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 Ravidassia Community Rejects Idea of New Religion
10
February 2010
JALANDHAR: In a thorough and complete rejection of the move by the
Dera Sachkhanad Ballan sect of Ravidasia community that had decided
to move away from Sri Guru Granth Sahib... |
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Five SGPC employees fined for dyeing beard
3
February 2010
AMRITSAR: Five
employees of Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) have
been fined with Rs 5,100 each for dyeing their beards. SGPC chief
Avtar Singh... |
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 Ravidassi Dera parts ways with Sikhism
3
February 2010
JALANDHAR: Even
as debate is on whether it is just a marginal fringe element from
the Ravidassia sect or a widespread feeling among that caste, the
fact remains that... |
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Nanakshahi: Splitting the community
27January 2010
SACRAMENTO:
Management committees of gurdwaras in Sacramento area met to discuss
Nanakshahi Calendar on January 24, 2010, and strongly advocated that
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 COMMUNITY SHOCKER: Prof Darshan Singh attacked in Asansol
20
January 2010
ASANSOL: In a shocking development, a few people on Tuesday attacked
Prof Darshan Singh, former Jathedar of Sri Akal Takht, at Asansol in
West Bengal when... |
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Suit against new Nanakshahi calendar
13
January 2010
CHANDIGARH: A
civil suit seeking restraint on the implementation of new Nanakshahi
calendar was filed in city’s district court by Harmohinder Singh,
convener, Punjab
unit, Shiromani Akali Dal, Delhi... |
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 Damdami Taksal head Bhai Ram Singh slams changes in Nanakshahi
13
January 2010
GURDASPUR: Even as the Damdami Taksal led by Bhai Harnam Singh
Dhumma took the lead in collusion with the Sant Samaj to effect
changes in the Nanakshahi,,, |
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 Nanakshahi Changes Come Under Fire from US Sikhs
13
January 2010
FREMONT: If there was a recipe to enrage the Diaspora Sikhs,
ignore their reasoned debate and pleas, and isolate itself
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Panth Protests in
vain, vows to follow the old almanac
6
January 2010
Panthic
organisations of all hues and shades, from Amritsar to Mumbai, from
Geneva to Vancouver, from California to London have expressed
disgust at the dilution of... |
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 Badalshahi On
Nanakshahi
6
January 2010
AMRITSAR: In the
name of Panthic unity, Giani Gurbachan Singh, the Jathedar of Akal
Takht Sahib ratified the SGPC decision of January 3, 2009 to make... |
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 Will Nanakshahi Come to Harm From Akal Takht? Guru Bhala Kare!
30
December 2009
AMRITSAR:
Irrespective of the fault lines appearing to widen within the Sikh
clergy, the Jathedars as a whole came increasingly under pressure of
the Sant Samaj lobby... |
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 Prof Darshan Singh not to appear at Akal Takht
30
December 2009
PHAGAWARA: Akal
takht jatehdar Prof Darshan Singh has said he will not be appearing
before the Sikh clergy on January 7 when he has been summoned to
listen to... |
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 Nanakshahi: The Onslaught
Continues
23
December 2009
We need a clergy
that can stand up to pressures from Sants, the RSS, the Badals, the
opportunists, the renegades. If it is asking for too much, then
simply recall that... |
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 Sikh clergy acts
action on Prof Darshan Singh will divide quom
9
December 2009
AMRITSAR: Every sane mind in the Sikh community had thought that the
clergy at the Akal Takht, the SGPC and any right thinking group will
somehow prevent things... |
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 Now, SGPC falls within the ambit of RTI Act
9
December 2009
Chandigarh: Once
again reiterating that the functioning of the SGPC comes within the
ambit of the RTI Act, Punjab Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) R
I Singh... |
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 Now, Rajasthan Sikhs raise voice for separate SGPC
2
December 2009
Sriganganagar/Abohar:
While vowing to remain accountable to Akal Takht, the newly formed
Rajasthan Sikh Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (RSGPC) resolved... |
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 Summoning Prof Darshan
Singh unfortunate, do not divide quom
25
November 2009
SAN
JOSE: In hard-hitting comments, the American Sikh Organization (ASO)
has hit out at the coterie that has been trying to guide the affairs
at Sri Akal Takht Sahib and said... |
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 FIFTH
TIME: Flexible Makkar is SGPC president again
25
November 2009
AMRITSAR:
Avtar Singh Makkar who at one stage was seen as a Falstaff who had
become the King seems to have become well entrenched, thanks to the
art of obsequousness... |
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 Tankhah to Jhinda, explanation from Prof Darshan Singh
18
November 2009
AMRITSAR: In the
continuing intra-community bitter warfare, the top Sikh clergy that
met at Sri Akal Takht Sahib on Tuesday pronounced religious
punishment... |
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 After keeping away, SGPC rushes to join train shut down
