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Bhai Daljit Singh fixes Nov 5 as D-Day
1 October 2008
MANSA: A score
of Sikh organizations have served an ultimatum to ensure closure of
all dera branches in Punjab at the earliest or launch a struggle... |
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Strange company that Badal keeps, now shares
anti-Punjabi stage
1 October 2008
Jalandhar: At a
time when Punjabis on both sides of the Radcliffe Line are crying
hoarse for open borders and more trade... |
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Feudal mindset takes over Punjab, ruling clan
leads it
1 October 2008
PATIALA/BATHINDA/MUKTSAR: A strange notion of virtually having owned
Punjab has overtaken the ruling top brass, and the public is being bombarded
with... |
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Rahul Gandhi In Punjab Floors Media, Plays
Piper
24 September 2008
AMRITSAR/BASSI
PATHANA/PATIALA: He does it with a set pattern, and the style has
been repeated over and over again. Still, everytime he does it, the
people and media... |
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Make Sikh issues a priority says
Dal Khalsa
17 September 2008
AMRITSAR: Taking
umbrage at the dissolution of many Sikh issues by the Akali Dal in
Punjab, the Dal Khalsa has asked the ruling party not to forego Sikh
issues... |
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Badals-Amarinder fight in Assembly shadows
raises larger questions
17 September 2008
CHANDIGARH: Political
discourse has hit the nadir bottom in Punjab as the ruling Akali Dal
and the opposition Congress are trading cheap tactics and gutter... |
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Akalis literally, beatCongress in MC polls
17 September 2008
MOGA/MUKTSAR: Punjab
elections are now fought in Bihar style: beatings, booth-capturing,
muscle power, guns, weapons flashing are all signs of the desperate
power grabbing notion of politics... |
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TOTAL WAR
Amarinder thrown out of Assembly, VB unleashed on him
10 September 2008
CHANDIGARH: In a
sign of the House of Badals declaring total war against former
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, the Punjab Assembly on
Wednesday... |
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Amarinder guilty in multi-crore land scam:
Punjab Assembly
10 September 2008
CHANDIGARH: For
months, former CM Amarinder Singh remained sidelined because of his
itinerant ways. Then came the jubilation when he was made... |
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Brand new from the clan of Badals: Harsimrat
Kaur
10 September 2008
BATHINDA: A new face has
started emerging in the media from within the Badal clan: Sukhbir
Singh Badal's wife Harsimrat Kaur. Talk is in the air about her... |
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Bhai Daljit Singh slams BJP on Art 370 plans
10 September 2008
AMRITSAR:
Shiromani Akali Dal (Panch Pardhani) has opposed the BJP's move to
scrap Article 370 of the Indian Constitution if it comes to power and said
it was... |
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Egg on face,
Badal retreats on Panjab University issue
3 September 2008
CHANDIGARH:
With egg on its face and ash in its mouth, the Parkash Singh Badal
led Punjab Government on Monday was forced to eat its words and... |
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Jaswant Singh Kanwal singes Master Tara Singh in new book
3 September 2008
AMRITSAR: Noted
Punjabi litterateur Jaswant Singh Kanwal, often hailed for straight
talk but also a subject of controversies for his maverick views and
strong... |
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Akalis, Cong compete with rally against rally in Malwa
3 September 2008
LAMBI/TALWANDI
SABO: In a strange interpretation of political shows, the opposition
Congress and ruling Akali Dal went on a showdown spree, each trying... |
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India has failed Kashmiris: Akali Dal (Panchpardhani)
27 August, 2008
AMRITSAR: Akai Dal
Amritsar (Panchpardhani) has said India
has failed Kashmiris and voices for Azadi have been proven to
symbolise the popular will... |
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Akali Dal cancels Karnal Rally after meeting
with PM
27 August, 2008
Chandigarh: In a
significant development indicating cooling off of temperatures,
Punjab’s Akali Dal has pulled back from an eyeball-to-eyeball
confrontation... |
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Cong puts up united show, Amarinder issues warnings
20 August, 2008
Baba Bakala: After
Amarinder Singh's return to centre stage following his appointment
as the Chairman of the Campaign Committee, the Punjab Congress... |
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Badal set to make Haryana's move on SGPC a major issue
20 August, 2008
CHANDIGARH:
Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has made up his mind to
make a major issue out of the separate SGPC for Haryana and will be
writing.. |
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Dal Khalsa seeks aid for flood-hit Punjab
20 August, 2008
AMRITSAR: Urging
the Punjab government to take flood-control measures immediately,
the Dal Khalsa expressed its grief on the loss of 12 lives and... |
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Sukbir effect: Akali councillors boycott Badal's show
20 August, 2008
Jalandhar: Here
was a hilarious situation in many ways. Akali councillors boycotted
a function where CM Prakash Singh Badal was the chief guest
because... |
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Don't deliberate, we are Indians!
