Chandigarh, May 26 (IANS) The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) on Tuesday strongly criticised the parole granted once again to Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, accusing the Haryana government and the Centre of adopting double standards in dealing with prisoners and sacrilege-related cases.Ram Rahim, who is serving his sentence in Sunaria jail in Haryana’s Rohtak, was recently granted 30 days of parole. The move has triggered sharp criticism from the SGPC, with commit…
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Islamabad, April 24 (IANS) Pakistan’s treatment of religious minorities, particularly Sikh and Hindu women, remains deeply troubling, with human rights reports, including those from the United Nations and local activists, documenting hundreds of cases each year of abduction, grooming, forced conversion, and marriage.Many cases reportedly involve pressure in custody or threats to families, while Sikh communities in Pakistan repeatedly raised alarms over targetted harassment and conversions, a rep…
Chandigarh, Jan 18 (IANS) Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann on Sunday said that Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Talbir Singh Gill would be the party’s candidate from Majitha for the 2027 Assembly elections. He said the people would not allow any attempt to push Punjab back into beadbi (sacrilege) and ‘goondagardi’, and that development, dignity and respect for the Akal Takht Sahib would remain paramount.Addressing a public gathering after laying the foundation stone of 23 new rural li…
Chandigarh, Jan 4 (IANS) In one of the most emotive issues, Punjab Police’s Special Investigation Team (SIT), conducting the investigations of the 328 missing sacred ‘saroops’ of Sri Guru Granth Sahib, on Sunday said it has arrested two people.The police conducted search operations at 14 locations and seized mobile devices, computers, incriminating financial records and documents.A spokesperson for the SIT said here on Sunday that 16 people have been named in the First Information Report (FIR) r…
Chandigarh, Dec 23 (IANS) Aam Aadmi Party MP Malvinder Singh Kang on Tuesday demanded an unconditional apology from the BJP, alleging that it has hurt Sikh sentiments by circulating a social media post portraying Guru Sahib and the Sahibzadas in the form of cartoons.Kang said it “is deeply offensive that the BJP chose to indulge in such behaviour during the sacred days commemorating the martyrdom of Mata Gujri and the Chhote and Bade Sahibzadas, a period when the entire Sikh community bows in re…