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Death becomes the standard threat in Punjab
24
February 2010
KAPURTHALA: In a
series of events that underlined the total lack of imagination and
the bankruptcy of ideas within the government, groups of protesters
had been... |
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Dera Ballan trustees caught in new row
17
February 2010
JALANDHAR: After
getting flak from most sections of the Ravidassia comunity itself
for announcing divisive moves like announcement of a new religion,
the Dera Sachkhana Ballan near Jalandhar... |
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Sant Bhindranwale's birth anniversary observed
17
February 2010
Fatehgarh
Sahib: Various panthic outfits in Punjab marked the 63rd birth
anniversary of Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale with the ruling Akali
Dal and the SGPC... |
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Dera Sachkhand Ballan snubbed by wide sections of Ramdassias
17
February 2010
Jalandhar :
After the announcement of new religion Ravidassia and a new granth
by Dera Sachkhand Ballan, the Dera has been almost isolated by the
community... |
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Colossus of intellect, Harinder Singh
Mehboob, is no more
17
February 2010
In the sleepy, almost time warped nook in Sangrur, Harinder Singh
Mehboob engaged with some of the most complex issues, some of these
having to do with matters... |
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New
Punjab BJP chief blasts Akali Dal
on Day One
10
February 2010
CHANDIGARH: At a
time when the ruling Akali Dal has given a complete go by to the
norms of democracy, it's alliance partner the Bhartiya Janata Party
has proved... |
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Sikh INA veteran gets pension after 55 years
10
February 2010
CHANDIGARH: "Is
he still alive?" asked Lt Gen H.S. Panag (retd), administrative
member of the Armed Forces Tribunal, to which the counsel replied,
"He is alive for this... |
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HDFC Bank To Offer Online Payment Service To Golden Temple
10
February 2010
Housing
Development Finance Corporation (HDFC), an India-based private
lender, has entered into an agreement with Shiromani Gurdwara
Parbandhak Committee to... |
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SC
contempt notice to Punjab
3
February 2010
Chandigarh:
India's Supreme Court has issued a showcause notice to Punjab asking
it to explain as to why contempt proceedings be not initiated
against it for violating the court’s... |
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Sukhwinder declared a martyr of the Sikh community
3
February 2010
LUDHIANA: Ten
years ago, his son was born in India
while he himself had immigrated to Britain. In ten years, he was
unable to afford a trip home. And when he came... |
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How a Commission thrives on Punjab's woes
3
February 2010
Chandigarh: If
you think the Justice Liberhan Commission took a long time (17
years) to probe the demolition of the Babri Masjid, then consider
this: The Justice Eradi... |
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Charity calls, US docs
hold camps in villages
27January 2010
Amritsar:
A group of 35 US doctors visited Amritsar and Tarn Taran districts,
organised free medical camps, distributed medicines, performed
operations and checked... |
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Cash at a judge's door, but case is closed
27January 2010
CHANDIGARH:
After a Sikh judge of Punjab and Haryana High Court, Justice
Nirmaljit Kaur, called the police when a stranger delivered Rs 15
lakh in cash at her residence, the trail led to another judge... |
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Attariwala statue unveiled, but listen to what they sang!
20
January 2010
AMRITSAR: The statue of General Sham Singh Attariwala, built more
than a year back, was finally inaugurated by Chief Minister Parkash
Singh Badal on Sunday. But... |
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Many pay tributes to Sant Bhindranwale’s brother
30
December 2009
A number of
panthic leaders attended the bhog of Bhai master Jugraj Singh, elder
brother of Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, at village Rode (Kothe
Gurpura) on... |
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Punjabi University plans for centre for disabled research and training
30
December 2009
PATIALA: Punjabi
University
is planning to have in 2010 a Centre for Research and Vocational
Training for Physically Disabled (CRVTPD), short-term evening
courses... |
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Govt needs money, so it will sell people’s land
30
December 2009
CHANDIGARH:With
the Punjab Government caught in a deep financial crisis, where do
you think it can raise its money? By selling what you own! The
cash-strapped... |
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Protect Sikhs: SGPC to Pak
23
December 2009
AMRITSAR: A
seven-member delegation led by SGPC president Avtar Singh Makkar
submitted a memorandum at
the Pakistan High Commission office in New Delhi on... |
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Grand-dad politico beats school head, points weapons
23
December 2009
AMRITSAR: A
local politician who had gone to drop off his grand-daughter to
school in Patti basshed up the head of the school when he asked them
not to carry or... |
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Top IAS officer who was arrested now hits back
23
December 2009
CHANDIGARH:
Former Secretary-cum-Director of Industries and Commerce Vijay Kumar
Janjua, who was arrested in a corruption case, has filed a criminal
complaint... |
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Punjabi University flouts norms in recruitment, gives jobs without ads
23
December 2009
CHANDIGARH: In a
rather blatant example of how political influence is at work in
universities and norms are being flouted, it has now come to light
that Patiala's Punjabi... |
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Punjab students in Ontario edgy about strike
23
December 2009
MOGA: Fate of
thousands of Indian students hangs in the balance as a possible strike
across college campuses in Ontario seems imminent after talks broke down... |
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Scholar angry as babus plan to shift Sikh manuscripts to Beant museum
23
December 2009
CHANDIGARH: In a
move aimed at provoking the Sikhs, the Chandigarh Administration is
trying to transfer invaluable manuscripts and hand-written birs of
Sri Guru... |
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Martyr
Darshan Singh’s son joins Punjab Police
16
December 2009
LUDHIANA: Even as the
Parkash Singh Badal government sensed the rising tide of Sikh anger,
it scurried around to soothe a few nerves. Before panthic bodies
could gather for the bhog of martyr Darshan Singh... |
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BC
lawmaker says create investment climate
16
December 2009
BATHINDA:
Three time member of the legislative assembly of British Columbia
in Canada - from the Panorama Ridge constituency - Jagroop Singh
Brar stresses the... |
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Double M.A.,
M.Phil applies for peon's job but with little hope
16
December 2009
BATHINDA: This
news item will sadden your heart just as it saddened ours when we
are writing it, but frankly, is it even possible for us to
understand the satte of the mind of a young girl... |
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The Chetak, Super, Priya Bajaj are a
thing of the past
16
December 2009
How many of our NRI readers across United States, Canada, United
Kingdom and the rest of the world would have memories of scooter
rides back home in Punjab? Well... |
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Panth sets deadline for Badal to act, or face Sikh wrath
16
December 2009
CHOWK MEHTA/AMRITSAR: Anger and rage among the Sikh Nation showed no
signs of abating, and spurred by the apathy of the ruling Akali
Dal-BJP alliance, a... |
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Voices for Freedom denounces violent attack by Panjab police on protesting
Sikhs in Ludhiana.
9
December 2009
LUDHIANA:
Voices for Freedom condemns the indiscriminate use of bullets
which resulted in one death and scores of protesting devout Sikhs
injured. The Panjab Police, ever ready to resort to cane charge any
assembly... |
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Ashutosh
provocation galore as Sikhs seethe with anger
9
December 2009
Brave communities like the Sikhs cannot be felled or intimidated by
traditional forms of assault, so the machinations of the
establishment weave a tangled web. At this... |
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Medical reports of PSEB chairman’s sons changed
9
December 2009
FARIDKOT: In a nut
shell, this story is alone illustrative of what the trappings of
powers can do. Not only can they prevent any injury to your
reputation, at times the fact that your Daddy is a 'power'-full... |
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Rein In Ashutosh.
Now!
9
December 2009
Punjab has seen the blood-soaked politics of Congress in the past
decades. The militancy can’t be studied by separating it from the
culture that created it. Ludhiana... |
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Punjab snubs Haryana on separate HC issue, Chidambaram on Chandigarh
2
December 2009
CHANDIGARH:
Strongly snubbing the Haryana government, Punjab has slammed the
idea of a separate high court for Haryana in Chandigarh
itself and also criticised... |
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Vintage Amarinder: We will sack 'biased' police officers
2
December 2009
JALANDHAR:
Politics in Punjab shows little sign of shedding bitterness. In his
typical style, former Punjab CM and senior Congress leader Amarinder
Singh, who is... |
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High Court issues stay
order on allotment of LIG houses in Dugri
25
November 2009
Ludhiana
: Bringing a sigh of relief to several 1984 anti-Sikh massacre
victims, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has this week restrained
the
Punjab government from allotting or selling 85.... |
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Sorry State of
Punjabi In Delhi
18
November 2009
Delhi saw a
moment of cultural transition in 1947, as Partition forced out
several refugees in from Punjab that effectively made Delhi a
primarily Punjabi-speaking Delhi... |
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They wrote suicide note on the walls of their house, but guilty still free
18
November 2009
AMRITSAR: In the
continuing saga of cases of illegal custodial deaths, a local cort
has summoned a retired IPS officer and former Amritsar SSP Kultar
Singh and a... |
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Stephen Harper pays obeisance at Sri
Darbar Sahib
18
November 2009
AMRITSAR:
Canada Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Wednesday visited Sri Darbar
Sahib, often termed the Golden Temple, after landing at Amritsar's
Rajasansi... |
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Pattern continues: Now, 2 arrested and termed Babbar Khalsa
18
November 2009
RUPNAGAR: In an exercise that has now come to have a set pattern of
police claims becoming staple media news, the Punjab Police working
directly under Sukhbir... |
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Will Chidamabaram listen to this Planning Commission member?
11
November 2009
AMRITSAR: At a
time when India's Home Minister P Chidambaram is leading the shrill
crescendo against Maoists and advocating use of massive force to... |
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Baba Daljit Singh Chicago in new
immigration fraud row
11
November 2009
Patiala:
Self styled Baba Daljit Singh of Chicago continues to reel under
trouble with the Punjab State Human Rights Commission (PSHRC) now
instructing the... |
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Teri Sikhi forum organises massive conclave at Indo-Pak border
11
November 2009
DERA BABA NANAK:
The US-based Teri Sikhi forum took the lead in organizing a massive
religious function at the Indo-Pak border in Dera Baba Nanak
sector... |
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AMRITSAR BOOMING
11
November 2009
AMRITSAR:
Buoyant over launching its operations from Amritsar last month,
Qatar Airways on Monday announced to increase the frequency of the
Amritsar-Doha... |
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AISSF issues
Sant Jarnail Singh sticker
11
November 2009
LUDHIANA: Even
as the Punjab Police continues to harass innocent Sikh youth for
sporting stickers or portraits of Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale on
their ... |
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V-C hails Nirmal Samparda, compares it to
Panj Piaras
4
November 2009
PATIALA:
In remarks on an issue which has not been discussed much within the
Sikh community, Vice-Chancellor, Punjabi University, Dr Jaspal Singh
has hailed... |
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The Ad Mask
4
November 2009
In the last few
elections in Punjab, be it Assembly or Lok Sabha polls, a new
phenomenon had come up that showed to what extent the media has abdicated
not just its... |
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2 Sikh villagers die as SGPC task force opens
fire
4
November 2009
DERA BABA NANAK
(BATALA): Two persons were killed and at least 10, including a
woman, injured when members of the SGPC "task force" opened fire at
apparently... |
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Rail Roko on Nov 6 to Send Message to India
28
October 2009
JALANDHAR:
Victims of 1984 Sikh genocidal attack in Delhi and elsewhere that
saw thousands of Sikhs being burnt alive on the roads of the
national capital will bring.... |
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Gurdwara Commission scraps SGPC move to outsource auditing
21
October 2009
AMRITSAR: In a major jolt to the SGPC, a latest decision of the Sikh
Gurdwara Judicial Commission has put a question mark on the
integrity and non-partisanship of... |
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New Women Studies Centre at Punjabi University, Patiala
21
October 2009
PATIALA: Punjab
University, Patiala has got a new Women's Studies Centre sponsored
by University Grants Commission. The Centre was inaugurated by V-C
Dr Jaspal Singh on Tuesday who said it should... |
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Hawara's ex-wife
released on bail
21
October 2009
SANGRUR:
Balwinder Kaur, former wife of Babbar Khalsa International chief
Jagtar Singh Hawara, was released on bail from the district jail
here on Tuesday evening on orders of the Punjab and Haryana High
Court... |
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IOSS seminar to focus on Forgotten Sikhs
21
October 2009
Chandigarh:
A two-day seminar on “Sikhs Living in States Other Than Punjab” is
being organized by the Institute of Sikh Studies from October 24 on
its premises in Gurdwara Singh Sabha Complex, Kanthala, here... |
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Baba Seechewal walks the talk alongside Bein
21
October 2009
Jalandhar: A
15-day long Nagar Kirtan (religious procession) focusing on
environmental awareness in connection with the birth anniversary of
first Sikh Master, Guru Nanak Dev ji.... |
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In Gurdaspur's sleepy village, HIV positive killing many
14
October 2009
DALLA (BATALA):
Exposing the shallowness of claims of medical care in Punjab, HIV
positive people in the border district of Gurdaspur are dying so
quitely it is not even making news headlines... |
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Activists give clarion call to scrap death penalty
14
October 2009
CHANDIGARH: Ever since an inspired gathering of human rights
activists and lawyers in Rome decided to observe October 10 every
year as a day dedicated to work for... |
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Social organisations ask govt to scrap blacklist of Sikhs
14
October 2009
Amritsar: The
issue of blacklisted NRIs has once again come to the fore with their
relatives urging the government to re-examine their cases and lift
the ban so that they can visit their relatives... |
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Immigration firm cheats Canada-aspirant Punjab youth
14
October 2009
Jalandhar: The
misery of the Punjab youth beating against the high walls of
Fortress US or Castle Europa know no end. Even as tales from the
Malta tragedy on the icy waters of the Ionian sea... |
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Pak sells Sikh gurdwara land, AGPC demands probe
7
October 2009
SAN FRANCISCO/AMRITSAR: Even as reports of sale of gurdwaras’ land
in Pakistan shocked the Sikh community and the SGPC asked... |
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Inderjit
Hassanpuri in coma
7
October 2009
LUDHIANA:
Well known Punjabi writer, lyricist, actor, director, producer Inderjit Singh Hassanpuri is currently lying in a coma at Ludhiana’s... |
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Massive
scam alleged in Punjab Medical deal
7
October 2009
CHANDIGARH:
Punjab's Akali Dal-BJP government has come under some sharp attack
from former Punjab chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh who has
alleged... |
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Punjab's Akali regime shows real color, buckles before aarhtiyas
7
October 2009
CHANDIGARH: For months the Punjab Government amde a solemn promise
that it will ensure direct payments to farmers. It even talked about
bringing a law to this... |
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Will Amritsar city get back the glory of its lost gates?
