because the truth needs to be told
To protest the November 1984 attack on innocent Sikhs as one of the largest state-sponsored pogroms in India -the so-called largest democracy in the world, Dal Khalsa will hold a Rights and Justice March in Amritsar on November 3, culminating in the foreground... More »
The Simranjit Singh Mann-led Shiromani Akali Dal Amritsar observed Ardas Diwas at Gurdwara Rakabganj Sahib in New Delhi to commemorate the memory of all those killed in November 1984. Speaking on the occasion, Simranjit Singh Mann debunked the role of Sardar V... More »
The Supreme Court of Canada has disallowed the World Sikh Organization the leave to appeal against the decision of the Quebec National Assembly to not permit WSO representatives Harminder Kaur and Balpreet Singh to present their views in January 2011 on Bill 9... More »
As the government of Punjab does not seem to budge at all despite the four-month long Morcha led by Jathedar Dhian Singh Mand, a 20-member delegation of the Bargari Morcha met the Punjab governor VP Singh Badnore reiterating its demand for arrest and trial of ... More »
During the course of the last week, the British government announced a ‘refresh’ of Action Against Hate (2016), a part of their four-year hate crime action plan, to ‘address specific concerns across all 5 monitored strands of hate crime.’ New measures like a L... More »
Unable to withstand public pressure on the issue of handling the sacrilege issue by his party –Shiromani Akali Dal led by Parkash Singh Badal and Sukhbir Singh Badal, the doyen of Akali politics in the Majha region of Punjab –Ranjit Singh Brahmpura, who has a ... More »
Unable to face his own people in private or public for the past few months, in view of the anger of the Sikhs over his proximity to the Shiromani Akali Dal Badal and his role in granting pardon to the Sauda Dera chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim, also under pressure of ... More »
Months after the general elections were held for the Takht Harmandir Patna Sahib Committee under the Takht Harmandir Sahib Gurdwara Management Act, 1956, DSGMC nominee and former legislator from Delhi, Avtar Singh Hit was unanimously elected as the President o... More »
Turbaned Sikh motorcyclists in the Ontario state of Canada will not need helmets announced the provincial government in response to a bill introduced by the young and dynamic newly elected MPP Prabmeet Singh Sarkaria. Instead of passing the new legislation, t... More »
Turban or no turban, Sikh women in Chandigarh are likely to be allowed to ride two-wheelers in this capital city of Punjab without a helmet. The Union government of India has asked the Union Territory government to enact a legislation as has been done by Punja... More »
On 3 October, when the UN Secretary General Mr Antonio Guterres lands in Amritsar on the personal section of his 4-day visit to India, he would be the first high-ranking UN official to visit Darbar Sahib. As SGPC prepares to honour him during his brief visit, ... More »
Unable to bear the strain anymore of the Akali Dal having gone astray from its mandated path of upholding the Akali spirit of truthfulness and respect the ideals of the party, Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa, veteran Akali parliamentarian, secretary-general of the party... More »