20 August, 2008
CHANDIGARH: Utter paranoia and fear
psychosis plagues the Indian police and administrative system, in case
anyone wants to debate and discuss the gains... |
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Punjab polity diction hits nadir, Sukhbir
talks of mental health of rival
20 August, 2008
Chandigarh:
At a time when thousands were renedered homeless in Punjab
and scores of villages were drowned under flood waters, Punjab's
ruling as well as opposition... |
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Amarinder won't make any difference: Badal
13 August, 2008
BANUR: Chief
Minister Parkash Singh Badal has said former CM Capt Amarinder
Singh's appointment as Congress Campaign Committee chairman for Punjab... |
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Dal Khalsa flays BJP for violence in J & K
13 August, 2008
Amritsar: Dal Khalsa has slammed the BJP
for engineering violence in the Jammu to reap electoral benefits for the
impending elections. The party expressed shock... |
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Badal's commondoes hell bent on 'adjusting' Vedanti
13 August, 2008
Amritsar: Having humiliated the Jathedar of Akal Takht and
denigrating the seat of authority, Parkash Singh Badal's men are now
on a damage control mission... |
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Bhattal out, Kaypee new president
of Punjab Cong but Amarinder is Man of The Match
6 August, 2008
CHANDIGARH:
Notwithstanding the machinations of his fellow partymen in
Punjab, former Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh made a
comeback... |
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Minister says Kaka ji should become Khalsa
6 August, 2008
PATIALA: Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh badal is racing fast to
wean his party away from Sikhi and embrace Punjabiat concept but
fellow Akali leaders now... |
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Under Pa's govt, police finds case
against Sukhbir wrong,
but court digs in
29
July, 2008
FARIDKOT:
Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh badal, known for his brash ways
and a more brusque style before he became party chief, is in trouble... |
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Bloody scuffles mark Sarpanch elections
across Punjab
23
July, 2008
Across
Punjab,
rural folks are helplessly watching dirty grassroot level political
violence as men (women are rarely involved) drunk on powerare
indulging... |
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Simranjit Singh Mann denounces Nuclear Deal
16 July 2008
CHANDIGARH:
Among the very few leaders who make their voices heard on
international developments, the president of the Shiromani Akali Dal
(Amritsar)... |
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Akali Dal to vote against UPA govt
16 July 2008
CHANDIGARH:
Putting to rest all speculation on party's stand on the nuclear
deal, the Shiromani Akali Dal, which has eight members in the Lok
Sabha, has finally said... |
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Daljit Singh takes Badal to task on
Saini issue
16 July 2008
CHANDIGARH:
Reacting sharply to the stay granted by the Supreme Court of India
staying all proceedings against Sumedh Saini on a review petition by
the Punjab... |
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Amarinder on ascendancy as Badals, Bhattal catch headache
9
July, 2008
PATIALA:
Notwithstanding the almost joint onslaught of Akali Dal, the ruling
Akali-BJP government and the section of the Punjab Congress that has
hitched its... |
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Dal Khalsa, SAD (A) slam BJP for violence
9
July, 2008
Amritsar: The
Dal Khalsa has asked India's Chief Election Commissioner to debar
the BJP from contesting elections in view of the "communal tension
being caused... |
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Sukhbir, Bhattal moving polity into perverse grooves with their hordes
9
July, 2008
Jalandhar:
Politics in Punjab is taking strange turns towards the perverse
rather than the reformist. Recent local body elections witnessed an
induction of unprecedented... |
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Punjab Congress MLA Khaira speaks up for Sikhs on Black List
2
July, 2008
Chandigarh: Rarely does a Congress
leader dare to take a stand on something like this. Congress MLA
Sukhpal Singh Khaira, who is the son of one-time senior Akali
leader... |
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The role that Badal Govt played in protests
2
July, 2008
At a time when
the Sikh community demonstrated unity and a sense of purpose and the
June 25 protest blockade of the trains was handled with considerable
degree... |
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Why did Sukhbir Singh Badal rush to Mumbai?
