“US Embassy officials met with Indian law enforcement partners to discuss this case, and the Embassy remains in close contact with Indian officials.” confirms US Embassy rep in New Delhi. Members of the United States’ FBI in New Delhi have met with their counterparts at the US Embassy to discuss the arrest and extradition of...
CHANDIGARH Even as Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) which is popularly known as Akal Dal Badal or Badal Dal due to Badal family’s monopoly over it, is passing through its worst phase, its president Sukhbir Badal does not refrain from making drama. Two and half months after Akal Takht Sahib declared him tankhaiya (guilty of religious...
AMRITSAR Punjab based Pro-freedom Sikh organization Dal Khalsa has decided to hold a convention to assess the current national and international situations and challenges being faced by Sikh Nation world over, and to formulate a new strategy to deal with those challenges and to take the Sikh struggle to its logical conclusion. This convention will...
Chandigarh Sikh organization Kendri Sri Guru Singh Sabha (KSGSS) on Tuesday condemned the attack on a Gurdwara at Toronto, Canada and asked the Sikhs living abroad to be vigilant against the Hindutva designs aimed at provoking and targeting them to consolidate the ultra-nationalist forces against the Sikhs and other minorities. The statement which was issued...
Cali, Colombia European officials pointed Thursday to devastating flooding in Spain as a reminder of the self-harming effects of humans’ destruction of nature, urging delegates at a deadlocked UN biodiversity conference in Colombia to “act.” European Commission envoy Florika Fink-Hooijer said the “catastrophe” in Spain’s Valencia region earlier this week highlighted the link between biodiversity loss...
Author Hardeep Singh Despite being a language that is spoken by a considerable population of the world, Punjabi is facing an existential crisis in the region where it is the mother-tongue of the residents. According to the report published in ‘Babel Magazine’ few years ago, Punjabi is at 10th place among the first ten languages...
Author Hardeep Singh CHANDIGARH Farmers of Punjab are on warpath against Centre and State government as crisis of procurement and lifting of paddy crop has deepened in grain markets across the state and the governments have failed to resolve this issue. This crisis has added to the woes of farmers who are mostly Sikhs and...
Author Hardeep Singh Assassination of Sikh activist Gurpreet Singh Hari Nau in India-administered Punjab is hitting headlines these days. During the Panchayat elections, he was shot dead by unknown bike borne armed men on October 9 while returning home from the village gurdwara on his motorcycle. This killing is being viewed as part of the...
Author Hardeep Singh In the continuation of betraying Sikhs to please their bosses at New Delhi, Badals and company, which is known as “Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal)” in masses, has pushed the community into deep crisis once again by undermining and damaging supreme authority of the Akal Takht Sahib, highest Sikh temporal seat. For their...
Sri Anandpur Sahib Thanks to the indifferent approach of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) towards the Sikh heritage sites and relics of different Sikh periods, a threat is looming over an old structure of historic Gurdwara Sis Ganj Sahib at Sri Anandpur Sahib. Under the beautification and renovation project, heritage importance of the gurdwara’s...