AMRITSAR: The security blanket thrown around Harmandar Sahib for the visit of prime minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday morning left a large number of devotees shivering in the cold Devotees-were stopped in their tracks on the marble parikarma of the shrine as the security staff allowed the PM and his wife, ...

TARN TARAN: People's Party of Punjab (PPP) chief Manpreet Singh Badal will appear before the Akal Takht if ordered to do so in connection with his visit to the Sirsa-based Dera Sacha Sauda, whose chief Gurmit Ram Rahim was ex communicated from the sikh 'panth' on charges of blasphemy in ...

GURDASPUR: Dr Balwinder Singh, principal of Guru Nanak College, Batala, who is native of Lakhanpal village near here, has been appointed as secretary, Punjab School Education Board. He served as college lecturer in English at various colleges run by the SGPC for 21 years. He also has experience of working ...

PATHANKOT: The supporters of Panthik Morcha candidate Inderjit Singh Baghi organized a road show here to impress the voters for the SGPC polls. The supporters, riding on vehicles, passed through various roads and streets of the town and raised slogans in favor of their leader Baghi, who has left SAD. ...

CHANDIGARH: In view of the SGPC polls, Kurukshetra DC-cum-district election officer CG Rajinikanthan, on Monday, prohibitory orders in a district under section 144 of the CrPC, banning assembly of five or more people and carrying of firearms. SOURCE-HT

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Congress president Capt Amarinder Singh on Tuesday asked the SGPC to explain the deficit of Rs 23 crore in Darbar Sahib Accounts. He said it was shocking that Darbar Sahib was running in deficit despite a large inflow of devotees. He said the finger of suspicion, pointed towards people ...

CHANDIGARH: Punjab governor Shivraj Patil on Thursday, on the recommendation of the SAD-BJP government, cleared the nomination of chief secretary SC Agrawalas temporary head of the Punjab Right to Service Commission for smooth implementation of the Right to Service Ordinance, 2011, which will come into force from August 16. In his ...

BATALA: Shiromani Akali Dal (Mann) leader Gurbinder Singh Jolly was shot at late Monday near Malakwal village when on his way home from Kala Afgana village. The bullet struck his motorcycle but the leader saved himself. "The attack came around 7pm on Monday," Jolly, candidate of the SAD (Mann) from ...

KARNAL: The working president of a faction of the Haryana Sikh Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (ad hoc) Didar Singh Nalwi has demanded voters photo ID cards system in the forthcoming SGPC polls. Nalwi, a SGPC's elected member from Kurukshetra told HT on Friday that it has sought the SGPC's intervention to approach ...

GURDASPUR: The residents of Khanna Chamara village of Dera Baba Nanak tehsil, under the banner of Kirti Kisan Union (KKU), staged a sit-in in front of the deputy commissioner's office here on Thursday to protest the alleged demolition of the house of Paramjit Kaur by about 20 SGPC armed men ...

AMRITSAR: The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) on Tuesday dispatched 450 copies of Guru Granth Sahib to Italy from Mumbai port in a specially designed cabin in a ship to meet the demands of overseas Sikhs. The scriptures were sent off following an 'ardas' by jathedar of Shri Kesgarh Sahib Giani Tarlochan Singh. ...

FATEHGARH SAHIB: The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) has entrusted Baba Amrik Singh with kar Sewa of Diwan Todar Mal's Jahaz Haveli here. The decision was taken on Monday at a meeting of a committee constituted by SGPC president Avtar Singh Makkar. SGPC members Karnail Singh Panjoli, Didar Singh Bhatti, XEN ...

PATIALA: Former minister Harmail Singh Tohra, the foster son-in-law of the late Akali stalwart Gurcharan Singh Tohra, is not happy over the withdrawal of five Central Reserve Police force (CRPF) guards deployed at the ancestral house of the late leader in his native village Tohra in Bahadurgarh sub-division. Earlier this week ...