GURDASPUR: Gurdaspur remained peaceful but tense following the district adminstration and police clamped ban orders on assembly of more than five persons under section 144 and protesters seeking probe into the police firing in which Jaspal Singh , student of Beant Engineering College was killed . Jaspal singh was killed in police firing during protest march in the city seeking clemency... 

As the Sikh community prepares to observe the 28th anniversary of ‘Operation Bluestar’ on June 6, the ‘kar sewa’ for erecting a memorial to those who died while fighting the security forces during the three-day operation in 1984 commenced at the Golden Temple complex here on related stories Dal gives Baba Dhuma credit for memorial 84 riots’ victims to file ‘genocide... 

The Sikh dream of a separate register of marriages within the community is all set to be realised with Parliament today passing the long-pending amendment to the Anand Karaj Act 1909 that does not provide for such registrations. Once the President assents to the Bill, it will become a law, allowing the Centre to direct states to maintain separate registers of marriages for Sikhs and designate separate... 

JALANDHAR: Babbar Khalsa and a co-conspirator in killing former chief minister Beant Singh, Paramjjit Singh Bheora, is the latest from the pack to find himself at the receiving end of Balwant Singh Rajoana’s jibes. Jagtar Singh Hawara, the mastermind of the case, and Jagtar Singh Tara, have already been targeted by Rajoana. Rajoana has recently sent out a five-page letter in which all the three... 

UK; International National Panthic Dal member visited Singh Sahib Bhai Jasvir Singh Ji Khalsa in February 2012. Click below to view the video.  Read More »

As the trial against Sajjan Kumar in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case nears its end, a sessions court on Thursday acquitted 11 accused in a separate case involving the riots because of exaggeration and improbabilities in the evidence. Additional sessions judge acquitted 11 west Delhi residents after the prosecution was unable to prove they had allegedly gathered to kill Sikhs in the aftermath of Prime... 

Moga Senior Superintendent of Police Surjeet Singh Grewal and six others accused of killing a 20-year-old youth in a fake encounter in 1989 were acquitted by a CBI court today that granted them ‘benefit of the doubt’. The court found several loopholes in the CBI’s case, resulting in the acquittal. The verdict shattered 73-year-old Tarlochan Singh, father of victim Kulwinder Singh, alias Kid,... 

The kin of an anti-Sikh riots victim in Delhi has moved the Punjab and Haryana High Court for compensation after failed attempts to secure compensation from central and state government departments. Manjit Singh, a resident of Balongi village near Chandigarh, whose brother was thrown into a burning truck in Delhi, has asked the court to direct the government to issue him an ex-gratia payment of Rs.... 

The Anand Marriage Amendment Bill 2012 has been introduced in the Rajya Sabha. However, the absence of provision of divorce in the Bill has set off a debate in the Sikh community, with some sections supporting it and others against it. While one school of thought maintains there is no place for divorce in the Sikh “rehat maryada” (code of conduct) and hence the Bill should not provide for it, the... 

MOGA: Adamant against tendering his resignation till Tuesday evening, Punjab agriculture minister Tota Singh finally resigned from his post on Wednesday morning. Governor Shivraj Patil accepted the resignation after Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal had forwarded it tohim for acceptance. Earlier another Punjab minister Jagir Kaur had to resign in March after a CBI court sentenced her 5 years...