Amritsar, Punjab: Thousands of devotees on Monday paid obeisance at the Golden Temple and listened to ‘kirtan’ on the 410th anniversary of the installation of Guru Granth Sahib at Harmandir Sahib, which Sikhs celebrate as Parkash Utsav of the holy scripture. In keeping with the tradition, the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) organised an impressive ‘nagar kirtan’ from Gurdwara Sri Ramsar ...

Amritsar, Punjab: Surjit Kaur, a woman from Mumbai, offered a diamond-studded Chaur Sahib (ceremonial whisk waved over Guru Granth Sahib) worth ` 16 lakh on Tuesday at the sanctum sanctorum of the Golden Temple here. The diamonds on the handle alone are worth more than ` 3.48 lakh. The handle is plated with 22-carat gold that weighs 432 grams and 800 ...

Chandigarh: Union Food Processing Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal, wife of Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh, has turned to the social media to drum up support for the SAD on the issue of a separate gurdwara panel for Haryana shrines. In an appeal to the Sikhs, Harsimrat says: “The Congress has always tried to demoralise, divide and finish the Sikhs. First, ...

New Delhi: Labour Party MP Tom Watson on Saturday said he wanted “an urgent statement” from the UK government in the House of Commons on Monday after an India Today magazine story revealed how then Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi almost gave the go-ahead to a covert RAW operation to kidnap Sikh leader Sant Jarnail Singh Ji Khalsa Bhindrawale months ...

This is a true story about how sometimes something looks like one thing but it is actually something quite different.  Amritsar, Punjab: I remember Harbhajan Singh Khalsa, Yogiji speaking in Gurdwara about three kinds of stories we should all be telling each other: inspirational stories of our personal experience, stories of our history and stories of duty. This is the ...