CHANDIGARH : The petition filed by Bapu Surat Singh Khalsa has been accepted by the Punjab & Haryana High Court. The petition was filed by Bapu Surat Singh’s son Ravinder Jeet Singh Gogi last month. The Punjab & Haryana High Court yesterday, May 5, issued a notice to the Punjab government to file its response […]
Amritsar : The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD, Amritsar) and the United Akal Dal (UAD) – the main organisers of the radicals’ ‘Sarbat Khalsa’ last year – are apparently not on the same page over the creation of a sovereign state for the Sikhs. While SAD (Amritsar) chief Simranjit Singh Mann is firm on establishing Khalistan, […]
Berlin : A third teenager, who was arrested in connection with the bombing of a gurdwara by Islamist militants in the German city of Essen, has admitted to the authorities that he was part of a group which carried out the terror attack, according to a media report.Tolga I, who is known in his circle […]
Bathinda : A copy of the Holy Quran translated into Punjabi and printed by two Hindu men along with another Sikh. As impossible as this may sound today, a historian in Punjab has dug up one such copy that was printed way back in 1911. A good 105 years later, the book has transcended many […]
New Delhi : A Sikh man of Indian origin and a Pakistan-American man who were speaking in Punjabi on a bus in the US were arrested at gunpoint and detained for 30 hours after fellow travellers claimed they were discussing a “bomb threat” in Arabic.Daljeet Singh, an asylum-seeker from India, struck up a conversation with Mohammed […]