Yearly Archives: 2013

1984 Genocide: Order on Sajjan’s plea on Dec 11

New Delhi: A Delhi court on Monday reserved its order on a plea of Congress leader Sajjan Kumar seeking to drop nine CBI witnesses in a 1984 Sikh genocide case in which he and three others are facing prosecution. District judge ...

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4 hospitalised after taking ‘prasad’ from strangers at Harmandar Sahib

Amritsar, Punjab: Four pilgrims were hospitalised after consuming ‘prasad’ taken from strangers that was apparently laced with a poisonous substance at Harmandar Sahib here on Monday. The ‘prasad’ was distributed to the four by two strangers in the ‘parikrama’ of the ...

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Memoir of WW-II Sikh veteran released

Vancouver, Canada: The memoir of a prominent Sikh World War II veteran, who fought against racism by the Newton Legion, was released in Surrey on Saturday afternoon. Authored by Sharanjit Kaur Sandhra, “A Soldier Remembers’’ is a memoir of 93-year-old former ...

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Bishnoi keeps separate Sikh body issue alive

Karnal, Haryana: The chief ministerial candidate of the Bharatiya Janata Party-Haryana Janhit Congress (BJP-HJC) combine, Kuldeep Bishnoi, has revived the ‘buried issue’ of a separate body for managing gurdwaras in the state – Haryana Sikh Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee. At a ...

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