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June, 2008
The
latest Akali Dal move of rushing a top level party delegation to
Mumbai is a brainchild of Sukhbir Singh Badal for whom the entire
controversy... |
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They all remember the Master, but
how?
25
June, 2008
LUDHIANA/CHANDIGARH:
Peeved by the failure of the Akali Dal and the state government to
mark the 124th birth anniversary of legendary Akali Dal leader... |
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Badal chants Hare Krishna, Hare Rama, says preserve
heritage
4
June,
2008
LUDHIANA: In a case of twisted sense of culture and heritage, Punjab
CM and Akali supremo Parkash Singh Badal has given a call for
preserving culture and heritage... |
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Congmen keep fighting in Punjab, with each other
4
June,
2008
CHANDIGARH: The
violence unleashed by ruling Akali Dal activists and the defeat in
local body polls have not dampened the spirit of Congressmen busy
fighting... |
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Clashes, firing, candidate's death in panchayat poll but call them peaceful,
please!
28
May,
2008
PUNJAB'S
ELECTORAL TURF: After
violence in block samiti and zilaparishad elections, and after
Sukhbir Singh Badal's statement of unparalleled... |
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A Badal man in Badal land, after 10 years
28
May,
2008
BADAL: After a hiatus
of 10 years, Badal, the native village of CM
Parkash Singh Badal, will have his supporter as the sarpanch. Of the
1,898... |
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But not
Tohra man in Tohra
28
May,
2008
TOHRA: The village
Tohra represents the decline of a political stalwart and his legacy
so clearly that only the politically blind will fail to learn the
lessons... |
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As Congress
fights itself, Akalis least bothered about democracy
21
May,
2008
CHANDIGARH:
‘Kotaan-Kot Dhanwad’ was the blazing heading as a smiling Sukhbir
Singh Badal peered out of huge advertisements... |
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‘Bhai Daljit Singh not part of it’
21
May,
2008
CHANDIGARH:
Shiromani Akali Dal(Panch Pardhani) has said it has nothing
whatsoever to do with a 20-member committee set up by some Sikh
intellectuals... |
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Badal govt chucks out SGJC chief it found inconvenient
21
May,
2008
AMRITSAR:
Finally,
the Akali Dal government and the party has gotten rid of the
inconvenient Chairperson of the Sikh Gurdwara Judicial... |
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Punjab gets a bloodbath as politicos pollute
grassroot ballotting
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May,
2008
CHANDIGARH: Tom-tommed
by Indian nation state as the paragon of grassroots level democracy,
and often a staid affair in Punjab, the elections to panchayat... |
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Danda Raj in Punjab: Local polls soaked in blood
14
May,
2008
It was a near
mayhem in the Majha belt comprising comprising Amritsar, Gurdaspur
and Tarn Taran as workers of alliance partners SAS and BJP... |
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Akalis leave devp of Amritsar to RSS-BJP MP
14
May,
2008
Amritsar: In a queer
sort of prioritising, the Akali Dal and the panthic lobby of SGPC et
al have left the domain of development of Amritsar to an RSS... |
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Kulbir Singh returns to his own Bara-pind
7
May,
2008
NABHA/AMRITSAR:
After 13 years in prison in the United States and 2 years in Punjab
contesting 3 cases of murder and attempted murder... |
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Panchayat Poll Fever Grips Punjab
7
May,
2008
FARIDKOT:
With just
a week to go for the Panchayat elections, slowly but steadily Punjab
