Actor Ranjit Chowdhry, best known for playing small roles in films such as Khatta Meetha, Baton Baton Mein and Khubsoorat, died on April 15. He was 65. The news of the actor's death was shared on ...

Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s Khalsa Empire (1801–1839) stood as the only major Indian power the British couldn’t conquer during his lifetime. Centred at Lahore Fort, enriched by the Koh-i-Noor, world-class ...

The Faqir Khana family can trace its ancestry to scholarly Muslim nobles who integrated Islamic learning with Persianate ...

Maharaja Ranjit Singh was born 1780 in Gujranwala, undivided India and became the Maharaja of Punjab at 21. He founded the Sikh kingdom and led it from 1801 to 1839. He lost sight in his left eye ...

WHEN one thinks of Sikh rule in Punjab — one that spanned at least half a century — who comes to mind but their leader, the powerful Maharaja Ranjit Singh. The man who later became known as the ‘Lion ...

Ranjit Singh's rise to power came after a period of economic and political uncertainty. Maharaja Ranjit Singh, the 19th-century ruler of the Sikh Empire in India, has beaten competition from around ...

AMRITSAR: The restored statue of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, vandalised thrice since its installation in Lahore Fort and relocated to Gurdwara Darbar Sahib complex in Kartarpur, Pakistan, will be ...

Television actor Shaleen Bhanot is all set to play the character of Sikh leader Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s father Mahaa Singh on Life OK’s show Sher-e-Punjab: Maharaja Ranjit Singh. Punjab-based ...

When it comes to Sikh history Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s name is still remembered as ‘Sher-e-Punjab’. In simple terms, due to his generous nature, he got the title of the ‘Lion of Punjab’. Here’s all ...

As technology and mass-media continue to shrink the globe, allowing once-disparate traditions to intermingle instantaneously, musicians are given unprecedented access to a range of influences ...