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Amritsar, Punjab: To wean people off fast food, the All-India Pingalwara Charitable Society and women’s wing of the Kheti Virasat Mission have decided to promote traditional diet. Demonstration of foods like mothan di khichdi, kikkar de tughle (known as tukke ...

The husbands – and dowries – of some 15,000 brides have disappeared abroad, writes RAHUL BEDI in Chandigarh, north India JASWANT KAUR is one of more than 15,000 “holiday wives” spread across India’s northern Punjab state. After years of abandonment, ...

Gurdaspur, Punjab: Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, while claiming that setting up of a separate gurdwara parbandhak committee for Sikhs of Haryana will have serious and dangerous consequences, said he would meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh tomorrow or so ...

London, UK: For the first time, the University of Cambridge has signed an agreement with the Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC) to award scholarships to five outstanding Sikh students to pursue a Masters or PhD at the ancient seat of ...