LONDON : The Ministry of Defence in UK for the first time ever, held Vaisakhi celebrations in its main building in London. Attended by over 100 people, the event was held in the main conference room of the Ministry of Defence on April 13. Bibi Mandeep Kaur, Sikh Chaplain for Her Majesty’s Forces, organised and […]
Berlin : A teenager arrested for his alleged involvement in a terror strike at a gurudwara in the German city of Essen ten days ago was a “repeated offender”, police said. The 16-year-old youth was also arrested for an attempted burglary at a shop in the city a day before the attack, a police spokesman […]
New Delhi : Congress MP from Ludhiana Ravneet Singh Bittu today demanded in the Lok Sabha that the historic Gurdwara Sis Ganj area in Delhi’s Chandni Chowk should be declared national heritage. It may be mentioned that Ninth Sikh Lord, Guru Tegh Bahadur sacrificed his life here for the protection of human rights and religious […]
Peshawar: An armed policeman stood guard outside the 300-year-old Sikh temple, known as a gurdwara, in northwest Pakistan. He kept a watchful eye on everyone who passed him on the narrow street, looking for a suspicious gesture, or a bulge beneath the clothes that hints at a hidden gun or a bomb.Earlier this month, the […]
Washington : The Daily Show, an American late-night talk and news satire television programme with Trevor Noah, recently aired a segment called ‘Confused Islamophobes Target American Sikhs’, featuring a humorous interview with New York-based Indian-American designer and actor Waris Ahluwalia while raising a sensitive issue of the lack of awareness in the American population as […]