In the mid and late 1900s, Mr. George Tucker owned a large portion of the town, which he donated to the people, including a church and the local store, " Tucker's Big M ." The store, however, was sold in 2004 to the " Shur-Fine " corporation, who had a gas station put in and remodeled the storefront, and then again in 2006 to brothers-in-law Badal Singh and Sukhminder Singh, natives of India.

Known as a hardliner, Tohra had carved out for himself the image of a non-conformist with the powers-that-be in Akali politics and had taken frontline SAD leaders Surjit Singh Barnala and Parkash Singh Badal who had headed Akali Dal governments in Punjab in the eighties and nineties.

Harmail had entered politics and was a Minister in the Parkash Singh Badal led Akali government.

In 1999, Gurcharan Singh Tohra resigned from the Akali Dal due to differences with then-party president Parkash Singh Badal and founded a new party named Sarb Hind Shiromani Akali Dal.

Throughout this bleak period, Tohra was supported by Badal but in 1999, the two leaders, considered the best of friends, fell out after the SGPC chief pressed for Badal's removal as SAD chief.

The feud of Gurcharan Singh Tohra was Parkash Singh Badal was described as " Clash of Titans ".

Adversity brought Tohra and Badal together again after SAD was routed in the February 2002 assembly elections in Punjab and Tohra's SSHAD failed to win even a single seat.

On June 13, 2003, Badal and Tohra finally buried the hatchet after the latter welcomed the former's appearance before the Akal Takht and expressed satisfaction over the mild religious punishment ordered by the Sikh clergy to the former chief minister.

After splitting with the Shiromani Akali Dal led by Parkash Singh Badal, Tohra floated his own party called the All India Shiromani Akali Dal ( also called the Sarv Hind Shiromani Akali Dal ).

The Congress came to power in 2002 and both Badal and Tohra were in the opposition.

That rift endured for two years, until the two groups joined with the group led by Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale to prosecute the civil disobedience campaign against the Central Government under the leadership of Sant Harchand Singh Longowal and six other members of a designated high command, namely Parkash Singh Badal – former Chief Minister of Punjab, Gurcharan Singh Tohra – President of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, Jagdev Singh Talwandi, Surjit Singh Barnala – former Union Agriculture Minister, Sukhjinder Singh – former Punjab Minister, and Ravi Inder Singh – former Speaker of the Punjab Legislature.

When reapproachment took place between Tohra and Badal, SADD distanced itself from Tohra and aligned more closely with the Congress Party.

In principle, we are totally against the changes as per Bikrami calendar made by the SGPC on the dictates of SAD ( Badal ) to appease Sant Samaj ," he alleged.

Parkash Singh Badal became CM of Punjab for the 5th time, when he took the oath as a chief minister of Shiromani Akali Dal party of Punjab state on 14 March 2012 at Chappad Chidi, Mohali.

Tohra's differences with then chief minister Parkash Singh Badal contributed to the fall of the Akali-Janata coalition in 1980.

The origin of Tohra-Badal feud could be traced to the former's demand made in November 1998 for one-man-one-post for Akali Dal leaders, a remark seen by political observers as his pot shot at Badal who was at that time both the chief minister and SAD president.

* Parkash Singh Badal, chief minister of Indian Punjab several times and elected again in 2012.

The closest stations to Camp nou are Palau Reial, Maria Cristina and Les Corts, on L3 ; i Badal i Collblanc, on L5.

Badal consolidated his grip on Akal Takht, the highest temporal seat of Sikhism, by removing Bhai Ranjit Singh as its top Jathedar in February 1999 and installing his hand-picked Giani Puran Singh.

In 2008 Punjab Chief Minister, Parkash Singh Badal ( leader of Shiromani Akali Dal ) imposed an " immediate ban " on Kovoor's renowned ' God, Demons and Spirits ', translated into Punjabi by Megh Raj Mitter.

