Bathinda, Punjab: Five people were injured in firing during a clash between Nihang groups at Talwandi Sabo. Members of the Balvir Singh faction opened fire on groups led by Surjit Singh and Joginder Singh to start this battle for 14 acres attached with Gill Dhaba near Dashmesh Public School on the Bathinda road here. The Surjit Singh faction owns the eating joint. The police claim to be on with investigatio ...

Chandigarh, Punjab: Punjab’s attempts to scuttle the move of a human rights organisation to challenge IPS officer Sumedh Singh Saini’s appointment as the Director General of Police today failed to find favour with the Punjab and Haryana High Court. Its objections notwithstanding at the current stage, the court put the Central Bureau of Investigation and the State of Punjab on notice on the petition challeng ...

Amritsar, Punjab: Ranjit Singh (18),who was injured seriously in police firing during a bandh in Gurdaspur on March 29, was discharged from Government Hospital in Amritsar after medical authorities claimed he was in good physical condition while his parents disagreed. His father Jaswant Singh told HT at his house in Pandher village near Gurdaspur on Thursday that he was shocked when told by Amritsar hospita ...

New York, US: Representing Congress (INC) in Sikh Genocide Case, lawyers from “Jones Day”, an international law firm specializing in defending claims arising from human rights violations, has opposed the entry of default judgment against Congress (I). The opposition filed in the court states that the 1984 Sikh Genocide case “involves significant issues of public international law that should not be decided ...

Amritsar, Punjab: The family members of Jaspal Singh, an engineering student who was killed in police firing on March 29 following which curfew was imposed in the city, have sought time till April 25 to record their statements in front of the inquiry commission probing the incident. Jalandhar Divisional Commissioner Anurag Verma, who is looking after the probe, said the victim’s father, Gurcharanjit Singh, ...

Sikhs are a unique group of people that don’t write their history in ink, they write it in blood and Martyrs, the movie, is a testament to that. Martyrs is a second a documentary created by Jagmeet Singh Samundri, after his awarding winning documentary called ‘Rise of The Khalsa’. And now he is all set to create history by being the first in India to release in cinemas with Dolby Digital. Martyrs, the movie ...