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Human Rights Day Special: As the world observes International Human Rights Day today, during the last week the Indian state and a large portion of the population, swathed in hate and revenge, did a leapfrog to turn the country into a banana republic. From the ... More »
In a first of its kind meeting held in Chennai, as part of the International Human Rights Day observance, budding human rights defenders and Naam Tamilar Katchi activists held a day-long seminar deliberating the Indian Constitutional Amendment Bill and the Nat... More »
The Sikhs are so used to being cheated by the government of India that India revels in so doing, time and again, even if it is the auspicious occasion of the 550 years of Guru Nanak or the life of a death-row convict. The prevarication of the government of Ind... More »
While nearer home, the people of Kashmir and Punjab are struggling for the right to self-determination against heavy odds and a grossly inhuman approach by the Indian government, it is in order to understand how the world over, governments are maltreating peop... More »
The Shillong Municipal Board, pursuing the agenda of the Meghalaya government is determined to uproot the poor Sikhs settled in the heart of Shillong since the last two hundred years. The World Sikh News presents the latest situation, as today, marks one year ... More »
The learned author explains why Tamils had struggled for Tamil Eelam and how Tamils who were the original inhabitants of Ceylon, now called Sri Lanka, were systematically reduced to second-class citizens in the island nation. The article was first published in... More »
The Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) and the Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS) have released the first comprehensive report on torture in Jammu and Kashmir, documenting inhuman degrading maltreatment since the last three deca... More »
As Kashmir shuts down today at the call of Syed Ali Shah Geelani of the Joint Resistance Leadership to protest the deteriorating health of JKLF leader Yasin Malik, his Pakistan-based wife Mushal Hussein Mullick seeks international and Pakistani intervention, w... More »
ਰਵਿੰਦਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਦੇ ਪਿਤਾ ਬਲਦੇਵ ਸਿੰਘ ਸਮੇਤ ਚਾਰੋਂ ਪੀੜਤ ਪਰਿਵਾਰਾਂ ਨੇ ਫਤਿਹਗੜ੍ਹ ਸਾਹਿਬ ਤੋਂ ਬਾਦਲ ਦਲ ਦੇ ਸੰਭਾਵੀ ਉਮੀਦਵਾਰ ਦਰਬਾਰਾ ਸਿੰਘ ਗੁਰੂ ਨੂੰ ਮੁੱਢੋਂ ਰੱਦ ਕਰਨ ਦੀ ਅਪੀਲ ਕੀਤੀ ਹੈ। ਅਖਬਾਰਾ ਰਾਂਹੀ ਬਾਦਲ ਦਲ ਨੇ ਸੰਕੇਤ ਦਿੱਤੇ ਹਨ ਕਿ ਸਾਬਕਾ ਨੌਕਰਸ਼ਾਹ ਦਰਬਾਰਾ ਸਿੰਘ ਗੁਰੂ ਨੂੰ ਫਤਿਹਗੜ੍ਹ ਸਾਹਿਬ ਤੋਂ ਸੰਭਾਵਤ ... More »
The Badal Dal has shortlisted former bureaucrat Darbara Singh Guru as its nominee for the reserved constituency of Fatehgarh Sahib. His name features in a Punjab and Haryana High Court petition as an accused in the killing of 4 Sikh youth in indiscriminate fir... More »
As the incidents of hate violence against Kashmiris still continue in parts of India, with the latest one in Delhi and Nagpur, Kashmiri leader Syed Geelani expresses gratitude to Sikhs for their kinship and love and praises their daring against Hindutva elemen... More »
In the wake of the deaths of 44 CRPF personnel in Kashmir, Hindu zealots across India are indulging in mobocracy against Kashmiris, Indian leadership jingoistic, Dalits blame Mannuwadis, Indian civil society virtually silent, Sikh Samaritans provide support, s... More »