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As many as nine people sustained injuries when a clash took place between the members of Jat Sikh and Ravidasi communities at Manan village and the police intervened.

The Indian government late last week unveiled a concept tablet computer set to sell for a mere 1,500 (rupees), or about $35 USD. Shockingly, the price could drop even further for a device that features touchscreen capabilities and solar power options.

Nijjer told the media persons that after seeing the immense damage in the Patiala areas on television, he couldn’t resist visiting India. “After visiting the flood-hit villages, I decided to help the affected farmers in the best possible manner.

Today this Gurudwara stands in sheer disarray with a court stay orderdue to lack of documentation and the local governmant wants this Gurudwara to be removed.

There is mistrust, and each and everything that is wrong within the bounds of one’s country is imagined to be the conspiracy of the other. Had the partition been peaceful, it is safe to imagine that perhaps the mutual understanding between these two countries would have been much more amicable.

“Oprah is one of America’s most popular women and it would be a great opportunity and honor for a woman from the South-Asian community to be able to host a show on her network. This is a huge platform which I don’t want to miss,” gushes Sodhi,

The fertile state of Punjab now battles grave chemical toxicity. Gidderbaha, the constituency of finance minister Manpreet Badal, is known for high prevalence of cancer cases. Two water samples in Doda found the nitrate levels at 94.3 mg/l and 72.8 mg/l, much above the WHO safety limit of 50 mg/l.

"Akaal Purkh ki Fauj" aims at the empowerment of the individuals of all ages in achieving their full physical, intellectual, economic, social, and spiritual potential to become exemplary individuals, model citizens and responsible members of the community.

“In rural Punjab, families often try to pass off a drug overdose death either as suicide or an overdose of prescriptive medicines for chronic ailments,” Meena says. The entire state seems to be in denial over its drug addiction and is unwilling to accept its severity, he declares.

Most people once settled into the comforts of the western countries even forget their roots back in India. Canadian citizen Dr. Naurang Singh Mangat on the contrary left his family back in Calgary, and made reverse journey to Punjab that too with a sole purpose of bringing some comfort to the poor and destitute.

In all its educational institutions, preference is given to the girls. At Akal Academy, underprivileged rural girls aged from 8 to 25, who were forced to stay at home and do household work, are being put to schools and taught modern scientific education and spiritual training.

Recently I wrote an article on the months and seasons (Bara Maha) of Panjab. The article was edited and the spelling of Panjab was changed to Punjab.

The United States, Obama said, values India not merely for its crucial geographic position in South Asia but because of the deep social, political and strategic values the countries share. "India is indispensable to the future that we seek," he said.

By the end of the day, more than 100 million will have taken a birth control pill, but its acceptance in the world's second most populous nation has been dismally low. According to the 2005-2006 National Family Health Survey, only 49% of Indian women use modern contraceptives, and of these, only 3% are on the Pill.

Coincidence or design? Paris appears to be taken by surprise this season by an unusual and simultaneous wave of expositions concerning the subcontinent.

The Delhi High Court on Friday acquitted three accused in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case at Shastri Nagar in North Delhi, saying there were discrepancies galore in the evidence of prosecution witnesses.

If the assurances given by Union Law Minister Veerappa Moily to a delegation of the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee on Wednesday are any indication, the draft of the Sikh Marriage Act is ready for ratification by the Union Cabinet.

Durban-based Umthombo Foundation launches a campaign calling for street children’s rights to a full, healthy, dignified life, as set out in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC.)

Guruji understood that the time had come to face the tyranny, and that by sitting in fear, Mughals would only be more ruthless. ....He called upon every Sikh to be fearless.

PEDA chairman, Manjit Singh said that by using non-conventional energy they are already in the process of making Punjab a power surplus in the coming years.

The 309-year-old annual fair is organized at Guru Ram Rai Darbar in Dehradun district on the fifth day after Holi, the festival of colours.

The three-day Sikh festival Holla Mohalla started here at the Keshgarh Sahib Gurdwara Saturday amid huge fanfare and enthusiasm.

Newly discovered archaeological sites in southern and northern India have revealed how people lived before and after the colossal Toba volcanic eruption 74,000 years ago

It was the first time that the Taus was introduced in a competition on a National level by a young Amritdhari Sikh musician

With just 1.5 per cent of India's land area, Punjab produces 20 per cent of the country's wheat and 12 per cent of its rice.

In the final analysis, I suspect the Akal Takht will be obeyed and heeded about as much as it is respected and trusted.

This is our way of paying our respects to Basu for the way he saved the Sikh community in Calcutta during the 1984 riots.

The Indian The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a petition requesting a separate religious identity for Sikhs.

The intrepid traveler, who braved the cold of the North Pole, South Pole and Mount Everest, takes us on a journey in the footsteps of the travels of the first Master, Guru Nanak Sahib Ji in Gujarat.

Al Jazeera's Prerna Suri reports on the devastating effects of drugs in one of India's most holy cities, Amritsar.