India Must be Held Accountable for Manipur Fake Encounter

Ottawa, Canada: The World Sikh Organization of Canada (WSO) condemns the continuing human rights violations and fake encounter killings being carried out by security forces in India. Tehelka Newsmagazine in its August 8, 2009 edition has published photographs of the ...

Punjab freedom fighter’s son counts days in Delhi – to return 'Amritsar'

Delhi, India: Toufique Kitchlew wrote a page of his memoirs and stopped. It has been eight months since he was forced to leave Amritsar, the city of his birth and where he lived during the tumultuous days leading up to ...

LVIA to boot restaurant owners because they look like Arabs

PA, USA: The Sikh owners of two Subway restaurants at Lehigh Valley International Airport say they are being evicted because worried passengers confuse them with Muslims, according to a federal lawsuit. Suhirdbir Bhasin, Raminder Bhasin and Ishmeet Bhasin say that ...

Plant saplings in memory of genocide victims

Amritsar, Punjab: Jathedar, Akal Takht, Giani Gurbachan Singh here today appealed about 50 Sikh families across the world to plant a sapling each in the memory of those killed in the 1984 Sikh Genocide following the death of the then ...