In the face of mounting controversy over their alleged involvement in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, a worried Congress on Thursday withdrew its controversial leaders Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar from the electoral fray.
Just as Siri Guru Arjan Dev Ji gave us the priceless gift of the Siri Guru Granth Sahib, Canadian artist Kanwar Singh has given us an inspiring and moving vision of its creation.
An airline with potentially the best airplane food (for those with Punjabi palates) has just launched. Akal Air has just started bi-weekly flights (Wednesdays and Saturdays) from Birmingham, UK to Amritsar
“We call it a bank because we want to bring forth a new set of values”, says Tiina Urm, a 26-year-old who helped to think up the idea and is the closest thing that the Bank of Happiness has to a manager.
Said Jathedar Akal Takht Gyani Gurbachan Singh: “I feel Jarnail was not wrong, since what he did was the out come of injured sentiments. Here I would make it clear that the Sikh community would always stand with him.”
Local television channels identified the journalist as Jarnail Singh, a veteran reporter with one of India's largest newspapers, the Hindi daily Dainik Jagran.