An unexplained spurt in the enrolment of Sikhs as voters for the Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee elections expected to be held sometime in 2011, has sparked protest within the community with some groups accusing Punjab’s ruling Shiromani Akali Dal of registering large numbers of “bogus” voters.

The mysterious disappearance of a Pakistani internee from Amritsar’s high-security prison appears all set to snowball into another row between Islamabad and New Delhi with jail officials clueless even

Emulating the horrific spate of honour killings in neighbouring Haryana, Punjab witnessed its fifth instance of similar crimes on Wednesday when a young man strangled and killed his 14-year-old sister

In a dramatic development, a mentally-challenged Pakistani prisoner has gone “missing” from Amritsar’s high security jail.

The Central Bureau of Investigation special court at Ambala, on Tuesday, framed charges against nine persons accused in the infamous 2008 Gurgaon kidney scam.

Former Union finance minister Yashwant Sinha appears to have applied a balm on the worsening relations between the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Shiromani Akali Dal which had recently witnessed publi

Airing grievances in public yet again senior Bharatiya Janata Party leaders on Wednesday accused the Shiromani Akali Dal flouting the “coalition dharma” while taking important policy decisions in Punjab.

Inspired by the string of shoe-throwing protests in recent years, a Haryanvi youth took of his boot and hurled it towards the dais as chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda was addressing a public meeting in the southern township of Mahendragarh on Sunday.

The separatist Sikh group Dal Khalsa while condemning the recent threat letters as “the handiwork of state-sponsored actors,” has called upon Sikh communities in Jammu and Kashmir to “lend a helping hand to their Kashmiri brethren in their hour of crisis”.

The police in Chandigarh has arrested a young woman who fled after the car she was driving knocked down and killed a six-year-old boy and his older cousin on Tuesday night.