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Off the cuff proposal: Badal announces new law to stem communal violence
24
February 2010
Hit by the
communal violence in Jalandhar and Batala, and to a lesser extent
elsewhere in Punjab, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has decided
to act... |
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BJP tries new trick, talks soft and mentions poor
24
February 2010
Funny are the
ways of the Hindutva parties. Even as Punjab's ruling Akali Dal led
by the House of Badals has no compunction in joining hands with the
ultranationalist... |
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Three years later, Akali govt sits on pile of tall claims, little progress
17
February 2010
The tall claims
by the Akali Dal government of development, no matter how skewed the
vision of what its notion of development was, are coming apart by
the day. The... |
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Badal gets candid but will he consume food for thought?
17
February 2010
BATHINDA: In a
rare moment of candidness, and in remarks that reflect more on his
own administration than on anything else, Punjab Chief Minister
Prakash Singh Badal has admitted that under his... |
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Sonia Gandhi set to take over governance directly. Well, almost!
17
February 2010
NEW DELHI:
During the first phase of the UPA, Manmohan Singh government was
widely known to be playing second fiddle to the Sonia-Gandhi led
National Advisory... |
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Killer Modi is compared to Ram, Rahim, Jesus by senior official
10
February 2010
DANGS: In a shameful exposeof how deeply communal the Indian
bureaucratic steel frame has become, and how badly rusted is its
soul, Gujarat's CM Narendra... |
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Reforms Sukhbir-Style: DCs given lists of the 40 blessed ones
10
February 2010
CHANDIGARH: Strange are the ways of the Punjab Government run by the
Akali Dal of the Badals. When they announced setting up of an
Admnistrative Reforms... |
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BJP president says Modi best CM in India
3
February 2010
AHMEDABAD:
Punjab's ruling Akali Dal and its leadership may have become thick
skinned enough never to feel ashamed about even the most crudest of
actions and... |
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Hearing on in case against Jagir Kaur
3
February 2010
PATIALA:
A local court here has been regularly hearing the case against Bibi
Jagir Kaur in which she stands accused of killing her own daughter
Harpreet Kaur in... |
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Sukhbir tells his partymen whom to learn from, it's Congress
3
February 2010
CHANDIGARH: Now, this was touching, and oh, so very hilarious. Akali
Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal wants his party's rank and file to
learn, from all the people... |
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RSS wants Sikhs to make changes in Guru Granth Sahib
27January 2010
AMRITSAR/FREMONT: It should come as no surprise, but even then is
nevertheless been seen as a shocker. After persistent and shameless
silence from the House... |
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Dal Khalsa: Give Sikhs the right of self-determination
27January 2010
Jalandhar-
Seeking rule of law and honouring of all commitments –oral and
written made by Indian leaders to Sikh Nation at the time of the
independence, the Dal Khalsa... |
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Bhaur opposed Nanakshahi
changes, now punished
27January 2010
AMRITSAR: Miffed
with its general secretary Sukhdev Singh Bhaur's opposition to the
changes in the Nanakshahi Calendar, he has been excluded from
preparation and presentation of the... |
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Ahluwalia acquitted in
moral turpitude case, forgery too
27January 2010
PATIALA: This
was something that was being expected any day. After the Badal
government made Jasbir Singh Ahluwalia the vice chancellor of Guru Granth
Sahib University, it was expected... |
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Mann attacks Amarinder,
gets into scuffle, then talks Khalistan
27January 2010
THIKRIWALA (BARNALA): In a rather amusing juxtaposition, some
colorful activities of former Chief Minister Amarinder Singh and the
choice of a few colorful words by... |
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Sukhbir-Kalia have done
their job, but will farmers pay?
27January 2010
Chandigarh: On
the face of it, the Sukhbir Singh Badal-Manoranjan Kalia committee
has claimed it has not disturbed the subsidies being given to
farmers. But in reality, the farm sector has been dealt... |
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Punjab losing Rs 264-cr on Shagun, old-age pension schemes
20
January 2010
In revelations coming from none other than the Punjab Government's
self-appointed State Administrative Reforms Commission, Punjab is
losing Rs 264 crore annually... |
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Bhai Daljit Singh in custody till Jan 29
20
January 2010
RUPNAGAR: The local Chief Judicial Magistarte has sent Bhai Daljit
Singh Bittu of Akali Dal (Panch Pardhani) and five others to
judicial custody till January 29. Police... |
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India flashes black list in the face of two-year-old, his homemaker mother
20
January 2010
Various Sikhs and Human Rights organizations including Sikh Students
Federation, SAD (Panch Pardhani), Dal Khalsa, Khalsa Action
Committee, Sikhs for Human... |
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Panthic bodies vow to continue protest against changes in calendar
20
January 2010
Ludhiana:
Defying completely the SGPC orders and the attempts by the ruling
Akali Dal to browbeat the clergy into diluting the Nanakshahi
Calendar, most panthic... |
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Akalis lead BJP party function to unveil statue of saffron leader
20
January 2010
AMRITSAR: It
seems Parkash Singh Badal and Sukhbir Singh Badal are now tired by
the allegations of turning Akali Dal into an adjunct of the
RSS-BJP's saffron... |
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Supreme Court fast-tracks murder case trial against Jagir Kaur
13
January 2010
NEW DELHI: At a time when high profile influential people managing
to delay the trials in cases against them is the stuff of staple
reports in Indian media, the case of... |
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Tytler's party list calls India's Speaker a Chamar
13
January 2010
NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kuamr in India was called a
Chamar in an official list of the Congress party's office bearers in
Bihar by none other than Jagdish... |
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RSS relentlessly pushing ‘All Indians Hindu’ line, Akalis silent
13
January 2010
LUCKNOW: At a time when Akali Dal's patron and Punjab Chief Minister
Parkash Singh Badal was desperately trying to get an appointment
with hardcore RSS man.. |
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Politics on for NRI Sabha polls
13
January 2010
Jalandhar:
Changes may be expected in the election scene of NRI Sabha Punjab
with inclusion of NRIs in the electorate, something the Union
Government is planning... |
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Sukhbir
talks of administrative reforms, but is he serious?
23
December 2009
CHANDIGARH:
Without much noise, Punjab's Administrative Reforms Commission
chairman Pramod Kumar has submitted his periodical report again to
the state... |
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Will Akali groups unite for SGPC elections?
