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Chemicals worth Rs 600 cr seized from Baddi unit

Patiala, Punjab: The Patiala police today claimed to have seized chemicals worth Rs 600 crore allegedly used in preparing synthetic drug “ice” from a pharmaceutical unit in Baddi. Montek Bio-Pharma Limited belongs to Amritsar industrialist Jagjit Singh Chahal, who along ...

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Sikh Farmers in Stalin’s Birthplace

When Ivor Prickett first heard that hundreds of Sikh farmers were moving from northern India to the former Soviet republic of Georgia, all sorts of images came into his head. He had spent time with ethnic Georgians in Abkhazia, a ...

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Vedanti To Visit Kathmandu, Explore Sikhism In Nepal

Amritsar, Punjab: For the first time, the Sikh community will make a concerted effort to trace the roots of Sikhism in the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal, which was visited by Guru Nanak Dev during the course of his third ‘Udasi’. ...

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Badal seeks PM’s help for setting up board at Takht Hazur Sahib

Chandigarh, Punjab: Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal on Friday sought Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s intervention for the constitution of a board in place of an administrator at Takht Sri Hazur Sahib in Nanded (Maharashtra) as per provisions of the ...

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