Author Hardeep Singh AMRITSAR: During Rakhar Punya festival, Sikh bodies are organizing a Panthic Conference on August 19 at historic village Baba Bakala to raise the issue of release of Sikh political prisoners including pro-freedom Sikh leader Amritpal Singh, an MP from Khadoor Sahib constituency. The information in this regard was shared on the X...
NEW DELHI: The Sikhs were enraged in the Palia subdivision of Lakhimpur Kheri in Indian province of Uttar Pradesh (UP) to stage a protest after a police officer had called a Sikh commuter a “terrorist”. On July 28, the police were stopping common commuters as some part of the road was under water due to...
Author Hardeep Singh AMRITSAR: The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) on Monday sent invitations to four descendants of Rai Bular, who was contemporary of Guru Nanak and His ardent devotee, living in Pakistan-administered Punjab to visit India-administered Punjab to attend the Parkash Gurpurb (birth anniversary) celebrations of the founder of the Sikhi. In the invitation...
JALANDHAR: India-administered Punjab’s Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann has blatantly refused to revoke contentious National Security Act (NSA) invoked against pro-freedom Sikh leader and newly elected Member of Parliament from Khadoor Sahib constituency, Amritpal Singh, thereby drawing ire of the people. Responding to a media query at Jalandhar during a press conference on July 25 regarding...
NEW DELHI: In a significant development, Congress MP from Jalandhar and former Chief Minister of Punjab Charanjit Singh Channi on Thursday, rising above the party line, lodged protest against detention of pro-freedom Sikh leader and Khadoor Sahib MP Bhai Amritpal Singh under the contentious National Security Act (NSA) in Indian Parliament. While delivering his speech...
Author Hardeep Singh AMRITSAR: Summoned for anti-Sikh moves during his government, the Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal) president Sukhbir Badal on Wednesday appeared before Akal Takht Sahib and submitted written clarification to its jathedar Giani Raghbir Singh. During his appearance, loyalists of Badal family—Balwinder Singh Bhundar, Daljit Singh Cheema, Maheshinder Singh Grewal, Arvinderpal Singh Pakhoke—also accompanied...
Author – Hardeep Singh CHANDIGARH The recent developments materialized in cases of 2015 Bargari sacrilege episode which left a deep wounds on the Sikh psyche after 1984 army attack on Sri Darbar Sahib and Akal Takht and Sikh Genocide, has again brought this issue in spotlight in religious-political arena of Punjab. These developments have further...
CHANDIGARH Noted journalist and editor-in-chief of the Punjabi newspaper Rozana Pehredar, Jaspal Singh Heran, who was on the first Pegasus snoop list that came out in 2021, for voicing against suppression of Sikhs in India, passed away at 75 on Thursday. He has been ailing for long time and was bedridden for the past few...
AMRITSAR A delegation of Roman Catholic Churches on Monday met Akal Takht Sahib jathedar Giani Raghbir Singh and raised concern over the unfair activities being carried out in Punjab by the fake pastors, fake prophets and self-styled Christian missionaries in the name Christianity. The meeting was held as these activities are hitting ties between Sikhs...
AMRITSAR Akal Takht Sahib jathedar Giani Raghbir Singh on Saturday directed the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) to install portraits of pro-freedom Sikh leaders Bhai Hardeep Singh Nijjar, Bhai Paramjit Singh Panjwar and Bhai Gajinder Singh at Central Sikh Museum in Sri Darbar Sahib complex. He issued this direction while addressing the function organised by the gurdwara...