23
December 2009
AMRITSAR: With
the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee elections on the anvil,
hectic parleys are on among Panthic organisations to form a united
front to... |
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West Bengal is
India’s political murders state
16
December 2009
Two things in
Calcutta are a fact of life: the unpredictability of how long it
will take you to reach from your home to your office, and the
political murders. Indian media is reporting little about the
latter, but... |
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Sant Singh
Chatwal offers to build nuclear plant
16
December 2009
FARIDKOT: After
the ruling Akali Dal and the opposition Congress accused each other
of double standards over nuclear plant in Punjab, here comes a new
offer. Now, the non-resident Punjabis... |
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Akali Dal factions give foundation day a miss
16
December 2009
AMRITSAR: Akali
Dal is keeping up with at least one tradition. Like every year, it
preferred to let its own Foundation Day pass off without any
function this year too. There were no reports... |
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Grandson of BJP's Satpal Gosain indicted in graft probe
16
December 2009
LUDHIANA: Not
long back, Punjab Assembly's Deputy Speaker Satpal Gosain of the BJP
was in the headlines when he led a crusade against an IAS officer
posted in Ludhiana alleging there were... |
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Badal chum Speaker of Punjab Assembly took bribes, says CBI
16
December 2009
CHANDIGARH: In a scathing revelation, Punjab CM Prakash Singh
badal's much tattered image received a further jolt when media
reports exposed how the Central... |
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Congressmen declare their liquor status as Not Guilty
16
December 2009
CHANDIGARH: Even
though it is a routine procedure and happens all the time all across
the country, the fact that it happens at all must be taken notice
of. Political parties draft their Constitutions with many... |
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Akali, Cong MLAs bash up each other inside Punjab Assembly
9
December 2009
CHANDIGARH: Ugly scenes were witnessed in the Punjab Vidhan
Sabha on Tuesday when Shiromani Akali Dal MLAs assaulted Congress
legislators, who were... |
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Punjab MLAs unite, give themselves your money
9
December 2009
CHANDIGARH: THis
was one step that Punjab MLAs took unanimously. Last Thursday, they
voted in one voice recommending for themselves a nearly 2.5-time
hike in their own salary besides higher... |
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PIL seeks to put Punjab's Vigilance Bureau in the dock
2
December 2009
If
earlier it was the Amarinder Singh government that used to regularly
unleash the Vigilance Bureau sleuths against its perceived enemies,
later the baton passed on to... |
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Badal Akali Dal's
two Constitutions may land it in serious trouble
25
November 2009
HOSHIARPUR/AMRITSAR:
Punjab's ruling Shiromani Akali Dal led by its patron and CM Prakash
Singh Badal and his party president son Sukhbir Singh Badal is in
caught in... |
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Medical Institute
scam will rock Punjab Assembly
25
November 2009
CHANDIGARH:
Punjab's opposition Congress would aggressively raise in the winter
session of Vidhan Sabha the alleged multi-crore scam in allotment of
the Punjab Institute of Medical Sciences... |
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Panth will forever remember S. Gian Singh Punia’s contribution
25
November 2009
SAN FRANCISCO:
Well known leader of the Sikh struggle, Jathedar Gian Singh Punia,
is no more. he passed away at his residence in village Punia in
Machhiwara of Ludhiana... |
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Liberhan's unintended target: Akalis' alliance with the BJP
25
November 2009
What has the brouhaha over Justice Liberhan Commission's non-report
about demolition of a holy 17th century shrine of the Muslims got to
do with Prakash Singh Badal? On the... |
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Obama showers praise on MMS, but India’s walk will be tough
25
November 2009
Washington: For New Delhi’s elite society and apologists of the kind
of democracy that India practices, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s
meeting with US President Barack Obama... |
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Khalsa
Action Committee knocks at UN doors
18
November 2009
NEW DELHI:
Sikh representatives from various groups under the leadership of
Justice (retd) Ajit Singh Bains met Ms Shalini Dewan, Director,
United Nations Information... |
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With Hand In The Cookie
Jar
18
November 2009
There is little
reason why the Sikh Diaspora or non-resident Punjabis should be
interested in property details of senior Punjab politicians, Akali
Dal leaders, police officials or top bureaucrats. But once... |
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ACTION REPLAY: Officer bullied, another assaulted by MLA's men
18
November 2009
AMRITSAR: In a
shocking incident that reminded many of the beating of a tehsildar
in Ludhiana by a close associate of Deputy CM Sukhbir Singh Badal,
supporters... |
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Calendar without blemish, says Purewal even as campaign gets shrill
18
November 2009
AMRITSAR:
At a time when efforts by some vested interests within the so-called
Sant Samaj as well as edgewise shrewd and covert interference by
Hindutva lobby to... |
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Court throws out police
claims, acquits Bhai Daljit Singh
18
November 2009
BARNALA:
In a significant decision, a court in Barnala listened to hours of
concocted evidence and arguments against Akali Dal (Panch Pardhani)
leader Bhai Daljit Singh... |
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Narendra
Modi set to become BJP President?
11
November 2009
NEW DELHI: In a shocking development, India's right-wing
ultra-nationalist Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) is fast moving towards
appointing Gujarat Chief Minister... |
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BSP, Mamata on upswing, Mulayam’s kin trounced
11
November 2009
LUCKNOW/NEW
DELHI/KOLKATA: Bypoll results in seven states in India have
indicated a political mood that has shown better tidings for
Congress, continued... |
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High
Court provides blanket bail to Amarinder
11
November 2009
CHANDIGARH: In a
major relief to former Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh,
the Punjab and Haryana High Court has issued directions to Punjab
Police... |
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Ramoowalia keeps on the pressure on travel
agents
4
November 2009
JALANDHAR:
Lok Bhalai Party president Balwant Singh Ramoowalia has asked CM
Prakash Singh Badal to take up the cause of victims of fraud travel
agents and... |
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Sewa Singh Sekhwan Is Newest Face To Join Badal's Cabinet
28
October 2009
CHANDIGARH:
Rewarding loyalty to his family once again, Punjab Chief Minister
Parkash Singh Badal on Monday expanded his cabinet by inducting
Akali Dal leader... |
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Chappar Chirri Battle: Panthic Bodies Seem To Be Winning as Govt Buckles
28
October 2009
CHANDIGARH:
Efforts of some panthic organisations, Sikh intellectuals and timely
intervention of heritage lovers have forced the Punjab Government to
shelve plans... |
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The Politics of Memorials
28
October 2009
In
order to give a bad name to aspirational movements, the Indian
Government has now started making shrill noises about the killings
by insurgent groups. It came out... |
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Sedition charges against Dal Khalsa activists quashed
21
October 2009
Chandigarh: The
Punjab and Haryana High Court on Tuesday quashed sediton charges
against 19 Dal Khalsa activists in an almost four year old case... |
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Sarna too pleads for blacklisted Sikhs, reaches across to Preneet
14
October 2009
PATIALA: On a plea from Paramjit Singh Sarna, Delhi Sikh Gurdwara
Management Committee (DSGMC) president, Union Minister for State for
External Affairs... |
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Remembering revolutionary poet
and a rebel Gajinder Singh
7
October 2009
Remembering
its founder member Gajinder Singh, who hijacked the Indian plane in
1981 and whose name figures in the 20 most wanted list handed over
to Pakistan... |
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Look what RSS is up to! You want to wait?
7
October 2009
Journalism has many constraints, but perhaps the biggest is its
frequent failure to see trends and developments that happen just
beneath the surface and remain... |
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Sukhbir leaves for foreign tour without informing MEA
7
October 2009
Chandigarh:
Punjab Deputy Chief Minister and Shiromani Akali Dal president
Sukhbir Singh Badal functions a la former Congress CM Amarinder
Singh, be it a lack of conviction about... |
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Casting A Stone
30
September 2009
Laying of foundation stones everyday has become an unnoticed pastime
of the publicity hungry Punjab politicians. Every year hundreds of
foundation stones are laid in... |
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Manpreet Badal in the dumps as govt goes subsidy route on power
23
September 2009
CHANDIGARH: Just
a day before the Shimla conclave of the Akali Dal, Manpreet Singh
Badal, the finance minister of Punjab and a nephew of CM Prakash
Singh Badal... |
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Police keep foisting new cases on Bhai Daljit Singh Bittu
16
September 2009
LUDHIANA: Indian police establishment seems adamant on not mending
its ways, and the passive silence of the ruling Akali Dal is an
indicator of active encouragement... |
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Where is Sewak Singh, the student?
9
September 2009
Patiala: Amid fears that police has been whisking away Sikh youth in
Punjab on flimsy grounds, students of various departments worried
about mysterious... |
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Punjab Govt courts shame again on illegal travel agents law
9
September 2009
CHANDIGARH: The
Parkash Singh Badal government has decided to promulgate a Punjab
Prevention of Human Trafficking Ordinance, 2009, to curb the
deceitful... |
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Five star
ministers check out after media reports their residential address
9
September 2009
New
Delhi: Even as India's ruling Congress party preached austerity and
has asked its MPs to pay 20 per cent of their salary as drought
relief, two Central ministers... |
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Storm of protests over arrest of Bhai Daljit Singh, others
2
September 2009
LUDHIANA/CALIFORNIA: Slamming the Punjab government for the arrest
of Akali dal (Panch Pardhani) chairperson Bhai Daljit Singh Bittu
and his associates... |
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Varun Gandhi's anti-Sikh remarks make fresh news
2
September 2009
Lucknow: In the din over the crisis within the Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP), the issue of Varun Gandhi's hate speeches was almost
buried, and buried even deeply... |
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BJP tears itself apart, so why should we be interested?
26
August 2009
By
now, the facts are all out. Or at least the obvious ones are.
