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Operation Bluestar memorial will come up near Gurdwara Thara Sahib inside Darbar Sahib Complex

Amritsar, Punjab: Twenty-eight years after the Army stormed into the Harmandir Sahib complex and killed thousands of innocent Sikh pilgrims, the SGPC executive at a meeting in Anandpur Sahib today approved Operation Bluestar Memorial. The memorial will come up near ...

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Meet Mithu – The poor teacher from Amritsar

Amritsar, Punjab: Fourteen years ago, 4-yearold Mithun of Nangli village near Amritsar slashed his wrists to blackmail his parents. His demand: to be sent to school to study like his peers instead of to a tea stall to work. “He ...

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Punjab’s crumbling school on vanishing ground

Faridkot, Punjab: Once part of an old jail now is a school prisoner to time. The age of the Jail Road (Sadik Road) government primary school here is a mystery to even its teachers. The structure, remnant of the long-gone ...

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Two state government probes and creating lot of confusions in Shaheed Jaspal Singh case

Gurdaspur, Punjab: Two inquiries initiated by the state government into the death of Jaspal Singh, a young engineering student by Punjab Police on March 29. Under pressure from a local and international Sikh community, the government had initiated two probes ...

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