Indian State

Newly Surfaced Document Reveals R&AW and IB’s Covert Influence Operation Targeting Canadian Politicians

Shoot The Traitors: Human Rights Watch Report on Discrimination Against Muslims Under India’s New Citizenship Policy

BJP-RSS Should Stop Its Fear of Muslims, Sikhs, SC/STs & Minorities: SADA (Mann)

Coronavirus Pandemic Being Communalised in India: PUCL Expresses Concerns

Human Race Facing the Survival Question?

SCI Decision To Send Gautam Navlakha and Anand Teltumbde To Jail is “Cruel and Disappointing”: Amnesty India

Opposition Alleges Misuse of Funds by Narendra Modi Regime

India Must Free Arbitrarily Detained Kashmiri Prisoners: International Human Rights Groups

Modi Yields When Trump Threatened to Retaliate

Kabul Sikh Gurdwara Attack: India’s NIA Registers Case, Says Kerala Man’s Involvement Suspected

Vulnerable Workers in Supply Chains Need Urgent Protection to Survive Impact of Covid-19: IDSN

India Must Refrain from Abuse of Power & Immediately Release All Arbitrarily Detain in Kashmir: Amnesty India

17 Personnel of Indian Forces Missing After Encounter with Naxals in Chhattisgarh

Economists, Social Scientists and Academics Demand Delinking of Census from NPR

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Moves Indian Supreme Court Against CAA

Sikh Group Writes to Canadian Foreign Minister on Anti-Muslim Delhi Carnage

Looming Threat of Genocide in India

US Politicians Denounce “Deadly Surge of Religious Intolerance in India”

USCIRF Condemns Delhi Violence; Urges India To Protect Muslims

Kashmir: Indian State Invoking UAPA Against Those Accessing Facebook, Twitter Through VPN/Proxy Servers

British Govt. Must Take Tough Stand Against MP’s Deportation From India: Sikh Federation UK

British MP Who Expressed Concerns About Kashmir Deported By India Without Explanation

Misuse of Sedition Law Continues: Now 3 Kashmir Students Booked & Arrested in Karnataka

When Afzal Guru was hanged, I cried says then Tihar jailer Sunil Gupta

In India What We Are Seeing Is The Symptoms Of Fascism: Noam Chomsky

Now Shots Fired at Shaheen Bagh; Only Hindus Will Prevail in India, says Attacker

Facebook Profile of Dal Khalsa Leader Bhai Gajinder Singh Blocked in Indian Subcontinent

UK Based Indian Groups Shot Open Letter to Narendra Modi Regarding CAA-NRC-NPR

Serial Blasts Rock Assam on India’s “Republic Day”

Modi Government’s Decisions Find No Takers in Punjab

India Is Increasingly Isolated in Global Opinion: Former NSA Shivshankar Menon

After 27 Years, 6 Cops Convicted in Baba Charan Singh Karsewa and 5 Others’ Murder Case

Violence at JNU Planned to Boost Hindu Rashtra: Response of Punjabi Commenters

Innocents no more — Excerpts from Partap Bhanu Mehta’s Writeup on JNU Attack

Hindu Raksha Dal Claims Responsibility For JNU Attack

Delhi Police FIR Against Injured JNUSU President Aishe Ghosh, 19 Others

Blaming Amit Shah for Engineering Violence on JNU Students, Sikh Body Demands His Resignation

Delhi Police Shameful Bystanders To Mob Brutality On Students in JNU: Amnesty India

New Indian Army Chief Says Borders with China Not Settled Yet; Keeping Peace May Lead to Eventual Solution

India Declares Nagaland As ‘Disturbed Area’, Extends AFSPA to the Land of Nagas

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Indian State

Newly Surfaced Document Reveals R&AW and IB’s Covert Influence Operation Targeting Canadian Politicians

April 18, 2020

Yet another instance of Indian intelligence agencies' attempt to use money and disinformation to influence Canadian politicians has come into light.

Shoot The Traitors: Human Rights Watch Report on Discrimination Against Muslims Under India’s New Citizenship Policy

April 12, 2020

New York: India’s discriminatory new citizenship law and policies have spurred violence against Muslims, Human Rights Watch said in a report released recently. “The Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government in December 2019 adopted the Citizenship Amendment Act, which for the first time makes religion a basis for citizenship. The act, together with a […]

BJP-RSS Should Stop Its Fear of Muslims, Sikhs, SC/STs & Minorities: SADA (Mann)

April 12, 2020

Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) has expressed deep concerns about the rising poverty and deprivation amongst the poor, jobless, masses and labour without work and wages. The impatience of the masses is rising by the day.