is getting into the grip of poll fever. Allegations against each other are
flying in the air and... |
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Bhattal’s man gets ticket in by-poll
30
April 2008
AMRITSAR: With a
bye-election due in Punjab from Amritsar (South) seat, the Congress
high command has ensured that Amarinder Singh... |
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Bularia’s son is the Akali candidate
30
April 2008
AMRITSAR: After much
speculation including some that it could be Sukhbir Singh Badal
himself as candidate... |
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Amarinder hits Punjab polity, Bhattal, Congress, Badals all
23 April 2008
CHANDIGARH/AMRITSAR:
Back to the days of colourful politics in Punjab and displacing the
Badals from the news headlines... |
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Punjab Vigilance says Chahal behind fake case
23 April 2008
MUKTSAR: The Punjab Vigilance Bureau has claimed that an inquiry has
established that B.I.S. Chahal, the then media adviser to former
chief minister... |
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Sukhbir speaks Advani language on 80’s violence in Punjab
23 April 2008
CHANDIGARH:
If a
brave woman has revealed one Congress person's name who gave some
form of assistance to Sikh youth involved in aspirational
struggle... |
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Wisdom keeps dawning in cases against Akalis
16
April 2008
CHANDIGARH: Sukhbir
Singh Badal wanted to make this man the president of Youth Akali Dal,
but there was a problem. He was facing murder cases... |
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Sukhbir re-jigs top SAD brass, is PAC boss
now
16
April 2008
CHANDIGARH: One more
milestone crossed. Parkash Singh Badal is no more the Chairman of
the Akali Dal's Political Affairs Committee (PAC)... |
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People fight for girl whom police
calls human bomb
19
March 2008
KARNAL/MANSA: ’N
how many times must the cannon balls fly through the life of a
19-year-old girl for her to be convinced that the world is full of
people who only... |
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Graft and Badal Craft: All U-turns permitted
5
March 2008
AMRITSAR: The great leader has shown the best path. The corruption
cases against the Badal family are falling by the wayside, witness
after witness... |
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Badal blasts measure for which Sukhbir took credit
5
March 2008
CHANDIGARH: Initial
reactions of the Akali Dal were limited to saying that the entire
Chidambaram plan was a result of the Sukhbir Singh Badal's Insaaf
Rally... |
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PM
says Black List will remain
5
March 2008
AMRITSAR: For decades the
Indian government has been claiming normalcy in Punjab, but the
functioning of the establishment and its psyche refuses... |
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Mann criticises Nagas for not
creating ‘overground’ space
27 February 2008
NEW DELHI: Is
the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isak-Muivah) renewing its
ties with friends in Punjab? Does it really have any friends in
Punjab?... |
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Badalshahi calendar turns leaf, reveals President
Sukhbir
6 February 2008
Nightmarish
movies in which pygmies take over the world and become rulers
overnight remained a favourite Hollywood idea for years, but it was
easy... |
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Criminalisation of Punjab polity: The shrieking evidence
23 January 2008
JALANDHAR: Criminalisation of politics is a much
talked about subject in India but what happened in Jalandhar in the last
fortnight is an eye opener... |
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WE EXIST! You just don't se us!
