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Akal Takht jathedar bars using title ‘Patshahi’ by any Sikh individual

Amritsar, Punjab: After imposing ban on installation (Parkash) of Sri Guru Granth Sahib in houses of Sikhs with bars, the jathedar (leader of community) of Sikhs supreme temporal seat — Akal Takht — has barred using the title of ‘ Patshahi’ ...

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Human Rights Conference in the European Parliament on Sikh issues

Amritsar, Punjab:  In a follow up from the protest outside United Nations office in Geneva on November 1, the Sikh Federation (UK) has now organized a Human Rights Conference in the European Parliament in Brussels on November 4, informed National ...

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Sikh identity issues to figure in conference at Brussels

Amritsar, Punjab:  In a follow up to the protest outside United Nations office in Geneva on November 1, the UK Sikh federation will organize a human rights conference in the European parliament at Brussels on November 4, press secretary of ...

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The Last Killing

Satwant Singh Manak joined the Punjab Police with dreams of making his community safer. But in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Punjab Police terrorized its own citizens in the name of fighting an insurgency, committing systematic and wide scale ...

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