Tarn Taran, Punjab: Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC), general secretary, Harminder Singh Gill, has claimed that had it not been for the intervention of former prime minister Manmohan Singh, the Sikhs of Haryana could well have got a separate committee to manage the affairs of their gurdwaras instead of being gover ned by the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC). In ...

Bathinda, Punjab: By advocating the release of Bathinda native and convict Devinderpal Singh Bhullar and supporting various Sikh issues, Delhi chief minister and AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal has given new wings to the political ambitions of Sikh hardliners in the Malwa region. While some Malwa-based Sikh hardliners have been showing signs of coming back to the mainstream politics through the Aam ...

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 ...

New Delhi: Months before Prime Minister Indira Gandhi sent the Indian Army into the Golden Temple in 1984, she considered a covert commando raid to apprehend radical Sikh leader Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale. Investigations by India Today into the recently declassified Margaret Thatcherer’s documents in the United Kingdom, revealed a raid that was planned by Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) to ...

Wellinton, New Zealand: A Sikh leader in New Zealand was on Thursday found guilty of forging election documents in a bid to win in a local body poll three years ago. Daljit Singh, a former Labour Party candidate, who was running for the Otara-Papatoetoe local board in the Auckland council in 2010, was found guilty in the high court in Auckland ...