7
October 2009
With a view to promote tourism in Amritsar, the Department of
Tourism and Cultural Affairs, Punjab, in collaboration with the
district administration, has decided to... |
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Haryana incharge of Punjab's waters, now Act must change
7
October 2009
PATIALA: For
decades, Punjab has been producing food grain for the rest of India
and ensuring food security of the country, while also losing
precious micro-nutrients... |
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Banur
man missing in Australia
30
September 2009
MELBOURNE/BANUR:
A 33-year-old man from Khanpur village in Banur is missing under
mysterious circumstances in western Australia. Pardeep Kumar was
working in Mildura, a city in the Victoria... |
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Intellectuals join heads to mull ways to promote Punjabi language
30
September 2009
JALANDHAR: An all party meeting convened in Jalandhar aimed at
retrieving the increasingly lost space for mother-tongue Punjabi in
Punjab itself stressed on working.. |
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SGPC stayed silent, but pernicious Education Act clause to go
30
September 2009
NEW
DELHI/AMRITSAR: In its race to come out with a Right To Education
Act, Indian law makers were quick to trample upon the rights of the
minorities to manage their own educational... |
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Police arrests two in Rulda murder case
30
September 2009
PATIALA: There was no sign of shame and not even a hint of
embarrassment when defence counsel Lakhwinder Singh Kaliraun pointed
out that the two men allegedly... |
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Innocent Five who were jailed get Rs 20 lakh each
30
September 2009
CHANDIGARH: The
man who was "murdered" has now been sent to jail. The "murderers"
have been released. The state of Punjab will pay Rs One Crore to the
"murderers"... |
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Sikh youth dead in Austrian prison
30
September 2009
GURDASPUR:
Gagandeep Singh, a 25-year-old Punjab origin youth who was among 80
other Punjabis, mostly Sikhs, on hunger strike in an Austrian jail
since... |
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No faith in
Indian Justice
30
September 2009
Your Honour, I
had informed the High Court, in an earlier communication too that I
have not appealed against the death sentence awarded to me in this
case by the Sessions Court... |
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Sikhism's appeal charts new course
30
September 2009
AMRITSAR:
Sikhism seems to be arousing the curiosity of people from all over
the world and different religions. A total of 3,000 people,
including 800 non-Sikhs, 28 from foreign countries... |
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Guru Nanak's gurpurab observed at
Kartarpur
23
September 2009
KARTARPUR SAHIB:
The Gurpurab of the founder of Sikhism Sri Guru Nanak Dev was
observed at Gurdwara Kartarpur Sahib here in the presence of Sikh
Sangat and local Muslims... |
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Punjabi youth stuck in hell hole on North African coast
23
September 2009
JALANDHAR: At
least 63 Indian youth, most of them hailing from Punjab
and Haryana, have been cheated and dumped by unscrupulous agents in Sicily’s
Melilla region, and are living in miserable conditions... |
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300 years after Baba Banda Singh Bahadur, will we lose the battle at the
same place?
23
September 2009
CHHAPAR
CHIRI (Mohali): On the sprawling grounds of Chappar Chirri, nearly
300 years after the battle that made the Bari
and Chotti Chappar Chirri villages along... |
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Just 9 percent women in Punjab on property
23
September 2009
CHANDIGARH:
PUNJAB might be among the richest states in the country, but when it
comes to women, its attitude is poor. A state government study,
sponsored by... |
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The Golden Flight
23
September 2009
During the reign
of Maharaja Ranjit Singh and subsequently in British Governed India,
Amritsar was considered virtually the second capital of Punjab.
Lahore was the... |
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Panic as rockets fall near Attari border villages, media hypes it up
16
September 2009
ATTARI
BORDER: Panic spread in the border villages last wek after a few
rockets fell on Friday night, but an emergency flag meeting during
the wee hours of Saturday... |
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End of a Dream
16
September 2009
CHANDIGARH: In a
move full of stealth and with shocking timing, India's Congress-led
central government under a Sikh Prime Minister has decided to
further dilute... |
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The grassroots fight back, for a roof
16
September 2009
MANSA: Even as
the media looks the other way and there is no one reporting on the
plight of the landless in Punjab, those cast aside by the system are
determined... |
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Ravidasia delegation meets Takht Jathedar
16
September 2009
Amritsar: An
11-member delegation of the Samaj Bachao Morcha, representing a
section of the Ravidasia community, has put forth seven suggestions
at a meeting... |
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A Short cut to image
building: Asset Declaration
16
September 2009
At a time when the Campaign for Judicial Accountability and Reform
is leading the charge to bring about transparency in judicial
system, why are there not demands... |
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Rs
500 cr of loan every month
16
September 2009
Twenty years ago
no one could anticipate that some day the rich Government of Punjab
will have to publicly borrow rupees five hundred crores each month
to pay... |
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They come as destitutes to Pingalwara. Healed, they return home
9
September 2009
AMRITSAR: At
Pingalwara, a charity home for the destitute, its not a re-run of
lives as inmates leave home to make way for new ones. It’s a
renewal. This is where the... |
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Govt moves towards privatizing health sector
9
September 2009
LUDHIANA: As a
good measure of the kind of attention the Punjab government has been
paying to the core sector of health, government doctors poseted in
rural areas... |
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How
Punjab is losing the resource
pool for politics?
9
September 2009
Across the world, bright young minds experienced their first
serious engagement with society by cutting their teeth in student
politics. We can all recall scores of... |
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My parents
murdered by husband, says this girl
9
September 2009
BATALA: She married the boy for love. Her parents never liked the
boy, would fire gun shots outside their house and chased them from
town to town. Finally, they... |
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Dead man walks into court to testify his identity
9
September 2009
CHANDIGARH:
Thirteen long years ago, this man was murdered. Five people went to
jail for murdering him. On September 5, the dead man personally
visited the court... |
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Minority students lose scholarship chance
2
September 2009
CHANDIGARH:
Hundreds of students belonging to minority communities were deprived
of an opportunity to get scholarships offered by the Central
Ministry of Minority... |
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Revealing the Invisible Heritage of Panjab
2
September 2009
For the first time ever a searchable collection of millions of rare
pages on the Sikhs and the region of Panjab has been made available.
Panjab Digital Library (PDL) will... |
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Court summons hostile witnesses in Badal case
2
September 2009
MOHALI: Some
good things happen when you come into government. Of the many
witnesses who deposed against Prakash Singh Badal and his son in a
corruption... |
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Punjab govt set to give more powers to police
2
September 2009
CHANDIGARH: At a
time when the civil society in Punjab has been crying hoarse about
the increasing powers of the police and the failure of the
politician and the... |
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Air India Express to fly nonstop to Amritsar
2
September 2009
ABU DHABI:
India’s budget airline Air India Express will be offering an
introductory, one-way all-inclusive fare of Dh534 on its new nonstop
flights starting September 4... |
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Punjab does have tribes, govt-funded survey
claims
2
September 2009
PATIALA: For
decades, the governments in Punjab denied the existence of Scheduled
Tribes in Punjab but now a survey funded by the government itself
has found that... |
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Drama, shoot out at Ludhiana Railway Station as one dies
26
August 2009
LUDHIANA: In highly dramatic development in the heart of the
bustling Ludhiana city, a three hour shoot out resulted in the
killing of a tea vendor and left two railway... |
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A Sikh helps India save its history
26
August 2009
One of the best
known Sikh architects and conservationists, Gurmeet Rai, who had
earlier helped restore Guru Ki Masit in Sri Hargobindpur in
Gurdaspur, has now... |
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Strange ways of handling a sensitive issue
26
August 2009
AMRITSAR:
Of the hundreds of thousands of gurdwaras spread all over the
country, and of the large number of gurdwaras in remote places where
management often... |
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Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar seeks a shift to Punjab
26
August 2009
CHANDIGHRH:
Death-row convict Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar, lodged in Tihar jail
with a mercy petition pending with the President since 2003, has
appealed to the... |
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Lip service on as drug menace destroys Punjab
26
August 2009
CHANDIGARH: At a
time when Sikh scholars, religious leaders and aware Sikh
intelligentsia is struggling to underline the harm being caused by
the drug menace in... |
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Punjab economy in doldrums, family silver now on sale
26
August 2009
Chandigarh: At a
time when Punjab's ruling Akali Da-BJP regime is never tired of
telling us how much the state has been progressing under their
tutelage, some... |
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Vienna Sikhs suffer, new revelations shock
26
August 2009
AMRITSAR:
Revealing shocking details from the Vienna shootout case in which a
sect leader of the Ravidassia community was fatally injured and
later died, a visiting... |
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Flogging dead horse to life, again
26
August 2009
Of the many political footballs that Punjab's Akali politicians kick
from time to time, Harchand Singh Longowal has had a long innings
much after his death. Various... |
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NASA finds Punjab groundwater levels falling fast
19
August 2009
Mumbai: For
years now, environmentalists have been crying hoarse about the
depeleting groundwater in Punjab. Sanguine political analaysts have
been warning the... |
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Rulda
Singh of RSS is dead
19
August 2009
Rashtriya
Sikh Sangat (RSS) Punjab chief Rulda Singh, 62, who was shot at
outside his Patiala residence by two unidentified motorcycle-borne
assailants on July 29... |
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Two Sikhs
students beat shackles of poverty to study
19
August 2009
PATIALA: Poverty
did not hold them back from dreaming. And hardwork was something
they had never shirked away from. With a Singh and a Kaur suffixed
to their... |
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Brother cops and ego hassles: Elder not to report to younger
12
August 2009
Chandigarh:
Punjab government made the younger brother the state's top police
officer, and then found that his eleder brother senior to him will
find it difficult to report... |
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Punjabi University ends bitter chapter in graft case
12
August 2009
PATIALA: In a getsure that may signal the end of certain
bitterness on the campus among faculty members, the Punjabi
University administration has denied... |
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School rowdies beat up class 9 student
12
August 2009
KAPURTHALA:
Incidents of ragging continue to be reported from the Punjab
schools with unfailing regularity and the latest one comes from the
Kapurthala Sainik... |
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Dr Harshinder Kaur emerges winner as govt eats humble pie
12
August 2009
PATIALA: This was one move for which the Indian government paid
dearly, as did the Punjab’s Akali-BJP regime. Dr Harshinder Kaur,
who was at the centre of the... |
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Will new law help curb fake travel agents racket in Punjab?
12
August 2009
CHANDIGARH: Even
as the business of fake travel agents thrives in Punjab
and little has the stae government done in terms of trying to save
Punjab's youth being... |
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Why have you brougth them here? Oh well, you
should know
12
August 2009
CHANDIGARH: The judges tried to look towards them, but it was
difficult for them. "Why have you brought them all here?" one of the
judges asked. He should have... |
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Now, listen to live kirtan from Harmandar Sahib, read its meaning too
12
August 2009
AMRITSAR:
Millions of people across the world who watch `kirtan' from
Harmandar Sahib on their TV sets will soon be able to simultaneously
understand the `shabads... |
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Rulda Singh’s condition still serious
5
August 2009
Punjab
unit chief of the Rashtriya Sikh Sangat (RSS) Rulda Singh was shot
at in his house by three unidentified miscreants on Tuesday night... |
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Fly
to Europe, in Punjabi style
5
August 2009
LUDHIANA: Air
Slovakia, owned by an expatriate family from Patiala, will fly
London, Italy and Spain from Chandigarh and Amritsar from next
month... |
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Punjab's jails den of corruption, but see who says this!