Tottering at the edge of oblivion after its defeat in India's
general elections, tearing itself apart but... |
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UP govt hits out against scam accused
12
August 2009
Lucknow:
Three IAS and 16 officers of Uttar Pradesh government have been
suspended for their alleged involvement in allocation of plots in
Noida for construction of five... |
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Power-Full Party Power-Less
People
12
August 2009
Just the other day, newspaper headlines in Punjab screamed that
Sukhbir Singh Badal has again become the Deputy Chief Minister of
Punjab. The people of Punjab... |
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BJP to stay glued to Hindutva, says top boss
5
August 2009
India's Hindu minded ultra-nationalist right wing party, the BJP,
seems to have learnt little from consistent and sharp criticism as
well as two huge consecutive defeats... |
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Sarna dares Punjab govt to act against him
5
August 2009
NEW
DELHI: Even as certain groups continue to loudly protest statements
of Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee’s (DGMC) chief Paramjit
Singh Sarna who... |
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Polls over, Sukhbir set to return to government
5
August 2009
CHANDIGARH: Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal seems all set to
take over once again as Deputy Chief Minister after he wins the
Jalalabad Assembly bye... |
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Akali factionalism galore: Barnala group to revive Longowal party
29
July 2009
SANGRUR: After
years of strained relations and innumerable tactical moves to harm
each other, typical of faction workings inside the ruling Akali Dal,
the Barnala... |
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Dal Khalsa condemns Geelani
arrest
22
July 2009
AMRITSAR:
Dal Khalsa has slammed J&K Government for booking veteran
pro-freedom leader and chairman of APHC (G), Syed Ali Shah Geelani,
under the Public... |
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Akali
Politics in Dumb Times
22
July 2009
On
Tuesday, out of blue, Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal
dropped a bombshell. Right in the middle of his election campaign in
Jalalabad, where he is fighting... |
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Moshe Safdie associates with Galliara project
15
July 2009
AMRITSAR: The acclaimed US-based Israeli born architect Moshe
Safdie, who worked on the prestigious Khalsa Heritage Centre at
Anandpur Sahib, would undertake... |
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Punjab MLAs unite, gift themselves huge pay hike
15
July 2009
CHANDIGARH: At a
time when the state is reeling under a fund crunch and Finance
Minister Manpreet Singh Badal’s Budget’s depicted a huge revenue and
fiscal... |
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Capt Kanwaljit Singh's son gets Akali ticket
15
July 2009
CHANDIGARH:
After much suspense and keeping him hanging, the Akali Dal finally
declared Jasjit Singh Bunny, son of late Capt Kanwaljit Singh, as
the party... |
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BJP hails MLA accused of Kandhmal
killings
8
July 2009
BHUBANESWAR: In a
country where human rights activist like Binayak Sen had to spend
two years behind bars and was denied bail on specious grounds, the
courts... |
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Maya's statue splurge runs foul of Supreme Court
1
July 2009
LUCKNOW/NEW DELHI:
India's top Dalit leader and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati
created history of sorts this month by unveiling a number of her
own... |
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Badal’s love affair with Op
Bluestar DC continues
1
July 2009
CHANDIGARH: Parkash
Singh Badal’s love affair with the man who led Operation Bluestar
from the front by agreeing to take over as Deputy Commissioner of
Amritsar... |
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Pathetic Picture of an Akali
regime
24
June 2009
LUDHIANA/CHANDIGARH:IN
a rather pathetic picture of how a party that used to proclaim
itself as the panthic party is running its government, an MLA of the
ruling Akali Dal... |
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The Master
Remembered
24
June 2009
Master Tara Singh's 125 birth anniversary falling on June 22 was
amrked by the Sikh panth with several low key functions across
Punjab and at many other places but... |
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Akali Dal wins Nurmahal by-election
17
June 2009
Nurmahal: The
ruling Akali Dal in Punjab rather easily won the Nurmahal Assembly
seat, with Rajwinder Kaur, the widow of deceased Nurmahal MLA
Gurdeep Singh... |
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Sukhbir Badal to resign as Deputy CM
10
June 2009
Chandigarh: Punajb Deputy Chief Minister and heir apparent of CM
Prakash Singh Badal, Sukhbir Singh Badal is most likely to resign from his
post in the government... |
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MMS Ministry formation stuck in
many family drawing rooms
27
May 2009
NEW
DELHI: Surprise winner UPA led by the Congress was still hurtling
towards cobbling together a ministry to run India under Manmohan
Singh as... |
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Punjab Elections Round II: 4 Bye
polls lined up
20 May 2009
CHANDIGARH: Lok
Sabha elections were barely over when Punjab went into an overdrive
of campaigning once again. CM Prakash Singh Badal lurched headlong
into... |
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Dhindsa V/s Barnala: Gaganjit chucked out
20 May 2009
PATIALA:
Internal infighting which was hardly a secret all these years in
Sangrur has finally reached its
logical conclusion. Surjit Singh Barnala and... |
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Dal Khalsa gives call to Sikhs
5
May 2009
Amritsar: Dal
Khalsa has lodged a complaint at Akal Takht against all Sikh
politicians hobnobbing with Sirsa-based Dera Sauda. The complaint
names SAD candidates... |
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Choice is yours, our promise is it won't be happy
5
May 2009
CHANDIGARH:
Hours after this WSN edition will reach your hands, Punjab's
ruling Badals and former CM Amarinder Singh would be watching with
baited breath as... |
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Ghar Vaapsi, announces Bir Devinder, but things have changed since
29
April 2009
CHANDIGARH: In
2007, Bir Devinder Singh was miffed with the Congress party because
he was denied ticket for Kharar Assembly seat. He had felt sidelined
even... |
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Lal Singh is Punjab Cong chief
15
April 2009
CHANDIGARH:
Congress chose the much tainted Lal Singh, at one time a subject of
Lok Pal probe for corruption, as its working president for
Punjab... |
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LATEST FROM THE RSS: Advani plans to run India as Hindu sants suggest
15
April 2009
NEW
DELHI: Within hours of this WSN edition reaching the readers' hands,
India would be witnessing the first round of balloting for 124 Lok
Sabha seats on April 16... |
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Badal saw
greatness in Bunny
8 April 2009
CHATT
VILLAGE (MOHALI): Merely 72 hours after Akali Dal leader and
minister Captain Kanwaljit Singh died on a Sunday in a shocking car
accident... |
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Modi gets the snub again, and again, and again
1 April 2009
LONDON: In a
developement that underlines the strength of evolved democracies
unlike the one that prevails in India, the United Kingdom has
ensured that Narendra... |
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I got the list Captain, and you had promised!
1 April 2009
CHANDIGARH: Of all
the ministers in the Akali Dal, of all the leaders around Parkash
Singh Badal, there was one person that journalists taunted the most
in private... |
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Meltdown: Sukhbir finds who messed up everything
1 April 2009
CHANDIGARH: No one has ever accused Sukhbir Singh Badal of being a
top notch data-crunching economic analyst or a financial wizard... |
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Ajit Singh Bains exposes elements Sukhbir hob nobs with
25 March 2009
Amritsar: Weeks
after senior leaders of Punjab Congress alleged that a cable mafia has
become entrenched in Punjab and the Punjabi channel of the Zee Network
was... |
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In poll year, Akalis, Cong fling
mud in martyr’s name
25 March 2009
KHATKAR KALAN:
In the poll year, neither the Akalis nor the Congress were supposed
to do things any different.Every year, they use... |
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Sukhpal Singh Khaira takes on Saini,
says he is Badal’s tool
25 March 2009
CHANDIGARH:
Punjab Congress MLA from Bholath Sukhpal Singh Khaira has demanded
from Election Commission of India, the transfer of Punjab Vigilance
Bureau... |
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Prof Bhullar's mother shames Badal, system
25 March 2009
Whilst tragic
results of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki are
well documented, the environmental and health problems that are a
consequence... |
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Farmer-friendly top Akali leaders show true colors at Aarhtiya function
25 March 2009
BATHINDA: In a
rather blatant display of which way their sympathies lie, senior
ruling Akali Dal leaders led by Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa, Tota Singh
and even Bharti... |
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Badal chums Mattewals bent on destroying Sikh identity
25 March 2009
CHANDIGARH: The
case regarding the essentiality of unshorn hair in the Sikh religion
being heard currently by a Full Bench of the Punjab and Haryana High
Court... |
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Libra follows Galib, in the other
direction
18 March 2009
Chandigarh:
Ideology be damned. After Gurcharan Singh Galib dumped Congress,
described by Akali Dal supremo Parkash Singh Badal as Enemy Number
One of the... |
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Can you better this
11
March 2009
JAMMU: Power
corrupts. India's trouble torn Jammu and Kashmir state recently saw
an alliance that you could not have guessed even weeks back. The
BJP, PDP... |
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Sidhu cornered by Akali councillors
11
March 2009
Amritsar: BJP
Member of Parliament Navjot Singh Sidhu had to face an embarrassing
situation on Monday as he remained speechless when a group of SAD... |
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Badal hails himself before empty
opposition benches
11
March 2009
CHANDIGARH:To the
empty opposition benches, Parkash Singh Badal spoke remarkably well.
