Of late, some thinkers of the Sikhs, a minority constituting less than two per cent of India’s population, are praising and advocating for a separate ‘nation-state’ as the best political solution for the emancipation of the besieged community.
As per the office of Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), Punjab 21 nominations were filed for Punjab Vidhan Sabha elections-2017 on Friday - the second day of nominations. Twenty five nominations were field on day 1, yesterday.
Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday declared its former state vice-president Rajinder Mohan Singh Chhina as party candidate from the Amritsar Lok Sabha seat for February 4 bypoll.
In a press note released by Dr Daljit Cheema, General Secretary And Spokesman of SAD (Badal) the party president and Deputy Chief Minister Punjab Sukhbir Badal
Bollywood actress Vidya Balan has pulled out of a planned biopic on controversial poetess Kamala Das, a move the film’s director said could be linked to his own troubles with the Hindutva outfits.
UK's Opposition Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn has written to British Prime Minister Theresa May calling for a fresh and independent probe into British government's involvement in the June 1984 attack on Sikhs.
The Punjab Home Department has issued instructions banning “mulaqaats” with prisoners in all Central, District and Sub-Jails in the State, three days prior to the polling date of 4th February, 2017.
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