Veteran Akali leader and former chief secretary of Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) Manjit Singh Calcutta passed away here on Wednesday morning. He was 79.
Shiromani Akali Dal leader Manjinder Singh Sirsa on Wednesday demanded an amendment in the Constitution to give Sikhs a separate religious identity.
A Delhi Court on Wednesday will continue the hearing in the anti-Sikh riots matter against its prime accused Jagdish Tytler.
Haryana Police on Wednesday said the body of the 19-year-old youth who was named in the FIR as the alleged abductor in the savage rape and murder case of a 15-year-old Dalit girl from a village in Kurukshetra district, had been found in a canal near Jyotisar in Kurukshetra.
As a series of rapes, gang rapes and murders, especially of minor girls, pushed the Haryana government and the state's police on the defensive, Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Wednesday urged political parties not to politicise such issues.
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