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The two-day festivities of 344th birthday celebrations of Sri Guru Gobind Singhji, concluded on Sunday with thousands of Sikh devotees and other community faiths celebrating with religious fervour, gaiety and devotion.

Chandigarh recorded the coldest day in seven years Monday with the maximum temperature dipping to 9.4 degrees Celsius and the minimum to 5.9 degrees.

I was born and brought up in the Old City of Patna, in the land of Buddha and Mahavira, of Chandragupta, Ashoka and...

Amritsar Vikas Manch has demanded revival of the hub and spokes flights, withdrawn since December 15, 2009 from and to Amritsar.

The capacity of plant in Awan village, being set up by American company Azure Power, is proposed to be expanded to 5 MW. Abdullah switched on the plant and expressed his optimism of having more such projects in the coming years.

The Birthday of the tenth and last Sikh Guru and founder of Khalsa Panth, who spread the message of peace and communal harmony is going to be celebrated on a grand scale in Hyderabad from December 22 to December 24, 2009.

The Sikligars Sikhs were the lohars (ironsmiths/blacksmiths) who once specialized in the craft of making and polishing weapons.

Young Hindu, Muslim and Sikh men have been queuing up at the Dera Sacha Sauda (Abode of the Real Deal) in the town of Sirsa as "wedding volunteers".

Bhai Sahiba Bibiji Inderjit Kaur Khalsa was conferred with the most prestigious Shan-e Khalsa (Glory of the Khalsa) award from Kesh Sambhal Parchar Sanstha in Delhi, India for her life-long services to the Sikh Panth

The institution of Akal Takhat was started by Guru Hargobind as a political wing of Sikh religion to defend his followers from the tyranny of the rulers of the time. Since its inception in 1606, it has a glorious history.

One day before on 4th December, 12,000 Bihari workers rioted across Ludhiana and burnt down Sikh buses, trucks, cars and motorcycles in protest against another issue which was related to them being treated poorly by the police

Curfew in the city continued for the second consecutive day on Sunday and the situation remained tense but peaceful. Security forces could be seen on every nook and corner of the city.

Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Tuesday said the SAD-BJP government would establish a world-class heritage memorial at Chapparchiri village in Mohali to commemorate the legendary Sikh hero Baba Banda Singh Bahadur

In the first state visit of the first Sikh Indian prime minister with the first black American president, Manmohan Singh and Barack Obama reaffirmed the strategic partnership between India and the United States.

A first-person account by Kuldip Singh Neelam

25 years ago history was made for several different reasons. Today, as we reflect on the invasion, on the assassination, and on the massacres,...

Hundreds of Sikh orphans from across India have been given shelter and education at SGGSVK

Over 25,000 to 30,000 devotees will take part in the Nagar Kirtan. Guru Granth Saheb Ji will be carried on a beautifully decorated vehicle along with ``Nishaan Sahebans''

A Sikh architect is helping to preserve cultural sites in the north Indian state still haunted by 1947’s heart-wrenching Partition

Kaur's film takes the viewers onto a journey into the living conditions of the surviving Sikh widows and children in New Delhi...

A visit to Amritsar is priceless

The mass feeding programme commenced in the presence of Secunderabad, MP, Anjan Kumar Yadav and more than 5,000 poor persons were fed from 12.30 pm to 8 pm.

A new word has been coined in India – "edupreneur." Indeed, in India, it is edupreneurs who have created the vast pool of software engineers of which this country now boasts.

The Annual Report on Registration of Births and Deaths in Delhi 2008 that was released on Tuesday reinforced the city government's claims of a drastic improvement in the capital's sex ratio at birth from 848 females per 1,000 males in 2007 to 1,004 in 2008.

On India's vast array of matchmaking web sites, horoscopes are being replaced by income statements.

Granthi caught watching porn clips in gurdwara filming women bathing

It’s a nondescript temple at Halhalia village in Bihar’s Araria district. It doesn’t have an idol; a mound of earth in one corner of the roofless one-room shrine represents Din Bhadri Devi, the local deity. Its walls are bare, but for priest Amlanand Rishidev, there is a more pressing problem than the upkeep of the temple...

When I hurled a shoe, I had no doubt that some kind of action would be taken against me.

Supporting a cause related to Baba Nanak will only pave the way for peace in the sub-continent. Stopping a religious pilgrimage will not enhance national security on either side

A comparative study by the Economics Department at Punjabi University, Patiala, has revealed that Punjab is lagging behind for providing employment to its educated and skilled people in the last two decades.