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 […]
NEW DELHI: Even after fifteen years of the 9/11 tragedy, Sikhs in the US feel they are more likely to face profiling, bigotry and backlash than the average American because of the two distinct symbols of their identity-the beard and the turban. To spread better awareness about their religion, a new Sikh art exhibit will […]