Shiromani Akali Dal members today shouted slogans in front of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) headquarter, denouncing controversial Congress leader Jagdish Tytler for his role in the 1984 anti-sikh riots. The Akali Dal delegation met IOA acting president Vijay Kumar Malhotra and secretary general Randhir Singh separately and demanded that Tytler should be removed from all posts in the apex sports... 

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state president, Ashwani Sharma, today demanded a memorial on the lines of Jallianwala Bagh in memory of innocent persons killed during the Pakistan-sponsored terrorism era in the state. He said during the decade-long terrorism, hundreds of people from all religions, political parties, social groups, the media and those in the police were killed. He said a peace memorial... 

An extensive fund-raising campaign is being undertaken by secessionist Sikh groups in Europe and North America at the instance of Pakistan’s ISI to revive terrorism in Punjab. Sources in security agencies have informed about the movement of banned Babbar Khalsa International and related stories. Attackers of Gen Brar to be brought to justice: Britain Khalistan Commando Force terror groups in... 

JALANDHAR: Balwant Singh Rajoana, who is in death row in Chief Minister Beant Singh assassination case, has said that Congress and BJP in place of opposing the Blue Star memorial, as it would not be a threat to national integration, they should work to bring the culprits of anti Sikh riots of Delhi in November ’84. He has also demanded that reality behind the attack on Gen K S Brar should come... 

VANCOUVER, Wash. – A Sikh temple and school that was under construction in Vancouver went up in flames early Friday morning and essentially burned to the ground. Two workers who were inside the Guru Ram Das Church at Northeast 20th Street escaped the blaze, which began around 2:30 a.m. and moved fast throughout the entire building. The workers were staying overnight at the church as a security... 

New Delhi: The government has called a meeting next week to review the security for those who were involved with Operation Bluestar against Sikh terrorists holed up in the Golden Temple in 1984. Last week, Lieutenant General (retd) Kuldeep Singh Brar was stabbed in London in what he described as an assassination attempt. 15 people have been arrested by the British Police for that attack. The meeting,... 

JALANDHAR: Reacting to the attack on Lt Gen (retd) Kuldip Singh Brar and his subsequent reaction that it was an act of separatist Khalistani organizations, Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindrawale’s nephew and former Akal Takht Jathedar Jasbir Singh Rode has said that let the first investigations details come out before jumping to any conclusions. Baba Harnam Singh, who now heads Damdami Taksal which was... 

Lt General (Retd) K S Brar, who led the Operation Bluestar against Sikh militants in 1984, was attacked and injured in London. 78-year-old Lt Gen Brar, a Z-category protectee, was stabbed by four men outside a hotel in London, sources said, adding the former army man received minor injuries and was taken to hospital. Later, he was discharged. It was not immediately confirmed who the attackers were. Sources... 

With RSS hardliner Bakshi Ram Arora (70) being ‘unanimously’ elected the Amritsar Mayor, the junior partner in the ruling alliance in Punjab, the Bharatiya Janata Party, has finally managed to force the stand it had taken on the Shiromani Akali Dal. In the 65-member Amritsar Municipal Corporation, SAD with 25 seats has a slight edge over the BJP, which has 24 members. However, instead of the saffron... 

Leader of opposition in the Punjab assembly Sunil Jakhar has asked the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to clarify its stand on “martyr” status for Balwant Singh Rajoana, who is on death row for the assassination of former chief minister Beant Singh. “Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) has changed the definition of martyr by declaring Rajoana as one, but conspicuously BJP, which claims to be a...