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# In Uttar Pradesh, a woman, who told the police and the court that she was raped, later said she was not raped. # In Chandigarh, a woman, who told the police and the court that she was raped, later said she was not raped. In Uttar Pradesh, the accused are sen... More »
India and Pakistan go through their routine rituals of ‘independence’ celebrations on 14 and 15 August 2021 respectively, after the mega-sized colony of British India was carved up in 1947 into a new Hindu and Muslim territorial block to swiftly affect the und... More »
In the mid-term polls of office bearers of the Managing Committee of Takht Sri Harmandir Ji, Patna Saheb, a team owing allegiance to the Shiromani Akali Dal Badal sweeped the elections defeating some key post holders. Incumbent President Delhi-based Avtar Sing... More »
Despite losing heritage buildings, social, religious and Sikh national archive material and artefacts over the decades, the apex Gurdwara management body of the Sikhs, also called the Sikh Parliament, has not learnt anything. There is no effort whatsoever to t... More »
In the death of Dr Darshan Singh Tatla on 4th July in Birmingham, the academic field of Punjab and Sikh studies has lost an internationally reputed scholar of unique talent, commitment and achievements. If I had to name one person whose thoughts, feelings, dre... More »
A star isn’t always someone who stares down at you from gigantic billboards. Someone who appears on a screen looks like your neighbour or relative, and quietly makes a place in your heart and hippocampus, is also a star. Sr Journalist SP Singh pays a very pers... More »
With a brute majority in Parliament, the Bharatiya Janata Party is in a grand hurry to foist its divisive agenda and political tactics across the country. While announcing its new cabinet, the Narendra Modi government declared the home address of Union Ministe... More »
The squeeze is getting tighter by the day. NDTV’s campaign to eulogise Manjinder Singh Sirsa as a larger-than-life Sewadar of the Sikh community will not be able to save his image of being a corrupt president, the likes of which the DSGMC has not seen before. ... More »
ਇੱਕ ਇਹੋ ਜਿਹੇ ਸਮੇਂ ਜਦੋਂ ਪੰਜਾਬ ਭਰ ਵਿੱਚ ਇੱਕ ਪੁਨਰ ਜਾਗ੍ਰਿਤੀ ਵਾਲਾ ਅੰਦੋਲਨ ਚੱਲ ਰਿਹਾ ਹੋਵੇ, ਲੜਾਈ ਹੋਂਦ ਦੀ ਹੋਵੇ, ਖਿੱਤੇ ਨੇ ਦਿੱਲੀ ਦੇ ਤਖ਼ਤ ਨਾਲ ਟੱਕਰ ਲਈ ਹੋਵੇ ਤਾਂ ਕੀ ਇਹ ਸਿਆਸੀ ਪਾਰਟੀਆਂ ਨੂੰ ਜ਼ੇਬ ਦੇਂਦਾ ਹੈ ਕਿ ਉਹ ਸਿਆਸਤ ਦੇ ਸਵਾਲਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਇਸ ਹੱਦ ਤਕ ਮਨਫ਼ੀ ਕਰ ਦੇਣ ਕਿ ਕੋਈ ਨਾਰਾਜ਼ ਕ੍ਰਿਕਟਰ ਤੋਂ ਸਿਆਸਤੀ... More »
Injustice to Father Stanislaus Lourduswamy will remain as an indelible blot on the Indian justice system and the gross political injustice to dissidents by the Indian state machinery. Swamy died on a ventilator while in judicial custody at a hospital in Mumbai... More »
After nearly two years of snatching the full state status from J & K, today, Indian PM Narendra Modi is meeting Kashmiri leadership “without an agenda” and the Kashmir leadership wants to discuss “restoration of Article 370.” The mainstream media feeds us as t... More »
Under pressure from the international community to conduct polls in Jammu and Kashmir, the government of India is plotting demographic change, delimitation and gerrymandering. In August 2019, it suddenly dropped the bombshell of converting Jammu and Kashmir in... More »