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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
they will follow the 2003 version that carried the... |
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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
Religio Political
13
January 2010
FREMONT: If there was a recipe to enrage the Diaspora Sikhs, ignore
their reasoned debate and pleas, and isolate itself completely from
the wider Sikh sentiment... |
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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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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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Vedanti heckled, leaves ardas function for Mumbai martyr in a huff
9
July, 2008
JAMARAI (TARN
TARAN):
Heckling is an art that has been perfected by SAD (Amritsar) chief
Simranjit Singh Mann and his supporters, some of whom... |
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Dal Khalsa tells Akalis to stop VCs’ witch
hunt
25
June, 2008
AMRITSAR: Dal
Khalsa has taken exception to Akali Dal leadership politicizing the
institutions of higher education in the state. In a statement, party
leaders Kanwar Pal Singh... |
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Community in knots as Takht fights Takht
11
June, 2008
AMRITSAR/PATNA:
AT a time of extreme crisis within the Sikh community, here is the
snap shot from the battle front in the year of Guru’ta Gaddi
celebrations.. |
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Makkar puts foot in mouth on violence
question
4
June,
2008
AMRITSAR: Sinister are the
ways in which opinions and thought processes are impacted. There was
no end to the doomsayers who wanted Barack Obama... |
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Dal Khalsa rues SGPC silcence on 84 memorial
28
May,
2008
AMRITSAR:
The silence of the SGPC on the issue of erecting a memorial for
those who died during the army attack on Darbar Sahib in June 1984
was decreed by Dal Khalsa... |
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Baba Santa Singh dead, his heirs compete for estate worth crores
21
May,
2008
Patiala/Kotkapura:
Death of any public figure is normally an occasion for an assessment of his
or her role, significance of his or her work... |
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Dal Khalsa joins issue with Badal on Vedanti's pro-Khalistan remarks
7
May,
2008
CHANDIGARH:
Describing the formation of Sikh state as inalienable right of the
community, the Dal Khalsa lambasted Parkash Singh Badal for... |
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Patna Jathedar tells Sukhbir to become a
Khalsa
16
April 2008
CHANDIGARH: Once
the bitter fight starts over some spoils, it becomes easier to
notice the flaws the size of Indian Ocean which one had missed
earlier... |
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KAC set to file complaint against Badal on Advani book
16
April 2008
DAMDAMA SAHIB: The
Khalsa Action Committee last Monday passed a resolution saying it
will file a complaint against Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh
Badal... |
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Drafting committee formed for Jathedar norms
2
April
2008
To outline
working procedure for the jathedar, a 17-member committee
of eminent scholars and well known academicians having deep faith in
Sikh ideology... |
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Budget exercise a slur on democratic norms
2
April
2008
AMRITSAR:
When a devout bows before the holy Guru Granth Sahib, kneels, and before
saying his little prayer within, humbly places his little offering... |
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SGPC chief hits out at Akal Takht
2
April
2008
Amritsar: Peeved
with the ongoing series of seminars and discussions and a move of
the Dal Khalsa to set up a committee for laying down the
procedure... |
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Sikhs raise right of self-determination at Geneva
19
March 2008
Geneva:
Sikh representatives from all across the world participated in the
UN Human rights meet at the UN office in
Geneva on March 15 and sought the right... |
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The Supreme under scan
12
March 2008
Amritsar: Sikh scholars, legal brains and heads of Sikh
socio-religious organizations unanimously passed a resolution
reiterating that the Akal Takht was supreme... |
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IHRO trains guns at Takht Patna Sahib Jathedar,
complains to Akal Takht
12
March 2008
Jalandhar: Taking
strong notice of the utterances of Takht Sri Patna Sahib jathedar
Iqbal Singh against the Sikh Rehat Maryada and on supremacy of the
Akal Takht... |
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Nandgarh-led march against dera head called off
27
February 2008
SRIGANGANAGAR:
After a 70-hour standoff between the Rajasthan government and
hundreds of Sikhs led by Takht Damdama sahib... |
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KAC leaders, workers released from
Bathinda jail
20 February 2008
BATHINDA:
Arrested by the Punjab Police with an aim of thwarting the Sikh
