To share and promote the values of Sikhi on campus, the Sikh Students Association organized Sikh Awareness Week, which took place from March 14 to 17. Students and professors from different ethnicities and religious backgrounds participated in the events throughout the week.
The World Sikh Organization of Canada (WSO) was alerted today to an incident where a turbaned Sikh male, Supininder Singh Khehra was assaulted in an unprovoked attack in Quebec City.
Bhai Dhian Singh Mand, who was appointed as acting Jathedar of Akal Takhat Sahib by organizers of the Sarbat Khalsa 2015 was released from Maximum Security Jail Nabha. However, the Punjab police re-arrested him in another case soon after his release from the Jail.
Sikh Political Prisoner Prof. Devender Pal Singh Bhullar was presented before a TADA court in Amritsar today.
Following the Sikh Genocide in 1984, many Sikhs abroad protested and the Indian intelligence agencies determined hundreds of leading Sikhs that came on their radar were ‘anti-national’ and started what has popularly come to be known as the ‘blacklist’.
Pakistan Sikh Gurdwara Prabhandak Committee (PSGPC) on April 1 elected S. Taru Singh as caretaker president.
Last night, the U.S. Army granted a Sikh American officer a long-term religious accommodation allowing him to continue serving his country while maintaining his articles of faith. The landmark decision makes Captain Simratpal Singh, a decorated combat veteran, the first active duty Sikh soldier to receive approval to maintain his articles of faith while actively serving in the U.S. Army.
On Friday (April 1) a special CBI court held 47 policemen guilty of killing 10 Sikh men in three fake encounters in a single night in Pilibhit district of Uttar Pradesh. The incident had taken place nearly 25 years ago — in July 1991. The case on of the few cases that were investigated by the CBI on the directions of Supreme Court of India (SCI).
In an attempt to make their voices heard internationally, the Sikh and Kashmiri Diaspora approached the European Council urging it to engage the Indian leadership and question their role, attitude and covert methodologies with which they crush aspirations of ethnic minorities and nationalities in the country.
In one of the most outspoken speeches till date, Bhai Ranjit Singh Dhadrianwale exposed those self-proclaimed godmen who have fooled the naïve people of Punjab for decades.
Sikh Political Prisoner Prof. Devender Pal Singh Bhullar was presented before a TADA court in Amritsar today. The court heard arguments of prosecution and defence on chargesheet moved by the police against Prof. Devender Pal Singh Bhullar in this case.
This Kavishri Vaar was recording during Shaheedi Samagam at Village Chaur Sidhwan near Gurdaspur on March 29, 2016. This Shaheedi Samagam was held in the memory of Shaheed Jaspal Singh Gurdaspur.
Progressive Dairy Farmers Association (Regd.) Punjab today joined Aam Aadmi Party and extended their support to the party in upcoming state assembly election in 2017.
Around a dozen leaders of Shiv Sena Samajvadi have reportedly resigned from their posts citing provocative activities to the Hindutva outfit that has led to tensions between Sikh organizations and activists of the Shiv Sena.
Dal Khalsa leader Kanwarpal Singh has written an open letter to the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Punjab river water issue. In this letter the Sikh body has question Indian PM that whether he would take initiative to take the advise of experts of international stature to solve the issue as per "riparian rule".
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) today held a press conference in Chandigarh to present documents related to the investigation carried by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) against Punjab Revenue minister Bikram Majithia.
Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union president and a young leftist Kanhaiya Kumar who had come under heavy criticism for his statement advocating differentiation between 1984 and 2002 massacres (read related news below), has offered a clarification maintaining that he was "misinterpreted" once again.
Dr Navjot Kaur Sidhu, wife of cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Sidhu has reportedly resigned from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today. She had been holding the position of Chief Parliamentary Secretary of the Hindtuva political outfit in Punjab.
Aam Aadmi Party maintained that HuffPost-CVoter survey shows AAP to win hundred seats in 117 strong state assembly for which the polling is due in early next year.
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) continues its tirade against Punjab Revenue Minister Bikram Singh Majithia for alleged links with the drug mafia and said statements recorded by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) of drug smugglers were clearly evident of his direct involvement in the drug racket.
Aam Aadmi Party's move to make public Enforcement Directorate (ED) documents exposing alleged links of Punjab Revenue minister Bikram Majithia with international drug smugglers has irked the ruling party.
Dal Khalsa leader Kanwarpal Singh has written an open letter to the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Punjab river water issue.
A badly written, and slightly garbled Press Trust of India report has stated that Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union President Kanhaiya Kumar has sought to differentiate between the 1984 anti-Sikh and 2002 anti-Muslim violence in Delhi and Gujarat respectively.
JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar has reportedly advocated difference between anti-Sikh massacre of 1984 and anti-Muslim massacre of 2002.
SYL Canal issue is not about being nationalist or anti-national as argued by Nirupama Subramanian, at the best its debate about nationalisation and anti-nationalisation of Water resource.
Here are two responses on Kanhaiya’s statement differentiating between 1984 and 2002. One from JNUSU Vice-President and the Other from Sucheta De, a prominent leader of All India Students’ Association
A badly written, and slightly garbled Press Trust of India report has stated that Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union President Kanhaiya Kumar has sought to differentiate between the 1984 anti-Sikh and 2002 anti-Muslim violence in Delhi and Gujarat respectively.