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12 year Incumbents Washed out in J&K Gurdwara Committee Elections

JAMMU & KASHMIR : In the elections held after 12 years for the management of Gurdwaras in J&K, the native Sikhs there totally washed out the previous leadership and elected new faces to look after the management of Gurdwaras here. The voting was conducted under tight security in Baramula, Sri Nagar, Pulvama and Anantnag districts […]

Tension mounting over indefinite fast by Surat Singh Khalsa

The situation in Hasanpur village in Ludhiana district is heading towards showdown with the coordination committee of Sikh organisations blocking every move of the Punjab government to forcibly take away octogenarian Surat Singh Khalsa who has been on an indefinite for about six months now demanding release of the Sikh prisoners. Gurdip Singh, who heads […]

HOW 5-TIME CHIEF MINISTER PARKASH SINGH BADAL WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY

How the history will judge ‘Fakhar-e-Qaum Panth Rattan’ and fifth time chief minister Parkash Singh Badal is not a hypothetical question as he also happens to be, in his own words, the politician with the longest inning in the political landscape of the country and he never longed for any office. Everything and everybody just […]

Punjab emerges on top in education sector development in India

Clocking a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.5 per cent between 2007-08 and 2013-14, Punjab has ranked on top in terms of growth in the number of schools followed by Kerala (5.4 per cent) and Jammu and Kashmir (5.3 per cent) while the all-India growth rate remained at 2.5 per cent, noted a recent […]