Sikh man loses Garda High Court court challenge to turban decision

Ireland: A member of the Irish Sikh community has lost a High Court challenge to a Garda decision not to allow those training for the Garda Reserve to wear a turban while on duty. Ravinder Singh Oberoi completed the first three ...

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Rare fresco at Golden Temple on verge of vanishing

Amritsar, Punjab: Call it the ignorant attitude of the caretakers or the authorities concerned, the rare fresco adorned on the ‘samadh’, located just opposite to the Golden Temple’s main entrance, is on the verge of vanishing. “This is the rarest ...

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Exercise to restore glitter to Golden Temple underway

Amritsar, Punjab: The Golden Temple seems to have been regaining its glitter with the annual exercise of cleaning up its gold plates underway for the last few days. The cleaning operation has become an annual feature at the holy shrine ...

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Destruction of Punjab Literacy and TOP Education system by British

Amritsar, Punjab: The notion that with the fall of the Sikhs in 1849 the British East India Company ushered in the `modern age` in the Punjab, especially in Lahore, is one that we need to revisit. What went wrong, and ...

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