11
November 2009
LUDHIANA:
Seething with rage and angry at the Indian Government's utter
disinclination to even acknowledge the hurt and pain that the Sikh
community went... |
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 Sikhs Denounce Sant Samaj Move On Nanakshahi Calender
28
October 2009
Los
Angeles: Sikhs in America have condemned the Gurmat Sidhant
Parcharak Sant Samaj for revolting against Jathedar of Takht Shri
Damdama Sahib, Balwant Singh... |
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Dal
Khalsa calls for Punjab Bandh on Nov 3
28
October 2009
AMRITSAR: Dal
Khalsa has announced a Punjab Bandh on November 3 to mark the 25th
anniversary of the Genocide of Sikhs carried out under the
brahmanical rulers of India and not without passive... |
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 Nanakshahi Calendar intact, Jathedars dither
21
October 2009
AMRITSAR: In a move that smacked of some behind-the-scenes pressure
tactics, the Five Singh Sahibans of the community huddled together
at the Akal Takht Sahib... |
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 Appeasement Galore
14
October 2009
Even as the Sikh youth arrested in Austria continue to languish
behind bars and there is no movement on listening to their side of
the story, the Punjab Government... |
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 Separate Haryana SGPC tussle issue: Jhinda's fate on hold
7
October 2009
AMRITSAR: Making a strong intervention in an issue laced with
electoral politics and allegedly divisive agendas, Akal Takht
Jathedar Giani Gurbachan Singh has said... |
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 RED RAG: A Non-Sikh Is Gurdwara Election Commissioner, SGPC angry
7
October 2009
AMRITSAR:
In keeping with its persistent anti-Sikh stance, the Indian
government has appointed a non-Sikh officer as Chief Gurdwara
Election Commissioner, raising... |
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 Enough Is Enough
23
September 2009
After days of
immense patience in the face of highly provocative actions of some
sections of the Ravidasia community, the Sikh panth has finally
decided to show its... |
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 Sikh groups enact Mahabharata in Kurukshetra over gurdwara
16
September 2009
KURUKSHETRA: Last week, a group of Sikhs led by proactive supporters
of a separate SGPC for Haryana ousted the SGPC employees from the
historic Chhavin... |
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SGPC chief’s new line on All India Gurdwara Act: Delay is Good
9
September 2009
CHANDIGARH: At a
time when wide sections of the Sikh community think that imbroglios
like the one concerniong the demand for a separate SGPC for Haryana
Sikhs... |
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 SGPC finds a 'Singh' in Pavit Mattwal, says father-son duo did great service
9
September 2009
Chandigarh:
Close chums of the ruling Badals of Punjab, advocate general H S
Mattewal and his clean shaven son Pavit Mattewal, have pushed the
SGPC president... |
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 Akal Takht Jathedar says he’s working for release of Sikh detenues
2
September 2009
Giani Gurbachan Singh, Jathedar of Sri Akal Takht Sahib, who was
here on a special invitation of the managing committee of Gurdwara
Sahib, Fremont, received a... |
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 Enough is enough, you aren't serious: Lawyer
slams SGPC
2
September 2009
CHANDIGARH: In a significant development, a senior lawyer engaged
repeatedly by the SGPC and also otherwise known for his advocacy of
cases concerning the Sikh... |
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 SGPC
panel trashes UNESCO dossier
26
August 2009
AMRITSAR:
The dossier once supplied to the UNESCO to solicit world heritage
status for Harmandar Sahib is full of blunders, the SGPC panel has
concluded, and... |
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 Haryana SGPC imbroglio continues as both sides dig in
19
August 2009
AMRITSAR/CHANDIGARH: The eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation on the
issue of a separate SGPC for Haryana showed little sign of abating
as the general house... |
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 HSGPC May Lead to Confrontation Path
12
August 2009
NEW DELHI/AMRITSAR: In a week of fast-paced developments on the
issue of separate SGPC for Haryana, Akali Dal MPs, backed by a few
other supporters, rocked... |
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 Dal Khalsa takes the sheen off Outlook's faded reporter
1
July 2009
FREMONT: Dal
Khalsa organization has written to the World Sikh News hailing its
despatch on India's Outlook magazine's reportage of the function to
commemorate... |
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Panel to move court on Sikh Reference
Library
24
June 2009
AMRITSAR: A
five-member committee formed by Sikh bodies on the issue of the Sikh
Reference Library on Tuesday released its preliminary report,
claiming that the... |
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 Akal Takht jathedar speaks out for one party
24
June 2009
AMRITSAR/ANANDPUR SAHIB: In a rather peculiar statement, but in
keeping with the kind that the Sikh clergymen regularly spout, the
Akal Takht jathedar has said... |
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 KAC, Dal Khalsa march for 1978
Martyrs
15
April 2009
AMRITSAR: To voice
anger against activities of the pseudo-cults of Nirankaris,
