Heads of various Gurdwaras situated in the United States and Canada have expressed their resentment over the changes made in the NanakShahi Calendar, the only Sikh calendar, by Shiromani Gurdwara Parbhandhak committee (SGPC), the premier body of the Sikhs, in meet held at Fremont (San Francisco) on Sunday.


The meet lasted for three hours, during which the heads of various Sikh organizations expressed their objection to the changes made by SGPC recently in NanakShahi calendar.

Following the meet, a resolution was passed by the heads said that as far as more than 2..

Two trains from Howrah have been rescheduled today due to late running of the corresponding down trains.

Amritsar Mail (3005 Up) scheduled to depart at 1910 hrs has been rescheduled at 2100 hrs, a release issued by Eastern Railways said.

Similarly, Mumbai Mail via Allahabad (2321 Up) will leave Howrah at 0030 hrs (midnight) on 13.01.2010 instead of 2200 hrs.

The cold wave continued unabated in Punjab
with minimum temperature staying low last night.

The Holi city of Amritsar remained the coldest place in the state with minimum temperature being recorded at 2.2 degrees Celsius. This was a marginal rise from 1.04 degrees recorded last night.

The minimum at Adampur dipped to 5.8 degrees while at Halwara near Ludhiana it hovered around 6.8 degrees.

However, in Bhatinda in the Malwa belt the minimum temperature plummeted to 3.4 degrees while in the border town of Pathankot it fell to 6.2 degrees.

The m..

Amritsar, Jan 8 : Punjab Police on Friday detained a Nigerian national with about 8 kilograms heroin worth 400 million rupees in the international market.

Acting on a tip-off, Punjab Police’s Special Operation Cell, detained international Heroin smuggler Felix Odemole resident of Nigeria near the Amritsar railways station.

Amritsar Senior Superintendent of Police P. K. Rai said: "State''s special operation cell has achieved a big success in which a Nigerian national named Felix have been nabbed with 8kilograms of heroin near the railway station.”

AMRITSAR: Indian frontier troops Saturday accused their Pakistani counterparts of firing at least four rockets across the border into northern Punjab but said there were no casualties.

The incident is the second since September when two rockets allegedly fired by Pakistani troops landed near the popular tourist attraction of Wagah in Indian Punjab.

Border Security Force (BSF) officials said two of the cross-border rockets exploded in farms on the Indian side while the remaining two did not detonate.

“No casualty has been reported,” a BSF official..

Despite a marginal rise in the minimum temperatures last night there was no respite from the piercing cold in Punjab.

Major parts of the state remained shrouded in a thick white blanket
of fog this morning, reducing visibility to a couple of yards. The low visibility affected road and rail traffic in the state.

The holy city of Amritsar remained the coldest place in the state with the minimum temperature hovering at 2.6 degrees celsius last night. The minimum at Adampur, near Jalandhar, rose by five degrees to register at 6.6 degrees celsius.

The minimu..

The cold waves continue to disturb normal life across north India and the death toll due to the extreme harsh weather is now reported to be over 204.

All the nine fresh deaths were reported from Uttar Pradesh taking the death toll in the state to 40. Meerut recorded a temperature of 3.4 degree Celsius, the coldest in the state.

Dense fog has added to problems of the people in the region. Poor visibility has disrupted rail, road and air traffic at several places in the region.

In Delhi, a foggy Friday morning brought bad news for air travelers as around four domestic ..

Virsa Singh Valthoa, SAD MLA from Valthoa assembly constituency falling in Tarn Taran district, here shot a letter to Speaker of the Punjab Assembly Nirmal Singh Kahlon against the Deputy Commissioner of Amritsar for deliberately showing disrespect to the sub-committee of the Punjab Vidhan Sabha. Talking to media here on Wednesday, Valtoha said that today a meeting of the sub-committee was held here to review the overall works and development being undertaken by departments of Punjab Local Bodies, Irrigation and municipal corporations and funds being used by them. Valtoha said that during ..

Amritsar, Jan. 5: Devotees thronged to the Golden Temple on Tuesday in large numbers for a holy dip in the Golden Temple's Sarovar or, the sacred pool on the occasion of 344th birth anniversary of Guru Gobind Singh


The Sikh fraternity holds the occasion, which marks birth anniversary of Sikhs' 10th master, in high esteem.

Golden Temple, also known as Harminder Sahib, the most important Sikh shrine in the world was illuminated for two days on this occasion. On Monday, fire crackers were burst in the late evening.

Devotees also participated in special pr..

New Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Jan 4 : With temperatures dipping below normal and snowfall witnessed in the upper reaches of Himachal Pradesh and the Kashmir Valley, the normal routine of the people was disturbed for the third consecutive day and over 100 deaths were reported in Uttar Pradesh.

The states of Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh have been the worst affected by the intense cold conditions.

A dense fog continues to prevail in Uttar Pradesh and the maximum temperature was recorded at 2 to 10 degrees Celsius below normal in most parts of the stat..

Amritsar, Jan 2(ANI): The Sikh Diaspora has raised eyebrows over the working of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbhandhak Committee (SGPC) regarding amendments made in the NanakShahi calendar without taking the community into confidence.

It is also pertinent to mention that the Akal Takht, the highest temporal seat of the Sikhs, sent its proposals to SGPC to discuss the necessary action to make amendments in the calendar.

The SGPC has also called an emergency meeting of its executive members on Sunday to make certain am..

Students of DAV Public School in a project, flayed the global contribution to rising temperatures in the world and singularly castigated America and other developing  countries towards this inglorious challenge faced by the world  today that has lead to melting glaciers, rising water levels  and  threatens to gobble up land spaces worldwide starting with smaller island nations, at their annual Art &Craft cum Fete held in the school premises today.

The annual fair was inaugurated by Mr JP Khanna President NRI Mr Mohin..