The kin of an anti-Sikh riots victim in Delhi has moved the Punjab and Haryana High Court for compensation after failed attempts to secure compensation from central and state government departments. Manjit Singh, a resident of Balongi village near Chandigarh, whose brother was thrown into a burning truck in Delhi, has asked the court to direct the government to issue him an ex-gratia payment of Rs.... 

Twenty-eight years after the Army stormed into the Golden Temple complex to evict Sikh hardliners led by Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, the SGPC executive at a meeting in Anandpur Sahib today approved Operation Bluestar Memorial. The memorial will come up near Gurdwara Thara Sahib in the Golden Temple complex. The SGPC House had given the green signal to the memorial a decade back and the matter had been... 

UK: International Panthic Dal welcomes the news on the construction of the Shaheedi Memorial of Sikh Martyrs who were killed by the Indian Government in June 1984. The construction of the memorial will be headed by the Chief of Damdami Taksal Sant Baba Harnam Singh Ji Khalsa and supported by other GurSikhs including Singh Sahib Bhai Jasvir Singh Ji Khalsa (Sabka Jathedar Sri Akal Takht Sahib and founder... 

The name of Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal is doing the rounds as a potential candidate for the post of the Vice-President of India. Sources in the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) said the party has not so far received any official communication from the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) to field Badal as the alliance nominee, but politicians in Punjab have started debating if he would be willing... 

SHIMLA: The 18-year-old Sikh boy studying in a Christian private school in Shimla was banned wearing a turban in the school, said Guru Singh Sabha, Shimla, an apex body of the Sikhs in the capital of the state. “A Sikh boy studying in plus 2 class in St. Edward’s School here in Shimla was denied wearing turban. The Guru Singh Sabha wrote a letter to the Principal in the Month of March when the... 

Ambala, Apr 6 (PTI) Four jail inmates from Punjab today raised pro-Khalistan slogans after they were produced in a local court in connection with a blast incident here. A team of Punjab Police had brought the four accused here from Punjab’s Nabha Jail for the hearing of the case in the court of District and Sessions Judge Navita Singh. After the four — Manjinder Singh, Gurjant Singh, Harwinder... 

Taking up a public interest litigation challenging the Punjab government’s decision to appoint Sumedh Singh Saini as the state director general of police (DGP), the Punjab and Haryana high court on Tuesday issued notice of motion to the state as well as Saini for June 1. Saini was appointed Punjab DGP on March 14. The petition filed by a non-governmental organisation (NGO), Voices for Freedom,... 

In a significant move, Government will bring in a bill in Parliament’s Budget Session to make registration of marriages compulsory under a law for mandatory recording of births and deaths, notwithstanding one’s religious affiliation, thereby providing legal protection especially in cases of inter-religious matrimony. The Union Cabinet today also approved introduction of the Anand Marriage... 

Baba Harnam Singh Ji Khalsa (Damdami Taksal), Singh Sahib Bhai Jasvir Singh Ji Khalsa and Singh Sahib Bhai Gurbachan Singh (Jathedar of Sri Akal Takht Sahib) fulfilling Bhai Balwant Singh’s request to become Amritdhari Sikh. [Show as slideshow] ... 

CHANDIGARH: While taking up a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by a local NGO seeking directions to remove Sumedh Singh Saini from the post of DGP, Punjab, the Punjab and Haryana high court on Tuesday asked the petitioner to prove its locus standi on the issue. When the matter came up for hearing before a division bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Mahesh Grover, the bench...