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SGPC Elections poster campaign launched by I.P.D
London, 16 September 2011, International Panthic Dal (IPD) have rolled out a poster campaign in effort to raise awareness within the Sikh masses of the need to vote for the Sant Samaj/Panthic candidates in the …forthcoming SGPC elections – September 18th 2011.
IPD have created the poster which outlines the consideration the Sikh nation should make when going out to vote, this will hopefully...
Work on Operation Bluestar memorial to begin soon
AMRITSAR: Work on the memorial to Operation Bluestar could start before what Sikhs call the “Genocide Day”, observed every year on June 6 to mark the Army operation at Golden Temple.
Sources said the five-member committee constituted by the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee to prepare a draft proposal for the memorial is ready with its report, which would be submitted to the executive...
Patiala Jail superintendent files reply in court, apologises
The Superintendent of the Patiala Jail on Wednesday filed his reply in the contempt of court notice issued to him for not following the court’s orders regarding the hanging of Balwant Singh Rajoana. Jail Superintendent Lakhwinder Singh Jakhar was accompanied by his counsel A S Grewal, Additional Advocate General (Punjab), while filing the reply in the Court of Additional District and Sessions Judge...
Sikhs In Assam Say They Are A Neglected Lot
The over 50,000-strong Sikh community in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam say they are a neglected lot with neither the Assam nor the Punjab governments giving them due recognition, Press Trust of India reported.
Mostly scattered in Nagaon and Sonitpur districts, the Assamese Sikhs, as they have come to be known, trace their origin to 1820 when Maharaja Ranjit Singh sent 500 Sikh soldiers to...
Private school bans wearing turban in Shimla, Singh Sabha says
SHIMLA: The 18-year-old Sikh boy studying in a Christian private school in Shimla was banned wearing a turban in the school, said Guru Singh Sabha, Shimla, an apex body of the Sikhs in the capital of the state.
“A Sikh boy studying in plus 2 class in St. Edward’s School here in Shimla was denied wearing turban. The Guru Singh Sabha wrote a letter to the Principal in the Month of March when the...
Helmet issue: Sikh leaders cautious over High Court order
Sikh community leaders in the Capital reacted with caution to the Delhi High Court ruling that requires all women pillion riders to wear helmets.
Most representatives said though the decision was good for “women’s safety” but if it wasn’t in line with their religion they wouldn’t follow it. They put the onus on the Akal Takht, the highest temporal body of the Sikhs, to...
Four prisoners raise pro-Khalistan slogans in court premises
Ambala, Apr 6 (PTI) Four jail inmates from Punjab today raised pro-Khalistan slogans after they were produced in a local court in connection with a blast incident here. A team of Punjab Police had brought the four accused here from Punjab’s Nabha Jail for the hearing of the case in the court of District and Sessions Judge Navita Singh. After the four — Manjinder Singh, Gurjant Singh, Harwinder...
Chandigarh DGP appointment: HC notice to Punjab, Saini
Taking up a public interest litigation challenging the Punjab government’s decision to appoint Sumedh Singh Saini as the state director general of police (DGP), the Punjab and Haryana high court on Tuesday issued notice of motion to the state as well as Saini for June 1. Saini was appointed
Punjab DGP on March 14.
The petition filed by a non-governmental organisation (NGO), Voices for Freedom,...
Jakhar seeks more time to file reply
Superintendent of Patiala Jail, Lakhwinder Singh Jakhar, on Mon day sought more time from a local court to file his reply in the contempt of court notice issued against him for not following court orders regarding the hanging of Balwant Singh Rajoana, convicted in the Beant Singh assassination.
Jakhar, who was accompanied by his counsel and Additional Advocate General A S Grewal, sought more time from...
Cabinet approves bill on compulsory marriage registration
In a significant move, Government will bring in a bill in Parliament’s Budget Session to make registration of marriages compulsory under a law for mandatory recording of births and deaths, notwithstanding one’s religious affiliation, thereby providing legal protection especially in cases of inter-religious matrimony.
The Union Cabinet today also approved introduction of the Anand Marriage...