1. The `Pope` of the Sikhs, Gurcharan Singh Tohra passed away early Thursday morning in a New Delhi hospital. Tohra died hours after being airlifted to New Delhi from Amritsar, where he had been treated for a massive heart attack last Thursday. Tohra, senior akali Dal and Sikh Gurdwara Prabandak Committee (SGPC) chief, rose from scratch to emerge as the patriarch and rebel in the rough and tumble of the community`s religio-politics.
Tohra, the longest reigning Sikh chief