Top Sikh body extends support to protesting wrestlers

Top Sikh body extends support to protesting wrestlers

Farmers take rest during the ongoing wrestlers protest at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on May 20, 2023. | Photo Credit: ANI The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) on Saturday announced its support to the wrestlers protesting against alleged molestation by the president of the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI), Brij Bhushan, at Jantar Mantar … Read more

Arunachal locals hurt by Sikh claim on medieval Buddhist shrine 

Arunachal locals hurt by Sikh claim on medieval Buddhist shrine 

Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu at Neh-Pema Shelpu Drupkhang on April 8, 2023. | Photo Credit: Rahul Karmakar GUWAHATI A Colonel in the Indian Army apparently sowed the seeds of a Buddhism-Sikhism dispute near the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Arunachal Pradesh 36 years ago. On April 24, the National Commission for Minorities sought a … Read more

Aurangzeb a ‘khalnayak’, country should instead remember its heros: Manohar Lal Khattar

Aurangzeb a ‘khalnayak’, country should instead remember its heros: Manohar Lal Khattar

Calling Mughal emperor Aurangzeb a “villain”, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Sunday said everyone should instead remember the “heroes” of the country. Addressing a state-level function to mark the 400th birth anniversary celebrations of Guru Tegh Bahadur, the chief minister said despite gaining independence over seven decades back, the country’s “right” history has … Read more

Kartarpur Sahib corridor opens today but officials are not clear about visit protocols

Kartarpur Sahib corridor opens today but officials are not clear about visit protocols

According to Gurdaspur Deputy Commissioner Mohammad Ishfaq, the list of devotees in the first jatha comprises of 30 to 200 people The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) recently said that it had decided to resume operations on the Kartarpur Sahib Corridor from November 17, keeping in view the improved Covid-19 situation but there is still … Read more

SAD’s constitution case: Hoshiarpur court summons ex-CM Parkash Singh Badal

SAD’s constitution case: Hoshiarpur court summons ex-CM Parkash Singh Badal

A court in Hoshiarpur has summoned former Punjab Chief Minister and SAD patriarch Parkash Singh Badal to respond to an allegation that he submitted a false undertaking to the Election Commission of India to seek SAD’s recognition as a political party. Hoshiarpur’s Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Rupinder Singh issued summons to Badal directing him to … Read more

SGPC chief writes to PM Modi, Amit Shah for allowing pilgrims to visit to Nankana Sahib in Pakistan

SGPC chief writes to PM Modi, Amit Shah for allowing pilgrims to visit to Nankana Sahib in Pakistan

The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) chief on Friday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah, urging them to allow Sikh pilgrims to visit the Nankana Sahib gurdwara in Pakistan. The Union Home Ministry on Thursday had denied permission to 600 Sikh pilgrims intending to visit Pakistan citing the security situation … Read more