GEORGE TOWN: Festivities are in full swing in most of Penang’s gurdwara for Vaisakhi on Saturday( April 13), which is celebrated by Sikhs commemorating the spring harvest festival and the birth of the Khalsa order by the tenth Guru of Sikhs, Guru Gobind Singh Ji. Simultaneously, the Tamil and Malayalee communities are busy with final preparations to usher in their respective new years, Chittirai Puttandu and Vishu on Sunday( April 14), which will be celebrated on a grand scale nationwide.A surve

He was taken to a nearby hospital where doctors declared him dead. Sandhu was a prominent player of the sport, which is a contact sport similar to rugby or British bulldog that is believed to have been played in India for thousands of years.... He was leaving the venue partway through the game when assailants attacked him, Randhawa said. The tournament was halted and people ran for cover.... In the melee, the assailants fled from the scene. Sandhu was a former captain of the Indian team in cir

Britain’s foremost children’s book prize has unveiled a shortlist that covers war, death and racial oppression, suggesting that fiction can help readers to make sense of events they see on social media. Early winners of the Carnegie Medal, established in 1936, include Pigeon Post by Arthur Ransome, The Borrowers by Mary Norton and Tom’s Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce. This year, six of the eight shortlisted books are based on harrowing real-life events.... Alex Wheatle’s Cane Warriors recou