FATEHGARH SAHIB: A 21-year-old US Marine Corporal Gurpreet Singh from California died in Helmand province, Afghanistan on June 22 from wounds received while conducting com­bat operations in Afghanistan. According to information received, Cpl. Singh, who was assigned to 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, based at Camp Pendleton, California ...

BERLIN NEWS: Sikh activists of the European Union on Monday demonstrated in front of the Indian embassy here for two hours to voice their support for Davinderpal Singh Bhullar. Embassy officials allegedly refused to accept their memorandum, even as activists were not allowed to enter the embassy. The Berlin police accepted ...

ANANDPUR SAHIB: The first phase of the prestigious Khalsa Heritage Complex at Anandpur Sahib would be dedicated to the ration by August 31, disclosed Punjab finance minister and Anandpur Sahib Foundation executive committee chairperson Upinderjit Kaur after viewing the project's progress curing a high-level meeting here on Friday. She said that ...

CHANDIGARH: Former chairman of the minority department of the Haryana Congress, Jagdeep Singh Cheema has urged the All India Congress Committee (AICC) presiaent Sonia Gandhi to consider the name of a Sikh for the post of state Congress chief. In a letter to Sonia Gandhi, Cheema said that Haryana Congress had ...

Canadian leaders are leaving no stone unturned to win voters support in Punjabi-dominated areas in Ontario, British Columbia and Alberta. The Conservative campaign got a starry slot in the arm in Brampton when Bollywood star Akshay Kumar accompanied Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and wife Laureen to a screening of his latest ...

CHANDIGARH: Reacting to a news channel's sting operation on Congress leader and National Commission for Minorities member HS Hanspal, political leaders have demanded his sacking, protection of witnesses in 1984 riots cases, and detention of the main accused, Congress leaders Sajjan Kumar and Jagdish Tytler. Punjab deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh ...

VANCOUVER: A Punjab man in the Sikh-dominated Canadian city of Abbotsford was on Thursday jailed for two years for terrorising his white tenant family. Paramjeet Jandu who was arrested six months ago went on a rampage in October with the intention of throwing out his tenant family so that he could ...

CHANDIGARH: Two days after the orders of deputy chief minister Sukhbir Badal, the SAS Nagar police on Wednesday registered a criminal case against superintendent of police (detective) Pritam Singh and sub-inspector Kulbhushan Sharma at the Phase 8 police station. The policemen are accused of removing the turban of a Sikh agitator ...

FATEHGARH SAHIB: Only the Akal Takht jathedar can summon Punjab Congress president Captain Amarinder Singh to chide him for his "defiant" visit to Dera Sacha Sauda in Sirsa, Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) president Avtar Singh Makkar told reporters here on Friday. Makkar said he had gathered only from the media ...

WASHINGTON: A top UN official has sent greetings to the Sikh community worldwide on the occasion of Sikh Environment Day. “I am sending my most reverent wishes and congratulations for the events planned to celebrate the day on March 14," Olav Kjorven, assistant secretary-general and director of the UN Development Programme, ...

FATEHGARH SAHIB: Launching a frontal attack on the state's Akali leadership, Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) president Capt Amarinder Singh on Monday urged people to ask the Badals what they had done for the state in the last four years. The former chief minister said the Badals - Punjab chief minister ...

Surjit Patar Live at IndoPak Games which took place in Patiala in 2004.