First visual images of the Shaheedi Memorial being constructed at Sri Darbar Sahib Complex in the memory of the Sikh Martyrs who were killed by the Indian Army in June 1984. The foundations of the memorial was laid on 20th May 2012. Currently the construction is being headed by Baba Harnam Singh Ji Khalsa (Damdami Taksal). More information to follow.  Read More »

CHANDIGARH: A complete bandh was observed in Punjab on Thursday though day-to-day activities were only partially affected in Haryana. Commercial establishments, private and government schools, remained shut and transportation came to a near standstill. The schools that opened saw negligible number of students. Roads in most cities including Amritsar, Ludhiana, Jalandhar and Patiala wore a deserted... 

A three-member tribunal headed by a former Supreme Court judge Kuldeep Singh would investigate the cases pertaining to alleged land grab in Punjab and Chandigarh by several influential people including politicians, bureaucrats and cops. The tribunal was set up by the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Tuesday. The other two members of the tribunal were yet to be named. The tribunal is expected to furnish... 

GURDASPUR: Gurdaspur remained peaceful but tense following the district adminstration and police clamped ban orders on assembly of more than five persons under section 144 and protesters seeking probe into the police firing in which Jaspal Singh , student of Beant Engineering College was killed . Jaspal singh was killed in police firing during protest march in the city seeking clemency... 

As the Sikh community prepares to observe the 28th anniversary of ‘Operation Bluestar’ on June 6, the ‘kar sewa’ for erecting a memorial to those who died while fighting the security forces during the three-day operation in 1984 commenced at the Golden Temple complex here on related stories Dal gives Baba Dhuma credit for memorial 84 riots’ victims to file ‘genocide... 

The Sikh dream of a separate register of marriages within the community is all set to be realised with Parliament today passing the long-pending amendment to the Anand Karaj Act 1909 that does not provide for such registrations. Once the President assents to the Bill, it will become a law, allowing the Centre to direct states to maintain separate registers of marriages for Sikhs and designate separate... 

Moga Senior Superintendent of Police Surjeet Singh Grewal and six others accused of killing a 20-year-old youth in a fake encounter in 1989 were acquitted by a CBI court today that granted them ‘benefit of the doubt’. The court found several loopholes in the CBI’s case, resulting in the acquittal. The verdict shattered 73-year-old Tarlochan Singh, father of victim Kulwinder Singh, alias Kid,... 

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.... 

The Anand Marriage Amendment Bill 2012 has been introduced in the Rajya Sabha. However, the absence of provision of divorce in the Bill has set off a debate in the Sikh community, with some sections supporting it and others against it. While one school of thought maintains there is no place for divorce in the Sikh “rehat maryada” (code of conduct) and hence the Bill should not provide for it, the... 

MOGA: Adamant against tendering his resignation till Tuesday evening, Punjab agriculture minister Tota Singh finally resigned from his post on Wednesday morning. Governor Shivraj Patil accepted the resignation after Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal had forwarded it tohim for acceptance. Earlier another Punjab minister Jagir Kaur had to resign in March after a CBI court sentenced her 5 years...