January 2, 2015

Coast Guard Intercepts Suspect Boat Carrying Explosives in Arabian Sea: Statement by India’s Ministry of Defence

Controversial godman Gurmeet Ram Rahim’s movie brings fire to PunjabSauda Sadh’s movie brings fire to Punjab; Barnala tense over MSG, 9 held for burning posters

Sikh bodies urge Akal Takht Jathedar to secure release of Sikh political prisoners

Ban on Kaum De Heere and clearance to Messenger of God (MSG): Dal Khalsa alleges double standards

Demonstration by Dal Khalsa’s youth wing on burning socio-political issues

Pressure mounts for independent public inquiry into role of Thatcher govt. in Mid-1980s with respect to Sikhs in Britain

Declassified British Secret documents – revelations from 1985

Declassified British Secret documents – revelations from November 1984

British Secret documents: Information being deliberately withheld by British authorities

January 2, 2015

Coast Guard Intercepts Suspect Boat Carrying Explosives in Arabian Sea: Statement by India’s Ministry of Defence

January 2, 2015

Delhi, India: An intelligence based midnight operation was conducted on the intervening night of Dec 31 and yesterdayby the Indian Coast Guard ships and aircraft to intercept a suspect fishing boat in Arabian Sea near Indo-Pak maritime boundary, approximately 365 km from Porbander.

Controversial godman Gurmeet Ram Rahim’s movie brings fire to PunjabSauda Sadh’s movie brings fire to Punjab; Barnala tense over MSG, 9 held for burning posters

January 2, 2015

Punjab's Barnala town has turned into a fortress with 200 commandos and 1,000 police jawans out on the streets to maintain law and order situation following the burning of posters of controversial Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim's movie "Messenger of God (MSG)".

Sikh bodies urge Akal Takht Jathedar to secure release of Sikh political prisoners

January 2, 2015

Amritsar: Representatives of various Sikh organizations met Akal Takht Jathedar Giani Gurbachan Singh to exercise his ‘authority’ to secure the release of Sikh political prisoners languishing in various jails across the country despite completion of their sentence. A delegation comprising representatives of various Sikh organizations, including Shiromani Akali Dal Amritsar (Mann) and Akal Purakh Ki […]

Ban on Kaum De Heere and clearance to Messenger of God (MSG): Dal Khalsa alleges double standards

January 2, 2015

Sikh body Dal Khalsa has sought ‘ban’ on controversial movie Messenger of God (MSG) by Dera Sauda Sirsa chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim who is facing criminal charges in CBI courts.

Demonstration by Dal Khalsa’s youth wing on burning socio-political issues

January 2, 2015

Amritsar, Punjab: Dal Khalsa has urged the Jathedar Akal Takht not to lower their status and prestige by repeatedly appealing to centre and state governments to release the prisoners who have completed their jail term. When we see that all pleas of Jathedar to Modi government has fallen on deaf ears, it pains and hurt […]

Pressure mounts for independent public inquiry into role of Thatcher govt. in Mid-1980s with respect to Sikhs in Britain

January 2, 2015

The latest disclosure of Cabinet papers from 1985 and information being deliberately withheld is giving new momentum to the British Sikh community in calling for an independent public inquiry into the role of the Thatcher Government in the mid-1980s.

Declassified British Secret documents – revelations from 1985

January 2, 2015

Reading the various papers, you get the impression that Sikhs in Britain were religious extremists wanting nothing less than the violent overthrew of the Indian state by all means and establishment of a separate Sikh state with no mention of the 1984 ‘Genocide’ acknowledged last week by the Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh.

Declassified British Secret documents – revelations from November 1984

January 2, 2015

Last week newly-released files from the Irish National Archives under the 30-year rule have revealed how Margaret Thatcher in November 1984 was paranoid about British Sikhs.

British Secret documents: Information being deliberately withheld by British authorities

January 2, 2015

The David Cameron government has withheld the release of Punjab-related documents for 1985 and 1986 from a large cache of official documents declassified earlier this week. Four files related to India have been withheld: three from the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) listed as ‘temporarily retained’, and one from the Cabinet Office described as ‘retained under section 3(4) of the Public Records Act, 1958.