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First Sikh American offers prayer at 67th UN general assembly opening session

Amritsar, Punjab: Jatinder P Singh, associate director of United Sikh, a Sikh NGO, made history by becoming the first Sikh American to offer prayers at the United Nations 67th General Assembly Opening Session that took place in New York, informed ...

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With Damdama Sahib in the loop, all five Sikh Takhts on railway map

Amritsar,Punjab: All decks have finally been cleared for rail connectivity to the Takht (seat of temporal authority) Damdama Sahib in Talwandi Sabo — the only one among the five Sikh Takhts that had been bereft of a rail link. Union Railway ...

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Manjit Singh takes over as new Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Managing Committee president

Jalandhar,Punjab:  Almost 31 years after his father Jathedar Santokh Singh was president of Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Managing Committee (DSGMC), Manjit Singh G K on Tuesday took over as DSGMC head, ending 11 years of control over the religious body by ...

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Sikh Genocide: Three decades on, still no closure

New Delhi: It has been almost three decades since the 1984 Sikh Genocide but there has still been no closure, no justice. The figures speak for themselves. While more than 8,000 Sikhs were killed across the country, 3,000 were massacred in ...

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