He seemed to be more comfortable in the total absence of the... |
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Manpreet secures vote on account for 4 months
11
March 2009
CHANDIGARH: With
the Punjab government proposing to present the full budget for
2009-10 after the Lok Sabha elections, Finance Minister Manpreet
Singh Badal.. |
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Supreme Court declines interim relief for Amarinder
25 February 2009
NEW DELHI: A
five-Judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court while declining to grant
any interim relief to former Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh... |
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The Way Forward
25 February 2009
In a development
that could be the harbinger of a mature Sikh polity in action, Bhai Daljit
Singh Bittu of Akali Dal (Panch Pardhani) has announced... |
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Poll season starts, so Vigilance in
action;
Amarinder,
Ch Jagjit hargesheeted
11 February
2009
Punjab’s
politics seemed to be getting into a fast lane with Punjab Congress
trying to put up a united image, the race for Congress tickets
getting hotter and the Badal... |
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Badals slip on Anandpur Sahib
Resolution
4
February 2009
CHANDIGARH:
Having shunned all pretensions to a principled politics, and finding
panthic issues as a burden that repeatedly comes back to
haunt the ruling House of... |
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Reading Badal's Republic Day message
28 January 2009
In his Republic Day message, Punjab Chief Minister and Akali
Dal's patron Parkash Singh Badal not only missed an opportunity to
underline ... |
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Left and Akalis
in Punjab
28 January 2009
This is a development that almost went unnoticed in
India, and was not
even mentioned by the media in Punjab... |
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Badal pulls off what he
always was expected to, still some are surprised
21 January 2009
CHANDIGARH: “A
decision has been taken, and the BJP High Command has been informed.
There is no question of going back on it... |
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Badal’s Family Planning
21 January 2009
These are the
times for people to recall that they once had a dream. These are the
times to realize the dreams... |
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Badals turn Maghi mela into
political jambooree, Cong into slugfest
14 January 2009
CHANDIGARH:
Muktsar's Maghi Mela, holy to the Sikh sangat worldwide and
an open arena for flinging politically motivated allegations for
politicians of all hues... |
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Minister Bikramjit to marry
14 January 2009
PUNJAB CM Parkash Singh Badal often used to tease Bikramjit
Singh Majithia , asking journalists to find a match for him. One has
been found... |
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Sukhpal Khaira asks Badal to emulate Maharashtra on farm loan waiver
7 January 2009
CHANDIGARH:
Utilising the simple instrument of writing a letter, Punjab Congress
MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira is increasingly perfecting the art of
embarrassing... |
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Sukhbir under fire for vice like grip on cable channels
7 January 2009
CHANDIGARH: Across Punjab's cities and towns, TV viewing public can
now predict at ten minutes notice when a particular Punjabi news
channel... |
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Badal backs India’s black law curtailing
human rights
7 January 2009
NEW DELHI: It
takes real ingenuity and shameless pursuit of politics when the
Khalsa panth’s stance on a crucial matter like vesting New Delhi
with ever more powers in the name of tackling terrorism and enacting
laws... |
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Har
Koyee Simrat This New Badal
31 December
2008
BATHINDA:
Bathinda seems to be becoming a hotseat in the next Lok Sabha
elections as not just the Badal family ... |
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Wanna be top brass Akali Sure why not
31 December
2008
CHANDIGARH:
One way to make a panel useless is to stuff it, and with an MBA
under his belt, Sukhbir Singh Badal understands the dictum... |
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Badal govt strikes lease deal for prestigious health project, lands in soup
24 December
2008
JALANDHAR: In a
rather strange deal which makes no economic sense, the Punjab
Government has struck a Rs 131 crore lease deal with a consortium...
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Cable mafia shows ugly face in Punjab as Sukhbir comes under fire
24 December
2008
CHANDIGARH: For months now, everyone in Punjab knew what was
happening. The brashness and the blatant way in which goons backed
by the ruling clique... |
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Sukhbir Amarinder at it again as shenanigans continue
17 December
2008
n the continuing
shenanigans of the Punjab politicians and exhibiting a brash
dismissal of all democratic norms, Akali Dal's president
Sukhbir Singh ... |
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Dal Khalsa seeks discussion on federal agency bill
17 December
2008
Amritsar: After SAD (Badal), it is the Dal Khalsa
that had sought a thorough discussion on the proposed bill for
creating a federal agency to combat terror... |
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Akalis set out to create history, ate humble pie
10 December
2008
For nearly a month, the entire Punjab Cabinet was stationed in
Delhi. Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa was incharge of all of Delhi
for Akali Dal's campaign... |
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Dal
Khalsa opposes war crescendo
10 December
2008
As a war would
lead to loss of innocent lives on both sides of the Radcliffe line, Dal Khalsa has appealed to
India and Pakistan to avoid raising a crescendo of war... |
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Amarinder makes his point by going to people
10 December
2008
Notwithstanding
all the machinations of his fellow party leaders and the lack of
support from the party high command, Punjab Congress... |
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Amarinder shoots arrow, it finds a plane indeed
3 December
2008
Chandigarh: It takes a rival to bring out the ill-gotten money as
well as the business interest of politicians in Punjab. On his own,
the Majithias or Sukhbir would never have told... |
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Badal says no meltdown effect, will this convince him otherwise?
3 December
2008
Ludhiana: At a
time when the Punjab Government is totally denying it, and virtually
coinciding with the day when CM Parkash Singh Badal actually issued
a statement... |
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Punjab Speaker faces CBI chargesheet for earlier corruption
3 December
2008
Chandigarh: He
is the man supposed to uphold the dignity and propriety of the members of
the elected House, a House that is called the temple of democracy... |
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Dal
Khalsa condemns Mumbai attacks
3 December
2008
Amritsar:
Expressing its sentiments in no uncertain terms, Dal Khalsa has
strongly and unequivocally condemned the various shootouts... |
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Cong fields tainted officer Amod Kanth, Badals mum
3 December
2008
New Delhi:
Myopia is the characteristic strain of Punjab's ruling Badals who
have patented the Akali Dal in their name. After shamelessly
declaring that "our two ... |
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Amarinder's son Vs Badal kin in Bathinda?
