Goindwal Sahib, Punjab: It was meant to boost their fortunes. But the plan went grossly awry for many industrialists at the country’s first Industrial Nucleus at Goindwal. The result: A life of despair. Some of these entrepreneurs, who had set up 129 ancillary industrial units to feed eight proposed public sector industries, are now running kiryana shops, driving pick-up vans or making cots. Of the eight bi ...

New Delhi, India: A Delhi court, hearing a 1984 Sikh Genocide case involving senior Congress leader Sajjan Kumar, was on Monday told by the CBI that there was a conspiracy of “terrifying proportion” between him and the police during the carnage. “There was a conspiracy of terrifying proportion with the complicity of police and patronage of local MP Sajjan Kumar,” CBI prosecutor RS Cheema told district judge ...

Muktsar, Punjab: The cutting of a 40 year old Nishan Sahib on Wakf board property on Sunday landed former Akal Takht jathedar Joginder Singh Vedanti in a scene. The Nishan Sahib at Saravan Bodla village in the Lambi assembly constituency was on a land on lease with Vedanti. The former jathedar axed Nishan Sahib to clear the 22 acres for commercial purpose, some families who live in a cluster of houses nearb ...

London, UK: United Sikhs handed the UK Prime Minister, David Cameron, a letter on Monday asking him to call on India to abolish the death penalty and to free Balwant Singh Rajoana, who is facing the death penalty. [caption id="attachment_7224" align="alignright" width="551" caption="Prime Minister David Cameron receiving oil painting of Sikh praying in Darbar Sahib sarovar from Mejindarpal Kaur, United Sikh ...

Chandigarh, Punjab: Despite having failed to achieve the targets of its ambitious Rs 11,520- crore annual plan for 2011- 12, the Parkash Singh Badal government has, in principle, decided to lift its 2012- 13 annual plan to Rs 12,800 crore. The plan focuses on spending money on development and creating infrastructure. A battery of officers from the finance and planning departments led by chief secretary Rake ...

Hoshiarpur, Punjab: The three Punjab police cops whose names figure in the FIR registered in the infamous Kuljit Singh Dhatt elimination case, on Wednesday appeared in the court of additional session judge JS Bhinder, where a trial had begun in February, nearly 22 years after the alleged crime. Dhatt, a kin of Shaheed Bhagat Singh, was picked by the Hoshiarpur police on July 23, 1989 from Garhi village unde ...