16 January 2008
NEW DELHI: When must a nation hang its head in shame? When a man
thousands know, believe and say was part of a blood-thirsty communal
massacre is made a minister?... |
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Badal's Lohri Gift for core saffron vote bank
is 90 pc discount sale
16 January 2008
CHANDIGARH: How will you
interpret it: Punjab Government's wake up sign to the crisis being faced by
prospective investors and the industry... |
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Sajjan Pardesi Aaye Ghar Apne
9 January 2008
CHANDIGARH/JALANDHAR:
The problem with a lot of good intentions thrown into a venture is that they
only serve to pave a path we all know to where... |
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Pak govt says Bhutto death accidental, makes
U-turn later
2 January 2008
Islamabad: In a dramatic U-turn, the Pakistan
government "apologised" for claiming earlier that former premier Benazir
Bhutto died... |
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Lahore dust and a London sale
2 January 2008
Like all great political figures, Benazir Bhutto
was far from perfect. In more than a decade of knowing her, as a reporter on
the Pakistan... |
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Daughter
of East who befriended West goes down
2 January 2008
KARACHI/ISLAMABAD: Eras have a way of ending; some taper off
gradually while some change in as much time as it takes a shot to
fire or a human... |
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Badal finally expresses love for Congress, closes
complaint chapter
26 December 2007
FATEHGARH SAHIB: It was in the land of the martyrs
that Parkash Singh Badal chose to finally speak the truth: "We are... |
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India Circa 2007
26 December,
2007
Every year ending is a
precursor to hopes for a new dawn, occasion for new resolutions and
a realistic stock taking of the year gone by. As the world soaks... |
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KAC takes fight against Dera to
Sonia’s doorstep, memo tells Gandhi
some home truths
12 December, 2007
NEW DELHI:
Lodging a protest right in front of the residence of UPA Chairperson and
Congress President Sonia Gandhi, the Khalsa..... |
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Mann pro-imperialism, says Bhagat Singh's nephew
12 December, 2007
Amritsar: Criticising Akali Dal (Amritsar)
leader Simranjit Singh Mann for calling Bhagat Singh a murderer of 'innocent
persons' (British police officer Saunders... |
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Mann out of jail, wants to contest against Sukhbir
12 December, 2007
PATIALA: Akali Dal (Mann) president Simranjit
Singh Mann was granted bail by the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate in the
case of sedition... |
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SAD(A) comes out of Mann’s shadow, hopes soar again
5 December, 2007
ALAMGIR: Ushering in a renewed hope
among panthic ranks and making a determinedbid to extricate the Shiromani
Akali Dal (Amritsar) from the shadow of the Akali Dal (Mann)... |
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Akali Dal (Amritsar) hurtling towards clear
split
28 November 2007
CHANDIGARH: Events seem to be moving full swing ahead
and by all available indications, the Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar),
which at one... |
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Communists shame ideology
21 November 2007
NANDIGRAM: Hats off to the great Indian
stratagem that is now centuries old — get the poor to bad name, abuse,
fight, kill, butcher the poor... |
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It’s time for healing, says Suu Kyi after
junta meeting
14
November, 2007
Yangon: Detained Burmese opposition
leader Aung San Suu Kyi is optimistic after meeting Friday with a
junta official and believes it is time for the “healing process” to
start, her party said... |
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Punjab in tearing
hurry to usher police raj, Rights group files PIL
14
November, 2007
NEW YORK/CHANDIGARH: Since
1861, Punjab has been following the current Police Act. After the
British left, India decided to live with the legacy of the
outdated.... |
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Musharraf relents, sets Jan 9 as poll date
14
November, 2007
Islamabad:
Pakistan President Gen Pervez Musharraf has said that Pakistan would not
deviate from its January schedule for parliamentary.... |
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CPM terror grips Nandigram
14
November, 2007
Nandigram: The
entire Nandigram town is cloaked in red. CPM flags flutter from rooftops,
shops and the wrecked checkpoints that were set... |
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Saffron heaps public humiliation on
secularised Akali govt
14
November, 2007
When the panthic blue turban
sea turns secular and dons a saffron tinge, the tidal waves get
tamed into little puddles. The so called legendry Panthic Jazba, the
Khalsa.... |
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India plans welcome for foreign universities
24 October, 2007
NEW DELHI: The Indian Government is
considering a proposal of the United States Chief Executive Officers
Forum to set up an SEZ for higher and vocational education on trial
basis. The CEO Forum has... |
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Fighters must re-establishing credentials
24 October, 2007
Fremont: In order to extricate the Sikh
nation from the crisis-ridden times, the activist Sikh organizations will
also have to re-establish their own... |
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Mann to release speeches
24 October,
2007
CHANDIGARH: Shiromani Akali Dal
(Amritsar) president Simranjit Singh Mann will release at Jalandhar on
October 25 a DVD of his Parliament speeches made during his
five-year term... |
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Mann continues with tirade, warns
against touching lion's tail
10 October, 2007
Bathinda: In
remarks which are now part of a pattern discernible every time
Sardar Simranjit Singh Mann addresses the media, he has said that
his remarks about Bhai Daljit Singh Bittu... |
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BJP warns Akalis of boycott if power tariff increased
10 October, 2007
Amritsar: While
pulling the plug on the JD(S) government in Karnataka, the BJP has
warned the SAD in Punjab of boycotting the cabinet meeting if it
brought about the draft proposal... |
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Set
up truth commission, Dal Khalsa presses Punjab government
3 October
2007
Jalandhar: In a
move aimed clearly to nail 'Cats' and their handlers, the Dal Khalsa
asked the Punjab government to set up a 'truth commission' to
unearth the policy of persecution carried... |
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Sonia serves old wine in old bottle,
makes Bhattal Punjab Cong chief
26 September
2007
CHANDIGARH:
Having totally failed to project itself even minimally a meaningful
opposition, the Congress in Punjab will now look like old wine in an
old... |
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Mann wanted corruption cases against
Badal shifted, High Court rules against it
26 September 2007
Chandigarh: The Indian establishment knows pretty well whom to back
in any contest between its associate Sikh leaders and those who take
up panthic agendas, even... |
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Mann's letter on jail conditions is
now a petition
26 September
2007
Chandigarh: A letter
which Sardar Simranjit Singh Mann wrote to describe the poor
condition of prisoners in Ludhiana Central Jail will now be treated
as a petition by the Punjab... |
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Bibi Jagir Kaur's anticipatory bail
plea dismissed
26 September
2007
Ropar: Ropar
Sessions Judge Rekha Mittal on Tuesday dismissed the anticipatory
bail application of former SGPC president Bibi Jagir Kaur, against
whom Anandpur Sahib... |
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Sardar Emaan Singh Mann on “sequence of events”
26 September
2007
I have been
reading many conspiracy theories with regards to Bhai Daljit Singh
Bittu's expulsion from the Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) on your
website. It has been suggested that there... |
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Bhattal appointed Punjab Congress chief
26 September
2007
Chandigarh: The All India Congress Committee (AICC) has appointed
former Punjab chief minister Rajinder Kaur Bhattal as the leader of
the state unit of the party. The announcement... |
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Conspiracy to expel Bhai Bittu was hatched six
months ago: UK body
19 September, 2007
LONDON:
United Khalsa Dal.
England president Bhai Nirmal Singh Sandhu has claimed that the
expulsion of Bhai Daljit Singh from the party was not an impromptu
event but was... |
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Badal blasts Indian Govt on move to
change Sikhs' 'minority' status
12 September,
2007
Chandigarh: With
the World Sikh News breaking the shocking story of Indian
government's determined attempt to divest the Sikhs in Punjab and
Chandigarh of their status as a... |
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Pb Govt avoiding bye-election to 4 SGPC seats
12 September, 2007
CHANDIGARH: The
Punjab Government has been trying to avoid holding of elections to
the four seats of the SGPC which fell vacant because of the death of
the elected members... |
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Badal’s vendetta bureau nets Catman SS
Virk
12 September,
2007
Chandigarh: On
September 10, one of India's decorated senior police officers and
former head of Punjab Police Sarabdeep Singh Virk, often credited
with helping in containing terrorism by...
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