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These days, Indian policymakers are debating how to create a vast new food entitlement program. There is talk of poor households struggling to cope with high food prices and malnourishment among their children. What you don’t hear much about, however, ...

Jammu (Former part of Punjab), India: All Parties Sikh Coordination Committee (APSCC) today appealed the Home Minister P Chidambaram to initiate fresh probe into the killing of 36 Sikhs at Chattisinghpora in south Kashmir in 2000. The APSCC also demanded ...

Delhi, India: The Union Cabinet is likely to consider a proposal that seeks to do away with the requirement to disclose one’s religious affiliation for registration of marriages as well as the demand of Sikh bodies that their marriages be ...

Patiala, Punjab: Patiala’s premier Thapar University has scrapped the 50% quota for students from Punjab for its much sought- after engineering courses. The decision, which university sources said was taken in a meeting of the board of governors of the ...