Amritdhari Sikhs not allowed in Gurdas Maan concert

Calgary, Canada: Hundreds of upset concertgoers spilled onto the streets of downtown Calgary after a show by a popular Punjabi singer on Sunday night was shut down in mid-performance. It wasn’t immediately clear why the concert by Gurdas Maan at ...

Pingalwara to popularise traditional diet

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 ...

Punjabi wives abandoned to a life in limbo

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, ...

Separate Gurdwara Panel for Haryana issue

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 ...