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Akal Takht asks SGPC to send team to probe Vienna shooting

Amritsar, Punjab: The Akal Takht, the highest temporal seat of Sikhs, Wednesday directed the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) to send a team to Austrian capital Vienna to probe the shootout at a shrine there that left a leader of ...

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Sikhs in Fiji Island

Fiji: Khalsa College and Khalsa Primary in Ba have completed a fascinating journey of 50 miles and the institutions which are run by the Sikh Educational Society of Fiji, will be busy this week in their golden jubilee celebrations. The ...

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Farmer who preferred to tread a different path

Bathinda, Punjab: On the one hand, a majority of Malwa farmers are growing two major crops — cotton and paddy — and on the other, 39-year-old Gurcharan Singh Mann of Tungwali village in this district has adopted crop diversification and ...

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Paying a price for helping girl child: Sacked doctor

Ludhiana, Punjab: Dr Harshinder Kaur, a paediatrician-cum-writer, who was sacked from Rajindra Hospital, Patiala, for her remarks at a UN seminar in Switzerland recently, said today that she was suffering for raising her voice for the cause of the girl ...

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