community’s expression of rage against the rogue head of Sirsa based
dera.. |
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War of the Takhts
30 January 2008
PATNA SAHIB/AMRITSAR:
"N' number of agendas won't do" was how the WSN editorial in the
last issue was titled, arguing that the community... |
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Sarkozy fails to cozy up to Sikhs
30 January 2008
NEW DELHI: The
French president Nicolas Sarkozy was here, and the Sikh community
remained totally focussed on the issue of ban on turban... |
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Turbanating the issue
23 January 2008
NEW
DELHI/AMRITSAR/PARIS: By the time this edition of WSN will be in
your hands, the French president Nicholas Sarkozy would have landed
in India... |
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Now, Punjab told not to file
chargesheet against dera head
23 January 2008
CHANDIGARH: Indian
establishment has ways of letting down the Sikh nation, and its
various wings seem to be acting in tandem... |
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SGPC to start eight new schools
26 December
2007
PATIALA: The Shiromani
Gurdwara Prabhandhak Committee (SGPC) will open quality education schools in
all the districts of the state. This was... |
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Bedi issue: Takht summons for Makkar sought
26 December
2007
AMRITSAR: Executive members of the Shiromani Gurdwara
Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), Karnail Singh Panjoli and Gurvinder
Singh Shampura... |
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Want to register Sikh marriage? Pak offers you
the chance
12 December
2007
ISLAMABAD/AMRITSAR: Pakistan seems to be all ready for enacting the
separate law for registering Sikh marriages, a step which... |
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Dalai Lama in Amritsar joins religious heads
to promote love
28 November 2007
Amritsar: His Holiness the Dalai Lama joined some 50
senior religious figures at a major inter-faith dialogue this week
in Amritsar on how... |
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Makkar effects wholesale transfers of SGPC
top brass
28 November, 2007
AMRITSAR: Re-annointed
as SGPC president, Avtar Singh Makkar has now entrusted charge of most of
the sought after departments to controversial secretary Harbeant Singh... |
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King Lear Loves The Fool, Akali Bard Ordains
Falstaff To Be Emperor Again
21 November, 2007
AMRITSAR: Envelope spouted
the same name at the SGPC election as The Bard of the Akalis... |
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Clintons skip Bakersfield Sikh Parade, leave community
unhappy
21 November, 2007
BAKERSFIELD, CA: For days, the excitement was in
the air. The Clintons were to participate in the bakersfield Sikh parade... |
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New site on Dasam Granth
14
November, 2007
With the debate on the Dasam Granth
getting ever so hot, Gurcharanjit Singh Lamba (Editor Sant Sipahi)
and the IHRO (International Human Rights Organisation) have... |
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Sikh jatha invited to Pak despite emergency
14
November, 2007
Amritsar: Despite
an emergency having been imposed in Pakistan, Bishan Singh, the president of
the Pakistan Sikh Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee... |
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Printing of Birs by pvt publishers banned
14
November, 2007
Amritsar: District
magistrate Kahan Singh Pannu here has issued orders to prevent the
publication of Birs (copies) of Guru Granth .... |
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SGPC to get scriptures translated into English
24 October,
2007
AMRITSAR: The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee
(SGPC) has announced that it will get the task of translating the
Guru Granth Sahib in English done. The decision was taken ..... |
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Jagjit Singh drums his way into Guiness Record
17 October, 2007
BRAMPTON: On October 8, Jagjit Singh Batalvi
drummed his way into the record books, playing the traditional... |
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Mangalore: Sikhs' Dream Realized
17 October, 2007
Megalomania is the
flavor of the season in Punjab, and with the man called Sukhbir
Singh Badal at the helm, no discussion is complete unless... |
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SGPC
reiterates Sikh position on culinary questions
3 October, 2007
AMRITSAR: In a press release issued after a few provocations, the
SGPC has commented on certain questions raised about the culinary
domain and said that in Sikhism... |
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Dissident Damdami
Taksal activists stayed away from bhog
3 October, 2007
Amritsar: A faction of the activists owing allegiance to Baba Thakur
Singh of Damdami Taksal kept away from the bhog ceremonies of Bibi
Pritam Kaur, wife of late Sant Jarnail Singh... |
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Vedanti denies issuing ‘fatwa’
26 September
2007
Ayodhya: Senior VHP leader Ram Vilas Vedanti on Sunday denied having
