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It will be easy to pay obeisance at the Darbar Sahib gurdwara after the opening of the Kartarpur corridor, Modi said at a gathering in Dera Baba Nanak. (Photo: ANI)

Kartarpur corridor: Modi thanks Imran Khan for understanding India's sentiment

Imran Khan will inaugurate the corridor on the Pakistani side and receive the Indian Sikh pilgrims, including former PM Manmohan Singh.

09 Nov 2019 1:04 PM

Ahead of the 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday will inaugurate a 4.5 kilometre-long Kartarpur Corridor. (Photo: Twitter/ANI)

PM Modi inaugurates Kartarpur corridor, first batch of pilgrims enter Pak

According to the pact, Pakistan will allow 5,000 Indian pilgrims daily to visit Gurdwara Kartarpur Sahib.

09 Nov 2019 9:21 AM

Imran Khan will inaugurate Kartarpur Corridor today

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan will lead the inauguration function of the Karatarpur Corridor at around 12 pm on Saturday.

09 Nov 2019 1:15 AM

Can Kartarpur lead to better India-Pak ties?

Guru Nanak obtained enlightenment at a moment of great spiritual churn in India.

09 Nov 2019 12:36 AM

Pakistan has conveyed to India that people travelling through the Kartarpur corridor on Saturday will also have to pay the USD 20 fee, sources said Friday. (Photo: File)

Pakistan to charge USD 20 fee even on opening day of Kartarpur corridor

Pakistan PM had announced no fee would be charged from pilgrims on opening day of corridor which is Guru Nanak's 550th birth anniversary.

08 Nov 2019 3:06 PM

The bomb has been placed within a glass case placed atop on a small pillar decorated with the ‘khanda’, a symbol representing the Sikh faith. (Photo: Twitter)

Pakistan exhibits Indian bomb from 1971 war at Kartarpur gurudwara site

There was no immediate response from Indian officials on the issue.

08 Nov 2019 2:55 PM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the state-of-the-art Passenger Terminal Building (PTB) Complex at Kartarpur Corridor in Dera Baba Nanak of Punjab's Gurdaspur district on Friday. (Photo: File)

PM to inaugurate Kartarpur corridor terminal on Indian side today

However, Pakistan has not agreed to India's demand to make the Kartarpur Gurdwara's visit charge-free.

08 Nov 2019 10:21 AM

On being asked if he will attend the inauguration ceremony of Kartarpur Corridor, Sunny told media here, "If I won't go who will? I will definitely go. It is my area and my home." (Photo: ANI)

It's my area, my home: Sunny Deol on attending Kartarpur Corridor inauguration

Apart from Deol, the delegation will include Manmohan Singh, Punjab CM and Union Ministers Hardeep Puri and Harsimrat Kaur Badal.

08 Nov 2019 9:17 AM

Workers clean the floor at Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Kartarpur on Wednesday ahead of its opening. (Photo: AFP)

India, Pakistan in a war of words on eve of Kartapur opening

Pakistan PM Imran Khan announced last week certain exemptions for Indian Sikh pilgrims, which included an exemption from carrying passports.

08 Nov 2019 2:47 AM

'I feel the event on November 9 is a very big event and it would not do justice to that event to highlight just one individual,' he said. (Photo: File)

MEA says highlighting 'one individual' won't do justice to Kartarpur inaugral

Sidhu said if he receives no response in the third letter, he will go to the shrine across the border like 'any other pilgrim'.

07 Nov 2019 7:51 PM

'Navjot Singh Sidhu has his own thinking. Dr Manmohan who is a Sikh said that he will go there from India's side. Had Pakistan invited us, we would definitely go there but from India's side. We would not go from Pakistan's side because we have to care of our religion and the country's dignity,' Sirsa told reporters when asked about Pakistan giving visa to Sidhu. (Photo: ANI)

'Would never go from Pak side to attend Kartarpur inauguration': Sirsa slams Sidhu

PM Modi will inaugurate the corridor from Indian side while Imran Khan will open the route on the other side.

