The Guru Nanak Dev Educational Trust, Hyderabad, has resolved to award nationwide scholarships from 2010 on merit cum means basis. Applications are invited by the end of July 2010 and subsequently in July every year, for awarding Sharanpal Singh Scholarship and Risaldarni Ram Kaur Scholarship to meet the expenses of a yearlong stay and coaching at Delhi to appear in May 2012.
Outspoken leader Nanak Singh Nishter wrote a powerful treatise "Serving the Sikhs" that he has graciously permitted us to publish on this site. Please read it here .
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 Giving in to a two decades old demand by Punjab and its diaspora, the Centre has begun work on pruning the "blacklist" of Sikhs that debarred several members of the community from entering the country for their association with terrorists, it is learnt. Highly-placed sources in the Union Home ministry have said the list containing 300-odd names would be pared down to about 50 by next month-end.
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A couple on Friday committed suicide after paying obeisance at Darbar Sahib Tarn Taran. They had came to Darbar Sahib along with their two year old daughter.
Police sources said that Rachhpal Singh Soni resident of village Vating Suba Singh PS Vairowal and his wife Harjinder Kaur and their daughter Palak Preet Kaur had gone to pay obeisance at Goindwal Sahib. The shopkeepers saw the couple lying on floor near the round about. The people informed the police but nobody came forward to shift them to hospital for half an hour.
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 Their heads are too large or too small, their limbs too short or too bent. For some, their brains never grew, speech never came and their lives are likely to be cut short: these are the children it appears that India would rather the world did not see, the victims of a scandal with potential implications far beyond the country's borders.
Some sit mutely, staring into space, lost in a world of their own; others cry out, rocking backwards and forwards. Few have any real control over their own bodies. Their anxious parents fret over them, murmuring soft words of encouragement, hoping for some sort of miracle that will free them from a nightmare. |
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 Gurpreet Singh, a granthi (priest) at Gurdwara Jhar Sahib, about 10 km fromMachhiwara, Punjab, India, has been arrested and remanded in 14-day judicialremand for watching a pornographic MMS on a mobile phone while performing“path”. |
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