Toeing a line similar to Uttar Pradesh, the Election Commission has directed the city administration to cover the statue of former SAD MLA late Raminder Singh Bularia before the polls here.

The move

A devout Sikh, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh began his new year on Sunday by offering pre-dawn prayers at the holiest of Sikh shrines, the Golden Temple here.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his wife Gursharan Kaur were shown black flags on Sunday by supporters of anti-graft crusader Anna Hazare at the Golden Temple.

A handful Hazare's supporters, includ

For a long time to come, the memory of this Thursday will remain with Sarabjit Singh, an Indian prisoner lodged in a Pakistan jail since 1990, as he meets his sister Dalbir Kaur after almost 21 years.

Dalbir Kaur, sister of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh, who is on death row in Pakistan, will cross over to the neighbouring country on Monday to meet her brother in Kotlakpathrai prison in Lahore.

In a suspected case of honour killing, a young couple was brutally killed with sharp-edged weapons allegedly by the girl's father and two brothers in Bhullar village, 25 km from here, police said to

Touching the soil of the country after 27 years in Pakistani jail, Indian national Gopal Das on Thursday came home to an emotional welcome by his elder brother and sister who had last seen him as a young man.

Former Punjab chief minister Capt. Amarinder Singh, who was recently appointed Punjab Congress president, was given an enthusiastic reception by common citizens and party workers as he drove in to seek blessings at Amritsar’s Golden Temple on Tuesday morning.

Scores of devotees thronged the Golden Temple here on Saturday to take a dip in the holy pond and pay obeisance on the 476th birth anniversary of Guru Ram Dass, the fourth spiritual master of the Sikh