Chandigarh On the opening day of the two-day session of the Punjab Vidhan Sabha, as Governor VP Singh Badnore began his address, SAD legislators started raising slogans, waving placards on ‘non-fulfilment’ of promises made in 2017 by the Congress government. Rebel SAD MLA Parminder Dhindsa was conpicuous by his absence.Read More

New Delhi The Centre on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that it had accepted the recommendations of a special investigation team (SIT), headed by retired Delhi High Court judge Justice SN Dhingra which had probed 186 cases of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, and that it would take appropriate action asRead More

Muktsar Akali Dal holds conference, other parties stay away In the face of rebellion from senior party leaders, the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) has trained guns at party rebels, who have opened a front against party chief Sukhbir Singh Badal or the Badal family, and said it was wrong toRead More

Washington In an apparent hate crime, a Sikh Gurdwara in the US state of California has been defaced with swastika graffiti. Police officials took statements from the Granthi (priest) of Guru Maneyo Granth Gurdwara Sahib in Orangevale, California. On Monday morning, people saw words “White Power” and a swastika graffitiedRead More

Ferozepur Another drone was spotted by BSF personnel on Monday night along the Indo-Pak border and was opened fire to bring it down, officials said on Tuesday. As per reports, the drone was sighted twice at around 8.48 pm and later around 11.00 pm in the same area. Sources revealedRead More

Chandigarh The Dhindsa father-son duo is defiant against the Shiromani Akali Dal’s decision to suspend them. A day after the SAD core committee suspended and chargesheeted them for anti-party activities, Rajya Sabha MP Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa said the fight was on between the Akali Dal of Sukhbir Badal and theRead More

Chandigarh A day after his ‘missing’ posters surfaced in parts of Gurdaspur constituency, actor-politician Sunny Deol on Monday took to social media to take a dig at his opponents and listed the works he had carried out in his constituency. Posters declaring Deol “missing” have surfaced at a few publicRead More

New Delhi An FIR has been filed against retail giant Amazon India by Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) chief Manjinder Singh Sirsa for ‘hurting’ Sikh community’s sentiments for letting a seller put up toilet mats for sale with Golden Temple’s image on them, the media has reported. The e-commerceRead More

Patiala Despite children in the state having micronutrient dietary deficiency, Punjab could utilise merely 0.45 per cent of the allocated funds under the “Poshan Abhiyaan” — the PM’s flagship programme to improve nutritional outcomes for children, pregnant women and lactating mothers. According to the Union Ministry of Women and ChildRead More

Chandigarh, January 10 Concerned over reports of the eviction faced by 500 Sikhs from a scheduled tribal block in Madhya Pradesh, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Friday decided to send a fact-finding team to ascertain the facts of the matter and ensure that the evacuees are not renderedRead More