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A Sikh organisation has filed a $110 million lawsuit against the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) for allegedly linking it to terrorism and damaging the reputation of the Sikh community. More...

A paralysed Sikh, who entered Canada with a fake passport four years ago, has ducked deportation to India and sought asylum in a gurdwara. Laibar Singh, 48, was scheduled to be deported on Sunday. More...

In the face of alarming dip in the groundwater levels in Punjab, the Union water resources ministry has asked the state government to immediately enact a law to control over-exploitation of ground water resource in the state. More...

An incident where a Canadian Sikh was allegedly denied entry into an upscale restaurant has grown into an international campaign after details were posted on a popular social networking portal. More...

Police in Sydney have finally circulated CCTV images of the two suspects who had ripped off a Sikh man's turban in a bus four months ago, after a Sikh group took up the incident with the local MP. More...

DERA ROW: TENSION IN SIRSA... The Punjab and Haryana HCs grant him interim bail till August 6 but asks sect chief to submit his passport with it. More...

The Akal Takht, highest temporal seat of Sikhism, on Wednesday kept in abeyance its decision on the second apology from Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmit Ram Rahim Singh to the Sikh community for hurting their sentiments even as it maintained its tough stance. More...

A crucial meeting of top Sikh clerics started in Amritsar on Wednesday afternoon to take stock of the situation in the wake of an apology reportedly tendered by Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, who is accused of hurting religious sentiments of Sikhs. More...

Having decided in principle to constitute an Integrated Market Organisation to produce, process and market high value fruits and vegetables, Punjab Cooperation Department has now launched a major exercise to persuade Centre to set up the first food park in the state. More...

Ignoring an appeal by SGPC to defer their march, several Sikh organisations on Sunday took out a procession, demanding arrest of the Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, charged with hurting religious sentiments of the community. More...

Acting on a court directive, the Bhatinda police have moved an application to the Punjab government seeking its approval to prosecute embattled head of Dera Sacha Sauda, Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh for allegedly hurting the religious sentiments of Sikhs. More...

Mourners lined up a street in Kent to pay their last respects to a Sikh cab driver and a prominent member of the community who was allegedly murdered. More...

His Juhu apartment smells of dhoopbattis , his music-cum-prayer room has books on Hinduism, Sikhism and Islam. On a calm Sunday morning, I catch up with the 80-year-old music composer Khayyam to ask: More...

A Sikh priest in Birmingham has come under attack for allegedly conducting an inter-religious marriage. Three cars parked outside the Handsworth Wood home of Jarnail Singh Bhogal, president of the Ramgharia Sikh gurudwara in Hockley, were set on fire Monday. More...

Democratic presidential hopeful Barak Obama admits his campaign's Punjab jab against rival Hillary Clinton was a mistake and owns responsibility for the offending memo although he had not seen it before distribution. More...

Several Sikh organisations on Monday demanded a ban on screening of Bollywood multi-starrer 'Shootout at Lokhandwala', alleging the film tarnished the image of the community by portraying them as "terrorists". More...

Punjab police on Monday moved to a local court seeking arrest warrants against the head of Dera Sacha Sauda, Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh for allegedly hurting the religious sentiments of Sikhs. More...

Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Wednesday asked Britain to send English teachers to schools in the state's rural areas to help teachers and students sharpen their skills in English. More...

A young Indian American Sikh entrepreneur has been awarded the Rising Star award by a US magazine for his contribution in the area of political consulting in the country. More...

Leading Indian American hotelier and community leader Sant Chatwal has been honoured by Sikh Council on Religion and Education (SCORE) for his contribution to humanitarian causes worldwide. More...