issued any fatwa against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi for
the latter’s comments on Lord Ram... |
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Makkar wants sarovar in Rajasthan Gurdwara
26 September 2007
Chandigarh: In view of the tercentenary of the Gurgaddi Divas of
Guru Gobind Singh next year, SGPC president Avtar Singh Makkar met
Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara... |
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Declare Amritsar 'tobacco-free’, Sikhs tell PM
26 September
2007
CHANDIGARH: The Khalsa Action Committee, an umbrella organisation of
a few Sikh organisations including the faction led by Bhai Daljit
Singh Bittu, has urged Prime Minister... |
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KAC submits memo to PM on drugs issue
pleads for Amritsar as no-smoking city
26 September
2007
Amritsar: The Khalsa
Action Committee has submitted a Memorandum to Dr. Manmohan Singh,
Prime Minister of India, through the Amritsar Deputy Commissioner on
the occasion of anti-tobacco-drugs... |
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SGPC trips on book, says it will get scanned
entire literature
12 September 2007
AMRITSAR: Controversy dogs SGPC at every step. Now a book titled Sikh Itihas
has been found as carrying many anti-Sikhism notions and the SGPC,
after it came under conserted... |
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Vedanti’s letters put SGPC in tight spot
12 September, 2007
JALANDHAR:
Akal
Takht jathedar Joginder Singh Vedanti has sent two letters to SGPC
president Avtar Singh Makkar, pushing the gurdwara management
committee on the... |
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Sikh anger against Sirsa sadh, arrests of Mann, Bittu
explodes on US streets
8 August, 2007
New York/San Francisco: The burning Sikh demand
for action against Sirsa's self-styled Dera Sacha Sauda head Gurmeet Ram
Rahim.... |
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HAF opposes Return of Hindu, Sikh refugees to
Afghanistan
18 July, 2007
NEW YORK: A Washington-based Hindu Human
Rights advocacy group has urged the governments of Britain and Germany .... |
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Akal Takht cancels Ratia rally at 11th hour, Badal's
cops stop Khalsa March
11 July, 2007
Chandigarh: Trust the leadership to fail you when you need it the
most... |
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DSGMC calls conclave to push for simpler marriages
18 July, 2007
NEW DELHI: If you move around in the
company of Bill and Hillary Clinton, your life style, rituals and marriage
functions are likely to.... |
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India remained unmoved by bust sale but pulls out all
for Gandhi’s letter
4 July 2007
LONDON: Could there be a contrast more
stark? The stance of the Indian government at the time when the marble bust
of Maharaja Duleep... |
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Pak Sikh shrines get an Islamic hue
4 July 2007
AMRITSAR: Ignorance or deliberate
needling? That is still to be decided, but a number of Sikh shrines in
Pakistan are acquiring a character which... |
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KAC fights Dera, SGPC fights KAC
4 July 2007
AMRITSAR/SIRSA: At a time when the Khalsa
Action Committee, the umbrella body of many a panthic organisations, is
leading the struggle against... |
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He does it Again
13 June 2007
Twenty-four hours before a panthic delegation
was to meet Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on June 11, and at a
time... |
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Chalabi Visits Baghdad's destroyed sikh shrine
6 June, 2007
BAGHDAD: Iraq is keen to rebuild a historic Sikh
shrine commemorating Guru Nanak's visit to Baghdad, which had been destroyed
by 'fanatics... |
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Release names of those the police killed in fake
encounters: Khalra panel
16 May, 2007
Chandigarh: The Khalra Mission
Organisation (KMO) has demanded that the Punjab government should release
the names of all the innocent .... |
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Sikhs' status as minority in India in danger, PM
clears amendment
9 May, 2007
Chandigarh: One of the biggest attacks on the
status of Sikhs in India is on way. You have been warned. The Government of
India .... |
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Pak to build memorial to Sikh massacre at Hasan Abdal
18 April 2007
AMRITSAR: Pakistan’s
Federal Minister for Religious Affairs Ejaz-ul-Haq has said
that the government of Pakistan will build a memorial... |
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SGPC chief tinkers with Nanakshahi, triggers fresh row
4 April,
2007
Amritsar: The SGPC president Avtar Singh
Makkar's unilateral decision to amend the Nanakshahi Calendar, has evoked
sharp criticism from Sikh diaspora around the world.... |
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Sikhs lose fight for turban in French schools
28 March 2007
CHANDIGARH: After months of persistent
campaigning, the Sikhs have suffered a defeat on the issue of their