26 November
2008
BATHINDA: Even
as a controversy rages in Punjab about
whether or not former CM Amarinder Singh has sent his own list of
possible candidates to the party high... |
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Advani leads RSS-BJP support for terror suspects
26 November
2008
Mumbai:
The shrill RSS-BJP-VHP-Bajrang Dal support for ultra Hindu radical
sadhus and sadhvis and those army officers and others... |
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Sukhbir celebrated Gurpurab at home, see who joined
26 November
2008
NEW DELHI: While
reporting the great interest shown by members of provincial and
federal legislatures in Sikh festivals in many countries, the WSN
editors... |
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Bitterness mars grassroot politics in Punjab
26 November
2008
JALANDHAR: Grass
root level politics in Punjab
is becoming bitter by the day and the elections to various local
bodies keep underlining this unsavoury development all the time... |
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Mann blasts BJP on reprisal terrorism issue
19 November
2008
JALANDHAR: Mounting
a strong attack on ultra Hindu rightist party BJP, SAD(Amritsar)
president Simranjit Singh Mann has said the BJP always talked... |
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Badal dusts shoes to underline Raj Nahi Sewa claim
19 November
2008
AMRITSAR: A
hilarious slogan often splashed across election posters of Akali Dal
which normally carried pictures of Badal family members says "Raj
Nahi Sewa."... |
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Unveiling
the Neo-Akali agenda
12 November
2008
JALANDHAR/CHANDIGARH:
In a move that most definitively underlines the neo-Akali Dal agenda
of depoliticising politics, divorcing ideology from issues... |
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Dal Khalsa launches campaign against migrants with a walk
5 November
2008
HOSHIARPUR: At a
time when the anti-migrant debate has peaked in India
because of the troubles in Maharashtra where the Shiv Sena faction
of... |
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Top cop probing Amarinder shunted
29
October 2008
CHANDIGARH:
Finally, the Punjab government was forced to remove one of the top
Punjab Vigilance officials, SSP Shiv Kumar Sharma, after his son
Mohit... |
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Joke was on the ‘Prof’ at Punjabi varsity
alumni meet
22 October 2008
PATIALA: As the alumni
meet of the Punjabi University got underway, some embarassing
moments were in store with a rather itinerant journalist alumni taking... |
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Harsimrat projection bid outshines
celebrations at Takht Sahib
22 October 2008
TALWANDI SABO: Petty
considerations often mark a big day. The Badal clans efforts to
project Sukhbir Singh Badal’s wife Harsimrat Kaur Badal... |
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Badal makes some right noises at NIC, talks
definition row
15 October 2008
NEW DELHI: Punjab CM
and Akali Dal patron Parkash Singh Badal told the NIC that what was
needed was “consensus of ethics on political conduct and... |
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Bhai Daljit Singh fixes Nov 5 as D-Day
1 October 2008
MANSA: A score
of Sikh organizations have served an ultimatum to ensure closure of
all dera branches in Punjab at the earliest or launch a struggle... |
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Strange company that Badal keeps, now shares
anti-Punjabi stage
1 October 2008
Jalandhar: At a
time when Punjabis on both sides of the Radcliffe Line are crying
hoarse for open borders and more trade... |
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Feudal mindset takes over Punjab, ruling clan
leads it
1 October 2008
PATIALA/BATHINDA/MUKTSAR: A strange notion of virtually having owned
Punjab has overtaken the ruling top brass, and the public is being bombarded
with... |
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Rahul Gandhi In Punjab Floors Media, Plays
Piper
24 September 2008
AMRITSAR/BASSI
PATHANA/PATIALA: He does it with a set pattern, and the style has
been repeated over and over again. Still, everytime he does it, the
people and media... |
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Make Sikh issues a priority says
Dal Khalsa
17 September 2008
AMRITSAR: Taking
umbrage at the dissolution of many Sikh issues by the Akali Dal in
Punjab, the Dal Khalsa has asked the ruling party not to forego Sikh
issues... |
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Badals-Amarinder fight in Assembly shadows
raises larger questions
17 September 2008
CHANDIGARH: Political
discourse has hit the nadir bottom in Punjab as the ruling Akali Dal
and the opposition Congress are trading cheap tactics and gutter... |
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Akalis literally, beatCongress in MC polls
17 September 2008
MOGA/MUKTSAR: Punjab
elections are now fought in Bihar style: beatings, booth-capturing,
muscle power, guns, weapons flashing are all signs of the desperate
power grabbing notion of politics... |
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TOTAL WAR
Amarinder thrown out of Assembly, VB unleashed on him
10 September 2008
CHANDIGARH: In a
sign of the House of Badals declaring total war against former
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, the Punjab Assembly on
Wednesday... |
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Amarinder guilty in multi-crore land scam:
Punjab Assembly
10 September 2008
CHANDIGARH: For
months, former CM Amarinder Singh remained sidelined because of his
itinerant ways. Then came the jubilation when he was made... |
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Brand new from the clan of Badals: Harsimrat
Kaur
10 September 2008
BATHINDA: A new face has
started emerging in the media from within the Badal clan: Sukhbir
Singh Badal's wife Harsimrat Kaur. Talk is in the air about her... |
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Bhai Daljit Singh slams BJP on Art 370 plans
10 September 2008
AMRITSAR:
Shiromani Akali Dal (Panch Pardhani) has opposed the BJP's move to
scrap Article 370 of the Indian Constitution if it comes to power and said
it was... |
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Egg on face,
Badal retreats on Panjab University issue
3 September 2008
CHANDIGARH:
With egg on its face and ash in its mouth, the Parkash Singh Badal
led Punjab Government on Monday was forced to eat its words and... |
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Jaswant Singh Kanwal singes Master Tara Singh in new book
3 September 2008
AMRITSAR: Noted
Punjabi litterateur Jaswant Singh Kanwal, often hailed for straight
talk but also a subject of controversies for his maverick views and
strong... |
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Akalis, Cong compete with rally against rally in Malwa
3 September 2008
LAMBI/TALWANDI
SABO: In a strange interpretation of political shows, the opposition
Congress and ruling Akali Dal went on a showdown spree, each trying... |
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India has failed Kashmiris: Akali Dal (Panchpardhani)
27 August, 2008
AMRITSAR: Akai Dal
Amritsar (Panchpardhani) has said India
has failed Kashmiris and voices for Azadi have been proven to
symbolise the popular will... |
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Akali Dal cancels Karnal Rally after meeting
with PM
27 August, 2008
Chandigarh: In a
significant development indicating cooling off of temperatures,
Punjab’s Akali Dal has pulled back from an eyeball-to-eyeball
confrontation... |
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Cong puts up united show, Amarinder issues warnings
20 August, 2008
Baba Bakala: After
Amarinder Singh's return to centre stage following his appointment
as the Chairman of the Campaign Committee, the Punjab Congress... |
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Badal set to make Haryana's move on SGPC a major issue
20 August, 2008
CHANDIGARH:
Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has made up his mind to
make a major issue out of the separate SGPC for Haryana and will be
writing.. |
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Dal Khalsa seeks aid for flood-hit Punjab
20 August, 2008
AMRITSAR: Urging
the Punjab government to take flood-control measures immediately,
the Dal Khalsa expressed its grief on the loss of 12 lives and... |
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Sukbir effect: Akali councillors boycott Badal's show
20 August, 2008
Jalandhar: Here
was a hilarious situation in many ways. Akali councillors boycotted
a function where CM Prakash Singh Badal was the chief guest
because... |
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Don't deliberate, we are Indians!
20 August, 2008
CHANDIGARH: Utter paranoia and fear
psychosis plagues the Indian police and administrative system, in case
anyone wants to debate and discuss the gains... |
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Punjab polity diction hits nadir, Sukhbir
talks of mental health of rival
20 August, 2008
Chandigarh:
At a time when thousands were renedered homeless in Punjab
and scores of villages were drowned under flood waters, Punjab's
ruling as well as opposition... |
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Amarinder won't make any difference: Badal
13 August, 2008
BANUR: Chief
Minister Parkash Singh Badal has said former CM Capt Amarinder
Singh's appointment as Congress Campaign Committee chairman for Punjab... |
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Dal Khalsa flays BJP for violence in J & K
13 August, 2008
Amritsar: Dal Khalsa has slammed the BJP
for engineering violence in the Jammu to reap electoral benefits for the
impending elections. The party expressed shock... |
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Badal's commondoes hell bent on 'adjusting' Vedanti
13 August, 2008
Amritsar: Having humiliated the Jathedar of Akal Takht and
denigrating the seat of authority, Parkash Singh Badal's men are now
on a damage control mission... |
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Bhattal out, Kaypee new president
of Punjab Cong but Amarinder is Man of The Match
6 August, 2008
CHANDIGARH:
Notwithstanding the machinations of his fellow partymen in
Punjab, former Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh made a
comeback... |
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Minister says Kaka ji should become Khalsa
6 August, 2008
PATIALA: Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh badal is racing fast to
wean his party away from Sikhi and embrace Punjabiat concept but
fellow Akali leaders now... |
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Under Pa's govt, police finds case
against Sukhbir wrong,
but court digs in
29
July, 2008
FARIDKOT:
Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh badal, known for his brash ways
and a more brusque style before he became party chief, is in trouble... |
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Bloody scuffles mark Sarpanch elections
across Punjab
23
July, 2008
Across
Punjab,
rural folks are helplessly watching dirty grassroot level political
violence as men (women are rarely involved) drunk on powerare
indulging... |
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Simranjit Singh Mann denounces Nuclear Deal
16 July 2008
CHANDIGARH:
Among the very few leaders who make their voices heard on
international developments, the president of the Shiromani Akali Dal
(Amritsar)... |
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Akali Dal to vote against UPA govt
16 July 2008
CHANDIGARH:
Putting to rest all speculation on party's stand on the nuclear
deal, the Shiromani Akali Dal, which has eight members in the Lok
Sabha, has finally said... |
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Daljit Singh takes Badal to task on
Saini issue
16 July 2008
CHANDIGARH:
Reacting sharply to the stay granted by the Supreme Court of India
staying all proceedings against Sumedh Saini on a review petition by
the Punjab... |
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Amarinder on ascendancy as Badals, Bhattal catch headache
9
July, 2008
PATIALA:
Notwithstanding the almost joint onslaught of Akali Dal, the ruling
Akali-BJP government and the section of the Punjab Congress that has
hitched its... |
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Dal Khalsa, SAD (A) slam BJP for violence
9
July, 2008
Amritsar: The
Dal Khalsa has asked India's Chief Election Commissioner to debar
the BJP from contesting elections in view of the "communal tension
being caused... |
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Sukhbir, Bhattal moving polity into perverse grooves with their hordes
9
July, 2008
Jalandhar:
Politics in Punjab is taking strange turns towards the perverse
rather than the reformist. Recent local body elections witnessed an
induction of unprecedented... |
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Punjab Congress MLA Khaira speaks up for Sikhs on Black List
2
July, 2008
Chandigarh: Rarely does a Congress
leader dare to take a stand on something like this. Congress MLA
Sukhpal Singh Khaira, who is the son of one-time senior Akali
leader... |
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The role that Badal Govt played in protests
2
July, 2008
At a time when
the Sikh community demonstrated unity and a sense of purpose and the
June 25 protest blockade of the trains was handled with considerable
degree... |
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Why did Sukhbir Singh Badal rush to Mumbai?
