At Mast Vane in Punjab's Malwa district, construction of an exact full-size replica of Golden Temple is going on in full swing and almost 80 % of the work is done.
Last week in the Ba market, Jone, one of my Fijian friends, looking at my turban, asked me why the prime minister of India always wears turban of blue colour.
An Indian court has upheld a decision by a religious body to deny a female student who plucked her eyebrows admission to a Sikh university, media reports said on Sunday.
The world's number one retailer Wal-Mart is set to open its first sales venture in India Saturday as part of an ambitious plan to establish a foothold in the country's vast consumer market.
On Sunday, marriages of 18 couples were solemnised at the fifth `` Samuhik Vivaha Samagam" (Mass marriage) under one roof at Gurudwara Saheb Barambala, in the presence of head priest Baba Jyotinder Singhji of Takhat Sachkhand Sri Hazur Sahib, Nanded, Maharastra.
The Sikh Human Development Foundation (SHDF) has awarded 314 scholarships to needy students in Punjab and other Northern Indian states for the academic year 2008-2009.
Too often, we think of women in the Sikh community only in our roles as mothers, sisters, wives, and daughters. These are all important roles but our identity isn’t entirely defined relative to others...
With general elections underway in India, analysts are predicting yet another hung Parliament in which smaller parties could call the shots, anyone could be kingmaker and any kingmaker could be king.
The major attraction of the celebrations was held at Sri Guru Gobind Singhji play grounds, Ameerpet, Hyderabad organised under the aegis of the Prabhandak Committee Gurudwara Saheb Ameerpet
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
Every few weeks, we see reports by journalists that reinforce a well-known reality - many Sikh men in Punjab are cutting their hair and removing their turbans.
Majority of young women in India country prefer arranged marriages with parents' consent while only less than one fourth opts for the "love" route to choose their life partners, a survey of women age 20-30 says.
Such findings indicate that child marriage affects not only adolescents aged 16 to 17 years, but also large numbers of pubescent girls aged 14 to 15 years,..
Between the names, Anuradha and Fiza, lies a journey that has mesmerised India. It’s a saga of love, heartbreak, intrigue, feudal mores, betrayal, family drama and political suspense.
