Events that shaped the nation in the past 48 hours in images.
After multiple speculations about Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh and Bollywood actress Hazel Keech's dating scene, sources have confirmed that the couple has secretly got engaged in Bali on Wednesday.
Dadwal had asked for transfer from his present position following completion of his three-year tenure, but was asked by the home ministry to stay on till the end of the Commonwealth Games.
Pakistani authorities have cut short the visit of Indian pilgrims to Gurdwara Panja Sahib in Hasanabdal city of Punjab province due to the security situation, days after the killing of two abducted Sikhs by the Taliban in the restive northwestern tribal belt.
The police in Noida has prohibited any religious activity, including offering of Friday prayers by Muslims, in a public park.
India's top envoy in Australia has assured Indians that the government was 'very closely monitoring' their well-being in this country, as she asked them to not allow 'a few bad elements' to sour the otherwise warm Indo-Australian relationship. Indian High Commissioner Sujatha Singh, who traveled to Melbourne, assured the Indian Sikh community that the perpetrators of the incident of arson on a local gurdwara will be brought to justice by the authorities.
Members of various organisations on Friday held protests at Ambala in Haryana and Delhi against the proposed screening of controversial film Messenger of God featuring Dera Saccha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh in the lead role.
Unlike in langars, free feeding under the food security bill may force people to swallow their shame.
The Pakistani election on July 25 has a strong Indian flavour and connection, says Vivek Shukla.
The 16-year-old youth was also arrested for an attempted burglary at a shop in the city a day before the attack, a police spokesman said.
Decorated lights decked up buildings and earthen lamps dotted houses as people across the country celebrated Diwali.
Robin Singh, who was abducted by the Taliban in Peshawar February 12, 2010 escaped from their custody on April 11. He has now taken refuge at the Panje Sahib gurdwara, about 160 km from Peshawar, along with his family and elder brother Rajan.
Some 15,000 people, mainly from California, and also from across the United States and abroad, joined the 37th Baisakhi celebrations in Los Angeles, California on April 12 sponsored jointly by 20 gurdwaras in Southern California area.
Sant Rama Nand, the head of a Dera sect, died early on Monday morning after being shot in a clash between two groups of Sikh worshippers at a gurdwara in Vienna.At least 11 people, including Sant Niranjan Dass, another Dera chief, were injured when the two groups clashed with knives and a handgun.The fight erupted following a dispute over the sermon given by a priest from Shri Guru Ravidas Sabha.
Parrikar had compared the neigbouring country to "hell" and asserted that it should stop human rights violations in Balochistan.
Kumar was convicted and sentenced to life for the remainder of his life by the high court on December 17 in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in Raj Nagar area.
'Twitterati on either side of the political fence needs to walk for a day or two in a chowkidar's shoes to understand how precariously India's unorganised sector teeters on the brink,' says Geetanjali Krishna.
The fringe organisation, run by a few radical Sikhs of foreign nationality in the US, Canada, the United Kingdom openly espouses the cause of Khalistan and in that process challenges the sovereignty and territorial integrity of India.
Residents near the border have been asked to switch off lights at night. Farmers whose agriculture land is beyond the fencing wire were ordered not to visit their fields.
The former Congress leader had sought more time, till January 30, to surrender saying he has to settle family affairs related to children and property and also needs time to file appeal in the Supreme Court against the high court verdict.
There has been a three-fold rise in the number of Indian students coming to the UK since the points-based immigration system was introduced in April this year.
Khalistani separatist Chawla, a close aide of terrorist Hafiz Saeed, is part of the committee, which was not acceptable to India.
'Now I will see how you escape...'
The Pakistani Taliban on Saturday responsibility for the assasination of a prominent Sikh politician who was shot dead by motorcycle-borne gunmen near his home in Pakistan's restive northwest.
Two persons were killed and several injured as violence triggered by the killing of a Dera leader engulfed Punjab and parts of Haryana, where protestors set afire train coaches, buses and clashed with the police, prompting authorities to impose curfew in four cities and calling out the Army in Jalandhar.
She also said the Kartarpur corridor initiative was not linked to the dialogue process with Pakistan.
Joginder Singh Vedanti says he was removed because he supported Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during the key trust vote.
Wal-Mart defers launch of its first Indian store
Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh has written to Shiromani Gurdwara Prabhandak Committee chief Avtar Singh Makkar, asking him to keep an eye on the misguided youths trying to revive militancy in Punjab.
"On this day, the anniversary of the worst terrorist incident in Canadian history -- the bombing of Air India flight 182 -- we pause to remember those who have lost their lives through acts of terror here in Canada and around the world," Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Monday.
Stanislaus County Sheriff Adam Christianson said the assault is being investigated as a hate crime.
The installation of air conditioners inside the temple by the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee has invited the wrath of the scholars and conservationists. Conservationists say the unique frescoes and the heritage building are now at 'the mercy of variations in temperature'. The official said the ACs were installed 'on persistent demand' of Surinder Kaur Badal, wife of Chief Minister Prakash Singh Badal, as she frequently visits the temple.
Out on bail, the Bhim Army chief said 'it will be shameful if I don't call him out for saying that those indulging in violence can be identified by their clothes itself'.
India is in the midst of its biggest crisis since Independence. It is a national emergency and begs to be dealt with. Politics can wait. Lives need to be saved. We need to vaccinate India at a pace faster than any country in the world, asserts Ramesh Menon.
Director Shivaji Lotan Patil does no justice to the story.
Giani Gurbachan Singh took 36 years to rise from sewadar to jathedar of the Akal Takht (highest Sikh temporal seat) to which he was installed in Amritsar on Thursday amidst tight security of task force of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee in the periphery of Harmandar Sahib (Golden Temple) at Akal Takht.
Sikh religious leaders slammed the Rashtriya Swyamsevak Sangh on Saturday for claiming that the community's sacred texts were "known for their salutations to Sri Rama".
It was the first visit to the shrine by the 38-year-old scion of the Nehru-Gandhi family who was escorted by employees of the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabhandak Committee to the sanctum sanctorum where he was given a siropa (robe of honour) by a priest.
The condition of three of the injured is stated to be serious.
The portrait was removed following an objection from NGO Shaheed-e-Azam Sardar Bhagat Singh Youth Front. SGPC president Avtar Singh Makkar said the portrait has been removed and the circumstances under which it was installed will be investigated.
