The President took just 13 days to reject the mercy petition of Devinder Singh Bhullar, reveals a reply from the Rashtrapati Bhavan to an RTI application. The petition, according to this communication, was received at the Rashtrapati Bhavan on May 13, 2011 and was rejected on May 25. The Supreme Court served a notice this week to the Union Government, asking it to explain the inordinate delay in disposing... 

Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today asked PUDA to start the process of allotment of houses to all the valid red card holder victims of 1984 riots. A decision to this effect was taken by Badal at a high-level meeting here. The Chief Minister directed that the house allotment to the red card holders who had occupied the houses illegally at Ludhiana and Mohali till 31st March, 2011, be regularised.... 

Over five thousand Sikhs from all over the UK gathered in London in Parliament Square.  The gathering was arranged by Sikh Channel and supported by Panthic Organisations. The event was named D-Day or Dastaar Day.  The aim was to raise awareness to all about the importance and sanctity of the Dastaar also known as the Sikh Turban, when many Sikhs now are being forced to remove their Dastaar across... 

The Supreme Court today asked the Centre to explain a delay of over eight years in deciding the mercy plea of terrorist Devender Pal Singh Bhullar, who was awarded death penalty for triggering a bomb blast in New Delhi in September 1993 killing nine people. A bench headed by Justice GS Singhvi asked the Centre to file an affidavit by October 10, explaining the delay in deciding Bhullar’s mercy... 

NEW DELHI—Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, seeking to defend his government amid a growing political crisis, denied there was infighting in his cabinet over a corruption scandal and accused the leading opposition party of being “prematurely restless” for early elections. Mr. Singh, who was addressing reporters aboard a plane returning from the general session of the United Nations,... 

AMRITSAR: Sikh clerics have asked Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal and Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee president Avtar Singh Makkar to impress upon the Central government to issue directions for registration of cases under Section 302 (murder) instead of Hurting Religious Sentiments (295 A) in cases of disrespect shown to Sri Guru Granth Sahib, considered as ‘living Guru’... 

JALANDHAR: Three days after a US federal court reserved its order in the case filed against Union minister Kamal Nath for his alleged role in leading a mob during the anti-Sikh riots in November 1984 in Delhi, hundreds of Sikhs protested in front of UN Headquarters in New York during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s address to the General Assembly demanding sacking of Nath from his cabinet. Men,... 

New York: A federal judge here is expected to announce his ruling “within the next 60 days” on whether Minister for Urban Development Kamal Nath enjoys diplomatic immunity in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case filed against him here. The court that is hearing the case had reserved the ruling on the matter yesterday, according to Gurpatwant Pannun, Legal Advisor for advocacy group Sikhs For Justice... 

Thousands of Sikhs are set to gather in London to protest against harassment they say they experience at European airports. The demonstration, in Parliament Square at noon, will be held simultaneously with others in four other European capitals – Brussels, Rome and Madrid. Sikhs are protesting against what they describe as intimidation and disrespect of their faith at European airports. They... 

Las Vegas police say they’ve finished developing an online course to educate civilians and police officers about the Sikh (SEEK’) religion. The department’s counter terrorism center has been working with the Sikh community in southern Nevada since January to create the overview of the faith, its practices and its cultural interactions. Sikhism developed about 500 years ago in the...