Input tax credit: SAD asks Joshi not to play politics

Hard-pressed by its alliance partner Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) Badal to intervene, the BJP-ledCcentral government is expected to press for annulment of the Haryana Sikh Gurudwara (Management) Act that challenges the supremacy of Shiromani Gurdwara ...

CHANDIGARH: In a bid to de-escalate rising tension, Akal Takht (the highest temporal seat of the Sikhs) on Saturday directed the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) not to hold the Panthak conference at Amritsar on Sunday, and the Haryana Shiromani Gurdwara ...

The BJP-led government at the Centre and the Akali Dal government in Punjab have decided to adopt a two-pronged strategy on the contentious issue of Haryana allowing the formation of a separate SGPC in the state. Sources said the decision comes in ...

Akhilesh Yadav today told an Akali Dal team from Punjab his government would ensure the safety of Sikhs in riot-hit Saharanpur and punish any police officer who failed to take steps to prevent the violence. Communal clashes in Saharanpur left three dead and ...

With the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), Congress and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) having declared their candidates, the stage is set for Talwandi Sabo byelection, which will now witness a contest between two traditional political rivals Harminder Singh Jassi ...

Chandigarh, Punjab (July 27, 2014): Punjab chief minister and patron of Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal) has said that his struggle against the formation of a separate Gurdwara Prabhandak Committee for Haryana will continue. Parkash Singh Badal Badal addressing a ...

The arrival of RSS ideologue Kaptan Singh Solanki as the new Haryana Governor may have enthused the protesting Akali Dal in Punjab over the separate Sikh shrine body issue, but their hopes that the new Governor could withdraw assent to the Bill for forming ...

In a departure from the practice which the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) has been following since reorganization of Punjab in 1967, the party has for the first time chosen a Hindu leader as its candidate from the crucial Patiala (urban) seat.

Mr Badal has convened a congregation of Sikhs in Amritsar on July 27 to devise a strategy to counter the Hooda government's move to split the SGPC. Chandigarh : Punjab's ruling party and BJP ally Akali Dal today cancelled a planned congregation ...