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Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) and radical Sikh group Damdami Taksal are at loggerheads over the construction of memorial in memory of the slain militant leader Jarnail Singh Bhindranwala and his accomplices who were killed during the Operation Blue Star...

Castigating the Haryana government for its decision to introduce a bill in the Assembly for formation of a separate unit of SGPC in the state, Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) today said it was an "attempt" to divide the Sikh community...

The Shiromani Gurudwara Prabhandhak Committee today dismissed Haryana government's proposal for a separate Sikh body to manage shrines in the state, terming it a "direct interference" in the affairs of the community aimed at finishing off the religious body...

The VHP today blamed Pakistan's Inter Service Intelligence (ISI) for the recent bomb blasts in two cinema halls in New Delhi and termed it an attempt to defame the Sikh community. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/sikh/SIG=11mjgtdbc/*http%3A//www.outlookindia.com/pti_news.asp?id=301102

A US Congressman has moved an amendment into the Defence Authorisation bill which lauds the diversity in the American armed forces and acknowledges the contribution of the Sikh community to the military...

President Management Committee Takht Patna Sahib and a senior member SGPC Mohinder Singh Romanna has appealed to the Sikh brethren not to be misled by the disgruntled Akali leaders engaged to constitute a separate SGPC by being hand and glove with the ruling Congress government in Haryana...

Various Sikh bodies have condemned the blasts at two cinema halls in Delhi, where the film 'Jo Bole So Nihal' was being screened, saying it was the handiwork of some "naxalite groups who wanted to malign the Sikh faith."...

Accusing Congress of adopting a "confrontational" approach, Shiromani Akali Dal President Parkash Singh Badal today warned the party against "meddling in Sikh religious affairs". http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/sikh/SIG=11mrt0tsf/*http%3A//www.outlookindia.com/pti_news.asp?id=299791

More than two decades after five persons burnt to death a man during the anti-Sikh riots that rocked the capital following the assasination of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, a Delhi court today sentenced all of them to life imprisonment...

Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee President Paramjit Singh Sarna today opposed the suggestion by some Sikh groups to boycott French products following the turban issue and favoured a diplomatic solution to the problem...

After invoking the wrath of some Sikh religious organisations, the Sunny Deol-starrer 'Jo Bole So Nihal' has been cleared by Akal Takht and the censor board after deletion of some "objectionable scenes" and the title song...

Shiromani Akali Dal today alleged that the Congress party's policy was to "weaken the Sikh community for its own vested interests". "They (Congress) want to weaken the Sikhs. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/sikh/SIG=11mu5bjg4/*http%3A//www.outlookindia.com/pti_news.asp?id=296563

In high school, he adopted the Sikh practice of wearing a turban to cover his uncut hair _ an article of faith that many unenlightened people associate with terrorists, Sidhu said. At the College of William and Mary, he was the third Sikh to join the campus chapter of Phi KappaTau fraternity...

Congress today rubbished BJP-led NDA's demand for tabling the Nanawati Commission report probing 1984 anti-Sikh riots saying those who are asking for it themselves are absent from the two Houses of Parliament...

BJP today termed as "very disappointing and partisan" the UPA Government's decision not to table the Nanavati Commission Report on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots during the current session of Parliament and said if tabled it could land the ruling coalition in a "soup"...

CPI leader Gurudas Das Gupta today said the report of Nanavati Commission on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots should not be held back and made public by the government. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/sikh/SIG=11mv0b911/*http%3A//www.outlookindia.com/pti_news.asp?id=296221

The Government has decided against tabling in Parliament during the ongoing budget session the Nanavati Commission report on 1984 anti-Sikh riots, a demand for which was made by BJP-led NDA, but is likely to do so in the monsoon session...

Sikh Political outfit 'Dal Khalsa' today honoured lawyers who fought cases of CanadIan based Sikhs Ripudaman Singh and Ajaib Singh Bagri and organised a prayer meeting for their acquittal...

The Opposition NDA is all set to corner the UPA Government on a host of issues ranging from the Centre's fresh affidavit in the Supreme Court against its Convener George Fernandes to the Nanavati Commission report on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, when the Parliament resumes its Budget session on...

Nearly 238 Indian National including 150 Congress activists from Punjab today crossed over to Pakistan through the land route of Wagah border here today to pay obeisance in the various Gurdwara (Sikh Shirnes) in Pakistan...