The SAD-BJP government's claims about attracting over a lakh crore rupees of investment in Punjab have been proven hollow, evidently by their own admission.
Bhai Takhat Singh of Ferozepur was a rare missionary and a pioneer of women education in nineteenth century. He started school for boys in 1890 and the first school for girls later known as Sikh Kanya Mahavidalya, Ferozepur in 1892. Those were the days when education for girls was a taboo.
MILK IN INDIA, is not just a drink, it is an elixir. For almost every Indian — rich or poor — the idea of a daily glass of milk holds a potent and emotional charge. It speaks of parental devotion, well-being and health.
Lawyers and women’s rights activists appeared delighted with a report released on Wednesday that recommended a slew of legal changes to improve women’s safety in India.
But even as India grapples with the polarizing issue, a powerful force stands in the way of any fundamental change: a police force that is corrupt, easily susceptible to political interference, heavily male and woefully understaffed.
These three rare and antique versions of Guru Granth Sahib, brought from Maithan Sahib Gurudwara in Agra, are being taken around the country.
With the national capital being virtually under siege of the Punjab government, temperature is rising in Delhi’s Sikh religio-political matrix.
Truth has no single identity. True teaching simply is or is not. When people are inspired to live more honestly and accept themselves as the embodiment of an aspect of infinity, it does not matter the form of that teaching. As long as we move away from what Guru Gobind Singh calls “I-ness” toward “us-ness” what more can we ask for?
“Being a Sikh is sanctuary,” I said. Neelu just listened. “To me, the Guru is the very act of enlightenment. The physical Guru Granth Sahib continually points us to enlightened ways of life, away from arrogance and hate, and towards truth. It’s easy to bow to that.”
Tour comprises visit to some of the most important historical and spiritual shrines like Harmandir Sahib (Golden Temple), Taran Taaran, Keshgarh Sahib, Anandpur Sahib , sightseeing tour to Shimla and Kirtan Meditation at Valley of Divine Peace - Baru Sahib in Himachal Pradesh.
As part of the ongoing 347th Prakash Utsav of Tenth and Last Sikh Guru, Sri Guru Gobind Singhji, founder of Khalsa Panth and who protected the nation from invaders, a huge colourful ''NAGAR KEERTAN'' (HOLY PROCESSION) was taken out by the Prabhandak Committee of Central Gurudwara Saheb Gowliguda on Wednesday.
The leaders have urged the Jathedar of the Akal Takht, the apex religio-temporal seat of the community, to take a tough stand on the issue and protect its interests. They asked the SGPC leadership to concentrate more on the affairs within the community.
Police said Sunday they have arrested six suspects in another gang-rape of a bus passenger in India, four weeks after a brutal attack on a student on a moving bus in the capital outraged Indians and led to calls for tougher rape laws.
‘Sikh Youth of Punjab’ (SYP) has suggested that the criminal law be amended to award the maximum punishment of full life imprisonment without parole to rapists.
According to the latest official data, almost 35,000 children were reported missing in India in 2011 - and over 11,000 of them were from West Bengal. Police estimate that only about 30% of cases are actually reported.
An American born Sikh has vowed to restore all the Sikh shrines in India and Nepal visited by Guru Nanak Dev Saheb to their pristine glory.
It does not take long to be offered drugs in Maqboolpura, a village outside the northern Indian city of Amritsar, not far from the Pakistani border. So many men here have died from drug use that the village is nicknamed “the place of widows.”
“This is life. We just have to keep pulling on,” laughed Kaur. “Just like this train.”
With its boxy body and stubby tail fins, the dependable but modest Padmini taxi was once ubiquitous here, as synonymous with motoring in Mumbai as blaring horns and cows blocking traffic.
"I don’t care about creating the iPad killer. I care about the 3 billion people who can afford this device."
A pause could help in seeing our own contribution to the culture of gender violence: when we laugh off our boy’s exploits for being such a ‘Casanova’ or ‘stud,’ while we pride ourselves in curtailing our girl’s movements and dreams.
We are all passive victims of social indoctrination. Society dictates our actions and thought processes yet convinces us they are ours. Every individual is subjected to this initial propaganda – ....
That girl, the one without the name. The one just like us. The one whose battered body stood for all the anonymous women in this country whose rapes and deaths are a footnote in the left-hand column of the newspaper.
It's no comment by a social activist or enraged youth venting anger over Nirbhaya's plight. The comment was part of recent discourses by said Punjabi ballad singer Pushpinder Kaur in gurudwaras in Punjab and Delhi.
Sunmeet Kaur Sawhney, a Mumbai based housewife originally from Chandigarh, is reported to have become the first woman in India to win 5 Crores on the popular gameshow Kaun Banega Crorepati.
And the project’s entire premise — that India can make a cheap tablet computer that will somehow make up for failures of the country’s crippled education system — is fundamentally flawed, according to some experts in education and manufacturing.
The holy Ganga is a poison river today. It's so full of killer pollutants that those living along its banks in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Bengal are more prone to cancer than anywhere else in the country, says a recent study.
It brought on all the emotions of shame and disgust of being born in such a city which is now rather infamous as the Rape Capital.
My Diwali started early. By 6 a.m., I was plunging in the cold sarovar of the Harimandir Sahib. The sky was gray and the November fogs of Amritsar were beginning to disperse, making way for the hazy autumn sun.
It's a pageant to showcase Sikh pride and it does that with elan. The participants underwent evaluation for their education, physique and personality. The knowledge of Sikhism was an essential qualification for the title.

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