SGPC, DSGMC differ with Akal Takht on ‘complete marriage Act’

SGPC, DSGMC differ with Akal Takht on ‘complete marriage Act’

Amritsar, Punjab: Akal Takht Jathedar Giani Gurbachan Singh's move to support a complete Sikh marriage Act has sparked a major controversy with the SGPC, DSGMC and Sikh intellectua ...

Gurdwara near Miri Piri to house Operation Bluestar Memorial

Gurdwara near Miri Piri to house Operation Bluestar Memorial

Amritsar, Punjabi: Even as the countdown to the start of Operation Bluestar Memorial's "kar sewa" on May 20 has begun, it has come to light that the memorial will be in the form of ...

Sri Akal Takht supports complete marriage Act

Sri Akal Takht supports complete marriage Act

Amritsar, Punjab: Akal Takht Jathedar Giani Gurbachan Singh today said the draft of ‘Sikh Marriage Act — 2012’, prepared by Khalsa College principal Daljeet Singh, would be discuss ...

Gatka lads from Tarn Taran make it to Guinness Book

Gatka lads from Tarn Taran make it to Guinness Book

Amritsar, Punjab: At a time when Punjabi youth in the border belt are losing the prime of their age to rampant drug addiction, Tarn Taran-based Bir Khalsa Gatka Group has brought l ...

Obama cites Punjab-born Sikh Dalip Singh Saund to laud Asian contribution

Obama cites Punjab-born Sikh Dalip Singh Saund to laud Asian contribution

Washington DC, US: US President Barack Obama on Tuesday heaped praise on Punjab-born Dalip Singh Saund, the country’s first Indian-American member of the Congress. In his address a ...

No divorce clause in Anand Marriage Bill sets off debate

No divorce clause in Anand Marriage Bill sets off debate

Amritsar, Punjab: 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 th ...

Operation Bluestar memorial will come up near Gurdwara Thara Sahib inside Darbar Sahib Complex

Operation Bluestar memorial will come up near Gurdwara Thara Sahib inside Darbar Sahib Complex

Amritsar, Punjab: Twenty-eight years after the Army stormed into the Harmandir Sahib complex and killed thousands of innocent Sikh pilgrims, the SGPC executive at a meeting in Anan ...

Nihangs fued gets messy

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 ...

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Sumedh Saini’s DGP appointment: Court puts Punjab, CBI on notice

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 ...

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Gurdaspur firing victim Ranjit Singh got kicked out from hospital

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 ...

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US court to hear 1984 Sikh Genocide case on May 1

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 ...

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Gurdaspur Firing Victim’s Kin Seek Time To Record Statement

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, ...

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Martyrs – First International Production on Sikh History

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 ...

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