Students of Government College Hoshiarpur - led by activists and leaders of the Sikh Youth of Punjab, held a protest at Hoshiarpur, Punjab in wake of suicide by a Hyderabad University Ph. D. student Rohith Vemula. Rohith Vemula was a Moolniwasi (also called as Dalit) and his suicide has highlighted social and political injustices of the caste system.
A Punjabi news channel, PTC News, has aired some video bytes of former police cat-turned cop Gurmeet Pinky, maintaining that Pinky has made “explosive revelation”.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's three-and-a-half-year stay in the Ecuadorian embassy in London amounts to “unlawful detention”, a United Nations panel examining his appeal will rule on Friday, the BBC reported.
Striking a discordant chord, Dal Khalsa and Akali Dal Panch Pardani today asserted that non-inclusion of the Sikh regiment in the India's republic day parade was non issue for them and it should be the same for the community at large.
On 2nd February, Harinder Singh (Former CEO, Sikh Research Institute) and Jagmeet Singh MPP (Deputy Leader, New Democratic Party, Canada) begin their 2016 UK Tour, said a written press release sent by Gurpreet Garcha - UK liaison, #FreeAkalTakht.
