CHANDIGARH: Punjab women outnumbered men in casting votes at a number of polling booths in Sunday’s SGPC elections. At most of the polling booths falling in Barnala and Sangrur, queues of women were there for all to see, whereas queues of men were either very thin or completely missing. Sukhdeep Kaur of Barnala said, “The women are taking keen interest in casting their votes as they want... 

The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD)-Sant Samaj alliance swept the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandak Committee (SGPC) elections held today. The alliance won 157 out of 170 seats spread across Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Chandigarh. The alliance lost 10 seats in Punjab and three (out of 11) in Haryana. It won both seats in Himachal Pradesh and Chandigarh. In the last General House, SAD had won 140 seats,... 

Amid sporadic violence, an estimated 50 to 55 per cent of the electorate today cast votes for elections to the General House of the SGPC, known as mini-parliament of Sikhs. Between 50 and 55 per cent of polling was recorded for the SGPC elections, Gurdwara Election Commissioner Manjeet Singh said. Reports of clashes during the polling were received from almost all parts of the state, police said. A... 

10 years after Sikh murder over 9/11, community continues to blend in and stand out By Jose G. Santos, CNN Fairfax Station, Virginia (CNN)– Ten years ago, Balbir Singh Sodhi was gunned down, apparently because he looked Muslim or Arab.  Sodhi was a Sikh. Members of the religious tradition say he was the first person to be murdered in retaliation for the 9/11 attacks. That claim has been backed up... 

FEROZEPUR: The stage is set for conducting of elections for Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) in Ferozepur district with the local administration having made “fool-proof arrangements” to ensure free and fair elections for all the six SGPC seats falling in the district. The elections for SGPC seats in the Ferozepur district include two in Ferozepur (one reserved for the SC category... 

Around 57 lakh voters are eligible to exercise their franchise in the election to the 14th Shiromani Gurdwara Prabhandak Committee (SGPC) that will be held on Sunday in three states of Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh and the Union Territory of Chandigarh. Elaborate security arrangements have been made for peaceful conduct of the elections.  Shiromani Gurdwara Prabhandak Committee is  considered... 

LONDON – The country’s first turban-wearing Sikh peer has vowed to dispel prejudices about his religion that have increased in the wake of terrorist attacks on the West in the past decade. Indarjit Singh, whose official title on entering the House of Lords will be Baron Singh of Wimbledon, will cut an unusual figure when he takes his seat next month in the chamber amid a sea of snowy-haired white... 

The International Panthic Dal (IPD) have rolled out a poster campaign in an 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 get people thinking about... 

Moga, Sep 14 (PTI) Punjab Deputy Chief Minister and Shiromani Akali Dal President Sukhbir Singh Badal today said he was confident of the SAD-Sant Samaj alliance candidates sweeping the SGPC polls to be held on September 18. “Not only SGPC polls, the SAD would also win the Assembly polls early next year by dubbing Congress,” he said addressing rallies in this district. He made it clear that... 

Two French schools have withdrawn their decision not to allow Sikh students to tie up their unshorn hair in top knots and cover it with handkerchiefs. The schools — Lycee Leon Blum in Creteil and Lycee Romain Rolland in Goussainville — had asked two Sikh students Amarjit and Harpal in the beginning of this month to undo or cut their unshorn hair tied up as jooda. However, the schools withdrew...