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... 

AMRITSAR: With his government having faced a tough year, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh wants to usher in the new year with prayers at the Harmandar Sahib, the holiest of Sikh shrines, popularly known as the Golden Temple. He is expected to arrive here Saturday evening with his wife Gursharan Kaur and will go to the Harmandar Sahib very early Sunday morning to offer prayers on New Year Day, a police... 

The city police seized 200 pro-Khalistan T-shirts from a manufacturing unit located in the Salem Tabri area here last evening. The incident has alerted the state police which had been expecting trouble from pro-Khalistan activists ahead of the assembly elections in the state. Senior police officials have said the intelligence wing has received inputs about pro-Khalistan activists getting active. The... 

In what will fulfil one of the long-pending demands of the Sikh community, the Union Home Ministry has given its nod to the Anand Marriage Bill, also known as the Anand Karaj Bill. This will allow Sikhs to get their marriages registered under the separate law. The next step will be the passing of the Bill in Parliament. Some fine tuning of the same is being done and it could be tabled in Parliament... 

New Delhi: A Delhi court on Monday granted bail to Harvinder Singh who was arrested last month for slapping Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar soon after a public function. Allowing him to walk out of jail on bail, district judge HS Sharma said: “Violence in any form at any place, irrespective of the grievance of an individual, is to be neither preached nor approved. The applicant (Harvinder... 

(Reuters) – Returning to India from a summit in Bali last month, Manmohan Singh was cheerful and determined: once dubbed “the leader other leaders love,” he’d enjoyed meeting Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and U.S. President Barack Obama, one of his biggest admirers. With a host of long-stalled reforms ready for debate in the next parliamentary session, he told a close colleague... 

Manmohan Singh’s humiliation is complete. Ten days ago the Indian prime minister announced he would open the retail industry to foreign investment, perhaps the boldest reform since he came to power in 2004. Yesterday he suspended the move, caving to pressure from unions and politicians on both sides of the aisle. Foreign investment is a huge hornet’s nest in India, but it is worth stirring... 

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,... 

UNITED NATIONS: India will make a strong pitch for comprehensive reform of the UN Security Council to create an equitable system that is reflective of current realities when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh addresses the UN General Assembly on Saturday. Singh, who arrived here on Thursday, will participate in the high level segment of the 66th session of the world body when he will also focus on issues... 

Amritsar While the Centre’s refusal to enact Anand Karaj (Marriage) Act has taken the Sikh circles by a storm, they point to the case of Pakistan where a separate law to register marriages of the community was framed four years ago. Pakistan had passed Sikh Anand Marriage Act 2007 to validate the marriage ceremony but in India they are registered under the Hindu Marriage Act. So strong is the law...