25
June, 2008
The
latest Akali Dal move of rushing a top level party delegation to
Mumbai is a brainchild of Sukhbir Singh Badal for whom the entire
controversy... |
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They all remember the Master, but
how?
25
June, 2008
LUDHIANA/CHANDIGARH:
Peeved by the failure of the Akali Dal and the state government to
mark the 124th birth anniversary of legendary Akali Dal leader... |
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Badal chants Hare Krishna, Hare Rama, says preserve
heritage
4
June,
2008
LUDHIANA: In a case of twisted sense of culture and heritage, Punjab
CM and Akali supremo Parkash Singh Badal has given a call for
preserving culture and heritage... |
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Congmen keep fighting in Punjab, with each other
4
June,
2008
CHANDIGARH: The
violence unleashed by ruling Akali Dal activists and the defeat in
local body polls have not dampened the spirit of Congressmen busy
fighting... |
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Clashes, firing, candidate's death in panchayat poll but call them peaceful,
please!
28
May,
2008
PUNJAB'S
ELECTORAL TURF: After
violence in block samiti and zilaparishad elections, and after
Sukhbir Singh Badal's statement of unparalleled... |
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A Badal man in Badal land, after 10 years
28
May,
2008
BADAL: After a hiatus
of 10 years, Badal, the native village of CM
Parkash Singh Badal, will have his supporter as the sarpanch. Of the
1,898... |
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But not
Tohra man in Tohra
28
May,
2008
TOHRA: The village
Tohra represents the decline of a political stalwart and his legacy
so clearly that only the politically blind will fail to learn the
lessons... |
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As Congress
fights itself, Akalis least bothered about democracy
21
May,
2008
CHANDIGARH:
‘Kotaan-Kot Dhanwad’ was the blazing heading as a smiling Sukhbir
Singh Badal peered out of huge advertisements... |
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‘Bhai Daljit Singh not part of it’
21
May,
2008
CHANDIGARH:
Shiromani Akali Dal(Panch Pardhani) has said it has nothing
whatsoever to do with a 20-member committee set up by some Sikh
intellectuals... |
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Badal govt chucks out SGJC chief it found inconvenient
21
May,
2008
AMRITSAR:
Finally,
the Akali Dal government and the party has gotten rid of the
inconvenient Chairperson of the Sikh Gurdwara Judicial... |
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Punjab gets a bloodbath as politicos pollute
grassroot ballotting
14
May,
2008
CHANDIGARH: Tom-tommed
by Indian nation state as the paragon of grassroots level democracy,
and often a staid affair in Punjab, the elections to panchayat... |
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Danda Raj in Punjab: Local polls soaked in blood
14
May,
2008
It was a near
mayhem in the Majha belt comprising comprising Amritsar, Gurdaspur
and Tarn Taran as workers of alliance partners SAS and BJP... |
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Akalis leave devp of Amritsar to RSS-BJP MP
14
May,
2008
Amritsar: In a queer
sort of prioritising, the Akali Dal and the panthic lobby of SGPC et
al have left the domain of development of Amritsar to an RSS... |
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Kulbir Singh returns to his own Bara-pind
7
May,
2008
NABHA/AMRITSAR:
After 13 years in prison in the United States and 2 years in Punjab
contesting 3 cases of murder and attempted murder... |
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Panchayat Poll Fever Grips Punjab
7
May,
2008
FARIDKOT:
With just
a week to go for the Panchayat elections, slowly but steadily Punjab
is getting into the grip of poll fever. Allegations against each other are
flying in the air and... |
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Bhattal’s man gets ticket in by-poll
30
April 2008
AMRITSAR: With a
bye-election due in Punjab from Amritsar (South) seat, the Congress
high command has ensured that Amarinder Singh... |
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Bularia’s son is the Akali candidate
30
April 2008
AMRITSAR: After much
speculation including some that it could be Sukhbir Singh Badal
himself as candidate... |
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Amarinder hits Punjab polity, Bhattal, Congress, Badals all
23 April 2008
CHANDIGARH/AMRITSAR:
Back to the days of colourful politics in Punjab and displacing the
Badals from the news headlines... |
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Punjab Vigilance says Chahal behind fake case
23 April 2008
MUKTSAR: The Punjab Vigilance Bureau has claimed that an inquiry has
established that B.I.S. Chahal, the then media adviser to former
chief minister... |
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Sukhbir speaks Advani language on 80’s violence in Punjab
23 April 2008
CHANDIGARH:
If a
brave woman has revealed one Congress person's name who gave some
form of assistance to Sikh youth involved in aspirational
struggle... |
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Wisdom keeps dawning in cases against Akalis
16
April 2008
CHANDIGARH: Sukhbir
Singh Badal wanted to make this man the president of Youth Akali Dal,
but there was a problem. He was facing murder cases... |
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Sukhbir re-jigs top SAD brass, is PAC boss
now
16
April 2008
CHANDIGARH: One more
milestone crossed. Parkash Singh Badal is no more the Chairman of
the Akali Dal's Political Affairs Committee (PAC)... |
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People fight for girl whom police
calls human bomb
19
March 2008
KARNAL/MANSA: ’N
how many times must the cannon balls fly through the life of a
19-year-old girl for her to be convinced that the world is full of
people who only... |
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Graft and Badal Craft: All U-turns permitted
5
March 2008
AMRITSAR: The great leader has shown the best path. The corruption
cases against the Badal family are falling by the wayside, witness
after witness... |
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Badal blasts measure for which Sukhbir took credit
5
March 2008
CHANDIGARH: Initial
reactions of the Akali Dal were limited to saying that the entire
Chidambaram plan was a result of the Sukhbir Singh Badal's Insaaf
Rally... |
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PM
says Black List will remain
5
March 2008
AMRITSAR: For decades the
Indian government has been claiming normalcy in Punjab, but the
functioning of the establishment and its psyche refuses... |
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Mann criticises Nagas for not
creating ‘overground’ space
27 February 2008
NEW DELHI: Is
the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isak-Muivah) renewing its
ties with friends in Punjab? Does it really have any friends in
Punjab?... |
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Badalshahi calendar turns leaf, reveals President
Sukhbir
6 February 2008
Nightmarish
movies in which pygmies take over the world and become rulers
overnight remained a favourite Hollywood idea for years, but it was
easy... |
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Criminalisation of Punjab polity: The shrieking evidence
23 January 2008
JALANDHAR: Criminalisation of politics is a much
talked about subject in India but what happened in Jalandhar in the last
fortnight is an eye opener... |
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WE EXIST! You just don't se us!
16 January 2008
NEW DELHI: When must a nation hang its head in shame? When a man
thousands know, believe and say was part of a blood-thirsty communal
massacre is made a minister?... |
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Badal's Lohri Gift for core saffron vote bank
is 90 pc discount sale
16 January 2008
CHANDIGARH: How will you
interpret it: Punjab Government's wake up sign to the crisis being faced by
prospective investors and the industry... |
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Sajjan Pardesi Aaye Ghar Apne
9 January 2008
CHANDIGARH/JALANDHAR:
The problem with a lot of good intentions thrown into a venture is that they
only serve to pave a path we all know to where... |
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Pak govt says Bhutto death accidental, makes
U-turn later
2 January 2008
Islamabad: In a dramatic U-turn, the Pakistan
government "apologised" for claiming earlier that former premier Benazir
Bhutto died... |
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Lahore dust and a London sale
2 January 2008
Like all great political figures, Benazir Bhutto
was far from perfect. In more than a decade of knowing her, as a reporter on
the Pakistan... |
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Daughter
of East who befriended West goes down
2 January 2008
KARACHI/ISLAMABAD: Eras have a way of ending; some taper off
gradually while some change in as much time as it takes a shot to
fire or a human... |
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Badal finally expresses love for Congress, closes
complaint chapter
26 December 2007
FATEHGARH SAHIB: It was in the land of the martyrs
that Parkash Singh Badal chose to finally speak the truth: "We are... |
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India Circa 2007
26 December,
2007
Every year ending is a
precursor to hopes for a new dawn, occasion for new resolutions and
a realistic stock taking of the year gone by. As the world soaks... |
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KAC takes fight against Dera to
Sonia’s doorstep, memo tells Gandhi
some home truths
12 December, 2007
NEW DELHI:
Lodging a protest right in front of the residence of UPA Chairperson and
Congress President Sonia Gandhi, the Khalsa..... |
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Mann pro-imperialism, says Bhagat Singh's nephew
12 December, 2007
Amritsar: Criticising Akali Dal (Amritsar)
leader Simranjit Singh Mann for calling Bhagat Singh a murderer of 'innocent
persons' (British police officer Saunders... |
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Mann out of jail, wants to contest against Sukhbir
12 December, 2007
PATIALA: Akali Dal (Mann) president Simranjit
Singh Mann was granted bail by the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate in the
case of sedition... |
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SAD(A) comes out of Mann’s shadow, hopes soar again
5 December, 2007
ALAMGIR: Ushering in a renewed hope
among panthic ranks and making a determinedbid to extricate the Shiromani
Akali Dal (Amritsar) from the shadow of the Akali Dal (Mann)... |
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Akali Dal (Amritsar) hurtling towards clear
split
28 November 2007
CHANDIGARH: Events seem to be moving full swing ahead
and by all available indications, the Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar),
which at one... |
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Communists shame ideology
21 November 2007
NANDIGRAM: Hats off to the great Indian
stratagem that is now centuries old — get the poor to bad name, abuse,
fight, kill, butcher the poor... |
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It’s time for healing, says Suu Kyi after
junta meeting
14
November, 2007
Yangon: Detained Burmese opposition
leader Aung San Suu Kyi is optimistic after meeting Friday with a
junta official and believes it is time for the “healing process” to
start, her party said... |
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Punjab in tearing
hurry to usher police raj, Rights group files PIL
14
November, 2007
NEW YORK/CHANDIGARH: Since
1861, Punjab has been following the current Police Act. After the
British left, India decided to live with the legacy of the
outdated.... |
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Musharraf relents, sets Jan 9 as poll date
14
November, 2007
Islamabad:
Pakistan President Gen Pervez Musharraf has said that Pakistan would not
deviate from its January schedule for parliamentary.... |
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CPM terror grips Nandigram
14
November, 2007
Nandigram: The
entire Nandigram town is cloaked in red. CPM flags flutter from rooftops,
shops and the wrecked checkpoints that were set... |
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Saffron heaps public humiliation on
secularised Akali govt
14
November, 2007
When the panthic blue turban
sea turns secular and dons a saffron tinge, the tidal waves get
tamed into little puddles. The so called legendry Panthic Jazba, the
Khalsa.... |
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India plans welcome for foreign universities
24 October, 2007
NEW DELHI: The Indian Government is
considering a proposal of the United States Chief Executive Officers
Forum to set up an SEZ for higher and vocational education on trial
basis. The CEO Forum has... |
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Fighters must re-establishing credentials
24 October, 2007
Fremont: In order to extricate the Sikh
nation from the crisis-ridden times, the activist Sikh organizations will
also have to re-establish their own... |
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Mann to release speeches
24 October,
2007
CHANDIGARH: Shiromani Akali Dal
(Amritsar) president Simranjit Singh Mann will release at Jalandhar on
October 25 a DVD of his Parliament speeches made during his
five-year term... |
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Mann continues with tirade, warns
against touching lion's tail
10 October, 2007
Bathinda: In
remarks which are now part of a pattern discernible every time
Sardar Simranjit Singh Mann addresses the media, he has said that
his remarks about Bhai Daljit Singh Bittu... |
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BJP warns Akalis of boycott if power tariff increased
10 October, 2007
Amritsar: While
pulling the plug on the JD(S) government in Karnataka, the BJP has
warned the SAD in Punjab of boycotting the cabinet meeting if it
brought about the draft proposal... |
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Set
up truth commission, Dal Khalsa presses Punjab government
3 October
2007
Jalandhar: In a
move aimed clearly to nail 'Cats' and their handlers, the Dal Khalsa
asked the Punjab government to set up a 'truth commission' to
unearth the policy of persecution carried... |
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Sonia serves old wine in old bottle,
makes Bhattal Punjab Cong chief
26 September
2007
CHANDIGARH:
Having totally failed to project itself even minimally a meaningful
opposition, the Congress in Punjab will now look like old wine in an
old... |
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Mann wanted corruption cases against
Badal shifted, High Court rules against it
26 September 2007
Chandigarh: The Indian establishment knows pretty well whom to back
in any contest between its associate Sikh leaders and those who take
up panthic agendas, even... |
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Mann's letter on jail conditions is
now a petition
26 September
2007
Chandigarh: A letter
which Sardar Simranjit Singh Mann wrote to describe the poor
condition of prisoners in Ludhiana Central Jail will now be treated
as a petition by the Punjab... |
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Bibi Jagir Kaur's anticipatory bail
plea dismissed
26 September
2007
Ropar: Ropar
Sessions Judge Rekha Mittal on Tuesday dismissed the anticipatory
bail application of former SGPC president Bibi Jagir Kaur, against
whom Anandpur Sahib... |
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Sardar Emaan Singh Mann on “sequence of events”
26 September
2007
I have been
reading many conspiracy theories with regards to Bhai Daljit Singh
Bittu's expulsion from the Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) on your
website. It has been suggested that there... |
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Bhattal appointed Punjab Congress chief
26 September
2007
Chandigarh: The All India Congress Committee (AICC) has appointed
former Punjab chief minister Rajinder Kaur Bhattal as the leader of
the state unit of the party. The announcement... |
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Conspiracy to expel Bhai Bittu was hatched six
months ago: UK body
19 September, 2007
LONDON:
United Khalsa Dal.
England president Bhai Nirmal Singh Sandhu has claimed that the
expulsion of Bhai Daljit Singh from the party was not an impromptu
event but was... |
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Badal blasts Indian Govt on move to
change Sikhs' 'minority' status
12 September,
2007
Chandigarh: With
the World Sikh News breaking the shocking story of Indian
government's determined attempt to divest the Sikhs in Punjab and
Chandigarh of their status as a... |
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Pb Govt avoiding bye-election to 4 SGPC seats
12 September, 2007
CHANDIGARH: The
Punjab Government has been trying to avoid holding of elections to
the four seats of the SGPC which fell vacant because of the death of
the elected members... |
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Badal’s vendetta bureau nets Catman SS
Virk
12 September,
2007
Chandigarh: On
September 10, one of India's decorated senior police officers and
former head of Punjab Police Sarabdeep Singh Virk, often credited
with helping in containing terrorism by...
