Amritsar, Punjab: The SGPC today strongly condemned the attack on gurdwaras in Greece. In a statement released here, SGPC president Avtar Singh Makkar said the Greece government must trace the miscreants involved in the attack and take strict action against them. He said the incident had hurt the sentiments of Sikhs across the globe. He said the religious places always gave ...

UK: The fallen of the Great War were remembered by the Sikh community in Newcastle with a colourful march through the city. The commemoration of World War I can often be a solemn occasion, but one event held in Newcastle saw children singing and a colourful procession. Sikhs in the North East remembered their community’s dead from the conflict with ...

Amritsar, Punjab: The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) has chalked out the programme for celebrating the Gurpurb (birthday) of Guru Gobind Singh at the Golden Temple on January 7. In a press release issued here on Wednesday, SGPC secretary Dalmegh Singh Khatra said on January 6, a Nagar Kirtan (religious procession) would begin from the Akal Takht at the shrine. The ...

Amritsar, Punjab: In a significant decision, the Sikh clergy has banned keeping sofas, chairs or benches for seating the elderly people and differently abled persons in the main hall of gurdwaras where Sri Guru Granth Sahib was installed. Terming it as disrespect to the holy book, the Sikh high priests instructed that gurdwaras should make seating arrangements for such people outside ...

Amritsar, Punjab: Celebrating the 479th birth anniversary of Guru Ramdas with the theme of ‘Nature Preservation and Conservation of Bio-Diversity’, various organisations led by EcoAmritsar, an initiative by US-based EcoSikh, today mobilised volunteers to collect garbage during the entire route of the nagar kirtan taken out to mark the occasion. Among these organisations were SGPC, Baba Kulwant Singh Ajnale Wale, MC ...