New Delhi A delegation of the Shiromani Akali Dal led by its president Sukhbir Singh Badal has met Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and requested him to examine the case of Sikh soldiers, who left their barracks during Operation Bluestar in 1984. The SAD has asked the Defence Minister to dealRead More

Bathinda Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Monday said the Centre will reimburse expenditure incurred on accommodating first batch of MBBS students of AIIMS Bathinda at the Baba Farid University of Health Sciences (BFUHS) in Faridkot. In a statement here, Harsimrat said the union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan informed herRead More

Fazilka The Deputy Commissioner’s office in Fazilka has issued instructions to its employees to follow a dress code or face action. A letter issued today said Fazilka DC Manpreet Singh had noticed some male employees coming to office in T-shirts and some women without dupatta. “The employees are hereby instructedRead More

New Delhi The Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) has set up an eco friendly, fully computerised four colour offset printing press to print copies of the Sikh holy scripture Guru Granth Sahib to meet the growing demand worldwide. The Committee supplies Sikh religious books and literature to NRI sikhsRead More

Lahore Pakistan’s Punjab government has removed English as a medium of instruction from primary schools and reintroduced Urdu, saying teachers and students waste most of their time in translation. The new directive will come into effect in over 60,000 public schools of the province from the next academic session beginningRead More

Chandigarh Capt Amarinder Singh-led Congress government has set the ball rolling for the elections to chairpersons and vice-chairpersons of 22 Zila Parsihads and 150 Panchayat Samitis in the state. After sorting out the issue of reservation of wards, in consultation with the MLAs, the state government today notified the PunjabRead More

Mohali A loaf of bread a day was the price that Soma Devi (name changed) had to pay for weathering physical and mental torture in Kuwait. Soma of Dhariwal in Gurdaspur district was recently rescued from there. Because of the traumatic experience in Kuwait, she showed no reaction even afterRead More

New Delhi The Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) has invited prominent religious and political figures from Punjab and Haryana to join the nagar kirtan from Delhi to Nankana Sahib in Pakistan on October 13. DSGMC chief Manjinder Singh Sirsa has already invited Akal Takht Jathedar Giani Harpreet Singh. Meanwhile,Read More

Chandigarh Former minister Navjot Singh Sidhu continues to stay away from government functioning, although he is meeting party workers and supporters from his constituency Amritsar (East). The cricketer-turned-politician abstained from a high-level meeting called by Local Bodies Minister Brahm Mohindra to review the progress of ongoing development works being carriedRead More

Chandigarh The state on Thursday assured Rajasthan of soon taking up the repair work of Indira Gandhi and Bhakra canals. The issue surfaced in a meeting between CM Capt Amarinder Singh and his Rajasthan counterpart Ashok Gehlot. The meeting was held on the sidelines of the Regional Conference on DrugRead More