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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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 SGPC (Shriomani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee) president Avtar Singh Makkaron Tuesday urged the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh to intervene effectivelyto stall the Congress party's highly ill-advised and ill-conceived move ofsetting up a separate Sikh Gurdwara Committee in Haryana. Makkar said that by setting up separate SGPC in the State of Haryana wasdirect intervention in the internal Affairs of Sikh community on the Part ofCongress Government of Haryana. |
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 Punjab and Haryana High Court accepted the definition of Sikh as mooted byShiromani Gurdawara Parbhandak Committee(SGPC) and ruled that persons withshorn hair can't be described Sikh. Observing that keeping hair unshorn is an essential component of the Sikhfaith, the Punjab and Haryana High Court Saturday upheld denial of admission tosome students to a medical college on grounds of having plucked eyebrows or trimmedbeard. "Having dealt with the historical background of the Sikh religion, thelegislative enactments and views expressed by scholars, we are satisfied allthis leads to one unambiguous answer that maintaining hair unshorn is anessential component of the Sikh religion," the Court said. |
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