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On July 1, 1590 AD, a board on the main gate of Gurdwara Panjvi Patshahi in Bilga village says, an important marriage party halted in this village located off Phillaur town in Jalandhar district. Having spent two nights in the village the groom left his old clothes and other articles here as he prepared for his wedding.

Surrey’s Sikh community played a key role in defeating a proposed mega-casino in the city last month, joining other faiths in signing last-minute petitions and exerting pressure to kill the $100-million project.

I ENCOUNTERED something on this trip to India that I had never met before: a whole new political community — India’s “virtual middle class.”

But esteemed ThreeSixty writers Amolak Singh and Simon Lancaster (pictured below) cleaned up nice — and cleaned up with awards at last night’s Minnesota Newspaper Association dinner.

State government may have distributed financial aid to girls from poor Muslim families under the scheme meant to support their higher education and marriage.... on the occasion of National Girl Child Day on Thursday, but girls of the Sikh community from the economically weaker section protested in the city against not getting the benefit of the scheme.