In 1996 Barnala once again came close to becoming Prime Minister. In 1996 General Elections with no political party getting mandate it was a good time for a regional party to have its Prime Minister. Regional Parties accounted about 80 MP's in the Lok Sabha The Assam Gana Parishad of Praful Kumar Mahanta and TDP of Chandra Babu Naidu including The Left parties zeroed on Barnala but last minute Barnala's parent party SAD led by Barnala's supposedly close friend Parkash Singh Badal without informing Barnala joined hands with the BJP hence Barnala yet again missed being Prime Minister.

Negi arrests Badal on trumped-up charges and imprisons him.

He graduated from Delhi University, where, he met Badal Sircar and formed a theatre group called Workshop Theatre, and worked on several plays with him.

On 28 March 2012 the Government Of India stayed the execution of Rojoana after Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal met President Pratibha Patil seeking clemency for him.

When Badal attends college, he meets pretty and precocious Tina Oberoi ( Twinkle Khanna ) and, after a few misunderstanding and misadventures, they fall in love.

During his university days, he started working in theaters with thespian Badal Sarkar.

Badal was at the receiving end of Amarinder Singh-headed Congress government's anti-corruption campaign as vigilance personnel searched his premises as well as those of his MP son Sukhbir Singh Badal in Punjab and outside.

Tagore's song, Nemecche Aaj Prothom Badal became his first commercial recording, with the Kolkata-based Videophone Company in 1926, at the age of eighteen.

Devi Lal, whose original name was Devi Dayal, received education up to middle and also trained as a wrestler at an ' Akhara ' in Badal village ( Punjab ).

Shakeel wrote for Hemant Kumar for movies like Bees Saal Baad, Sahib Bibi Aur Gulam, Bin Badal Barsaat.

Jazz innovator Miles Davis recorded and performed with musicians like Khalil Balakrishna, Bihari Sharma, and Badal Roy in his post-1968 electric ensembles.

The current Chief-minister of Punjab, Parkash Singh Badal, is a Sikh.

* Badal Roy ( born 1945 ), tabla player.

* Accesses 17 and 18: Badal.

She also has a son with another wild-born silverback, named Ramar, who was purchased by Jack Badal as a baby and was trained to do circus stunts.

Gora and Badal were leading this team.

Mukerji's first release of 2000 was Raj Kanwar's action drama Badal opposite Bobby Deol.

Fueled by several other conflicts such as ," disrespectful integration of PLA into Nepali Army ", " dissatisfaction regarding the post in the cabinet ", Mohan Baidya, along with some other mainstream leaders from the party, Ram Bahadur Thapa ' Badal ', Dev Gurung, Netra Bikram Chand ' Viplav ', Pamfa Bhusal etc declared a new party called " Nepal Communist Party-Maoist " and formally got separated from Prachanda.

# Badal ( justice )-To seek justice or take revenge against the wrongdoer.

Badal may lead to a blood feud that can last generations and involve whole tribes with the loss of hundreds of lives.

The Punjab government Chief Minister Prakash Singh Badal decided not to appeal the decision.

The current party to be recognized by the Election Commission of India is the one led by Parkash Singh Badal.

The Akali Dal has splintered into numerous groups, all claiming to be the successor to the original party ; currently the Shiromani Akali Dal ( Badal ), headed by Sukhbir Singh Badal, is recognized by the Election Commission of India.

Another practise among Sikhs is to use village / town / city / country lineage after middle name Singh to avoid using the caste lineage, e. g., Parkash Singh Badal ( 1: First Name, 2: Singh, 3: Village / town / country lineage ).

Mera Koi Nahin Hai appeared in the 1965 film Ishq-e-Habib, Mohabbat Karne Walo in the 1970 film Chand Suraj, Aaye Hain Tere Dar Pe in the 1972 film Ilzam, Bhar Do Johli Meri Ya Muhammad in the 1975 film Bin Badal Barsaat, Teri Nazr-e-Karam in the 1976 film Sachaii, Tajdar-e-Haram in the 1982 film Sahaaray, and Aftab-e-Risalat in the 1977 Indian film Sultan-e-Hind.

Along with Parkash Singh Badal and Jagdev Singh Talwandi, he was regarded as the triumvirate of Sikh politics in Punjab.