Muktsar, Punjab: A three-time Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) member, Navtej Singh Kauni, who is already in the dock for attending “naam charcha” at Dera Sacha Sauda in Bhullar village on May 16, could be in fresh trouble. Documents procured by a resident of Muktsar district under the RTI Act reveal that Kauni owned a retail liquor vend and a tavern ...

India: In the recent past a senior administrator and many times vice-chancellor in Punjab, as well as the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee have banned anyone other than a Sikh from writing on the religious aspects of Sikh history. Under the circumstances it is very brave of Harish Dhillon, who is not a Sikh according to the current definition requiring the ...

Amritsar,Punjab: On Sunday, June 16, Sikhdom celebrates the extraordinary man who gave Sikhism two of its greatest gifts: its Scripture, known as the Guru Granth, and its famous shrine, the Golden Temple. He was in the prime of his life, a mere 39 years old, when his spiritual activities were deemed a threat to institutionalized religion by the ruler of ...

Chandigarh: Holy Sikh shrine Panja Sahib is located in this town. If the Pak-Indo Friendship Association has its way, Sikh pilgrims visiting Panja Sahib in Hasan Abdal in Pakistan would travel there in style in a bullet train, stay in five-star hotels and come back with purified water from the spring associated with Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism. Pak-Indo Friendship ...

Singapore: Preparations are on for the four-day festival of Barsi, said to be the largest Sikh event outside Punjab, at Gurdwara Sahib Malacca in the Malaysian state of Malacca, starting May 30. The festival commemorates the death anniversary of Baba Sohan Singh, a Sikh saint who lived in Malacca and passed away in 1972 at Ipoh General Hospital near the ...