FATEHGARH SAHIB: Former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh’s assassin Balwant Singh Rajoana, facing death row, has said that he did not want anyone to defend him. His statement comes in the wake of a petition filed by Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) president Simranjit Singh Mann in Punjab and Haryana High Court seeking stay on Rajoana’s hanging. A letter purportedly written by him and released... 

Jathedar Kalwant Singh Takht Sri Hazoor Sahib released a message that all Sikhs around the world must plant a tree on the occasion of the Sikh Environment Day. Sikhs around the world are celebrating Sikh Environment Day on 14 March this year. The day marks the new year in the Sikh calendar and the Gurgaddi Diwas (enthronement day) of sixth Guru Sri Guru Har Rai Ji. Guru Har Rai, known to have been... 

Punjab’s ruling Shiromani Akali Dal-Bharatiya Janata Party (SAD-BJP) alliance won the high-stakes Moga assembly byelection on Thursday, with SAD nominee Joginder Pal Jain (67) defeating Congress candidate Vijay Kumar Sathi (66) by a margin of 18,849 votes. This is the second consecutive bypoll victory for the SAD-BJP alliance, which had retained the Dasuya seat in July last year, albeit by a... 

Sikhs are strict vegetarians and killing living beings is against the beliefs of Sikhs. Should this go ahead, it would cause significant emotional distress to the large local Sikh community due to the animal carcasses being delivered and stored next door to a holy place of worship. The smell from the dead animals would be highly offensive and seriously impact the ability of Sikhs to worship at the... 

David Cameron has become the first serving UK prime minister to pay his respects at the scene of one of the bloodiest massacres in British history. Mr Cameron is visiting Amritsar in the state of Punjab on Wednesday, at the end of a three-day trade trip to India. This was where hundreds of people at a public meeting were shot dead by British troops in 1919. The prime minister described the massacre... 

Marshal of the Indian Air Force Arjan Singh arrived in Thiruvananthapuram on Thursday for a week-long visit to Kerala. The sole five-star officer of the Air Force was received at the airport here by Air Marshal R.K. Jolly, Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Southern Air Command. A press note here said Marshal Singh would be given a briefing on the operational preparedness of the Southern Air Command... 

The distance between Balwant Singh Rajoana and the gallows was reduced by a decision in another case on Wednesday with the Patiala court awarding him ten-year rigorous imprisonment (RI) under an Explosives Act. Rajoana is already on the death row in the assassination case of Punjab’s former Chief Minister Beant Singh. Sentencing him to ten-year RI and a fine of `10,000 in a 1995 case pertaining... 

UK- After learning the tragic loss of Bhai Harjeevanjot Singh Rajoana (nephew of Jinda Shaheed Bhai BalwantSingh Rajoana) International Panthic Dal sends its deepest sympathy to S. Santokh Singh, Sardarni Narinder Kaur (respected Father and Mother) and Bibi Arshdeep Kaur (Sister) of having lost their loved one, our deepest condolences also go to the extended family and friends. It was after preventing... 

UK: International Panthic Dal (I.P.D) congratulates Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and Sant Samaj in winning the Delhi Shiromani Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) elections. It is a big win for SAD who won 37 seats out of 46. Paramjit Singh Sarna lost by the highest margin of votes to SAD Manjinder Singh from Punjabi Bagh. The SAD is the only Sikh dominated political party in India which has a proven... 

A BLACK DAY FOR SIKH NATION – 26th January – India, Republic Day honours the date on which the Constitution of India came into force replacing the Government of India Act 1935 as the governing document of India on 26 January 1950. Article 25 of the Indian Constitution states SIKHS AS HINDU’S as it currently states “reference to Hindus shall be construed as including a reference...