5
August 2009
CHANDIGARH: That Punjab's jails are almost government-designated
zones for crime is a secret only too well known to most people, but
now a court ordered inquiry.. |
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Govt acts against her because
she spoke up for your daughters
5
August 2009
Chandigarh:
She spoke out for the daughters of Punjab who remain neglected and
for whose welfare the Punjab government claims to be working day and
night. At an... |
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Ex-minister’s murder convict son killed
5
August 2009
BATHINDA: An ex-Akali
minister Teja Singh Dhillon's son Sandeep Singh alias Bobby, who was
facing trial in a number of criminal cases and was convicted in a
case.. |
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Dr Saifuddin Kitchlew's son is a
homeless man in Amritsar
5
August 2009
AMRITSAR/NEW DELHI: Toufique Kitchlew, son of one of Punjab's most
famous freedom fighters, Dr Saifuddin Kitchlew, is a frustrated man
at 78. He had come... |
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Police say Harpal Singh Bhullar's son ISI spy
29
July 2009
FEROZEPUR:
Activities of Bhai Mardana Yadgari Kirtan Darbar Society headed by
Harpal Singh Bhullar came under a shadow last week when Punjab
Police raided his... |
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Chandigarh admn pours money on memorial named
after Beant
29
July 2009
CHANDIGARH: How the Indian establishment feels happy at making
heroes out of pygmies! Neither was the late Chief Minister of
Punjab, Beant Singh, known for any... |
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Indian court sends Hawara's ex-wife to five
year jail
29
July 2009
SANGRUR: A lower
Indian court in Punjab has sentenced four accused, including Babbar
Khalsa International chief Jagtar Singh Hawara's former wife
Balwinder Kaur... |
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Racing against train, three
friends crushed to death
22
July 2009
LUDHIANA:
In a rather reckless and peculiar tragedy that perhaps says much for
aberrations in youth behaviour, three friends in
Ludhiana
had themselves run over by a... |
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Fly your own jet
22
July 2009
CHANDIGARH: The
global slowdown does not seem to affected the ultra-rich of Punjab.Aiming to tap
the growing spending capacity in the luxury class, BJETS, a...
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Vested interests making life
tough for Punjab farmers
22
July 2009
CHANDIGARH: Vested anti-farmer interests in Punjab are so well
entrenched that even a simple order of the government, one that has
been passed repeatedly and... |
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Bhau, Jassa walk free after four years as case found false
15
July 2009
PATIALA: Baljit Singh Bhau and Jasveer Singh Jassa, arrested in June
2005 on the charge of giving shelter to Jagtar Singh Hawara,
convicted for the 1995 killing of... |
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Varsity prepares students for global skills, two had that aplenty
15
July 2009
Jalandhar:
Two students of MBA International of Lovely Professional University,
who were part of a 62 strong group that visited US as part of their
curriculum for internati... |
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Gurdwara not to be shifted: Clergy
15
July 2009
Amritsar:
Rejecting a plea by airports authorities, the Sikh clergy has said
the gurdwara in the vicinity of the Rajasansi airport would not be
shifted to another place and... |
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Punjab
goes in for SEZ Act
15
July 2009
CHANDIGARH:
Continuing to push for a capital and credit intensive neo-liberal
model of economic development that is highly urban centric and is
eliciting widespread... |
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Stuck in Spain because of Indian apathy
15
July 2009
JALANDHAR:
Former Union minister and Lok Bhalai Party chief Balwant Singh
Ramoowalia has claimed that thousands of Indian youth were living in
Spain in miserable.. |
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Hawara's associates free as police case turns out a bundle of lies
15
July 2009
FATEHGARH SAHIB:
Here are men who India's police had claimed had confessed to murder,
planned to kill top Congress leader Bhajan Lal and possibly had
worse... |
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No new taxes in
Punjab Budget but picture is
grim
8
July 2009
CHANDIGARH: Punjab Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal on Tuesday
presented a tax-free Budget for 2009-10, with a huge fiscal deficit
but little to show on how... |
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Four of family dead after quibble
over bike
8
July 2009
Jalandhar: In a heart rending tragedy that many are blaming on
rising aspirational life styles and demands spurred by a material
culture, estranged wife of an ASI of... |
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Lawlessness becoming norm in
Punjab
1
July 2009
BATHINDA: Lawlessness is increasingly becoming the norm in Punjab
with every week turning up a couple of examples of complete
inability of enforcement authorities... |
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Last survivor of Jallianawala
Bagh tragedy dead
1
July 2009
AMRITSAR: Shingara
Singh, the brave Sikh who was known as the last known survivor of
the Jallianwala Bagh massacre of April 13, 1919, died after a brief
illness... |
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Attack on tehsildar was planned by Akali councilors
1
July 2009
LUDHIANA: Apanel
tasked by the state government to probe the beating of a senior
revenue official by Akali Dal hoodlums led by a couple of councilors
close to... |
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Punjab to slip into poll fever again
1
July 2009
CHANDIGARH:
Punjab will soon be in the grip of election fever once again as
the three Assembly seats of Jalalabad, Kahnuwan and Banur will go to
polls on August 3... |
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Giani Mohan Singh eased out in peculiar circumstances
1
July 2009
AMRITSAR: In continuous of an unfortunate tradition, the Shiromani
Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee has now removed Jathedar Giani Mohan
Singh from his duties... |
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Sikh Youth of Punjab seminar on Saka Akal Takht
24
June 2009
Jalandhar: The
‘Sikh Youth of Punjab’ organized a conclave here to mark the 25th
anniversary of Indian army attack on Akal Takht and sought to
discuss, define and... |
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UP,
Bihar labourers find jobs at
home, Punjab agriculture hit
24
June 2009
CHANDIGARH: At a time when major ideological fights across the world
are being impacted by economic models, there is need for the Sikh
community to deal with a... |
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100th Ardaas for India, Pak Mile Long Corridor for Sikhs
24
June 2009
Dera Baba Nanak: Underlining their faith in Akalpurakh and the power
of Ardas, the determined band of Sikh activists fighting to get
India and Pakistan to agree to a... |
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Lessons for Punjab from Oz attacks
17
June 2009
Chandigarh:
Punjab Chief Minister Prakash Singh Badal's Cabinet-rank advisor
Daljit Singh Cheema was recently in a TV studio to participate in a
panel discussion... |
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Here's how Punjab cops can pay for a cup of tea
MN Punjab
17
June 2009
Gurdaspur:
In an extremely disturbing report that can jolt even the hardened
cynic, the media in Punjab has brougth out how police brutality has
become a routine affair... |
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From NASA visit, Punjab kids get deadly virus
17
June 2009
JALANDHAR/WASHINGTON:
A bunch of students from a Jalandhar school who went visiting the
United States’ National Aeronautics and Space Administration... |
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Jat youth, Dalit girl die in police station in CM's town
10
June 2009
LAMBI: In Punjab Chief Minister
Prakash Singh Badal's home town Lambi, a Jat Sikh youth and a Dalit
girl from Punjaban village in Lambi block committed suicide right... |
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Quom comes together to pay homage to the martyrs
10
June 2009
AMRITSAR:
Twenty five years after tanks rolled into Sri Darbar Sahib, and the
Indian nation state singed Sri Akal Takht Sahib and the heart of the
Sikh nation... |
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Now, sword-waving Ravan Sena Balmikis wreak mayhem in Punjab
10
June 2009
Kapurthala:
Close on the heels of the unprecendeted bloodshed, violence and
mayhem in Punjab by followers of Ravidasia dera came another bout of
violence... |
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“Govt
saving killers and looters, we will form self-defence groups”
3
June 2009
PHAGWARA: “They looted, they harassed, and they burnt property.
Their faces are known. Police and media have videos that show them doing all
this. We know... |
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Defence University
swings out of Punjab
3
June 2009
Chandigarh: Notwithstanding the grandstanding by Punjab CM
Parkash Singh Badal and sundry claims about it, Punjab has been
dealt one more blow by the rulers in New Delhi... |
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Memories of its tragic past live on in
Punjab's present
3
June 2009
There are
ways in which Indian media will be bringing you a postcard from the past.
From its experience, the Sikh community is now well aware of the subtle
and...
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‘Genocide Remembrance March’ on
June 3 at Amritsar
27
May 2009
Amritsar: Unmoved by the "advice" of the Prime Minister Dr Manmohan
Singh that the Sikhs should forget 1984 'painful events', Dal Khalsa
plans to undertake a... |
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Violence Sets Up Dera in Punjab, Shun It Out
27
May 2009
VIENNA/PUNJAB:
5800 kilometres east of a Jalandhar dera, a bunch of men attacked a
dera head and his deputy over an issue of theology and politics. One
dera man... |
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Sikhi spirit calls
27
May 2009
Copying is strictly
prohibited in such tough exams, but outside the examination hall,
there is no bar on becoming copycats. Sikh activists must study the
model, visit... |
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12 Dera followers arrested for rioting
27
May 2009
Jalandhar: Police has arrested 12 Dera Sachkhand Ballan
followers for ransacking and setting afire a portion of a UCO Bank
branch,ATMs, petrol pumps, shops... |
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Sikh school turns out baptised girl student who refused to wear skirt
20 May 2009
JALANDHAR: A nine-year-old baptized Sikh girl who sports turban and
belongs to a deeply religious family was made to undergo humiliating
treatment... |
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Haryana threatens to steal Punjab
waters
20 May 2009
Chandigarh: CM
Parkash Singh Badal has asked PM Dr Manmohan Singh to intervene immediately
to prevent the Haryana government from “unlawfully accessing”... |
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Move to help Sikhs
join US Forces
20 May 2009
Chandigarh: Congressmen, led by two co-chairs of the Indian
Caucus in the United States, have agreed to help remove
restrictions, which preclude the... |
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The People's Court Where Politicians Lost Before Voting
13
May 2009
KAPURTHALA: In an election so often termed as issue-less,
environment sage Sant Baba Balbir Singh Seechewal tried to force one
issue. His moral pressure made... |
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Youth accused of throwing water on a granthi
13
May 2009
AMRITSAR: In a rather queer development which hurt the
religious sentiments of many Sikhs, a youth in his 20's with trimmed
hair and beard threw “sarovar” water on... |
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NRIs campaignin Punjab for Dr MMS
13
May 2009
Jalandhar: Poll fever apparently gripped some non-resident Indians
who arrived here in large droves to support candidates of their
choice. Leading one such group was... |
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Desi brides on receiving end, India’s Law
Commission acts
5
May 2009
CHANDIGARH:
India’s Law Commission has recommended a slew of measures to counter
the problem of “desi” brides being dumped by NRI grooms. One of its... |
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SWINE FLU: Indian approach is casual as usual
29
April 2009
AMRITSAR/NEW
DELHI: As death toll zoomed in Mexico and Indian travel advisories impacted
outbound traffic to the west, the swine flu has put travel plans of US... |
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Punjab -- the land of one farm
suicide a day
29
April 2009
BATHINDA: Punjab's
revenue records show that some 130 farmers committed suicide between 2000 to
2007... |
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Punjab forgets Giani Ditt Singh's day
22
April 2009
FATEHGARH SAHIB:
Giani Ditt Singh is one of the legendary Sikh leaders when it comes
to scholarship but even as political parties in Punjab vied with
each other to... |
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Data shock: Best education in Punjab
is meant for city students only
15
April 2009
PATIALA: At a time
when claims of turning even the most backward region of
Punjab into nothing but
California are
unending, here is a new survey that underlines the... |
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Environment sage forced agenda on politicos
8 April 2009
KAPURTHALA:
Environmental sage and holy greenman Baba Balbir Singh Seechewal has
forced the issue of climate change and water resources on to... |
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Diaspora help takes a dip, politicos lose on $, £
8 April 2009
Chandigarh:
With many Punjab Diaspora members reeling under the recession, the
help that pours forth from the NRIs for elections in Punjab is... |
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Shielf Dixit says her govt will not oppose Kukki's plea
1 April 2009
LUDHIANA: After
failing to rise to the occasion and take an early and informed decision on
the sentence of Ranjit Singh Kukki, the Sikh militant... |
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Assamese
Sikhs trace their Punjabi roots
18 March 2009
AMRITSAR: Nearly two centuries after their warrior ancestors arrived
in Assam, Sikhs from the state are currently on a visit to Punjab to
discover firsthand the culture... |
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Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s portrait to
auction at Sotheby’s
18 March 2009
Patiala: New York
auction house Sotheby’s will auction a rare and historic painting of
Maharajah Ranjit Singh on March 18... |
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Queen to unveil Sikh museum at Derby
18 March 2009
Jalandhar:
The British Queen will inaugurate the National Sikh Heritage Centre
and
Holocaust Museum at Derby in England in the last week of July,
Chairman of ... |
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Work stops at Jallianwala but sword hangs on heritage look
18 March 2009
Amritsar:
The youth anger against giving a new hep shape to Jallianwala Bagh
continues to simmer as the loss of heritage rankles. Now, the local
youth organisations... |
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US non-profit partners Pingalwara efforts
18 March 2009
Amritsar:
Home of Hope (HOH), a non-profit based in the US,
has partnered the turnaround of many a mute lives at the All India
Pingalwara Charitable Society. The... |
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Election Commission removes 3 Punjab officials
11
March 2009
Chandigarh: The
Election Commission of India ordered removal of three senior
officers — Principal Secretary, Home; DIG (Border Range); and
Amritsar... |
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Don’t let Kapur Singh’s work fade away
11
March 2009
CHANDIGARH:
At a glittering ceremony with balloons and band, in the presence of
who’s who of the Sikh academic world from across the state... |
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Sikhs make Guinness size statement with Blood
11
March 2009
ANANDPUR SAHIB: More than three hundred years after the tenth Sikh
Master, Guru Gobind Singh ji, founded the Khalsa amid the hilly
terrains of Sri Anandpur Sahib... |
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Sainis get Backward Class status
4
March 2009
JALANDHAR: The
elite Saini caste members who opposed the Backward Class tag given
to their caste by the Punjab Government finally won with the
Punjab... |
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Punjab announces Rs 2 lakh to farm suicide hit families
4
March 2009
CHANDIGARH: Faced with the direct threat by farmers to launch an
agitation with unprecedented zeal, resources and determination to
jolt a government apathetic to... |
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Reminiscing Kapur Singh
4
March 2009
AMRITSAR:
The Khalsa Action Committee sought the establishment of a Kapur
Singh chair in any of the Universities of Punjab at a seminar
organized by the Dal... |
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Committee formed for Recovery of the
Sikh Reference Library material
4
March 2009
AMRITSAR: During
Indian Army attack (codenamed Operation Blue Star), on the Darbar
Sahib and Akal Takht (Amritsar) in June 1984, the cultural,
historical and... |
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Bhindranwale’s son in Bathinda LS
race
25
February 2009
Chandigarh: A few
panthic forums and Akali Dal (1920) have decided to field Ishar
Singh, elder son of late leader, Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale... |
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Montek calls off Manpreet's bluff on no budget show
25 February 2009
CHANDIGARH: In a
rather curious situation that saw Punjab Government getting the flak from
the Centre and coming out with lame duch excuses... |
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Students herded to Sukhbir’s rally by force
25 February 2009
PATIALA :Of the
many dubious contributions from the House of Badals to the Punjab
polity... |
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Raj time MLA lost 50 acres in 1942
18
February 2009
How fast do you
think one can get justice in India? Here is an example: This man
began his fight before the British left India, and in 1942 they
confiscated... |
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India born teacher gets US honour
18
February 2009
PATIALA:
Twentynine-year-old Samina Khan, a science teacher at Michele Clarke
Academy Preparatory Magnet School, Chicago, has been... |
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25 years later, Sikh dies without any justice
18
February 2009
An anti-sikh
riot victim with a paralysed body lying on bed since last 25 years
and a key witness in former union minister Sajan Kumar... |
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Sikhs to hold mega blood donation camp in Punjab
18
February 2009
AMRITSAR: A host
of Sikh organizations, have come together to organize a blood
donation camp at Anandpur Sahib on 10 March, 2009 and they have put
in place... |
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Manpreet shies away from full budget
18
February 2009
CHANDIGARH:
Punjab Finance
Minister Manpreet Singh Badal will be presenting a sort of interim budget,
popularly known as Vote On Account, instead of a regualr... |
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Who paid for uninterrupted power
day? You!
18
February 2009
JALANDHAR: For one day in the entire season, the people of
Punjab got
electricity throught the day. The reason: On January 21, Sukhbir
Singh Badal... |
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Punjab prepares pind tourism model
for Diaspora
18
February 2009
CHANDIGARH: For
many of the Diaspora members, this could be a welcome news as the young ones
born and brought up... |
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No Taint Now !
18
February 2009
CHANDIGARH:
Gurcharan Singh has died. Gurcharan Singh who? The half-burnt
half-alive Gurcharan Singh. The man who spent 25 years after
becoming the victim of... |
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Man kills daughter, her lover in Punjab
11 February
2009
FEROZEPUR: IN
PUNJAB’S FEROZEPUR, a man killed his own daughter after first
bludgeoning her lover to death and burying the body in his
courtyard... |
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Dead Souls
4
February 2009
PATIALA: They had not learnt to cry their lungs out. Their parents
and siblings had not laughed their heart out to celebrate the birth
of the newborns. Cruel hands of... |
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Father kills young daughter, remains
remorseless
4
February 2009
Mandi Ahmedgarh: In a shocking incident, a father shot dead
his young daughter with his licensed weapon simply because he could
not come to terms with her... |
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Potator farmers spill the tubers to
force govt hand
4
February 2009
Chandigarh: In
adispay of disgust towards the state government,
Punjab's potato cultivators under the banner of Bhartiya Kisan Union (Rajewal)
threw about 30 quintals... |
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High Court judge
grills state govt in Virk case
4
February 2009
CHANDIGARH: The ongoing case against former DGP S S Virk has
once again landed the Punjab Government in a deep controversy as
Justice Ranjit Singh of the... |
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Coordination Committee on Diesel Prices to meet on 4 February
28 January 2009
We
welcome the latest reduction in diesel prices by rupees two, said
AIMTC president Charan Singh Lohara... |
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Truckers
and Famers threaten
28 January 2009
CHANDIGARH: In
order to focus attention on the plight of truckers and farmers
across the state of Punjab on account of petroleum prices... |
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Honor killing in Punjab: Girl's kin
kill couple
28 January 2009
Amritsar: Shame of
honor killing returned to Punjab once again when a newly married couple,
which had approached the police and... |
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Graft galore among Punjab Police
28 January 2009
Chandigarh:
Nearly 134 Punjab Police officers in Patiala and 13 in Mohali are
facing criminal prosecution under various charges, with corruption topping
the list of... |
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O Mere Sukh Ji, What chopper rides
do to blue pencils and culture icons!
28 January 2009
AMRITSAR/CHANDIGARH: Do headlines tell a story? Well, they
told one about Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal... |
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She can't see any more, but she has
got a vision
21 January 2009
Chandigarh: It's
with a huge smile that 29-year-old Rashpal Kaur meets us at the door
of her Sector 35 home... |
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Nanak Singh's sacrifice recalled
21 January 2009
PATIALA: Sri Guru
Tegh Bahadur National Integration Chair based at Punjabi University
organised the First Shaheed Nanak Singh Memorial Lecture ... |
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National swimming coach Sucha Singh
Sandhu retires
21 January 2009
PATIALA: After a
meritorious service for nearly 35 years to the sports fraternity,
famous swimming coach Sucha Singh Sandhu retired recently... |
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Court acquits ‘terror-suspect’ as
police case falls apart
21 January 2009
JALANDHAR: How Punjab Police expertise in foisting false
charges and concocting evidence can fall apart in a cour of law if
the right questions are asked was clear... |
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Rural Sikh girl had a dream, realises via IT
14 January 2009
Amritsar,
Punjab: “I want to do something significant for my state Punjab
after completing my study in UK”. These were the words of Jasvir
Kaur, a Sikh Punjabi girl, who left for UK on a scholarship.. |
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PAU experts to assess farmer suicides
14 January 2009
SANGRUR: Punjab
government has asked Punjab Agriculture University economists to
assess farmers suicides and suggest steps to stem the menace... |
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Brar is PSEB chief
14 January 2009
PATIALA: Just on
the last day of his tenure, and despite having extended his tenure
by a year and actually changing the requirements of age, Parkash
Singh Badal-led Punjab Government showed the door to Punjab State
Electricity Chairman... |
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More judges my be sucked into
scandal after new revelations
14 January 2009
AT a time when
India’s top judges
are quibbling over whether the public has the right to know how much
wealth do they have, another scam continues to drag down the
judiciary’s reputation... |
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Officials looted it Red, now High
Court is very Cross
14 January 2009
AFTER information gleaned under the Right to Information Act
proved that Red Cross funds across
Punjab were misused by Deputy Commissioners and others... |
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Punjab to set up venture capital fund
14 January 2009
Punjab
Government is reportedly setting up a venture capital fund in
collaboration with private companies with an intention of providing
financial assistance to new ventures in the state... |
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Punjab Mandi Board plans e-tendering from next month
14 January 2009
In order to
bring transparency in the tendering process, the Punjab Agricultural
Marketing Board, also known as the Punjab Mandi Board... |
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Nihang chief escapes attack as bloody feud goes on
14 January 2009
At some point of
time, the Sikh community will have to take a more serious note of
such blood feud running through many Nihang Singh... |
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Another Commission, but reforms nowhere in sight
7 January 2009
JALANDHAR: After
allowing many a good suggestions and reform charters to gather dust
in the corridors of Punjab Civil Secretariat, the Punjab Government
has once again claimed that it was so serious... |
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Govt spends crores to bask in martyr’s reflected glory
7 January 2009
KHATKAR KALAN: India
calls him its iconic martyr. Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh has
inspired many a youth to take a path in life of one’s own
convictions... |
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Punjab,
Canada to work collectively to
face global meltdown
7 January 2009
CHANDIGARH: Sukh
Dhaliwal, Member Canadian Federal Parliament from British Columbia
on Tuesday called on Punjab Co-operation Minister Capt. Kanwaljit
Singh and discussed... |
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DNA test clears UK abandoned kid’s journey home
7 January 2009
HOSHIARPUR: The
DNA tests of an 11-year-old Sikh boy found abandoned in London last
year have established that he belongs to a family near Tanda town in
Punjab’s Hoshiarpur district... |
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Truckers on strike in Punjab, elsewhere
7 January 2009
AMRITSAR: One of
the best recalled images of throbbing activity in Punjab
has dulled this week as the roaring trucks on its roads have come to
a stand still. Following a strike call of the All-India Motor
Transport Congress (AIMTC)... |
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History's witness Ludhiana clock tower crumbling
7 January 2009
LUDHIANA: The
famous Ghanta Ghar here turned 102 last year. It was on October 18,
1906, that Victoria Memorial Clock Tower, Ludhiana,
was inaugurated by the then Lt Governor of Punjab, Sir
Montgomery... |
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Martyr's widow? But when did he die?
24 December
2008
CHANDIGARH: A
widow of a Punjabi non-commissioned officer in the Indian Army who
died fighting in Sri Lanka when Rajiv Gandhi had sent IPKF there as
one of his hair-brained... |
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Khaira asks Badal to summon Assembly on
French turban ban
17 December
2008
Proactive
Congress MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira has asked Punjab CM and
Akali Dal patron Parkash Singh Badal to summon ... |
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Haryana steals a march over Punjab brethren
17 December
2008
In a rather
worrying development, Haryana seems to be leaving behind Punjab
as far as Army officer quota is concerned as against Punjab’s... |
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24 Punjab Police men say they didn't know they were fugitives
17 December
2008
How shameful can
a state's face be is often clear from how brashly do its security
personnel behave and how effectively and quickly the state can... |
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1000 armed guards for Punjab CM kin
17 December
2008
Guess how many
policemen and commandos guard the Punjab chief minister and his
family? Around 1,000! Following the Mumbai terror attacks, when... |
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Haryana Deputy CM gets new religion, new name, new wife, and a sack
10 December
2008
It could
have been a Bollywood potboiler. Haryana's Deputy Chief
Minister Chander Mohan went missing for a month and then appeared
with a new religion, new name and a new wife... |
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Punjabis held captive by travel agents in Indonesia
3 December
2008
CHANDIGARH:
Unscruplous travel agents from India and Pakistan are holding captive at
least 14 Punjabi youth in Indonesia, an escaped victim has revealed as per
media reports... |
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Two Sikh youth die in stampede during army
recruitment drive
3 December
2008
AMRITSAR: In a
rather stark image of how unemployment mars Punjab youths' future
and how callously does the state care about their well being, two youths
were killed and four... |
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PU shows anti-marginalised face, cancels OBC quota
3 December
2008
Chandigarh:
Continuing with its anti marginalised anti-minority moves, the
Panjab University has decided to do away with its 7% Other Backward
Classes (OBC) quota from... |
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Punjab gets SEZ Act of its own
26 November
2008
Chandigarh:
Punjab has finally gone ahead with the enactment of a “Punjab
Special Economic Zone (SEZ) Act” by formulating a comprehensive SEZ
policy to promote mega... |
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Residents get into the act, cry foul over bad job
26 November
2008
Pathankot: This
is the kind of story that does not make it to the newspaper pages in Punjab.