school children's right to wear... |
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Turban Ban
28 March 2007
Amritsar: Before the Sikhs’ single largest
representative body, the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, could
raise... |
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Jamrod Hill at Antarctica, Nishan Sahib on ship
28 March 2007
San Francisco: In a truly aspirational and
inspiring development, a group of Sikhs has now gone and planted a Nishan
Sahib at Antarctica... |
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San Jose gurdwara celebrates New Year as per
Nanakshahi almanac
21 March, 2007
At the Gurdwara San Jose, the 538th New Year as per the Nanakshahi Calendar
was celebrated with much enthusiasm and a feeling .... |
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Badal at Namdhari Darbar: Announces chair in dehdhari
guru's name at GNDU
14 March, 2007
Bhani Sahib: One of the first places where
Punjab CM Parkash Singh Badal paid obeisance after ascending to the throne
for the fourth time... |
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Man turns to Sikhism, leaves life of crime
14 February 2007
LONDON: This is the story of a man who turned to
Sikhism and wanted to make his life a clean slate. He was perceived as a
benefits.... |
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Special visitor at Sikh temple
14 February 2007
WARRINGTON: The Gurdwara at Dover Road Latchford
received a very special guest this week all the way from India. Jathedar... |
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Sikh Scholar prepare Hijri Calendar
7 February,
2007
Lahore:In
an another breakthrough in building relations with India, the Pakistan
government has released a Hijri Calendar 1 AH to 1500 AH for Muslims
prepared by an eminent Sikh... |
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Bid for boy king’s forgotten bust
7 February,
2007
London: A rare and
almost forgotten bust of Maharaja Duleep Singh, the boy king of
Punjab who was exiled to Britain by the East India Company in 1849,
will be auctioned... |
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Sikh bodies to boycott French goods
29 November, 2006
CHAMKAUR SAHIB: Hit them where it hurts
most. And it hurts nowhere most as their business. Various Sikh religious
bodies have decided to boycott... |
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US Homeland Security moves to explain
Kirpan's position
22 November 2006
The Sikh article of faith, the sword which all baptised Sikhs wear
all the time, has been the source of hostile encounters with screeners... |
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Gurdwaras, Wakfs also come under RTI Act'
22 November 2006
NEW DELHI: Gurdwara managements, Wakf boards, cricket
boards and Cooperative bodies are among entities accountable under the
Right... |
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Makkar likely to get another term as SGPC
chief
14
November, 2007
Patiala: As the
election for the post of the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee
president nears (November 23), there are no visible... |
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Denmark Sikh loses sword case, sword too
25 October 2006
AAHRUS (DENMARK): The Sikh youth
Ripudaman Singh, who was facing trial because he was wearing a
traditional... |
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Akal Takht backs celebrations connected to
Zafarnama
18 October, 2006
CHANDIGARH: Notwithstanding the
controversy about Dasam Granth, Akal Takht has given its nod to go ahead
with celebrating.... |
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Amritsar: Heritage Or Beautification Plans ?
11 October, 2006
It used to be my city. Now, I feel it is
not only my city but also it has become a global city. In fact, Amritsar is
a unique city. Sri Harmandar Sahib... |
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Hawara, Balwant Singh termed Sikh Nayaks at Ardas
Diwas function
8 August, 2007
AMRITSAR: In a display of solidarity with Bhai
Jagtar Singh Hawara and Bhai Balwant Singh, as also with Bhai Davinder Pal
Singh .... |
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World Sikh Organization of Canada Reacts to 'Breaking
the Silence'
1 August, 2007
OTTAWA: The World Sikh Organization of Canada (WSO) has reacted
to a story "Operation Silence" published by
Tehelka.com, saying..... |
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Badal makes himself chairman of All India Gurdwara Act
panel
1 August, 2007
CHANDIGARH: Secular Akali Dal's
president and Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has made himself the
Chairman of .... |
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Death for Jagtar Singh Hawara, Balwant Singh, 3 get
life term
1 August, 2007
Chandigarh: Predictable was the course the Indian establishment took
finally, its kangaroo court presided over by a CBU judge ..... |
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Is SGPC covered under the RTI? Legal eagles say yes
AMRITSAR: If the Shiromani Gurudwara Parbandhak
Committee, its working and decisions often come under criticism from various
quarters... |
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