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Top-level security protocols in India are not really the stuff of public discourse, and except for a handful of people and veteran journalists who have frequently travelled with successive prime ministers, hardly anyone understands the intricacies of security,... More »
How would the Sikh community, Punjabis at large and, in fact, all right-thinking people, react if the Government of Punjab was to make a law that it was legally mandatory for people to visit the Gurdwaras to pay obeisance to a Sikh Guru? Don’t try and jump to ... More »
Defeating his second-time challenger Simarjit Singh Bains of the Lok Insaaf Party, Congress party candidate Ravneet Singh Bittu has won the Ludhiana Parliamentary constituency for the third time in a row. Grandson of former Chief Minister Beant Singh who was k... More »
Four months of sustained effort and lobbying by WSO and other Sikh organisations finally resulted in persuading the Canadian government to drop the term ‘Sikh (Khalistani) Terrorism’ from the 2018 Public Safety Report. WSO has welcomed the move, Sikh body Dal ... 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 »
Former Director General of Police Sumedh Saini, who was in constant touch with IG Umranangal at the time of the police firing at Kotkapura and Behbal Kalan, on 14 October 2015, has been summoned by the Special Investigation Team for questioning on 25 February ... 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 »
After 33 years, when the families of the four Sikh youth killed in what has come to be known as Saka Nakodar, faced the media for the first time yesterday, they sought an Action Taken Report on the Justice Gurnam Singh Enquiry Report into the killings and dese... More »
Behind-the-scenes confabulations between the Congress party leadership and AAP party legislator Harvinder Singh Phoolka resulted in the Punjab Assembly discussing the future elections of the Sikh Assembly of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee. WSN edi... More »
Calling the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Home Minister Narshimha Rao, the prime conspirators in the mass murder of Sikhs in the November 1984 massacre, Dal Khalsa today asked the Shiromani Akali Dal Badal leadership to pursue the Modi government to sta... More »
The Tribune published Punjab CM Amarinder Singh’s views on its editorial page in which he propounded his neo-nationalistic theory about the Kartarpur corridor and his braggadocio against Pakistan army general Bajwa. Dal Khalsa’s Kanwarpal Singh responded with... More »