People's action is normally relegated to sidelines while
statements... |
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Cherie Blair inaugurates school in Punjab
village
19 November
2008
DHILWAN:
Making a second visit in as many years, former British Prime
minister’s wife, Cherie Blair, inaugurated a government school here
as part of the activities... |
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Top Punjab cop courts shame in High Court
12 November
2008
CHANDIGARH: In a
more civilised world, the citizenry would have been shocked at this
but in India, the news failed to make it to even prominent place on an... |
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Canadian sleuths in India for Kanishka probe
12 November
2008
CHANDIGARH: A
five-member Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) team is in India in
connection with the re-opened probe into Kanishka tragedy and... |
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Punjab's health system at mercy of apathetic regime
12 November
2008
CHANDIGARH:
Unlike in developed democracies like United States
or European nations, the core issues of health and education go
blatantly missing... |
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British teachers to equip Punjab teachers in English
5 November
2008
CHANDIGARH: Under an agreement with the University of Wolver
Hampton, now teachers from Britain will train class X teachers in Punjab
government... |
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Airlines shun Raja Sansi airport 'coz landing charges too high
5 November
2008
Chandigarh:
After it became clear that a number of Airlines were ready to leave
out Amritsar and shut shop, some MPs, Ministers and MLAs from Majha
have... |
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Punjab IAS officer commits suicide
22 October 2008
CHANDIGARH: In a
rather shocking incident, a senior Punjab IAS officer who enjoyed a
reputation for efficiency and honesty, A.S. Chhatwal, committed... |
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CPI(M) suffers ignominy, its Punjab head
kicked out in sexual harassment case
17 October 2008
CHANDIGARH:
Years after fellow comrades and sterling men of ideology, commitment and
personal integrity consistently accused Punjab CPI(M)... |
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Look Who’s Talking: Punjab SSP says police
framing his son in false case
15 October 2008
JALANDHAR: For
decades now, people of Punjab do not believe anything that the
Punjab Police says or claims. Now finally, you have what Americans... |
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Now, police arrests 3 claiming they wanted to
kill Sirsa head
15 October 2008
PATIALA: Away from the
national limelight, the Punjab Police continues to work in its own
perculiar non-transparent ways. Now the cops in Patiala... |
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Women Rights in Sikh maryada make news at
seminar
15 October 2008
AMRITSAR: This
is one issue with which the Sikh community will have to grapple soon in a
more engaged and serious way rather than allowing some loudmouths... |
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Probe confirms fake encounters but uses
Mistaken Idenitity ruse
8 October 2008
CHANDIGARH: An
inquiry into Fake Encounters, a typically Punjab Police invention to kill
completely innocent people, has finally found that most.. |
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Human Rights activists tear apart India's
shameful record
8 October 2008
CHANDIGARH: One
of the oft-repeated grouses of historians is that Sikhs have made far more
history than they have written, and that was because... |
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Gajinder says return to India on his terms:
report
1 October 2008
AMRITSAR: In a
development that will interest the Sikh community, the Dal Khalsa
founder Gajinder Singh has expressed a desire to return to India... |
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Father-daughter lose job in Punjab
‘coz they were Muslim
24 September 2008
PHAGWARA: This
is how stereotyping of Muslim works out at the ground level. In a
shocking incident reported by a leading English daily, a laboratory
assistant... |
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Ludhiana Sikh youth killed in New
Jersey
24 September 2008
LUDHIANA/NEW
JERSEY: A 28 year old Sikh youth, Amarjit Singh was killed in New
jersey, allegedly by a black male. Then victim hailed from New
Madhopuri... |
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Rajindra Kothi is now a heritage
hotel
24 September 2008
Patiala: While
proponents of saving heritage and culture may have a different view
on it but the Punjab CM did express immense happiness after
inaugurating... |
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Seechewal launches desilting of
riverbed
24 September 2008
Jalandhar:
Continuing with his mission, Baba Balbir Singh Seechewal has
launched ‘kar sewa” to clean up and desilt the Sutlej riverbed near
Giddarpindi village... |
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Sikh
community condemns Orissa attacks
17 September 2008
Amritsar: The
Sikh community has collectively condemned the attacks on Christians
in various parts of India, mostly carried out by Hindutva terror
agents... |
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Seona shot dead in Patiala
17 September 2008
PATIALA: In a shocking
development, Darbara Singh Seona, general secretary of Akali Dal
International, was shot dead by two motorcycle-borne youth... |
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Indian police uses AK-47 rifles to fire into
crowd of teachers near CM residence
10 September 2008
Rohtak: As a few hundred
teachers gathered near the residence of Haryana CM Bhupinder Singh
Hooda, asking that their services be regularised, the police knew... |
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Punjabi to be compulsory in schools
10 September 2008
CHANDIGARH: The
Punjab Government has cleared a legislation to make Punjabi compulsory up to
class X in government and private schools... |
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Poohla burns to death but his tale exposes India's anti-terror strategy
3 September 2008
AMRITSAR/CHANDIGARH:
"Kalank mit gaya, par je
thorra zayada tarrap ke marda te kujhh hor shanti mildi bhale lokan
nu." Outside the burns ward in PGI... |
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A veteran
scores a century
3 September 2008
Amritsar: Giani
Mohinder Singh, 99, the oldest surviving Sikh leader and a former
SGPC secretary, celebrated his 100th birthday this week... |
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Foundation stone of Sri Guru Granth
Sahib World University lai
3 September 2008
FATEHGARH SAHIB:
Amid controversy over dropping the word 'Sikh' from its name and
appointing Jasbir Singh Ahluwalia its vice-chancellor, Punjab CM
Parkash Singh... |
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Jallianwala Bagh martyrs are not even freedom fighters in records
3 September 2008
Amritsar/Chandigarh:
In a good turn to our heritage and legacy of sacrifice and
martyrdom, the Amritsar Deputy Commissioner Kahan Singh Pannu,
credited... |
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Punjab Police cops beat man to death on the road
3 September 2008
Moga: Punjab
Police, which once tasted blood during the days of militancy, has
turned into a peculiarly bloody force. When a totally innocent Sikh
man... |
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Arrest Sidhu, Joshi and Mayor for hooliganism
at Masjid
27 August, 2008
Amritsar- The
Khalsa Action Committee today strongly condemned the hooliganism by
the frenzy mob led by BJP leader Navjot Singh Sidhu, city Mayor and
local MLA.. |
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Punjab loses out on relief due to ridiculous
norms
27 August, 2008
Chandigarh:
Punjab has asked New Delhi to tell the Union Home Ministry that the
state be given all the possible flood as per new norms as the nature
and quantum... |
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Floods hit Punjab, 15 dead, thousands
homeless, army out
20 August, 2008
CHANDIGARH:
Punjab has been hit by floods, the worst in 20 years. Large swathes
of eight of Punjab's districts are under water. Nealry 15 people
have died... |
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Bindra installs himself, pulls in Saini too
20 August, 2008
MOHALI: I S Bindra,
a veteran cricket administrator, was unanimously re-elected
president of the Punjab Cricket Association (PCA) at the Annual
General Meeting... |
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Sikh women bus conductors make a statement
13 August, 2008
LUDHIANA: Finally, it took four Sikh women to join a jo
that has remained the bastion of men for no reason. For the Diaspora, it
would seem such a little trifle... |
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Naina Devi Temple stampede kills 146 as India refuses to learn crowd control
6 August, 2008
NAINA DEVI
SHRINE: More than 140 devotees of Naina Devi, including scores of
women and children, died at a temple of the goddess near Anandpur
Sahib... |
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Badal’s govt tells Supreme Court Prof Bhullar
is hardcore terrorist
6 August, 2008
CHANDIGARH: In
January 2003 was formed a body called ‘Forum for the Defence of
Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar’ under Justice A.S. Bains and Akali Dal... |
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Italy’s stricter laws may shut doors on
Punjabis
6 August, 2008
CHANDIGARH:
Italian government declared a nationwide state of emergency last Friday,
giving authorities additional powers to tackle the influx and... |
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Two acquitted in Hawara shelter case
6 August, 2008
Patiala: Finally, the fine yarn spun by Indian police fell apart.
Mohan Singh Kartarpur, 71, and Gurcharan Singh,55, both accused to
have given shelter to Beant Singh... |
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Voice of India beloved icon of Sikh
youth Ishmeet Singh is no more
29
July, 2008
When he would sing
a lilting lyric, he made many cry; next he would hit a happy note
with a chirpy song and the audience would dance in a frenzy... |
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The World in shock
29
July, 2008
Lata
Mangeshkar: "I feel very sad. He'd come to meet me, sang for me,
and I had nudged him to pay a little more attention to classical
training... |
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Indian govt gives nod for helipad
near Hemkunt Sahib
29
July, 2008
CHANDIGARH: Indian
government has approved in principle the setting up of a helipad
near Shri Hemkunt Sahib in Uttarakhand. Punjab Chief Minister
Parkash Singh Badal ... |
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Bihar style scenes across rural,
urban Punjab as war for total control is on
29
July, 2008
PUNJAB: Abduction,
threats and blatant use of police and official machinery has become
the staple news across Punjab and shockingheadline shave long
stoppe... |
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Mall mania in Punjab costing people
power
29
July, 2008
LUDHIANA: Underlining the
sign of things to come, a shocking report has suggested how each
Mall in Punjab is consuming power that could serve 8-10 villages... |
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Kalam wants Seechewal to cleanse
Yamuna now
29
July, 2008
SULTANPUR LODHI: Former
President of India Dr A.P.J.
Abdul Kalam has requested renowned environmentalist Baba Balbir
Singh Seechewal... |
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Rs 1 crore for translation of Guru
Granth Sahib
29
July, 2008
CHANDIGARH: The
Indian government has given a grant of Rs.10 million for translation
of Guru Granth Sahib into English and Hindi to commemorate... |
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High Court tells Muslim army officers: You
can't keep beards
23
July, 2008
Chandigarh:
Muslims will take this judgement with a pinch of salt though few
voices were heard in Indian media. Two Muslim Air Force personnel were
declined... |
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Soon, SMS facility to seek justice
23
July, 2008
Chandigarh: Hail SMS, the latest and the fastest way to disseminate
information. Companies are increasingly using this facility to the hilt for
providing... |
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NRI, kin booked for duping wife
23
July, 2008
FARIDKOT: A Canada-based
Indian family was booked by police on the charge of duping a local
girl by concealing her husband's previous marriage... |
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PAU to levy cess on farmers
23
July, 2008
Ludhiana: in a move that could have wider remifications,
Punjab Agricultural University in its board of management meeting has given
its approval for levying... |
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With Rs 50 crore suit, Navjot Singh makes a
point
23
July, 2008
CHANDIGARH: For
a dozen years, enough in which the face of India has changed beyond
recognition, a young man languished in jail because the Indian
nation... |
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Kirpal Singh Randhawa to file libel case
23
July, 2008
Amritsar: Kirpal
Singh Randhawa, the prime witness in the Jaswant Singh Khalra case
is now planning to file a defamation suit against state’s top police
officials... |
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Govt, Opposition, NGOs up the
pressure on Black List issue
16 July 2008
PUNJAB: After years of virtual and illegally imposed exile on
hundreds of Sikh youth, pressure seems to be building up on the Indian
Government to review... |
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Special Police Officer kidnaps boy, throws him into river
16 July 2008
JALANDHAR: A Special
Police Officer who kidnapped a 7-year-old boy and later threw him in
a river has been arrested. Seven-year-old Puneet Pal Singh's body... |
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Why CBI should not probe Bhadaur Gurudwara clash?
