Punjabi to soon be Canada's fourth-biggest language

Toronto, Canada: Punjabi is set to become the fourth largest spoken language in Canada by 2011 after English, French and Chinese, as per Immigration Minister Jason Kenney. He said this late last week after inaugurating the seventh Spinning Wheel Film ...

Who killed 35 Sikhs at Chattisinghpora?

Srinagar, J&K: Jagdish Singh Azad, 60, is one of the Sikh leaders who motivated his community to stay back in Valley in 1990 when majority of the Kashmiri Pandits left after armed insurgency broke out in Kashmir. Almost 20-years down ...

Punjab Cancer train a lifeline for stricken patients

Bathinda, Punjab: There was little hope of survival for 17-year old Sukhjit Singh, a resident of Ramuwala Kalan village in Moga district who was diagnosed with blood cancer earlier this year. However, as soon as his parents came to know ...

Sikh students can carry ‘kirpan’ in 61 US schools

Washington DC, USA: Sikh students enrolled in 61 schools run by the National Heritage Academies in the US have been allowed to carry ‘kirpan’, a symbol of their faith, subject to certain restrictions. The National Heritage Academies (NHA), which runs ...