07 Nov 2019 6:37 PM

The Pakistan government invited Sidhu - who also attended the groundbreaking ceremony of the Kartarpur Corridor - to attend Saturday's inauguration. (Photo: File | PTI)

Pakistan issues visa to Navjot Singh Sidhu to attend Kartarpur ceremony

A ruling party spokesperson had said that Sidhu accepted the invitation.

07 Nov 2019 6:06 PM

External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said, 'We are very close now, so we presume that all the names which we have shared with the Pakistani side, stand confirmed.' (Photo: ANI)

Pak yet to confirm list of inaugural jatha to Kartarpur; 'very close,' says MEA

India has given the list of dignitaries who will be crossing over to Kartarpur to visit Gurudwara.

07 Nov 2019 4:59 PM

Indian Sikh pilgrims visiting the Kartarpur Sahib will need a passport to use the Kartarpur Corridor, which will be inaugurated this week, the Pakistan Army has said, according to a media report on Thursday, days after Prime Minister Imran Khan announced that Indian devotees would only need a valid ID to visit the revered Gurdwara Darbar Sahib. (Photo: File)

Indian Sikh pilgrims will require passport to visit Kartarpur: Pak Army

Earlier, Pakistan PM had said that Sikh pilgrims from India would only need a valid ID and not a passport to travel to Kartarpur.

07 Nov 2019 11:45 AM

The Pakistan Army was pushing for the Kartarpur corridor project with a strategic objective of promoting separatism in Punjab and Indian security forces will make no compromise if Islamabad tries to use it for ulterior motives, government sources said on Wednesday. (Photo: File)

Indian security forces will make no compromise: Sources after Pak's video

The real purpose has been to promote separatism in Punjab and drive a wedge between the Sikhs and the Hindus, the sources said.

07 Nov 2019 8:46 AM

Singh said that they do not expect Pakistan to dare to do any mischief through the Corridor, but it is important that, as a border state, Punjab remains on alert. (Photo: File)

‘They have a hidden agenda’: Punjab CM on Pak’s Kartarpur video

Kartarpur corridor, which will link Dera Baba Nanak in Gurdaspur to Durbar Sahib gurdwara in Pak’s Kartarpur, is set to be opened on Nov 9.

06 Nov 2019 2:20 PM

The video released by Pakistan's Ministry of Information and Broadcasting on Monday, has posters of Bhindranwale, Major General Shabeg Singh and Amrik Singh Khalsa, all of whom were killed during Indian Army's Operation Blue Star at the Golden Temple in Amritsar in June 1984. (Photo: Screengrab)

3 Khalistani leaders, including Bhindranwale in Kartarpur corridor video released by Pak

The video has surfaced just days before the Kartarpur Corridor is slated to be inaugurated.

06 Nov 2019 12:20 PM

Devotees leave for Pakistan via the Attari-Wagah border on Tuesday. (Photo: PTI)

Confusion lingers on Kartarpur opening

Sources said the list was sent much in advance to Pakistan, but no confirmation has been received on that.

06 Nov 2019 1:51 AM

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday shared some of the dazzling pictures of the Kartarpur complex and Gurdwara Darbar Sahib, saying the revered venue is ready to welcome the Sikhs pilgrims for the 550th birth anniversary celebrations of Guru Nanak Dev. (Photo: File)

Kartarpur ready to welcome Sikh pilgrims on Guru Nanak's 550th birth anniversary: Pak PM

The proposed opening of the corridor coincides with the presence of tens of thousands of protestors in the capital Islamabad.

03 Nov 2019 12:30 PM

Navjot Kaur Sidhu said her husband had received special invitation from Pakistan’s Imran Khan government. (Photo: FIle)

Navjot Singh Sidhu will attend Kartarpur inauguration if cleared by Centre, says wife

Sidhu’s name, however, is not included in the Congress delegation, which will be visiting the Kartarpur gurudwara.

02 Nov 2019 2:22 PM

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