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Daljit Singh Bittu, president of the Shiromani Dal Khalsa and a former chief of the All-India Sikh Students Federation, and his associate Gurcharan Singh Gama were sentenced to life imprisonment by a Special Tada Court headed by Additional Sessions Judge S.K. Garg here today...

Even as the Special House of the SGPC today rejected the demand for forming a separate gurdwara committee for Haryana, the committee members from Haryana announced that come what may, a committee for Haryana would be formed by getting the Sikh Gurdwara Act 1925 amended...

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The structure and design of Akal Takht were changed without taking the Sikh Panth into confidence while carrying out kar seva by Damdami Taksal after Operation Bluestar. The Taksal owes an explanation to the Sikhs as to why the old structure was not kept intact...

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While laying down a tough code for film and serial makers with regard to the playing of Sikh characters and the use of Sikh religious symbols and Gurbani in their productions, the SGPC President, Bibi Jagir Kaur, today said that the controversial film Jo Bole So Nihal had not only hurt the...

Even as the screening of the controversial Hindi film Jo Bole So Nihal has been stopped at the local cinema, a special show was arranged for members of the SGPC panel by owners of the theatre so that they could finalise their report scheduled to be submitted at the meeting at Chandigarh...

Bowing to the pressure of Sikh organisations, the director and producer of the controversial film, Jo Bole So Nihal today agreed in principle to accept all recommendations of the 15-member SGPC panel regarding removal of objectionable scenes from the movie...

In a major setback to the sub-committee constituted by Akal Takht which had given clean chit to the controversial Hindi film, Jo Bole So Nihal , the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) today constituted a 15-member panel of Sikh intellectuals which would submit its report on the movie...

Narinder Cinema went all khakhi today as some Sikh activists, who were protesting against screening of Hindi movie, Jo Bole So Nihal , turned unruly and started pelting stones at the cinema house and police officials deployed there as a preventive measure...

Mr Manjit Singh Calcutta, a veteran member of the SGPC, while supporting the demand for an international Sikh body, said the role of such an organisation should be limited to coordination among various Sikh institutions to resolve issues confronted by the community the world over these days ...

A committee of eminent experts on Sikh religion formed by the Akal Takht Jathedar, Giani Joginder Singh Vedanti, has given a clean chit to controversial film Jo Bole So Nihal even as the outrage against the movie continues, with some organisations determined not to allow its screening at any...

In a communication to Sharmila Tagore, Chairperson, Central Board of Film Certification, Sikh organisations have threatened to launch a series of protests if the board failed to impose blanket ban on the controversial film, Jo Bole So Nihal , proposed to be released on May 13 ...

The stage of Sikh politics is likely to be shifted to Patna Sahib even as the general secretary of the Takht Patna Sahib Management Committee (TPSMC), Mr Mohinder Singh Dhillon, today announced the crucial election of its office-bearers on May 29...

Wheat procurement in Punjab is going to fall short by at least 3 lakh tonnes over the last year s figures. Last year, various government agencies procured over 95 lakh tonnes wheat, but this year s figures so far are only 90.18 lakh tonnes...

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David Hackworth was a much-decorated and highly unconventional former career U.S. Army officer who became a combat legend in Vietnam, then enraged his superiors by lambasting the war on U.S. television...

Sikh devotees perform martial art in the procession taken out on the eve of the birth anniversary of Guru Arjan Dev in Amritsar on Saturday. Students protest against the proposed privatisation of government schools at Khemuana village, near Bathinda, on Saturday...

The CPI and the CPM, which have decided to launch a joint struggle against the proposed privatisation of the health services, education and the PSEB and other public sector undertakings, said today that the politicisation of historic Sikh religious occasions and the political exploitation of...

The Shiromani Akali Dal Delhi today snapped its ties with SAD (Badal) over allegation of horse-trading over single seat co-option election to the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee...