Akal Takht approves changes in Nanakshahi calendar
January 4th, 2010 - 10:52 pm ICT by IANS
Amritsar, Jan 4 (IANS) The Akal Takht, the temporal seat of the Sikh religion, Monday approved the changes made in the "Nanakshahi" or Sikh religious calendar.
The nod for the changes made, according ... Read more...
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SGPC haste to amend NanakShahi calendar raises eyebrows
January 2nd, 2010 - 10:06 pm ICT by ANI
By Ravinder Singh RobinAmritsar, Jan 2(ANI): The Sikh Diaspora has raised eyebrows over the working of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbhandhak Committee (SGPC) regarding amendments made in the NanakShahi calendar without taking ... Read more...
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Former Akal Takht head held guilty of religious misconduct
December 6th, 2009 - 1:01 am ICT by IANS
Amritsar, Dec 5 (IANS) Darshan Singh, a former head of the Akal Takht, the highest temporal seat of the Sikh religion, was Saturday declared a "tankhaiya" (guilty of religious misconduct) by the ... Read more...
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Former Akal Takht Jathedar declared guilty of religious misconduct
December 5th, 2009 - 11:24 pm ICT by ANI
By Ravinder Singh RobinAmritsar (ANI), Dec.5: Akal Takht, the highest Sikh governing body, on Saturday in an unprecedented step of declaring former Jathedar of Akal Takht Prof. Darshan Singh Ragi a ... Read more...
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Haryana Sikh leaders held guilty of misconduct by Sikh clergy
November 17th, 2009 - 11:35 pm ICT by IANS
Amritsar, Nov 17 (IANS) A senior Sikh religious leader from Haryana was Tuesday held guilty by top Sikh clergy at their meeting at the Akal Takht - the highest temporal seat of ... Read more...
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SGPC sets up 10-member panel on Nanakshahi calendar
November 13th, 2009 - 12:49 am ICT by IANS
Amritsar, Nov 12 (IANS) The Shiromani Gurudwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) Thursday decided to set up a 10-member committee to resolve the controversy over the Sikh religion's "Nanakshahi" calendar.
SGPC president Avtar Singh Makkar ... Read more...
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Inside the Golden Temple, life moves on (25 years after Indira Gandhi’s assasination)
October 27th, 2009 - 9:02 pm ICT by IANS
By P.P.S. Gill
It has been 25 years since prime minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated Oct 31, 1984 perhaps, as a consequence of Operation Bluestar at Amritsar's Golden Temple four months earlier. Events ... Read more...
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Haryana Sikhs, expressing support to SGPC, appear before Akal Takht
September 28th, 2009 - 6:52 pm ICT by ANI
By Ravinder Singh RobinAmritsar Sep. 28 (ANI): Opposing the demand to form a separate Sikh committee for Sikhs in Haryana, thousands of Sikhs from the State appeared before Akal Takht and ... Read more...
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Akal Takht asks SGPC to send team to probe Vienna shooting
August 12th, 2009 - 10:18 pm ICT by IANS
Amritsar, Aug 12 (IANS) The Akal Takht, the highest temporal seat of Sikhs, Wednesday directed the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) to send a team to Austrian capital Vienna to probe the ... Read more...
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Dal Khalsa urges apex Sikh body to probe Vienna shoot-out
August 11th, 2009 - 11:45 pm ICT by IANS
Chandigarh, Aug 11 (IANS) Radical Sikh group Dal Khalsa Tuesday demanded the Sikhs' highest temporal body, the Akal Takht and Amritsar-based Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) send a joint fact-finding team to ... Read more...
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NRI body speaks up for two ex-communicated Sikhs in Canada
August 7th, 2009 - 7:03 pm ICT by IANS
Chandigarh, Aug 7 (IANS) A body representing Indians in North America Friday appealed to the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) to pardon two Sikhs in Canada ex-communicated 23 years ago for serving ... Read more...
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Sikh clerics oppose legal status to gay sex
July 2nd, 2009 - 6:52 pm ICT by IANS
Chandigarh, July 2 (IANS) The Sikh clergy and religious leaders in Punjab Thursday protested a Delhi High Court ruling decriminalising homosexuality in the country.
"This verdict of Delhi High Court is clearly against ... Read more...
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Sikh devotees furious over demolition orders of a gurdwara in Sangrur
June 22nd, 2009 - 11:33 pm ICT by ANI
By Ravinder Singh RobinSangrur (Punjab), June 22 (ANI): A number of Sikh devotees are outraged due to Akal Takht's order to demolish a portion of a controversial gurdwara due to having objection ... Read more...
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Akal Takht asks SGPC to reshape Golden temple’s replica in Sangrur
June 21st, 2009 - 10:26 pm ICT by ANI
Amritsar, June 21 (ANI): Taking objection to the design of a Gurdwara being constructed as the Golden Temple's replica at Malerkotla in Sangrur district of Punjab, Akal Takht, the high temporal seat ... Read more...
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Sikh leaders order demolition of Golden Temple replica
June 20th, 2009 - 10:25 pm ICT by IANS
Amritsar (Punjab), June 20 (IANS) Furious over a sect's attempts to replicate the design and structure of the Sikh community's holiest shrine, the Golden Temple, Sikhism's highest temporal seat Akal Takht Friday ... Read more...
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Outrage over Golden Temple replica in Punjab
June 15th, 2009 - 12:30 pm ICT by IANS
By Jaideep Sarin
Sangrur (Punjab), June 15 (IANS) The Sikh leadership in Punjab is furious over attempts by a sect to replicate the design and structure of their holiest shrine - the Golden ... Read more...
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Subdued events mark 25 years of Operation Bluestar
June 6th, 2009 - 4:23 pm ICT by IANS
Amritsar, June 6 (IANS) The 25th anniversary of Operation Bluestar by the Indian Army at the Golden Temple complex here, which houses the holiest of Sikh shrines Harmandar Sahib, remained a subdued ... Read more...
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Sikh leaders perform Akhand Path on Blue Star anniversary
June 6th, 2009 - 2:48 pm ICT by ANI
By Ravinder Singh RobinAmritsar, June 6 (ANI): Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) president Avtar Singh Makkar and some Sikh leaders gathered at the Akal Takht on Saturday to perform the ... Read more...
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Operation Bluestar: Chronology of events (To go with - Scars of Operation Bluestar remain - 25 years later)
June 5th, 2009 - 3:11 pm ICT by IANS
Amritsar (Punjab), June 5 (IANS) Chronology of events before, during and after Operation Bluestar, the codename for the Indian Army's assault on the Golden Temple complex in June 1984:
April 13, 1978: ... Read more...
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A journalist recalls the horror of Operation Bluestar (Lead)
June 5th, 2009 - 1:54 pm ICT by IANS
By Ritu Sharma
New Delhi, June 5 (IANS) A quarter century later, a journalist who covered the Indian Army operation to flush out Sikh militants from the Golden Temple in Amritsar still remembers ... Read more...
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Sikh radicals to hold ‘genocide march’ in Amritsar (Lead)
June 2nd, 2009 - 5:02 pm ICT by IANS
Amritsar, June 2 (IANS) Sikh radical leaders will hold a "genocide remembrance march" in this Punjab city Wednesday to mark the start of events linked to the 25th anniversary of the Indian ... Read more...
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Radical Sikhs to take out ‘genocide march’ in Amritsar
June 2nd, 2009 - 2:10 pm ICT by IANS
Amritsar, June 2 (IANS) Sikh radical leaders will take out a "genocide remembrance march" in this Punjab city Wednesday to mark the start of events linked to the 25th anniversary of the ... Read more...
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Sikh diaspora condemns violence and appeals for peace
May 27th, 2009 - 3:04 pm ICT by ANI
By Ravinder Singh RobinAmritsar, May 27 (ANI): Sikh leaders and diaspora across world have condemned the violence in Vienna and in Punjab.Talking from San Francisco, Dr. Pritpal Singh, the convener of the ... Read more...
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Sikhs in US say Vienna violence setback to their image
May 27th, 2009 - 1:55 pm ICT by IANS
New York, May 27 (IANS) The Sikh community in the US has condemned the violence in a Vienna gurdwara that led to the killing of a religious leader and triggered large-scale violence ... Read more...
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25 years after death, Bhindranwale lives through posters, stickers
May 26th, 2009 - 12:29 pm ICT by IANS
By Jaideep Sarin
Amritsar, May 26 (IANS) Twenty-five years after he was killed in an army operation on the Golden Temple complex here, Sikh ideologue Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale continues to live on in ... Read more...
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Sikh radicals reject PM’s plea to forget 1984
May 24th, 2009 - 8:03 pm ICT by IANS
Amritsar, May 24 (IANS) Rejecting the advice from the country's first Sikh prime minister, Manmohan Singh, to forget the events of 1984, radical Sikh leaders Sunday gave a call for a ... Read more...
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Sikh organisations to mark 25 years of Operation Bluestar
May 24th, 2009 - 4:14 pm ICT by ANI
Amritsar, May 24 (ANI): Sikh organizations will observe the 25th anniversary of their protest against the Indian Army's storming of the Golden Temple complex in June 1984 to evict heavily armed Sikh ... Read more...
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Sikh organisations to mark 25 years of Operation Bluestar
May 24th, 2009 - 1:51 pm ICT by IANS
By Jaideep Sarin
Amritsar, March 24 (IANS) Sikh organisations, including some radical ones, are all set to evoke the painful memories of the Indian Army's storming of the Golden Temple complex in ... Read more...
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Pro-Khalistan slogans at New York, Toronto Vaisakhi parades (With Images)
April 27th, 2009 - 10:39 am ICT by IANS
New York/Toronto, April 27 (IANS) The annual Vaisakhi parades in New York and Toronto at the weekend were marked by pro-Khalistan slogans and banners by a handful of radical Sikhs.
While in New ... Read more...
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Radical Sikh bodies reject sect chief’s ‘apology’ offer
April 20th, 2009 - 8:46 pm ICT by IANS
Amritsar, April 20 (IANS) Radical Sikh organisations Monday rejected an offer made by controversial Dera Sacha Sauda sect chief Gurmit Ram Rahim Singh to offer a conditional "apology" before the Akal Takht, ... Read more...
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Sikh bodies flay political parties wooing sects in Punjab
April 14th, 2009 - 1:07 pm ICT by IANS
Chandigarh/Amritsar, April 14 (IANS) They might be big vote banks for political parties but a number of radical Sikh organisations have openly come out against political parties in Punjab pampering certain sects ... Read more...
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Akalis seek to evoke memories of Operation Bluestar before election
March 22nd, 2009 - 12:14 pm ICT by IANS
By Jaideep Sarin
Amritsar, March 22 (IANS) Twenty five years after Operation Bluestar - the Indian Army's storming of the Golden Temple complex in June 1984 to flush out heavily armed Sikh ... Read more...
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SGPC issues 541 Sikh Calendar
March 19th, 2009 - 8:34 pm ICT by ANI
By Ravinder Singh Robin
Amritsar March 19, (ANI): The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbhandhak Committee (SGPC), on Thursday issued 541 Nanak Shahi Calendar despite objections raised by many Sikh organisations.
Avtar Singh Makkar, the ... Read more...
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18,207 people donate blood in Punjab’s mega camp
March 11th, 2009 - 10:19 pm ICT by IANS
Anandpur Sahib (Punjab), March 11 (IANS) As many as 18,207 people from various states across the country donated blood in a single day at a camp set up in this Punjab town, ... Read more...
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Over 17,000 donate blood in Punjab’s mega camp
March 10th, 2009 - 11:05 pm ICT by IANS
Anandpur Sahib (Punjab), March 10 (IANS) Over 17,000 people from many parts of the country donated blood at a mega donation camp in this Punjab town Tuesday. More donors are still pouring ... Read more...
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