Banga (Punjab): Hit by the announcement of power tariffs being hiked, opposition Congress has lashed out at the Akali BJP government in the state and threatened to hold district level agitations seeking a withdrawal of the decision.  Addressing party workers state congress president Pratap Singh Bajwa that the Prakash Singh [...]

Dharamsala: The Gorkha community of Himachal is no mood to patch up with former BJP minister Ravinder Singh Ravi for his unsavory remarks about community in the assembly. Gorkha leaders of Punjab and Himachal and the leaders of Gorkha Vikas Parishad met here today and decided to intensify the agitation [...]

Washington: Described by President Barack Obama as a “trailblazer”, Chandigarh-born Indian-American legal luminary Srikanth ‘Sri’ Srinivasan appears poised to become the first South Asian judge in a US appeals court. Srinivasan, currently the principal deputy solicitor general of the US, Wednesday headed toward confirmation to the prestigious US Court of [...]

Amritsar: Visa applications of Indian Sikh pilgrims who planned to undertake pilgrimage to the sacred Gurudwaras in Pakistan on the occasion of Basakhi have been turned down by the Pakistan High Commission. The Sikh pilgrims, who had flocked in to a transit camp in Amritsar are really disappointed and frustrated [...]

New York: With a motive to challenge an unconstitutional blanket ban on the movie “Sadda Haq” by the Punjab SAD (Badal) Government, the US-based Sikh right groups have declared to promote and sponsor the release of the English version of the movie worldwide. The film Sadda Haq has been a [...]

Stavanger (Norway) : While back in India one recalls the sculptors that were got commissioned by the then Maharaja of Kapurthala at various places in Kapurthala city, which earned for itself the sobriquet, ‘Paris of the East’, the sand blasted iron sculptors, in Stavanger are often referred to as ‘Broken [...]

Anandpur Sahib: In order to promote higher education amid Sikh girls in Jammu and Kashmir, Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) has offered to provide free education, accommodation and food to girls in institutions run by the committee. Addressing the media persons here, SGPC president Avtar Singh Makkar said, all Sikh [...]

Chandigarh: Slated to be released Friday, Punjabi film “Sadda Haq” became a non-starter in cinema halls across Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh after authorities in both states and the union territory imposed a ban on its screening. Producer-actor Kuljinder Singh described the decision to ban the film as “shameful”. The film [...]

Shimla: In a rare admission the Himachal government on the floor of the Vidhan Sabha admitted that the mining mafia operating were defiant of the law and were recklessly plundering the natural resources of the state. “They are so powerful that a stricter law is needed to contain the menace,” [...]

Chandigarh: Targetting a record procurement of over 140 lakh tonnes this season, the Punjab government has set aside Rs.18,998 crore for wheat procurement this season. A Punjab government spokesman said here Thursday said that as a part of the first instalment, the state government has received Rs.13,529 crore from Reserve [...]