AMRITSAR: Jathedar Akal Takht the highest Sikh temporal seat Gyani Gurbachan Singh has asked the Shriomani Gurdwara Pharbandhak committee (SGPC) to adopt all possible legal remedy to get relief for the Sikh females who were being asked by Chandigarh administration to wear headgear while riding on two wheeler.

CHANDIGARH: Former Punjab Minister Mr.

CHANDIGARH: The fact that Total Fertility Rate (TFR) of Sikhs in Punjab is falling is disturbing trend and a debate has begon that Is Sikhism dying.

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has strongly condemned Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Sukhpal Singh Khaira for backing secessionism with his categorical support for Sikh Referendum 2020, propounded by Sikh radicals for the creation of Khalistan.

CHANDIGARH, June 16: Senior Congress leaders and legislators today lashed out at Sukhpal Singh Khaira, the Leader of the Opposition in Punjab Vidhan Sabha for his open and blatant support to the ‘Referendum 2020’ that aims at seceding Punjab from India and dividing the country along religious lines once again.

ROPAR: Tension mounted in the area after the unidentified miscreants on Saturday torn about 100 pages of holy Scripture Guru Granth Sahib in Gurdwara Singh Shaheeda in village Dangli near here.

CHANDIGARH: A delegation of the Shiromani Akali Dal led by the party president Sukhbir Singh Badal today called on the Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the latter’s New Delhi residence this morning to express thanks for the Union the government’s “unprecedented and decisive” initiative in exempting Guru Ka Langar (Community Kitched) from the GST regime, and to draw the PM’s attention to several issues concerning the people of Punjab.

CHANDIGARH: Manjit Singh GK President of SAD(Badal) Delhi and also President of Delhi Gurdawara Management Committee (DSGMC) today reached Shillong in Meghalaya alongwith a deputation of Delhi Sikh leaders including Manjinder Singh Sirsa and Gurjit Singh Bhogal.

SHILLONG: The miscreants attacked Sikh community members and burnt their houses in Shillong in BJP ruled Meghlaya in the northeast. The police had failed to controkl the mob violence that let to imposition of curfew. The minority Sikhs defended themselves when 200 strong mob backed by certain local BJP leaders attacked Sikh colony.

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to stay the release of regional film "Nanak Shah Fakir" based on the life of the first Sikh Guru, Guru Nanak Dev, saying the Constitution allows filmmakers to make any movie as long as it does not impinge on secularism.

A delegation of Congress Members of Parliament from Punjab led by Punjab Pardesh Congress Committee President and MP from Gurdaspur Mr. Sunil Jakhar today raised the issue of forced conversion of Sikhs in Pakistan with Mrs Sushma Swaraj Minister of External Affairs (MoEA). Delegation members including Mr Jakhar and MP Mr Ravneet Singh Bittu said that they were seriously concerned about the forced conversion of Sikhs in Pakistan and solicited Ministry’s urgent intervention in the matter to protect the identity of the Sikh community settled there.

CHANDIGARH: Decks have been cleared for special trains to carry devotees from Punjab to and from Patna Sahib for the 350th Birth Anniversary celebrations of tenth Master of the Sikhs Sri Guru Gobind Singh ji.

WASHINGTON DC: Over 350 guests from all across the Metropolitan Washington area came to support the scholarship program of the Sikh Human Development Foundation at Gaithersburg Hilton in Maryland. The glittery gala, featuring Bollywood actor and a Punjabi comedian, Gurpreet Ghuggi, raised over $210,000 for underprivileged youth pursuing higher education in Punjab. Gajinder Singh Ahuja, Chairman of SHDF, while welcoming the audience, invited all to donate by saying, “Your assistance is lifting young people out of poverty, tragedy and painful circumstances.”

CHANDIGARH: Panjab University Colloquia Committee in collaboration with Department of Political Science organized 43rd Colloquium Lecture on “The Sikh Panth : Its History and Historiography ”at Panjab University,here Monday.

INDIANAPOLIS: Sikhs Political Actiion Committee (SikhsPAC) Founder and Chairman Gurinder Singh Khalsa endorsed pending hate crimes legislation at a press conference held today at the Atrium of the Indiana State Capitol/Statehouse building in Downtown.

AMRITSAR:  Dal Khalsa has urged Sikh Diaspora to observe the martyrdom day of Guru Teg Bahadur as 'Human Rights and Religious Freedom' day as the Guru attained martyrdom to protect the oppressed class irrespective of their religion and caste.

CHICAGO, IL: Sikh Religious Society hosted a two-day conference on November 11 & 12, 2017 at the Sikh Gurdwara in Palatine, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, to implement "Mool Nanakshahi Calendar.

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump greeted the Sikhs on the occasion of Gurpurab - the birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev, the founder of the faith, saying the community exemplifies the fundamental values that all Americans share.

NEW DELHI: A court here on Thursday directed Google India to remove from social media, including Youtube, all videos featuring a woman called Sakshi Bhardwaj who is making hate speech about Sikh gurus and Sikh religion.

AMRITSAR: The radical Sikh organisation Dal Khalsa has demanded that that paintings and pictures depicting the Nov 1984 genocide be put up in the Sikh Central Museum and made part of the Sikh heritage.

HOSHIARPUR: Dal Khalsa today blamed Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh for doing the bidding of New Delhi, wittingly or otherwise.

CHANDIGARH: A majir controversy has started over RSS move to celebrate 350th birth annivesaray of Tenth Sikh master Guru Gobind Singh for which the Rashtriya Sikh Sangat a frontal organisation of RSS is holding a funtion in Delhi on October 25.

AMRITSAR: Akal Takht Jathedar Giani Gurbachan Singh in his message to Sikh Community on eve of Bandi Chhod divas has called to end internal conflict and unitedly work for peace and propserity and to defeat the enemies of Panth. He asked the Sikhs to remain committed to Akal Takht and observe Sikh rehat maryada.

AMRITSAR: Fireworks display and the newly-installed LED lighting marked the celebrations of "Bandi Chhor Diwas" and Diwali as thousands of devotees flocked to the Golden Temple complex here on Thursday.