16 July 2008
Chandigarh: The
Punjab and Haryana High Court has directed the Punjab government to
file a reply as to why it has been avoiding to hand over the... |
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Top Indian official impressed with Seechewal's work
16 July 2008
KAPURTHALA:
Nothing could serve as a better lesson in grassroots initiative in Punjab
than a trip around the countryside with Baba Balbir Singh Seechewal... |
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California NRI launches projects to treat
poor patients
9
July, 2008
Nawanshahr: A
California-based NRI, Lajpat Rai, has unleashed a major
philanthropic effort in health care with simultaneous projects in
Jalandhar, Nawanshahr... |
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Punjab policy on security demanded
9
July, 2008
CHANDIGARH: The
Punjab and Haryana High Court has directed the Punjab government to
“place on record” the policy being adopted to provide security to
those... |
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High Court raps Govt for trying to shield tainted SSP
9
July, 2008
Chandigarh: Reacting
to the acquittal of a former discredited and disgraced SSP of Punjab
in a fake currency case, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has
said... |
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Tamil co-workers kill Sikh man in Dubai
9
July, 2008
GURDASPUR: A
45-year-old Sikh resident Randhir Singh of Maghar Mudian village, 6
km from here, succumbed to his injuries in a Dubai hospital on July
1 after... |
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India’s CBI says top Punjab cop Saini kidnapped two Sikhs, tortured them
9
July, 2008
CHANDIGARH: Finally,
the CBI has filed a chargesheet against Parkash Singh Badal’s
favorite police officer and hand-picked man heading the infamous... |
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India’s foreign minister says Kartarpur corridor possible
2
July, 2008
DERA BABA NANAK
(GURDASPUR): India's External
Affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee, who visited Dera Baba Nanak on
June 28 over the Kartarpur corridor... |
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Amritsar has its own passport office
2
July, 2008
AMRITSAR: Amritsar now has
its own regional passport office and there is talk in the air of a
visa collection centre too. The new passport office would cater... |
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Balwant Singh Rajoana shames death sentence
2
July, 2008
BURAIL (CHANDIGARH):
Every time, Kamaldip Kaur looks into her brother’s eyes, she knows
such occasions will be few and far between. Balwant Singh... |
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Punjab farmers get just 1 per cent of loan waiver bonanza
2
July, 2008
CHANDIGARH:
Punjab farmers would get a loan waiver/relief amounting to Rs 986.82
crore - just 1 per cent of the total loan waiver announced by the
Indian government... |
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High Court sets up panel for couples seeking security
2
July, 2008
CHANDIGARH: This is
the sign of the times. The Punjab and Haryana High Court has
constituted a committee comprising Home Secretaries and senior
advocates... |
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US cops caught them in cocaine
racket, villagers says they are good
2
July, 2008
JAGRAON: Three
Jagraon youth arrested by the Bakersfield Drug Enforcement Wing in
the USA on June 27 for allegedly running a cocaine racket are
regarded... |
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Persecution of Bibi Ranjit Kaur continues
25
June, 2008
PUNJAB:
Following her arrest, persecution of Bibi Ranjit Kaur, whom the
police tried to implicate in the Shingar cinema bomb blasts, is
still on... |
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Lord Swraj Paul's Caparo group ditches PTU
25
June, 2008
JALANDHAR: The
Caparo PTU School of Manufacturing and Materials Technology was
hailed when Lord Swraj Paul had backed it up but now things have
taken... |
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Envoy McDonald backs Kartarpur corridor
25
June, 2008
DERA
BABA NANAK: Legendry global peace maker and a career diplomat for
over 40 years, John W. McDonald visited the site of proposed
Kartarpur Sahib Corridor... |
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Punjab pays Pak prisoners through its nose
25
June, 2008
CHANDIGARH: For
years, many Pakistani prisoners in Punjab jails have been
languishing despite having completed their jail terms and despite
the Punjab... |
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PM’s friend returns with memories to cherish
18
June,
2008
Amritsar: Prime Minister Dr Manmohan
Singh’s childhood friend Ali Mohammad, who had arrived from Pakistan to meet
his “Mohna” two weeks back... |
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Sikh devotees complain of mismanagement in Pak
18
June,
2008
Amritsar: Sikh devotees who returned from Pakistan after observing
the 402nd martyrdom anniversary of Guru Arjun Dev complained of
gross mismanagement... |
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Badal finds new love, it’s Rajiv
Gandhi
18
June,
2008
CHANDIGARH:
EERIE is the feeling one gets from such action. Just twenty years
ago, no one, not even Sukhbir Singh Badal, could have believed that
such a thing... |
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Plan to appease Bedi, Sidhu, Madan may not succeed
18
June,
2008
AMRITSAR: A move by
the Amritsar Games Association (AGA) to give key posts to former
Test cricketers Bishen Singh Bedi, Madan Lal and Navjot Singh Sidhu... |
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Jagraon police claims explosives, detonators seized
18
June,
2008
Jagraon:
Punjab Police has claimed that its cops in Jagraon have arrested two
ultras with 24.5 kg of explosives and 25 detonators... |
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Early Monsoon will mean lesser power cuts
18
June,
2008
PUNJAB: Monsoon has
hit Punjab at least a few days early, and the farmers are celebrating. The
monsoon is proving to be a great bonus for not just them... |
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Govt probe finds bigwigs in multi-crore land scam 2 km
from seat of power
18
June,
2008
CHANDIGARH: This is
a scam of gargantuan proportions, but few believe it will ever be taken to
its logical conclusion. A Punjab government probe... |
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Dalit woman's caste haunts her even after death
18
June,
2008
FEROZEPUR: Not once
has the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC) or the Akal
Takht issued a clear cut warning to the Sikh community... |
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Karnataka man spreads word about Punjabi
11
June, 2008
Gurdaspur: A Karnataka citizen has been doing a yeoman's service in
spreading the message about love of mother tongue to the Punjabis
and thus helping... |
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Brothers get father killed 'coz he wanted to re-marry
11
June, 2008
JALANDHAR: In a
shocking incident which is also symptomatic of how a totally
materially-oriented world is affecting relationships, three brothers
allegedly... |
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Punjab DGP cannot even transfer an SHO
11
June, 2008
CHANDIGARH:
Sometimes it takes just one incident to underline and bring out the
total caving in of the set modes of functioning of a society. In
Punjab... |
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Virk CMD of Maharashtra police housing corporation
4
June,
2008
Chandigarh: Twelve days after the Supreme Court of India restored
the lost glory of former Punjab police chief, DGP SS Virk,
senior-most IPS officer of Maharashtra... |
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Two ruling Akali leaders murder man, pocket Rs 40 lakh
4
June,
2008
Bathinda: Bathinda police last Wednesday arrested two ruling Akali
Dal leaders for killing a cloth merchant after kidnapping him and
receiving Rs 40 lakh as ransom... |
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MoU inked, UK teachers to upgrade English
skills
28
May,
2008
Jalandhar: The
Punjab government on Wednesday signed an MoU with the UK-based
University of Wolverhampton as per which British academicians... |
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Sri Guru Granth Sahib varsity launch in July
next
28
May,
2008
Chandigarh: Sri Guru
Granth Sahib World University would be formally launched in July
next year as a decision to this effect was taken at a meeting of Sri
Guru Granth Sahib... |
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Rotten egg cops ask court to keep the
truth hidden
28
May,
2008
CHANDIGARH: Fear
of the truth, the ugly truth, coming out, has forced these Punjab
Police officials to rush to keep the veil intact. Fourteen Punjab
Police... |
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SGJC chairman: Brar likely to replace Patti
21
May,
2008
THE FORMER
chairman of the Sikh Gurdwara Judicial Commission (SGJC), Amritsar,
Manmohan Singh Brar, is likely to succeed Kashmir Singh
Patti... |
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He got High Court to order CBI probe into fake encounters
21
May,
2008
JALANDHAR:
Here
is the man who had dared to stand up for truth, and dug in for long.
Satwant Singh Manak, who got the Punjab and
Haryana High Court... |
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SC gives relief to Virk, Punjab will pursue case
21
May,
2008
CHANDIGARH:
The
Supreme Court has cleared S S Virk for posting in Maharashtra,
vacating a stay by the High Court... |
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Miri Piri Academy gets Cambridge affiliation
21
May,
2008
The Miri Piri Academy, on the outskirts of Amritsar,
having many Sikh Americans as students, has recently been conferred the
Cambridge International... |
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Aid flows in from US for patients
14
May,
2008
Chandigarh:
The plight of poor Indians, especially of those who can’t afford
medical treatment, continues to be a source of worry for Dr Sukhpal
Inder... |
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Poohla in custody, finally
14
May,
2008
THE AMRITSAR
(Rural) police on Tuesday arrested Nihang Ajit Singh Poohla from
Darawali village in Gurdaspur district. An inquiry ordered by the Punjab... |
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Push a dalit family to suicide, kill a youth
in firing, then pay and get away
14
May,
2008
NURMAHAL:
What happens under the law if a poor dalit family is forced and
pushed to committing suicide? Compromise... |
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Col. Bala appointed secretary of Sikh Educational
Society
7
May,
2008
CHANDIGARH: Col.
(Retd.) Jasmer Singh Bala was appointed Secretary of Sikh
Educational Society as the post was lying vacant since the demise... |
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Wheat production sets new record in Punjab
7
May,
2008
Inspite of
inclement weather and an insensitive state The food bowl of
IndiaWheat lifting in Punjab has touched 93.70 lakh tonnes ... |
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Kali Bein
film bags award
7
May,
2008
JALANDHAR:
After
the project to rejuvenate the historic Kali Bein won accolades, its
documentation, which captures the spirit of unprecedented efforts on tape... |
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Punjab fields on
fire
7
May,
2008
MUKTSAR:
Two women
were charred to death at Ahulana in Haryana’s Sonepat district when
they were trapped in a burning... |
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Dalbir now to fight for other PoWs
7
May,
2008
AMRITSAR:
Global
Human Rights Council chief Arvind Thakur and Dalbir Kaur, sister of
alleged Indian spy Sarabjit Singh, would travel to Pakistan... |
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Talk of Ma-Boli back in Punjab, Punjabi compulsory now
30
April 2008
CHANDIGARH: More than
60 years after British left India and the Brahamanical rulers
ensured Muslimization of Urdu and Hinduization of Hindi... |
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A Rights saga: 8 years, 200 hearings, but innocent
30
April 2008
AMRITSAR: For some, the
fight for human rights becomes a life long story. Punjab
Human Rights
Organisation (PHRO) chief investigator... |
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Raspberry honors list of Punjab officers, courtesy High Court
30
April 2008
CHANDIGARH:
This
is how dirty secrets are forced out of the governmental closets.
