The move came after the Bhagwant Mann-led Aam Aadmi Party government on Monday approved an amendment to the British-era Sikh Gurdwaras Act, 1925.
The citizenship rights will protect their cultural, linguistic, and social identity and it will also ensure economic, commercial, free movement, and property purchase rights.
In a section entitled 'Sikh Extremism' the review goes into detail of how members of the British Sikh community expressed their growing concern over a small but extremely vocal group "hijacking" the Sikh faith to push a subversive pro-Khalistan narrative.
The rules for the CAA are likely to be issued before the MCC comes into effect, sources privy to the development said.
In a nail-biting finish, Conservative candidate Don Stewart won the Liberal stronghold of Toronto-St. Paul's by defeating Liberal Party's Leslie Church by 590 votes.
A Sikh-American councilman was called a "terrorist" on Twitter by a Donald Trump supporter.
Following the brutal beheading of two Sikhs by Taliban in Pakistan, refugee Sikhs, hailing from Peshawar in Pakistan living in Amritsar have demanded that they should be given citizenship so that they can live in India safely with their families.
Sukhbir Channa, a practicing Sikh American, applied for a job with Disney in 2006 but was not hired and was told that he did not have the "Disney look" -- a negative reference to his religiously-mandated dastaar (Sikh turban)
While her photographs of a Sikh Captain America caught the world's collective imagination in 2013, Fiona Aboud has been documenting Sikhs in the US since 2006. The photographer shares her vision of the community with Rediff.com's Chaya Babu.
'One needs to understand what kind of means the BJP use to bring other party leaders in their party.' 'They are unscrupulous politicians and money plays an important role.'
Rakul Singh and Jackky Bhagnani tied the knot in a dreamy wedding ceremony in Goa on February 21.
India's tryst with fourth-place Olympic heartbreaks
The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee on Wednesday alleged the Pakistan high commission had denied pilgrim visa to a group of Sikh devotees without assigning any reason.
The Election Commission has asked the Union government to enact a law to ban the release of opinion poll results after the notification of elections.
The 39-second video of Singh, a California resident, has been viewed over 83,000 times since it was posted on YouTube on December 9.
Even though the NIA claims that more than 90 per cent of cases charge-sheeted have ended in conviction, the figure is likely misleading. To date, very few cases investigated by the NIA have resulted in a completed trial, points out former CBI joint director Navneet Rajan Wasan.
Kumar, 73, surrendered before a trial court on December 31, 2018 to serve his sentence in accordance with the Delhi high court's December 17 judgment, which convicted and sent him to prison for the "remainder of his natural life".
US authorities force community members to remove their turbans for security checks in the wake of a new federal policy
The United States has said there ought to be a full and fair investigation into Canada's allegations that the Indian government was involved in the killing of a separatist Sikh leader in British Columbia earlier this year.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation along with the US Department of Justice has opened a civil rights investigation into the shooting of Deep Rai by a partially-masked gunman, who shouted "go back to your own country".
An independent United States Congressional research report has alleged that the scope and scale of human rights abuses in India has increased under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
India on Friday described a United States State Department report citing alleged incidents of human rights violations including in Manipur as 'deeply biased' and said it reflects a poor understanding of India and it attach no value to it.
Holding up pictures of Lord Shiva, Guru Nanak, and Jesus Christ, he referred to Hinduism, Islam, Sikhism, Christianity, Buddhism and Jainism to underline the importance of fearlessness. He also cited the attributes of Lord Shiva and teachings of Guru Nanak, Jesus Christ, Buddha, and Mahavir to state that all religions and great people of the country have said "daro mat, darao mat (do not be scared, do not scare others)".
The Kerala Story actor Pranay Pachauri got married to screenwriter Sehaj Maini on December 9.
Modi can abandon the path of Hindutva only at risk to his position within his own fraternity. But if he pursues a hard line, he faces the risk of being hauled up by his coalition-partners. For the first time in a decade, Modi is not in enviable situation, observes Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay.
India on Tuesday strongly rejected the claims, saying that the report made "unwarranted and unsubstantiated" imputations on a serious matter and that an investigation into the case was underway.
A group of eminent Indian Americans in Silicon Valley has held a special meeting with senior officials of the Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation and police and told that the United States soil is being used for terrorist activities against India.
Sikh groups on Tuesday said the incident of shoe-throwing at Home Minister P Chidambaram reflected the long pent-up anger of the community which had suffered in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
The Canadian government and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police have confirmed they are investigating a possible terror threat.
Dal Khalsa spokesperson Kanwar Pal Singh and KAC Chairman Bhai Mokham Singh were among those taken into preventive custody by the Amritsar police on Wednesday morning.
'A concerned citizen called the police to investigate me while having lunch because of my suspicious container. Just my bamboo flutes,' Dhillon wrote in an Instagram post about Tuesday's incident.
Justice R K Gauba dismissed their 22-year-old appeals against conviction by a trial court and asked all the convicts to surrender forthwith to undergo the prison term.
A member of the minority Sikh community was kidnapped from an area on the outskirts of Peshawar city in northwest Pakistan, according to media reports.
Kumar was convicted and sentenced to life for the remainder of his life by the high court on December 17 in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in Raj Nagar area.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday distributed compensation cheques to families of 1,300 people killed in 1984 anti-Sikh riots on the 31st anniversary of the carnage even as the victims' kin asserted that they wanted justice more than anything.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to ask Britain to take strong action against Sikh groups trying to revive the demand for a separate Khalistan and their attempts to radicalise Sikh youth besides giving them training on how to make bombs.
California Governor Edmund G Brown Jr has signed two bills to promote civil rights and religious freedom, following his remarks at the North American Punjabi Association's Peace and Unity rally at the State Capitol on September 8.
Jagmeet and Gurkiran were married Thursday night in Mexico, capping off an epic string of wedding celebrations, which included a wedding ceremony held in Brampton, Ontario on February 4, followed by a private ceremony in Mexico on February 19.
Harmeet Dhillon, vice chairwoman of the California Republican Party, delivered the Sikh prayer on the national stage in Punjabi and then translated it into English.
