The 66-year-old preacher was recovering fast, sect in-charge Sant Surinder Dass Bawa said. Bawa appealed to protesters to shun the path of agitation and pray for speedy recovery of the injured Dera head after a clash between rival Sikh communities in a Vienna Gurudwara leading to the death of one of their gurus, Sant Rama Nand, triggered large scale violence and arson in Punjab.
'I am just an artist trying to establish my own voice and be my own person,' the unconventional designer tells Amrita Singh.
The government wants farmer leaders to come for clause by clause discussion at the next meeting on January 19. Except for the demand of repealing the laws, the government is ready to consider "seriously and with an open heart" other alternatives, he said.
Shiromani Akali Dal-Amritsar's Simranjit Singh Mann on Sunday won the Sangrur Lok Sabha seat after defeating his nearest rival, Aam Aadmi Party's Gurmail Singh, by a margin of 5,822 votes.
Is it is necessary to play divisive politics to succeed in the next general elections? asks Dr Sudhir Bisht.
The action came after Jagir Kaur failed to appear before the party's disciplinary committee, which had asked to explain her decision of contesting the election.
'We've come up with an arrangement. They accept wearing a hair net. It's less aggressive, less showy,' said the education minister.
The youth hails from Kasargod, Kerala, and had left India to the United Arab Emirates in 2018 from where he is believed to have joined the ranks with the global terror organisation in Afghanistan, they said.
India has strongly rejected Trudeau's statement made in the Canadian Parliament and said "allegations of Government of India's involvement in any act of violence in Canada are absurd and motivated."
The governor's move has been welcomed by a large segment of the Indian-American community who were opposing the bill.
The World Sikh Conference will be held in Sydney, Australia, on September 18-19, and discuss issues affecting the community and promote an understanding of Sikhism
India's trade with the Gulf-Arab region stands at $180 billion. India needs the Gulf region more in terms of trade, investments and employment than the other way round. When it comes to faith, the Gulf-Arab nations have not been found wanting at any point in time, points out N Sathiya Moorthy.
Opposition National Democratic Alliance on Friday expressed concern in Parliament over reported threats to Sikhs from militants to convert to Islam or vacate Kashmir, prompting government to give an assurance that nobody would be allowed to harm the minority community.
The apology letter addressed to Akal Takht Jathedar Giani Joginder Singh Vidanti was delivered to Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee chief Avtar Singh Makkar by Congress legislator from Bathinda Harminder Singh Jassi.
As India's diplomatic tensions with the Land of the Maple Leaf escalate, so do the anxieties of countless Punjabis.
The 8-member team headed by Manjit Singh GK, president, DSGMC, met Eileen O' Connor, deputy assistant secretary.
Mahinder Pal Singh has become the first Sikh cricketer to be selected in Pakistan's National Cricket Academy after he was picked for a fast bowlers' camp, being organised by the Pakistan Cricket Board. The 21-year old Mahinder was selected at an emerging player camp, organised by PCB in Multan in November. "It was a proud moment for me to be selected for the camp," Pal, who hails from the tribal region of Pakistan but lives in Nankana Sahib outside Lahore, told PTI. The eldest among five siblings, Pal is the first member of his community to be recognised at this level.
Sikh youth pelted stones at a local theatre in Amritsar, Punjab, which was screening the film, Singh is Kinng, alleging that the film depicts the community in a distorted manner.
Mufti said her father Sayeed was not power hungry and wanted to deliver Jammu and Kashmir from its problems and troubles.
Three people have been arrested for the attack.
A prominent Hindu temple in Brisbane was attacked by Khalistan supporters on Saturday, in the latest incident of vandalism against Hindu temples in Australia.
The Supreme Court on Friday refused to stay the Punjab and Haryana High Court judgment, which said that Sikhs are not a minority community in Punjab.
Meeting one of the long pending demands of Sikhs and Hindus in the United States, Attorney General Eric Holder has recommended widening the Federal Bureau of Investigation's mandate to include the two communities among victims of growing hate crimes. Testifying before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, Holder said he made this recommendation to the Advisory Policy Board of the FBI to make the necessary changes in the Uniform Crime Reporting in this regard.
According to official sources in Chandigarh, the six persons, all belonging to Sikh community, received minor injuries on their legs after the shooting incident in Mallewala village, about 10 km from Sirsa, and were treated in a local hospital.
Acting Queens Supreme Court Justice Joel Blumenfeld ordered Umair Ahmed, 19, to complete 180 hours of community service and write an essay about what he had learned since his attack on 16-year-old Harpal Vacher.
Jack Straw visits the Golden Temple and the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar.
Aam Aadmi Party national convener Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday said his party will be asking the general public as to who should be the party's chief ministerial face in the Punjab Assembly polls, even as he indicated that his own preference for the post was state unit president Bhagwant Mann.
A visiting European Union team Friday promised the Sikh community that it would try to impress upon France the "cultural" sentiments attached with the turban and ask them to lift the ban on wearing it in schools.
The Delhi Police had closed this case in 1994 for want of evidence.
The Japanese steamship Komagata Maru, carrying 376 immigrants, mostly Sikhs, from India was denied entry by the Canadian government in May 1914 and was forced to return to India.
Referring to the bomb blasts in Delhi on the eve of Diwali and Eid, Sir Ghulam Noon praised resident of the Indian capital for showing terrorists that they could not be cowed down by acts of terrorism.
The hill town has been in the grip of violence since Thursday following a clash between the Sikh residents in Shillong's Punjabi Lane area and the Khasi drivers of state-run buses.
Siddhesh Kamble alias Mahakal, an alleged member of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, has told investigators that Bollywood filmmaker Karan Johar was on the list of persons whom the gang planned to target for extortion, a police official said.
The White House has hosted an interactive meeting with Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh and Jain leaders to listen to their concerns and issues, indicating their increasing role in America's socio-political milieu.
The two brothers, identified as Rupinder Singh and Jaswinder Singh, of Panjgrain village of Faridkot, were arrested in connection with the first incident of sacrilege in the state in Bargari village in Faridkot
Amrit Kaur, a Sikh woman, has been elected as the president of the InterFaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington, an organisation which represents 11 world religions.
He said that India is far more important strategically than Canada is and Ottawa picking up a fight with India is like "an ant picking up a fight against an elephant".
A 20-year-old man has been arrested and charged with hate crime for a brutal assault on a Sikh professor last year during which the attackers called him "Osama" and a "terrorist" in the United States.
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