh appeared to have picked up the threads from where he left them [...]
Expressing deep concern and terming the case, concerning chargesheeted police officers still being allowed to continue in service, as extremely significant, a division bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court has asked the Punjab government to take it seriously.
The case pertains to a suo moto notice taken by a division bench of the High [...]