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 […]
New York : US President Barack Obama insisted on Saturday that it was not his administration’s policy to target people based on their looks at airports, but said keeping people safe and preventing terrorism was one of his “biggest challenges”. Responding to questions from a young Sikh at a town hall-type meeting in Westminster on […]
NEW YORK : At a colorful multifaith ceremony with Buddhist chants, Zoroastrian prayers and Sikh singing at the Church Center for the UN, Ambassador Mogens Lykketoft, President of the UN General Assembly took delivery of the Interfaith Climate Change Statement to World Leaders signed by 270 high-level religious leaders, 4970 individuals and 176 religious groups […]