Commemorating the Great Sikh Holocaust in 1762 The Great Holocaust of Sikh history is known to Sikhs as Vadda Ghallughara. The 18th century Afghani invader Ahmad Shah Abdali led his sixth major assault against the Sikhs in 1762 A.D. The Shah’s general Nur ud-Din Bamezai had suffered defeat in battle with the Sikhs who set up Jassa Singh Ahluvalia as the regent of Lahore, in what is now Pakistan.... 

Ludhiana: The Shiromani Akali Dal has on Sunday finally released its manifesto for the upcoming Assembly elections, scheduled to be held on January 30. Development remains the key focus area, with the party promising to make Punjab power-surplus in a year and making Malwa the textile hub. The manifesto interestingly promises a laptop for all class XI and XII students. Party president and Deputy Chief... 

Amritsar: Flaring up the political heat in poll-bound Punjab, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Arun Jaitley has slammed the Congress party by saying that the party brought only terrorism to Punjab. “Congress brought terrorism to Punjab, the Akali-BJP government has brought development back to Punjab, the Akali-BJP government has brought back to Punjab social harmony, which the Congress had... 

Patiala: Adding colour to the glitz of polls in Punjab are the nicknames most politicians here are known by even in public life. Raninder Singh, son of Congress leader and former chief minister Amarinder Singh, is better known in political circles as well in the sports fraternity as ‘Tikku’. Given his erstwhile royal status as the 13th descendant of the Patiala royal family and his father’s... 

Government schools in Punjab have reportedly not received any money for midday meals for the last several months prompting some of them to stop serving food to children under the scheme. In a few schools, teachers have been spending from their own pockets or buying rations on credit to feed the children. The education department has attributed the delay in payment to non-release of funds by the finance... 

Charlottesville, Virginia, a historic city of more than 43,000 people and once the home of three US presidents – Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and James Monroe – now has a Sikh American mayor. Satyendra S Huja, initially elected to the Charlottesville City Council in 2007 and reelected in November 2011, was chosen mayor unanimously by the five-member city council on January 3. The term... 

The candidate put forward by the ruling Akal Dal party for the State Assembly Election of January 2012, Malerkotla seat, was to say the least a controversial step. International Panthic Dal (IPD) was the only Sikh Organisation outside India to take practical steps to prevent Mohammed Izhar Alam gaining a ticket to fight State Assembly Elections in Punjab from the constituency of Malerkotla. It was... 

JALANDHAR: A US Sikh resident, Resham Singh, who has been claiming that he had seen Congress leader Jagdish Tytler leading the mob of rioters during 1984 anti-Sikh riots has now approached a Delhi court through an affidavit requesting that his testimony about Tytler’s role in the November 1984 killing of Sikhs be recorded before court gives its final verdict on the closure report filed by CBI. interparcel.comIn... 

Granth Sahib were found rotting in the Card board manufacturing factory. When the matter became public, various Sikh hardliner organizations including Damdami Taksal, Shriomani Akali Dal Panch Pardhani, Guru Granth Sahib Satkar Committee reached on the spot and cordoned off the Card Board Factory. To defuse the situation a heavy police party reached on the spot wherein nearly 40 gunny bags loaded with... 

A Sikh man in France has won the backing of the United Nations Human Rights Committee in his fight over religious headgear. It said France was violating Sikhs’ religious freedom by forcing them to remove their turbans when having photos taken for passports and ID cards. Ranjit Singh, 76, said he had turned to the UN because he found the French policy disrespectful and unnecessary. The ruling...