Dera visit row: Akal Takht awards ‘tankhah’ to 40 Sikh leaders

Amritsar : Five Sikh high priests on Monday pronounced ‘tankhah’ (religious punishment) on 40 Sikh leaders belonging to SAD, Congress and AAP, who violated Akal Takht’s ‘hukumnama’ by seeking political support from the Sirsa-based Dera Sacha Sauda. Four leaders, including Rajinder Kaur Bhattal (Congress), Janmeja Singh Sekhon (SAD), Ajaib Singh Bhatti (Congress) and Arjan Singh […]

Kerala: IUML wins Malappuram bypoll

Malappuram (Kerala) April 17 : The Indian Union Muslim League on Monday retained the Malappuram Lok Sabha constituency, with its candidate PK Kunhalikutty winning by over 1.7 lakh votes in the bypoll, defeating the ruling CPI (M)-led LDF nominee.Kunhalikutty, who defeated his nearest rival MB Faisal (CPI-M), won from all the seven assembly constituencies of […]

Sajjan’s village keeps off controversy

Mahilpur (Hoshiarpur): Residents of Canadian Defence Minister Harjit Singh Sajjan’s native Bambeli village in this district are looking forward to his forthcoming visit to India. While Sajjan will be visiting the Golden Temple, it is still not confirmed if he would visit his native village. The minister’s father, Kundan Singh Sajjan, who has been in […]

New commission set up to probe sacrilege cases

Chandigarh : Rejecting as “inconclusive” the report of the Justice Zora Singh (retd) Commission, the Punjab Government today constituted a fresh Commission of Inquiry, headed by Justice Ranjit Singh (retd), to investigate all cases of sacrilege in the state. The government, through a notification issued by the Department of Home Affairs and Justice, has included […]

Dubai gurdwara serves breakfast to 101 nationalities, breaks record

Dubai : A gurdwara in Dubai broke the world record for serving free-of-cost breakfast to maximum number of people from diverse nationalities. Gurdwara Guru Nanak Darbar entered the Guinness World Record on Thursday for serving continental breakfast titled “Breakfast for Diversity” to 600 persons from 101 countries in an hour-long event in Jebel Ali. The […]