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Hindustan Times Monday, May 21, 2012 HT Correspondent, Hindustan Times Amritsar , May 20, 2012 First Published: 15:06 IST(20/5/2012) Last Updated: 01:21 IST(21/5/2012) Kar sewa for memorial to 1984 'martyrs' begins As the Sikh community prepares to observe the 28th...

Political plinth The site for the memorial for Operation Bluestar martyrs Politics: punjab Troubled Reminder A memorial for Op Bluestar ‘martyrs’? Chander Suta Dogra Provocative Idea... •SGPC adopts resolutions in 2002 and 2005 to raise a memorial for “martyrs" of...

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Jalandhar: Though once again welcoming the formation of the five-member panel by the Shiromani Gurdwara Parabandhak Committee (SGPC) to decide about space and shape of the June 1984 Memorial, the Panthic organisations on Friday claimed that the SGPC has done little in this regard — The...

06/23/11 Air India Memorial: Prime Minister Stephen Harper Unveils Montreal Monument 06/23/11 03:02 PM ET Friends and relatives look at the names of victims at a new memorial for Air India Flight 182 Thursday in Montreal. (Ryan Remiorz/Canadian Press) THE CANADIAN...

SGPC agrees to memorial for 'Operation Bluestar' Bowing before the oft repeated demand of radical Sikh groups, the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandik Committee (SGPC) has agreed to set up a memorial to the memory of those who perished during 'Operation Bluestar', launched by the army in June 1984...

Jiwan Singh blames the world's most notorious terrorist for the bias attacks he and his family have suffered over their religion. The Sikh MTA employee was riding a Brooklyn A train on Memorial Day when a hate-spewing straphanger accused him of being related to Osama Bin Laden and then...

San Francisco, USA (18 May 2011): American Gurdwara Parbhandak Committee (AGPC) has supported the Panthic bodies that served an ultimatum to Akal Takht, the highest temporal seat of Sikhs in Amritsar to set up martyrs memorial in the Darbar Sahib complex and open ‘Martyrs Gallery’ at Akal Takht...

ARIZONA: Governor of Arizona, Jan Brewer invited the family of Balbir Singh Sodhi’s, America’s first victim of hate-crime after 9/11, to her office and vetoed the House Bill number 2230 in their presence which would have removed Sodhi’s name from state memorial built to mark the tragedy of 9/11...

Plans to build a Sikh war memorial in the centre of Derby have been given the go-ahead. Derby City Council has granted planning permission for the National Sikh Holocaust and Shaheedi Memorial to be built in Pear Tree. The 25ft (7.62m) high stone structure will pay tribute to millions of...

By Asraa Mustutua Anti-birthright citizenship Arizona state Rep. John Kavanagh has changed his mind about possibly removing a post 9/11 hate crime victim’s name from a memorial. Earlier this year, Kavanagh introduced House Bill 2230, which would remove panels containing 11 phrases that...

The brother of a post-9/11 hate-crime victim feels victimized again nearly a decade later by Arizona legislation that would wipe Balbir Singh Sodhi's name off the state's memorial to the national tragedy. Singh Sodhi, a 49-year-old Mesa gas-station owner, was gunned down on Sept. 15, 2001, by...

TAKE ACTION: Stop Arizona From Removing Balbir Singh Sodhi from 9/11 Memorial April 26, 2011: Arizona Governor Jan Brewer is signing a bill to remove Balbir Singh Sodhi’s name from the state’s 9/11 memorial and sell his memorial plaque as scrap metal. TAKE ACTION...

Forwarded for posting by respected forum mentor Gyani Jarnail Singh "Arshi" 100 percent of the martyrs depicted at this sitewere hanged, died in battle, or in custody. This is a very interesting site, and the Photo Gallery is impressive. There are about 120 portraits of martyrs, and every...

By CBC News, cbc.ca, Updated: March 1, 2011 2:40 PM Komagata Maru memorial approved for Vancouver The Vancouver Park Board has approved a monument at Harbour Green Park in Coal Harbour that will commemorate a dark period in the city's history. The site is close to where a ship called...

First Sirdar Kapur Singh Memorial Lecture held Gagandeep Ahuja Thursday, 20 January 2011 PATIALA:Punjab Historical Studies Department of Punjabi University Patiala organized the ‘First Sirdar Kapur Singh Memorial Lecture’ with the collaboration of Sirdar Kapur Singh Foundation Patiala...

By ed hill ehill@derbytelegraph.co.uk THE world's first dedicated Sikh memorial is being planned in Derby to represent millions of Sikhs who died in six holocausts and both world wars. Planning permission is being sought to create the £1 million National Sikh Holocaust and Shaheedi Memorial in...

Layers of dust on old paintings, rusting weapons of historical importance, dirty floors of the rooms housing rare artifacts and an almost crumbling heritage building — this is what greet you at the Anglo-Sikh War Memorial located on the banks of Ferozeshah canal here. It goes without saying that...

Memorial, remembering 21 Sikh soldiers, to come up in London London, Sep 11 : Prominent members of the Sikh community in the UK, and a former senior official of the British Army are planning to establish a permanent national memorial to mark the sacrifice of 21 Sikh soldiers, who had laid...

Over the past few months, the Commission's stonemasons have built a new memorial, which bears the names of 53 Indian soldiers who died during the Great War. This new memorial stands a few metres from the existing Patcham Down Indian Forces Cremation Memorial, often referred to as the...