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Badal proposes change in IPC to make
foeticide
equal to murder
12 September, 2007
PATIALA: The
National Law Commission should make suitable amendments in the
existing provisions of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) to equate the
crime of female foeticide... |
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Your sense of humor may have them laughing at you!
5 September, 2007
CHANDIGARH: Internecine wars have often
led to the downfall of many great communities, and tragically the Sikh
community... |
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Mann chucks out Bhai Daljit Singh in turf and ego wars
29 August, 2007
AMRITSAR: Not that it was not being seen with leaders equipped with some
sense of pre-monition, but many wanted to .... |
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Sants came marching in, Badal rushed to deflate
26 June, 2007
Fatehgarh Sahib/Mohali: Of the several
Machiavellian ways available to a politician to torpedo a move that could
inspire a community to stress its... |
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Cong-led UPA throws out Doordarshan News head over
dera-related program
30 May,2007
CHANDIGARH: India’s ruling Congress party, which
leads the UPA government led by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, has felt
particularly... |
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Sikh MPs protest at calling 1857 uprising as
'First War of Independence'; BJP upset
16 May, 2007
New Delhi: In the presence of the
President of India, the Vice-President, the Prime Minister and Lok Sabha
Speaker, and right in the Central Hall.... |
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Mann completes Beant Singh statue by placing Dilawar's
placard, says next time it will be broken
16 May, 2007
Jalandhar: If you celebrate a gross violator of
human rights and someone who let the so-called 'Dirty Harrys' decide..... |
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Covered with shame, Punjab covers up with
probe
9 May, 2007
CHANDIGARH: As
India went through public shame and dedicated hard nut-cracking police
officers IN GUJARAT brought out.... |
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Ghosts all over in Punjab as men walk back from the
ashes
2 May,2007
AMRITSAR: What do you call shamelessness? The
world stood by horror struck as top police officers... |
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Khalistan fervour marks cremation of Dr Jagjit Singh
Chauhan
11 April,
2007
TANDA: The mortal remains of Khalistan ideologue
Dr. Jagjit Singh Chauhan, who had died of a heart attack on last Wednesday,
were confined to flames at his farm in Tanda on April 6.... |
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Mann is Akali Dal (Amritsar) president again, Prof
Jagmohan Singh quits post
11 April,
2007
Sirhind: After much suspense and kite flying within the party,
Simranjit Singh Mann, who had resigned from the presidentship of
Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) after the party's.... |
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Chohan's dream lives, he is
dead
4 April,
2007
Chandigarh: Half a century after he first
entered the Punjab Assembly after being elected from Tanda, Jagjit
Singh Chohan covered a remarkable .... |
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'No vendetta' system in full play: Amarinder, Chahal
in London
28 March
2007
CHANDIGARH: After days of
shouting from every stage available that "vendetta" will not be the policy
of the Akali Dal-BJP government, the sleuths...
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Perverser Politics, Reverse Roles in vendetta
groove
21 March, 2007
Chandigarh: Punjab politics seems to have
refused to come out of the damned groove it has gotten stuck into. This time
it is the turn .... |
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Punjab Polls Outcome: Defeat of Arrogant Feudalism
14 March, 2007
Except for the defeat of many stalwarts on both
sides, Punjab poll results have sprung no surprises. Media projections have
been more... |
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Acting as president, now Sukhbir is acting president
14 March, 2007
CHANDIGARH:In days of yore, emperors used
to pass on the power to their progeny, cutting through a maze of palace
intrigues... |
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Rajashahi over, Badalshahi starts: Clause 5,
Vigilance Commission out
7 March 2007
Chandigarh: Desperate to deprive his
predecessor, Capt Amarinder Singh, of the halo that the Punjab Termination
of Agreements... |
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Indo-Pak peace fights the
battle of Panipat, so far winning against train bombs
21 February 2007
DIWANA (PANIPAT): So fragile has been the peace process between sworn
enemies India and Pakistan that official dialogue.... |
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Akali manifesto has every promise for
everyone, but isn't Akali
7 February,
2007
Chandigarh: Continuing
with what is undoubtedly its most aggressive election campaign ever, the
Shiromani Akali Dal has promised everything... |
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Bhai Bittu articulates diversity from CPI
stage, gets kudos
7 February,
2007
Bathinda: For
twenty years, the Sikh militants and the communists were two different
twains, never shall they meet under any political paradigm. But evolution of
politics... |
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Bullets before ballots in Punjab as dirty power war
turns bloody
31 January 2007
BEAS: Power war in Punjab was widely expected to
be dirty and bloody, and the politicians did not prove you wrong. Dirty it
was... |
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Congressmen may get list today, delay makes party
listless in campaign
17 January 2007
Chandigarh: As Akali campaign machinery
got into top gear, and Prakash Singh Badal went around Punjab cajoling,
mollifying, sooting... |
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Sarna walks away with DSGMC again
17 January 2007
New Delhi: Just a month before Punjab
Assembly elections, Delhi Akali polity has delivered a jolt to Prakash Singh
Badal-led Akali Dal... |
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Punjab poll on Feb 13 but first result is out
3 January 2007
CHANDIGARH:
In such
ways has
the polity turned and twisted in Punjab that when the state goes to polls on
February 13, it will be less a... |
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'NO, I was
not raped! I just fell from my bicycle'
20 dec,2006
CHANDIGARH: More than four months after his maid-who-doubledas-
massseur claimed she was raped by Akali Dal MLA Gaganjit Singh
Barnala, the woman suddenly... |
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‘Raillas’ hit Punjab for acres of debate
13 December,
2006
PUNJAB’S DUSTY MALWA:
Mega is a key word these days in Punjab. Mega projects, mega corruption and
now ..... |
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Navjot Sidhu is rage killer, says court
6 Dec,2006
CHANDIGARH:
Navjot Singh Sidhu, one
of BJP’s Parliamentarians never known for his legislative skills, earlier
known
for his cricket... |
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Sarnas and polls looming, Badal keeps Makkar
29 November, 2006
AMRITSAR: Falstaff is king, once again.
Till slightly more than a year ago, Avtar Singh Makkar was fighting... |
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Badal wants to halt vikas yatra, CM wants to celebrate
his b'day
22 November 2006
CHANDIGARH: In an irony of semantics, Punjab has
become stuck in the ‘yatra’ mode and wants to ‘rally’ around men hungry for
power. Having... |
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Poll staring in face, CM goes on Vikas Yatra
15 November, 2006
MALWA’S DUSTY HINTERLANDS: Politicians
faced with elections and a not-so-rosy reportcard peeping out of their
backpockets.... |
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Mann makes point, but community shamed again
1 November, 2006
KATHUNANGAL: Irrespective of the blame —
though it is important why it happened and because of whose fault — this
was.... |
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Akalis, Congress play politics with Baba Budha Ji’s
day too
25 October 2006
CHANDIGARH/AMRITSAR:Political parties
have rarely bothered about a construct as abstract as scruples, particularly
when elections are around ... |
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Act to save Bhullar, orders Akal Takht
18 October, 2006
AMRITSAR: So loud was the national pitch raised
in support of the demand for pulling back Parliament attack.... |
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Badal brings blue turban waves to drown Cong
18 October, 2006
CHANDIGARH: Idiom of politics in Punjab remains
jingoistic, electoral forms notwithstanding. So when nearly 100,000-strong
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Afzal’s noose splits India, Congress, Left but many
are mum
11 October, 2006
NEW DELHI:
India’s ruling Congress party is divided on the
issue of clemency to Parliament terror attack convict Mohammad Afzal
Guru... |
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Who is the victim, Mr Prime Minister?
11 October, 2006
On October 4, you said that India is a
victim of cross-border terrorism. India is a terrorist state itself
and should be subject to the penalties that are imposed on terrorist
states... |
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DGP paints true face of Punjab Police
6 September
2006
No, these are not
allegations by a particularly piqued columnist of the Amritsar Times,
neither is this a wail by any human rights... |
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Badal, tu Mann ya na Mann !
6 September
2006
TALWANDI SABO: Deja vu! Just
a few days earlier, thousands gathered as sangat in the presence of the Guru
Granth Sahib had witnessed... |
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Terrorism, Lies and Video Tapes
6 September
2006
Anniversaries come and anniversaries
go. Some of course the
regimes will do all they can to forget.
Or to make you forget. Jaswant... |
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