Ashutoshias and Sirsa Dera, the Khalsa Action Committee and Dal
Khalsa undertook a... |
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 Officially unofficial security arrangements are norm at Golden Temple
25 March 2009
Amritsar:
Innocous reading news items about presence of Punjab Policemen
inside Sikh religious places routinely appear in Indian newspapers
and have stopped... |
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Jhinda dares Makkar on relics row
11
March 2009
AMRITSAR: An
ugly row has broken out in Punjab and Haryana after SGPC president
Avtar Singh Makkar accused Jagdish Singh Jhinda, president of the
Haryana... |
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Makkar proves SGPC is a wing of
Badal Akali Dal
11
March 2009
AMRITSAR: Often
facing criticism that the SGPC is being run as a wing of the
Shirmani Akali Dal led by Parkash Singh Badal and his son Sukhbir
Badal, the... |
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 Sikh Reference Library issue raked again
25 February 2009
India’s Defence
Minister A K Antony, normally known as a politician above board and
with little luggage of history towards Sikhs... |
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.jpg) Vedanti spots wisdom: SGPC has political interference
7 January
2009
Hoshiarpur:
Wisdom often dawns slightly later than it is most required. Former
Jathedar of Akal Takht, the supreme temporal seat of the Sikhs... |
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DSGMC asks Makkar, executive to quit
24 December
2008
NEW DELHI:
Taking strong exception to the definition of Sehajdhari Sikh
submitted to the High Court by the SGPC, the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara
Management Committee... |
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West Bengal Singh Sabhas rise against SGPC
affidavit
17 December
2008
Sikhs of
Calcutta have strongly risen against the machinations of the certain
powers within the SGPC which were responsible for distorting the... |
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SGPC's Affidavit on High Court
SGPC executive committee resolution
17 December
2008
That the
deponent is the Secretary of Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak
Committee, Amritsar Sahib and being in knowledge of the facts
present case... |
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 Bhai Daljit Singh slams affidavit, wants
Makkar to quit
17 December
2008
Intervening strongly in the imbroglio triggered by the SGPC's goof
up in submitting an affidavit to the Punjab and Haryana High Court
defining Sehajdhari... |
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Khalsa Panchayat blasts SGPC on affidavit
17 December
2008
Reacting to the SGPC's affidavit submitted before the Punjab
and Haryana High Court, the Shiromani Khalsa Panchayat has said it
vehemently... |
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 Black episode for Sikh community as SGPC
falls into RSS trap
17 December
2008
For decades, the brahamanical lobby led by hardcore Hindutva
champion RSS termed the Sikhs as "Keshadhari Hindus". Now, the
powers-that-be at the... |
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How the sequence unfold
17 December
2008
The issue came
up when an SGPC run college refused admission to a girl saying she
cut her hair and therefore cannot be ... |
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 SGPC In Mess: Bluff called after bid to twist
definition of Sehajdhari
10 December
2008
Finally, and
perhaps knowingly well the consequences, in one single swoop,
the SGPC has fulfilled a decades-old wish of the RSS-BJP and
the Hindutva brigade of secularising... |
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Haryana gurdwara panel alleges intimidation
10 December
2008
Karnal: The
parallel Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, formed by the Sikhs of
Haryana, has alleged that the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak
Committee... |
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 ‘SGPC is Run by Akali Dal, What’s Your Doubt Exactly?’
26 November
2008
AMRITSAR: If it
has happened umpteen times in the past, could it be news? Well, it
is news so long as we keep missing the gravity of it all. In a
complete go by to the last... |
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Now Takhts outside Punjab raise row over Damdama Sahib
19 November
2008
AMRITSAR/TALWANDI
SABO: Within days of the Gurta Gaddi celebrations getting over, a
new controversy has come to light. In some ways it is a pretty... |
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Haryana separate body lobby sets 30 days
deadline
10 September 2008
KARNAL: Confrontation is
brewing faster than expected. At the PM's intervention, the ruling
Akali Dal of Punjab had called off the August 30 rally in Karnal... |
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 Vedanti snubs SAD, SGPC, says he doesn't want any honor
20 August, 2008
Chandigarh:
Delivering a snub to the Akali Dal and the SGPC, former Akal Takht
jathedar Joginder Singh Vedanti has said the SGPC kept on ignoring
his advice... |
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Akal takht jathedar talks of formula search for dera row
13 August, 2008
AMRITSAR:
Clearly, under the new dispensation at the top temporal seat, it
will take quite some time for any decision on Dera Sirsa front. Akal
Takht's acting.. |
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