The Election Commission rescheduled the polling date in Haryana to Oct 5 to secure the voting rights of the state’s sizable Bishnoi community, and accordingly revised the counting date for both Haryana and Jammu & Kashmir to Oct 8.

Five Sikh high priests pronounced SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal guilty of religious misconduct, or “tankhaiya”, in a verdict that requires him to appear before the Akal Takht and seek forgiveness for unspecified “mistakes” when his party was...

BJP and INLD have urged Election Commission in separate letters to consider deferring the Oct 1 assembly polls in Haryana for a better turnout.

After the SAD and BJP parted ways in 2020, the PM Narendra Modi-led NDA government had been ignoring the Sikh issues, alleged the SGPC sources. Even the demand of a committee formed by Akal Takht to change the Sahibzadas Martyrdom Day to “Sahibzade...

Haryana’s BJP govt cleared tweaks in SC and OBC quotas as part of a slew of populist decisions despite the model code kicking in since declaration of assembly polls the previous day, signalling a last-minute shaky dash to woo voters.

From the coming Independence Day, daily greetings in Haryana schools will acquire a patriotic flavour. Instead of “Good Morning”, students will greet each other and their teachers with “Jai Hind”

The Centre has threatened to cancel more national highway projects in Punjab in case the situation, which it termed as “worsening”, does not improve. Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari has written a demi-official letter...

In a written explanation to Akal Takht jathedar, Shiromani Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal has sought “unconditional forgiveness” for “all mistakes” committed when the party was in power

Harprit Singh, an Indian Civil Account Services (ICAS) officer, was shot dead by his father-in-law, Malwinder Singh, a suspended assistant inspector general (AIG) of Punjab Police, at the mediation centre of the district court complex in Sector...

Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal visited the Sri Akal Takht Sahib in Amritsar more than a week after Akal Takht Jathedar Giani Raghbir Singh asked him to do so