AMRITSAR Members of the Sikh community on August 31 remembered sacrifice of Bhai Dilawar Singh at Sri Akal Takht Sahib on his 29th Shahidi Dihara (martyrdom day). Bhai Dilawar Singh became human bomb to end the tyrannical rule in Punjab in 1995 by assassinating the then Chief Minister Beant Singh who massacred thousands of Sikh youths...
AMRITSAR Setting up of a pandal replicating Central Sikh shrine, Sri Darbar Sahib Amritsar, for Ganpati Utsav, a Hindu festival, in the camp area of Pune, Maharashtra (India) has hurt the Sikh sentiments. Ironically, the management committee of Gurdwara Guru Nanak Darbar Camp Area of the city played a leading role in this work, which is...
Author Hardeep Singh CHANDIGARH Central and Punjab governments have submitted its reply to Punjab and Haryana High Court in response to the petition filed by pro-freedom Sikh leader and Khadoor Sahib MP Amritpal Singh and tried to justify extension of his detention under the National Security Act (NSA), but failed. Under the NSA, Amritpal Singh...
Author Hardeep Singh CHANDIGARH Hindu extremist controversial actress Kangana Ranaut-starrer movie ‘Emergency’ is facing backlash in Punjab and various states of India over its highly objectionable scenes which present Sikhs in poor light and spread hate against them, and the recent hateful remarks made by the newly elected BJP MP from Hindu populated Mandi constituency...
Author Hardeep Singh CHANDIGARH A Punjab based five-year-old Sikh boy Teghbir Singh has achieved a remarkable milestone by becoming world’s second youngest to scale Africa’s highest peak Mount Kilimanjaro which is located in Tanzania at a staggering height of more than 19340 ft (5895 Metres). Singh hails from Ropar town of Punjab. He started the...
Author Hardeep Singh AMRITSAR The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) on Saturday termed the statement of the Indian government on the confiscation of two holy saroops of Guru Granth Sahib by the Police in Doha, Qatar, as full of misinformation. The gurdwara body has once again asked the Indian Union External Affairs Minister (EAM) Dr....
Author Hardeep Singh CHANDIGARH Upcoming movie (‘Emergency’) of infamous Hindutva actress Kangana Ranaut who has recently been elected as BJP MP from Hindu-populated Mandi constituency of Himachal Pradesh, has depicted Sikhs in poor light and tried to malign image of the community martyrs by presenting them ‘villain’. The Sikh community is enraged over this movie...
BABA BAKALA (AMRITSAR) In a significant development, pro-freedom Sikh activists organized an impressive ‘Panthic Gathering’ at historic town Baba Bakala on Monday (August 19) to raise demand of release of Sikh political prisoners during annual Rakhar Punia festival. Gathering in this event outshone the political conferences of ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Shiromani Akali...
Author Hardeep Singh AMRITSAR Upset over the apathetic attitude of Government of India in case of death sentence of Sikh political prisoner Balwant Singh Rajoana, the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) has decided to make request to Akal Takht Sahib, highest Sikh temporal seat, to give final call on the petition filed by the gurdwara...
AMRITSAR Akal Takht Sahib jathedar Giani Raghbir Singh while remembering 10 lakh innocent people killed in the violence during 1947 partition of India and Pakistan said on Friday that the Sikhs had separate nation once and they attained slavery by deciding to join India 77 years ago. While addressing the sangat (devotees) gathered at the...