Several top officials in the Punjab IAS and IPS ... |
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Sangat paying toll tax for visiting gurdwaras
30
April 2008
CHANDIGARH:
Thousands of Sikh sangat are being forced to pay heavily for
visiting the holy places. For just travelling 10 km by car on a
quality... |
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Badals mum, but British MEP raises issue of Prof Bhullar
30
April 2008
AMRITSAR:
At a time
when Indian media was full of reports about Pakistan
death row victim Sarabjit Singh and Indian Parliament was tying
itself up... |
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Rabi crop procurement in Punjab, Haryana to cross target
30
April 2008
CHANDIGARH: Rabi crop
procurement for the ongoing season towards the Central pool in
Punjab and Haryana has surpassed last year’s purchase, raising... |
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Teachers' retirement age now 65 in Punjab
23 April 2008
CHANDIGARH:
Teachers in Punjab’s government and private medical, dental,
ayurvedic colleges and other such institutions can now work up to 65
years... |
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New hope for Sarabjit as family lands in Pak
23 April 2008
TARN TARAN/ISLAMABAD:
Death row prisoner in Pakistan Sarabjit Singh, who faces possible
execution for spying and for his alleged involvement in a bomb... |
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Minor theft leads to major expose on bloody face of Punjab Police
23 April 2008
CHANDIGARH: It
was sensational not only because the police had tumbled on a cache
of arms in the home of a retired police officer while
investigating... |
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Punjab to now take Centre to apex court on tax waiver
23 April 2008
CHANDIGARH:
For
years, Punjab has been crying hoarse that its industry is suffering
and migrating to neighbouring states because of skewed tax
rebates... |
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Run
for the turban on Vaisakhi
16
April 2008
Amritsar: An unlikely fashion trend as any, turbans were all over
the place for Baisakhi this season. The Shiromani Gurdwara
Parbandhak Committee... |
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M.L. Koser of Pracheen Kala Kendra
16
April 2008
CHANDIGARH:
Diaspora people with any links to Chandigarh or to the world of
culture and performing arts would have known the founder of Pracheen.. |
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Dal Khalsa leader Sarabjit Singh Ghuman surrenders in court
9
April
2008
Tired of promises by the police and political top brass of the state
not to falsely implicate him, after pleading his innocence and
non-involvement... |
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Prisoners in Jalandhar run riot after inmate dies
2
April
2008
JALANDHAR: Hundreds
of jail inmates in Jalandhar wrecked property, set fire to many
rooms and had a free run inside the 137-year-old dilapidated jail... |
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Darbara Singh’s grandson mows four with BMW
2
April
2008
NEW DELHI:
In a chilling reminder of the BMW accident of 1999 that claimed six lives,
but with less tragic consequences, a drunken driver rammed... |
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Shoddy ways of Punjab Govt
2
April
2008
CHANDIGARH:
This is how governments work in most shoddy ways. Punjab CM Parkash Singh
Badal's media advisor Harcharan Bains has asked... |
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Punjab to have institute for Punjabi language
2
April
2008
PATIALA: Punjab will
soon have a National Institute of Punjabi Language, Literature and
Culture at Patiala that will incorporate the already... |
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Ethnic nationalities join hands
26
March 2008
New Delhi- To strengthen the spirit of cooperation and to build
effective coordination among the constituent units, an
interimcoordination committee was... |
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All schools in Punjab to teach Punjabi till 10th
26
March 2008
CHANDIGARH: The
Punjab Vidhan Sabha has unanimously decided that all the schools in
the state - affiliated with any board — will have to teach... |
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Bhai Daljit Singh,
Gamma acquitted
19
March 2008
Ludhiana:
After 22 years, an Indian court was finally forced by the force of
evidence to discharge Bhai Daljit Singh Bittu and Gursharan Singh
Gamma, wrongly accused... |
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New twist in Kiranjit related case: High
Court quashes pardon
12
March 2008
CHANDIGARH: In a
development that has sent shock waves among activists and public
aware of the twists and turns in the Kiranjit rape and murder
case... |
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Punjab wants land freebie back from Sainik school
12
March 2008
KAPURTHALA:
This is a debate that many sides will try to stretch in manu
directions, but on the key question of equal opportunities, why
should a school... |
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Eh tuhada nikka puttar je
5
March 2008
Thirty five
years ago, when a strapping Kashmir Singh bid goodbye to his wife
Paramjit Kaur, before going to Rawalpindi on a business trip, he
promised... |
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Sukhbir designs rally to do some Insaaf to
himself
27
February 2008
NEW DELHI:
Debate has long gone out of favour in Punjab politics, and
de-politicization of the political parties and its rank and file has
long taken roots... |
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Casteist politics the bane of Punjab polity says Dal Khalsa
27
February 2008
With
an aim to search for solutions to various problems confronting the
Sikhs, the organization held a conference at Hoshiarpur to have a
deeper look... |
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Punjab’s big ‘No’ to Rajasthan
27
February 2008
CHANDIGARH:
The Punjab government has rejected the Rajasthan government's
demand to supply 20,000 cusecs of canal water over and above... |
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Govt didn’t do it in years, Seechewal took 15 minutes
27
February 2008
JALANDHAR: For years, the residents had complained of the stink from
the drain, but an apathetic regime did not listen and the trade did
not bother... |
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Top cops arrested in Moga sleaze case
27
February 2008
CHANDIGARH: In
a case exposing how the law enforcers can turn law breakers, India’s
top sleuthing agency, the CBI, has arrested former Moga SSP... |
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Daljit Singh thrown in jail,
Harinder Khalsa under house arrest
7
February 2008
LUDHIANA/BATHINDA:
In a desperate bid to thwart the Khalsa Action Committee's proposed
Bathinda rally on February 10 focused on the Dear... |
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COURTING NRIs? Punjab fails to give NRI power
connection, he goes to Rajasthan
6 February 2008
For want of an
electricity meter, Punjab
has lost foreign direct investment worth Rs 100 crore. Jalandhar-born
Canadian millionaire Narinder Kaushik... |
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UK visa centre likely to be set up in Punjab: Byrne
6 February 2008
Chandigarh: The United Kingdom on
Tuesday offered to open a Visa Centre in Punjab in order to check the
growing trend of illegal immigration from... |
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Badal gave 'em Red Lights, High Court waves red rag
30 January 2008
CHANDIGARH: In a rare
gesture of panthic sewa as he understands it, Parkash Singh Badal
announced official permission for SGPC members... |
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On India’s R-Day, Sikhs tell world we
too are here
30 January 2008
FRANKFURT/AMRITSAR/LONDON:
Whilst referring to the situation of black Americans, civil rights
activist, Martin Luther King had pleaded that there... |
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Pingalwara's Dr Inderjit
Kaur, Hans Raj Hans awarded
30 January 2008
AMRITSAR: Among those who were nominated for India's civilian
honours on the country's Republic Day were All India Pingalwara
Charitable Society... |
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Punjab Vision
revealed: Sell people's land, raise malls
and hotels, call it development
30 January 2008
CHANDIGARH: After much
hype and noise about the "vision" of the Punjab Government, and of
course after many a Power Point presentations... |
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Easy lies the head on throne as complainant
makes somersault
23 January 2008
ROPAR: In keeping with the pattern of
witnesses turning hostile in court with the change of the government, a key
complainant in the case against Badals... |
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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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Cherie Blair-headed trust walks the NRP conclave talk
16 January 2008
Chandigarh: Within
days of a whole lot of Non-Resident Punjabis (NRPs) meeting in
Chandigarh and Jalandhar in a bid to find ways as to how they can
engage... |
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Canadian group to set up eye hospital at
Amritsar
16 January 2008
Chandigarh: The Canadian Eyesight International has planned to set up an eye
hospital at Chabba village of Amritsar district soon. The Canadian... |
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Bramptom MP Dhalla faces flak over thrashing
of kids
16 January 2008
CHANDIGARH: It almost threatened at one stage to blow up as a major
gaffe. Ontario Liberal MP Ruby Dhalla's assistant's purse was... |
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Forget harm to Punjabi under my watch: V-C
16 January 2008
PATIALA: Vowing not to allow under his
stewardship any bid to relegate the status of Punjabi downwards, the Punjabi
University V-C Dr Jaspal... |
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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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World Sikh News Special Edition released
9 January 2008
In a proud
moment for the World Sikh News and the Amritsar Times, both
publications of the Amritsar Publications... |
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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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Gimme the Gobindgarh Fort, I will make it into
a hotel
9 January 2008
CHANDIGARH: In plans which may trigger a controversy
immediately, Sant Singh Chatwal, the Indian-American... |
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Gurpurb launch for
Ishmeet's album
9 January 2008
Ludhiana: Lok Sabha Deputy Speaker Charanjit Singh Atwal has
launched the maiden ‘gurbani' album of Star Voice of India winner
Ishmeet, ‘Satguru... |
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Six dolphins confirmed at Harike in Punjab
9 January 2008
CHANDIGARH: Experts of
the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) have confirmed the sighting of six rare
Indus freshwater dolphins in the Harike barrage... |
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Now, Seechewal sets sights on Sidhwan
9 January 2008
LUDHIANA:
Now, there's some hope
for those who want to see a cleaner Sidhwan. On Sunday, Baba Balbir Singh
Seechewal, the man behind... |
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Badal govt set to roll out red carpet for
non-resident Punjabis
2 January 2008
CHANDIGARH: The Akali
Dal-BJP government has set "we care for you" motto as one of the major
messages to be sent across to the Punjabi... |
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US States outsource F&A Activities to Punjab
2 January
2008
CHANDIGAH: Finance and Accounts outsourcing has now reached the Tier II and
Tier III cities of Punjab. One such town... |
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Key Khalra case witness
acquitted of rape charges
27
December, 2007
Patiala: Shame
came in a liberal dose for the Punjab Police with an investigating CBI
senior officer of the rank of DIG officially informing an Indian court... |
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Mann wants separate courts for minorities,
blasts Badal men
26 December
2007
CHANDIGARH: Akali Dal
(Mann) president Simranjit Singh Mann has advocated setting up separate
courts for the minorities in India. He also appealed to... |
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Sikh Federation top brass meet warns Mann acolytes
26 December,
2007
LONDON: Last Sunday, on December 23,
the quarterly meeting of Sikh Federation (UK) branches from across the
country.... |
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Four Babbar Khalsa activists convicted on basis of
police claims
26 December,
2007
CHANDIGARH: A Chandigarh court has convicted four Babbar Khalsa
International (BKI) members claiming they were trying to revive.... |
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Police arrest ‘terrorists’, but media tears apart
claims
26 December,
2007
PHAGWARA: Punjab Police claimed it has
arrested three youths with RDX last Wednesday after a failed attempt to..... |
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Now, a panel to re-think O' Dwyer portrait issue
19 December, 2007
Chandigarh: The flip flop does not seem to be
adding. The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) which had gotten
a lot of flak from various sections for removing... |
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KAC hits at Hit for utterances against Phoolka
19 December, 2007
CHANDIGARH: Taking a serious
view of the unreasonable, false and malicious utterances of the Delhi State
President of the Akali Dal (Badal), Avtar Singh Hit against activist... |
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Punjab nods to police raj
19 December, 2007
In
another decision likely to prove controversial once the outcome is
known, the Punjab Council of Ministers under the chairmanship of
Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal gave its nod for... |
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Ludhiana’s Malwa School turns 100
12 December, 2007
Abdul Hayee after studying
at the school grew up as an Urdu poet. He describes his alma mater, the
Malwa School and the Ludhiana of yore thus... |
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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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PAU studies migrants, media
thinks results are mere fun
5 December, 2007
LUDHIANA: The
migrant is often at the receiving end, and the conventional wisdom is that
there is no voluntary migrant in the world. Each person who... |
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Ishmeet visits Darbar Sahib; says govt should set up
music academies
5 December, 2007
AMRITSAR: Ishmeet Singh, the new singing
sensation from Punjab, feels that the Punjab government, in order to promote
music in the state... |
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Dr Jaspal Singh new Punjabi University VC
5 December, 2007
PATIALA: Dr Jaspal Singh has been
appointed the new vice-chancellor of the Punjabi University. At
present, he is serving as principal of Guru Gobind Singh College... |
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The ‘Satguru’ fearing, turbaned avatar of Christianity
is here
5 December, 2007
CHANDIGARH: Just a short while ago, in its October 10- October
16, 2007 edition, the WSN had focussed on the evangelical exercises... |
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After Badal, witnesses start turning hostile in Jagir
case too
5 December, 2007
PATIALA: Indian justice dispensing
machinery starts to crumble as soon as the prosecuted come to power, thanks
to a skewed... |
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Sahaita reaches micro-venture in Punjab
28 November, 2007
During our visit
to Punjab we had a chance to visit and hold a medical camp at an Institution
near Padialla (on Kharar-Kurali Road), which is run by Universal disabled
caretaker social and... |
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Guru Gobind Singh Marg proposal cleared
28 November, 2007
Chandigarh: With the
Center approving the plans, the way is now clear for laying down a
2,400-kilometre-long road from Talwandi Sabo to Nanded in Maharashtra to
commemorate the... |
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Kin protests against terror tag on Shaheed
28 November, 2007
It is tragic that while
on the one hand the Nation is celebrating the birth centenary of the Great
Martyr, he is projected as a terrorist in Q.No. 2 (C), the pre-fix
revolutionary shades... |
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Punjab's Top Guns get top guns for a song
28 November, 2007
Chandigarh:
In a rather disturbing news, the Chandigarh edition of the Indian Express
last week brought out how Chinese .32 bore revolvers that costs over Rs 2
lakh each would be... |
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King Lear Loves The Fool, Akali Bard Ordains
Falstaff To Be Emperor Again
21 November, 2007
AMRITSAR: Envelope spouted
the same name at the SGPC election as The Bard of the Akalis... |
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Punjabi NRI sammelan in January
21 November, 2007
Chandigarh: The government of
Punjab will host an international Punjabi NRI sammelan in Chandigarh
and Jalandhar from January 5 to 6, 2008.. |
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Makkar likely to get another term as SGPC
chief
14
November, 2007
Patiala: As the
election for the post of the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee
president nears (November 23), there are no visible... |
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Sultanpur Lodhi to figure on global tourist
circuit
7 November, 2007
Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister
Parkash Singh Badal has said his Government was taking measures to
develop the holy city Sultanpur Lodhi... |
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Dal Khalsa sounds alarm bell on influx of migrants in
Punjab
7 November,
2007
Nawan Shahr: While observing 41st
anniversary of the formation of the Punjab, radical political party
Dal Khalsa sounded the alarm bells.... |
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Chief Khalsa Diwan pops idea of a university, Badal
casts it in stone
7 November, 2007
Amritsar: Certain things in Punjab are done with the typical
casualness, irrespective of how important the issue is. WIthout any
public debate... |
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Dal Khalsa march with ardas in memory of
Shaheed Beant Singh
31
October, 2007
AMRITSAR: To counter the threat
of demographic change in Punjab, to uphold the significance of
mother tongue Punjabi and to protect and preserve Sikh culture,
the... |
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Satwant Singh's family facing problems
31 October, 2007
CHANDIGARH: In
reports appearing in the media attributed to certain news agencies, Sardar
Tarlok Singh, the father of Satwant Singh has... |
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Shaheed Bhagat Singh's kin leads campaign
against death penalty
31 October, 2007
BRUSSELS: Professor
Jagmohan Singh, a nephew of Shaheed Bhagat Singh, has joined a worldwide
campaign, especially in Europe, by his Sikh community... |
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We are against killings: Babbars
24 October, 2007
Amritsar: As per a news report published in the Chandigarh based The
Tribune newspaper, the Babbar Khalsa International has sought to
clarify that it was not involved in the blast at the Shringaar... |
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Punjab clears Rs 250-cr master plan for Amritsar
24 October,
2007
AMRITSAR: To ensure planed and regulated growth of
the holy city of Amritsar, the Punjab government has decided to
prepare Rs 250-crore comprehensive master plan for its .... |
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Punjab women get a fat chance which could be dangerous
24 October,
2007
The health of a state indicates the health of its
women, or in this case obesity.
