A woman gets her hand decorated with 'mehndi' ahead of Raksha Bandhan festival at Sadar Bazaar, in Gurugram.
IAF Rafale aircraft after touching down at Air Force Station on its arrival on covering a distance of nearly 8500 km from France to India, in Ambala.
First five Rafale combat aircraft from France arrive at the Air Force Station, in Ambala.
Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria (2nd L) and Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Western Air Command, Air Marshal B Suresh (R) along with the IAF pilots of the f...
Locals cheer during the touchdown of five Rafale combat jets from France at the airbase, at the entry point of Ambala.
Water cannon salute being given to one of the five Rafale fighter jets on its arrival at Ambala air base from France.
The first of five Rafale fighter jets, travelling from France, touches down at Ambala air base in Haryana.
The first of five Rafale fighter jets, travelling from France, touches down at Ambala air base in Haryana.
Haryana drug control authorities, along with local police, busted an international drug cartel trying to smuggle out COVID-19 and cancer treatment drugs to Iraq through special eva...
Haryana drug control authorities, along with local police, busted an international drug cartel trying to smuggle out COVID-19 and cancer treatment drugs to Iraq through special eva...
A health worker holds collected swab samples for COVID-19 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) test, at Community Centre in Gurugram.
A car stuck on the heavily waterlogged Delhi-Gurugram Expressway after monsoon rains in Gurugram.
Vehicles wade through a waterlogged road after rains in Gurugram.
GMDA officials work to repair a road that caved-in due to bursting of a pipeline following heavy monsoon rain, in Gurugram.
Dark clouds gather in the sky over the city, in Gurugram.
An auto-rickshaw stuck at a flooded underpass after heavy rains, in Faridabad.
Traffic policemen point towards a portion of road that caved-in following heavy rainfall, at Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway in Gurugram.
A health worker arranges samples for COVID-19 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) test, during Unlock 2.0, at Urban Primary Health Centre in Gurugram.
View of ITC Grand Bharat hotel, where congress MLAs from Rajasthan and supporters of rebel party leader Sachin Pilot have been housed, at Manesar in Gurugram.
A health worker collects samples from a woman for COVID-19 rapid antigen testing, in Gurugram.
What is the genesis of recent violence in Punjab and Haryana? Is it true that it all began in a Gurudwara (a Sikh temple) in Vienna?
Technically, the attack in Vienna was not in a gurudwara, but in a Gurdehera -- also commonly called a dera -- of the Dera Sachkand, a Ravidasi organisation. This is a new Ravidasi temple that has only recently been set-up on Rudolphsheim Street which also houses the only Gurudwara in the Austrian capital, which is said to be controlled by radicals loyal to Khalistan.
It is being suggested in some press versions, as in this Hindustan Times report, that "at the centre of the conflagration is a battle for the control of cash-rich overseas gurdwaras and an assertion of religious identity by Dalits who form roughly 29 per cent of Punjab’s three crore population. The new Ravidasi place of worship apparently took away a chunk of the offerings and the "tensions came to a head when visiting sect head Sant Niranjan Das was allegedly attacked by pro-Khalistani Sikhs" on Sunday, May 24. While Sant Niranjan Das, the sect-head, was injured, his second-in-command, Sant Ramanand, was fatally injured in the attack and the news of the latter's death on Monday ratcheted up the already inflamed passions of the Dera followers in Punjab and Haryana.
The ostensible reason for the attack in Vienna is said to be the alleged disrespect shown by the Dera leaders to the Guru Granth Sahib, the Sikh holy book. But intelligence agencies are probing the possibilities of a larger conspiracy to stir up trouble between the Ravidasis and the Sikhs in India.
What exactly is Dera Sachkhand?...
