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 ...
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SC to hear Bhullar’s plea in open court on Friday
New Delhi: The Supreme Court today decided to hear in an open court a plea for commuting the death penalty awarded to Devender Pal Singh Bhullar in the 1993 bomb attack case. “List in the open court at 10.30am on January 31,” a four-member Bench headed by Chief Justice P Sathasivam said in an order passed after considering the curative petition, ...
Read More »Flying While Sikh: Why Racial Profiling Matters
While I am excited to celebrate Thanksgiving with my family, I am not excited about the process of getting there. None of us enjoy going through airport security, and this is especially true during the busiest travel week of the year: removing our shoes, removing personal items from our pockets, only to stand in a glass tube and lift up ...
Read More »Security concerns put off Badal’s Hasanabdal visit
Lahore,Mina Dawood,Pak:-Indian Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal returned his homeland without performing his religious rituals at Gurdwara Sri Panja Sahib in Hasanabdal – one of the sacred places of Sikhism – because of security concerns, it is learnt. “Although the visiting deputy chief minister used Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif’s bulletproof car during his five-day stay in the province, ...
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