Chandigarh, April 13 (IANS) Punjab Vidhan Sabha Speaker Kultar Singh Sandhwan has said that the state government will introduce a Bill during a special Assembly session on Monday to strengthen legal and judicial measures to curb incidents of sacrilege.Speaking to the media after paying obeisance at the historic Gurdwara Sri Amb Sahib in Mohali, near here, the Speaker extended his greetings on the auspicious occasion of Vaisakhi.He reflected on the birth of the Khalsa, noting that Guru Gobind Sin…
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Haridwar, April 13 (IANS) On the occasion of the Baisakhi Snan, a magnificent spectacle of faith is unfolding in the holy city of Haridwar on Monday. Devotees have already begun arriving in Haridwar in anticipation of the Baisakhi holy bath. Since early morning, devotees from across the country have been streaming into Haridwar, taking a sacred dip in the holy River Ganga to earn spiritual merit. A massive surge of devotees has gathered at major Ganga ghats, including Har Ki Pauri, where a palpa…
New Delhi, April 1 (IANS) The face behind justice for victims of 1984 anti-Sikh riots, human rights lawyer and former AAP lawmaker H.S. Phoolka, on Wednesday joined the BJP.After joining the BJP here, Phoolka said, “I’ve been a strong supporter of the BJP since my childhood. From 2014 to 2017, I was in the Aam Aadmi Party. We thought that we had come to this party to end all the corruption that existed under the Congress government at that time, but later, we saw that the situation was quite…
Mumbai, March 26 (IANS) Filmmaker Aditya Dhar has strongly condemned the circulation of AI-generated and morphed visuals related to his latest film ‘Dhurandhar: The Revenge’, calling them “false, misleading and malicious.” Dhar took to his Aditya Dhar Films Instagram page on Thursday morning and shared a note, where he first expressed gratitude for the overwhelming response to the film and then shared that certain individuals are manipulating officially released promotional material usin…
Ayodhya (Uttar Pradesh), March 25 (IANS) Chairperson of the All India Anti-Terrorist Front (AIATF), Maninderjeet Singh Bitta, on Wednesday thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Yogi Adityanath, for the construction of the Ram Janmabhoomi Temple “without any riots or violence”.Bitta was in Ayodhya to offer prayers at the Ram Temple and Hanuman Garhi temple.He told reporters, “Even after my death, my soul will keep thanking Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Uttar Prade…
Mumbai, March 24 (IANS) While Aditya Dhar’s “Dhurandhar 2: The Revenge” is a huge success at the box office, the makers ruffled some feathers with one of the scenes where R Madhavan recites a verse from the Gurbani while smoking a cigarette.Now, Madhavan has shared his clarification on the matter, saying that they did not wish to hurt any sentiments with the scene. He stated that he might have had the cigarette at the beginning of the scene, but he had properly put it out way before speaking his…
Faisalabad (Pakistan), March 22 (IANS) An Amritdhari Sikh girl’s turban was allegedly removed by force and she was brutally beaten at a Christian school in Faisalabad district (formerly Lyallpur), of Pakistan, according to a report in Khalsa Vox.Sikh Brotherhood International, a community organisation and social media group dedicated to promoting Sikh values, has strongly condemned the incident and has reportedly demanded strict action against the school administration.Khalsa Vox reported the …
Chandigarh, Feb 26 (IANS) The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Thursday rejected the reconstituted Special Investigation Team (SIT) formed by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Punjab to probe the 328 unaccounted ‘swaroops’ of the Guru Granth Sahib, while claiming a new team had been formed solely because the old SIT refused to follow illegal orders to implicate party chief Sukhbir Badal in the case.Reacting to the development, senior leaders Maheshinder Singh Grewal and Parambans Singh Romana,…
Islamabad, Feb 25 (IANS) As the population of Sikhs and Hindus in Pakistan continues to shrink, a report on Wednesday highlighted that land belonging to several religious sites of the minority communities has been sold, with other properties allegedly being forcibly occupied by local individuals across the country. According to a report in ‘Khalsa Vox’, another case recently came to light in which a historic gurdwara in Abbottabad in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province was allegedly sold fo…
New Delhi, Feb 18 (IANS) Several videos of Islamic religious programmes in Pakistan have surfaced in which objectionable remarks are allegedly being made about the Sikh community and the Sikh Gurus, according to a report by Khalsa Vox.The report states that a recent video shows a Pakistani cleric claiming that Guru Nanak Dev Ji had accepted Islam, was buried in Baghdad by Muslims, and that a grave was constructed there. The cleric allegedly claimed that Sikhs “did not even have the courage” …