Punjab and Delhi rank first and second in the country's obesity
count with 37.5 percent.... |
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Punjab Wakf Board chairperson steps down
24 October,
2007
Sangrur: Malerkotla MLA Razia Sultana has resigned as
chairperson of the Punjab Wakf board. Her term otherwise was to
expire in November 2010. The reason of...... |
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UK Sikh
cop denied promotion sues, wins
17 October, 2007
London, Oct. 11: A Sikh police officer in Britain has won a claim of
victimisation against the Metropolitan Police after he was turned
down for promotion... |
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After RSS, Maharashtra govt rises in Virk's support
17 October, 2007
Chandigarh: After the show of support for DGP SS Virk in Pune by
various parties and prominent people, including the Hindu extremist
Sangh parivar, a BJP leader is... |
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MSP hike just
'cosmetic', say Akalis
17 October, 2007
Chandigarh: The Shiromani Akali Dal has dubbed the increase in
minimum support price for farmers as “just cosmetic”, urging the
Union government to link MSP to the “price index”.... |
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Ludhiana Metro: A Sustainable Solution or Just a Political Blunder
17 October, 2007
Yesterday Punjab Government signing of MoU for developing metro rail
project in Ludhiana and highlighted the same as Landmark in Punjab's
history... |
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Punjab’s oldest publishing house
shuns printing of scriptures
17 October, 2007
Amritsar:
For years, the Akal Takht and the SGPC have been issuing appeals,
orders, directives and, at least once, even a Hukumnama from the
temporal seat, in a bid.... |
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A Post-Modern Move:
Megalomaniac intent on gifting Punjab with a Metro
17 October, 2007
Megalomania is the flavor of the
season in Punjab, and with the man called Sukhbir Singh Badal at the
helm, no discussion is complete unless there are a few bridges,
choppers... |
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The Raw Does Exist!
17 October, 2007
Surender Jeet Singh petitions for
review of the decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals (the
Board), denying him asylum, withholding of deportation, and relief
under the .... |
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7 killed in
Ludhiana cinema blast
17 October, 2007
Ludhiana: Seven people lost their lives and 32 were injured when a
bomb went off in Ludhiana's Shringar cinema on Sunday night. The
blast, which the police said was caused.... |
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Khalra
murder: Four policemen get life terms
17 October, 2007
Chandigarh: Ruling that the seven-year rigorous imprisonment awarded
to four Punjab policemen by a lower court in the Jaswant Singh
Khalra murder case was inadequate..... |
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SPOOKY EXPOSE’: India’s RAW tells its officers to kill Sikh leaders
17 October, 2007
NEW DELHI/CALIFORNIA: If ever there was a spooky truth, often
mouthed by the Sikh nation, and consistently denied by India, it was
that the Indian establishment in its efforts to keep .... |
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Amarinder allowed to go abroad
10 October, 2007
Chandigarh:
Former Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh will leave the country
on October 11. On Monday, justice Ranjit Singh of Punjab and Haryana
high court allowed him to Dubai... |
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Sikhs visiting Nankana Sahib in Pak being denied Canadian visa
10 October, 2007
Amritsar: In a
disturbing report, a section of the Indian media has said that
certain Punjabis, who have recently visited Pakistan, have found
that that they are being denied Canadian visa... |
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Punjab Govt likely to OK bir printing by SGPC alone
10 October, 2007
Amritsar: In the
light of several incidents of alleged disrespect to Sri Guru Granth
Sahib, voices to get a law passed to put a blanket ban on printing,
sale and distribution of religious book... |
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They killed a PO in a fake encounter, now get it from the court
10 October, 2007
CHANDIGARH: Off
an on the Punjab police keeps getting the whip but the shamelessness
lies in the way the politicians entrust the shady officers with
prime posts. Parkash Singh Badal... |
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Balvir Singh is new Budha Dal chief
3 October, 2007
Patiala: At the bhog ceremony held here on Monday for four of his
close relatives killed recently, Balvir Singh was recognised as the
next head of the Nihang Singhs’... |
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Bhai Hawara and Bhai Balwant challenge solitary confinement
3 October, 2007
Chandigarh: Bhai Jagtar Singh Hawara and Bhai Balwant Singh,
sentenced to death for the assassination of former Punjab chief
minister Beant Singh, have challenged their... |
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Chahal gets
anticipatory bail
3 October, 2007
Chandigarh: The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Monday granted
anticipatory bail to Bharat Inder Singh Chahal, former media advisor
to former Punjab chief minister... |
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Bhutto promises to hand over AQ Khan
3 October, 2007
Washington: Pakistan’s exiled political leader Benazir Bhutto has
promised that she would allow international nuclear watchdog IAEA to
question A Q Khan in what... |
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India courts shame by shutting case against
mass murderer,
world shames it more
3 October, 2007
NEW DELHI/WASHINTON/LONDON:
Ironical is the time for India's top
sleuthing agency for shutting the mass genocide murder case against
former federal minister and senior.... |
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Virk’s judicial remand extended
26 September,
2007
Mohali: The sub-divisional judicial magistrate (SDJM), Mohali, Lalit
Kumar Singla on Monday extended the judicial remand of former Punjab
DGP SS Virk for 14 days, that is till... |
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Sikhs demand direct corridor to
Narowal
26 September,
2007
Ferozepur: A Sikh delegation led by Human Rights Society East Punjab
President Sardar Harpal Singh Bhullar will meet Indian Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh to demand the... |
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Punjab govt moves to discourage car
use
26 September,
2007
Chandigarh:
Encouraging people to use public road transport instead of their
personal cars is the philosophy of the Punjab government’s new
transport policy which purportedly... |
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Governor launches Punjabi varsity’s website on Sikhism
26 September,
2007
Chandigarh: Punjabi
University, Patiala, launched its website with an Encyclopaedia of
Sikhism and a CD of this historic document here on Monday... |
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Punjab bans Hindi book
26 September,
2007
Chandigarh: The Punjab government has banned a Hindi book "Shri Guru
Granth Sahib – Sant Panapdas Ji Ki Wani", written by Sant Panapdas,
on the ground that it outrages... |
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Punjabis take out rallies to celebrate Bhagat's birth centenary
26 September,
2007
Amritsar: To celebrate the birth centenary of Shaheed Bhagat Singh,
Punjabis took out several rallies, with the most notable being one
that commenced from the historic Jallianwala Bagh... |
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Caught in the crossfire: 5800 students!
26 September
2007
The bloody power turf clash has also caught in the cross fire the
fate of many students of the 23-year-old Budha Dal Public School
which has two branches in Patiala and Samana... |
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Succession war turns ugly; 4 killed
as nihangs clash
26 September,
2007
Patiala: In the war of succession in the Shiromani Panth Akali Budha
Dal (Panjwan Takht), four nihangs belonging to the sect, who are
relatives of Baba Balbir Singh... |
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Court stays Jallianwala Bagh
alteration
26 September,
2007
Chandigarh: The Punjab and Haryana High Court has imposed an
immediate stay on any alteration, demolition or tampering of the
entrance, structures and buildings of the... |
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Remembering
Bhagat Singh, but how?
26 September,
2007
At a time when
the politician has beaten to pulp and dumped every single ideal ever
propagated by men like Shaheed Bhagat Singh, the only thing left was
to arrogate... |
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On the death of Bibi Pritam Kaur
20 September, 2007
When I first
heard the news of the demise of Bibi Pritam Kaur, I called up a Sikh
activist and asked him,”do we have a study on her? “A study?, “what
study?”, “I mean what... |
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Tarn Taran To Techland - Another 'Chak De'
20 September, 2007
Have you ever
imagined waking up one day and realising that you are the proud
owner of $ 300 million. Sounds thrilling and a bit dreamy at the
same time. But for 24-year-old... |
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Yes, we killed, we faked. Top
Indian cops tell it all
20 September, 2007
AMRITSAR: At a time when the world is increasingly getting
sensitized to the human right situation across the globe and strong
voices are emerging from within the United States... |
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Khalsa College registrar resigns
12 September, 2007
AMRITSAR: The
Registrar of Khalsa College here has put in his papers following
alleged differences with the principal. D.S.Pannu, registrar, has
accused principal Daljit Singh... |
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Top police officer exposes India's "national
strategy" to fight terror
12 September, 2007
CHANDIGARH:
Rarely have Sardar Parkash Singh Badal done such remarkable service
for the Sikh Panth in recent years, though the credit goes to him
only by shameful... |
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Terror’s big Cat in India is the State itself
12 September, 2007
“You name one
officer who does not have cats. Cats are working in every state, be
it Punjab, Tripura or Mizoram. No antiterrorist operation can be
completed without cats,... |
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Potato brings smiles to Doaba farmers
12 September, 2007
JALANDHAR: This
year-end, potatoes will bring smiles to the farmers of Doaba.
Equipped with EurepGAP (Good Agriculture Practices) certificates
after two years of hard... |
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10-yr term for Bhai Hawara in plot to
kill Bhajan Lal
5 September, 2007
CHANDIGARH: The court of additional district and sessions judge Ravi
Kumar Sondhi on Thursday awarded... |
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Remembering the revolutionary
5 September, 2007
Dear Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh ji,
As the birth centenary of the great martyr Bhagat Singh, begins from
28th September, the day he was... |
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Sikh nation holds mirror to India on 60th 1-Day
22 August, 2007
JALANDHAR: On Wednesday, just as this edition of
the World Sikh News was going to the press, many prominent voices.... |
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Khalsa March sends ‘apology’ for a six; conclave on
July 11
27 June 2007
AMRITSAR: Three days after the Sikh
sangat made its sentiments clear with a vociferous Khalsa March, the Sikh
high priests led by Akal Takht jathedar... |
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ASI takes Amritsar Municipal body to court over
historic Ram Bagh
13 June 2007
AMRITSAR: Auctioning a land close to the
historic Ram Bagh for a 3,00,000 square feet shopping mall has landed
Amritsar Municipal... |
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International news agencies focus on fake
encounters in Punjab
13 June 2007
AMRITSAR: One of
the world's leading news agencies, the Associated Press, has now extensively
covered the shameful... |
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Amritsar tailor who plays music with his comb
11 April,
2007
Amritsar: While almost all of us use a comb to
do up our hair, a man in Amritsar has made it his musical instrument. Sohan
Bajala, 32, an Amritsar tailor, has a passion... |
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Amod Kanth's gallantry medal is badge of shame
4 April,
2007
"The story begins on November 5, 1984 when Amir
Singh was killed by a mob of anti-Sikh rioters as he slipped out of his
Paharganj house to call the police for help.... |
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Badal fishes out old ace, says will challenge
Re-organisation Act
4 April,
2007
Chandigarh: Even as
the pre-poll promise of removing Clause 5 protecting waters outflow to other
states caught Akali Dal-BJP government in a cleftstick,... |
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Three killers of sikhs in '84 get life sentences
4 April,
2007
NEW DELHI: A court sentenced three men to life
in prison on Thursday for murdering a Sikh constable, his son and son-in-law
during the 1984.... |
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Sher Singh Dhillon paddles To Glory
21 March, 2007
Doing his country and community proud,
just like his late grandfather Major General Narinder Singh is his
34-year-old software engineer.... |
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Beant statue in Jalandhar raises questions, 'Ajit'
pays tribute to him
21 February 2007
JALANDHAR: In a rather peculiar development, a
statue of Beant Singh, the chief minister of Punjab who was assassinated
.... |
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Sikh Foundation grants 150 scholarships, cuts across
religious divide
21 February 2007
In a significant philanthropic score, Amarjit
Singh Sodhi, Chairman of the Sikh Human Development Foundation, USA and a
former.... |
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HP schools to have Punjabi from class I
13 December, 2007
Kahnuwan: In a development likely to gladden the
hearts of Punjabis everywhere, the Himachal Pradesh CM Virbhadra Singh
has.... |
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Miri Piri Academy — A wholesome education
13 December, 2007
AMRITSAR: One hundered and five students, 15
countries, 10 languages. Welcome to the Miri Piri Academy in Amritsar,
located.... |
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Doaba Has A Dream — It Is to Run Away
27 September, 2006
Sixty-year-old Jaswinder Singh tries his level best to hold back the tears
as henarrates at his house the pathetic saga .... |
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Finally, Akal Takht, top
clergy order SGPC, DSGMC to act to save Bhullar
AMRITSAR: So loud was the national pitch raised
in support of the demand for pulling back Parliament attack convict Mohd
Afzal from... |
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Sikh youth takes upon goons
single handedly to save a woman
AMRITSAR: Nimit Sarup Singh of Amritsar set an
example of bravery and courage while fighting with two goons and save a
lady... |
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Memories strewn along GT Road
The People’s History Museum, which tells the
story of ordinary people and how they changed the world, will be hosting a
free exhibition... |
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Bloody clash as Shiv Sena provokes Mann men by burning
effigy
Tarn Taran:Nothing could be more blatant than
the writing on the wall. And literally so. But the Punjab Police failed to
read it. The Shiv Sena... |
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