Coronavirus Pandemic Being Communalised in India: PUCL Expresses Concerns

April 11, 2020

People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), Maharashtra has strongly condemned the attempts of the government, the Media and Hindutva groups- including members of the Bharatiya Janata Party to communalise the region at the time of such unprecedented Coronavirus pandemic.

Human Race Facing the Survival Question?

April 11, 2020

Lockdown rendered Ganga clean. Better than what was not achieved after the spending of Re 5000 crores. So is the Yamuna. Faulty industrialisation has polluted rivers, spoilt the environment.

SCI Decision To Send Gautam Navlakha and Anand Teltumbde To Jail is “Cruel and Disappointing”: Amnesty India

April 10, 2020

Amid the spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19), the Supreme Court of India’s order directing the arrest and imprisonment of two human rights defenders, Anand Teltumbde and Gautam Navlakha within a week, is disappointing.

Opposition Alleges Misuse of Funds by Narendra Modi Regime

April 9, 2020

If sincere to control a pandemic, the Narendra Modi Regime should cancel recently notified ‘Central Vista Beautification Project’ of Rs. 20,000 crores, transfer PM- CARES fund to National Relief Fund, reduce Official expenditure by 30 percent, cancel all official foreign visits and stop releasing advertisement to media that cost Re 1250 crore a year.

India Must Free Arbitrarily Detained Kashmiri Prisoners: International Human Rights Groups

April 7, 2020

Various international human rights organisations have issued a joint release urging the Government of India to free arbitrarily detained Kashmiri prisoners. Indian state imposed widespread restrictions of movement and communication in internationally disputed region of Kashmir after the Government of India changed it's domestic constitution on August 5, 2019 in an attempt to abrogate special political status of Jammu and Kashmir.

Modi Yields When Trump Threatened to Retaliate

April 7, 2020

Four Indian southern states ‘disobeyed’ the PM by refraining from banging thaalis and observing Sunday night blackout followed by candle lighting.

Kabul Sikh Gurdwara Attack: India’s NIA Registers Case, Says Kerala Man’s Involvement Suspected

April 6, 2020

India's National Investigation Agency (NIA) has registered a case with regard to attack on Sikh Gurdwara Sahib in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Vulnerable Workers in Supply Chains Need Urgent Protection to Survive Impact of Covid-19: IDSN

April 4, 2020

International Dalit Solidarity Network (IDSN) has strongly urged governments and companies with supply chains in South Asia, to take measures to urgently protect migrant and informal workers, including Dalits, against a loss of income, social benefits, shelter and a means to feed themselves and their families, as Covid-19 measures and repercussions threaten their lives and livelihoods.

India Must Refrain from Abuse of Power & Immediately Release All Arbitrarily Detain in Kashmir: Amnesty India

April 1, 2020

As Jammu and Kashmir enters the next phase of lockdown this time due to COVID-19, the Government of India must immediately release all those arbitrarily detained, restore full internet access and actively pursue trust building measures with the people of the region, said Amnesty International India today.

17 Personnel of Indian Forces Missing After Encounter with Naxals in Chhattisgarh

March 22, 2020

As per reports emanating from Chintagufa in Sukma around 12 DRG and 5 STF men are missing after the Indian forces came under heavy fire on Saturday (March 21) afternoon.

Economists, Social Scientists and Academics Demand Delinking of Census from NPR

March 6, 2020

We are economists and social scientists who are deeply concerned about the major implications for the Indian statistical system, of the attempt to combine data collection for the 2021 Census of India with that for the proposed National Population Register.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Moves Indian Supreme Court Against CAA

March 4, 2020

The office of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has filed an intervention application in the Supreme Court against the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).

Sikh Group Writes to Canadian Foreign Minister on Anti-Muslim Delhi Carnage

March 3, 2020

The Shiromani Akali Dal Amritsar’s Canada unit has written a letter to the Canadian Foreign Minister about anti-Muslim violence in Delhi.

Looming Threat of Genocide in India

March 3, 2020

by: Pieter Friedrich* I Last month, a widowed Muslim woman in India was arrested and charged with sedition — that is, with inciting an insurrection. Here’s the background. India’s Hindu nationalist government wants to pass a law requiring that every resident of the country prove their citizenship. In the state of Karnataka, this proposed […]

US Politicians Denounce “Deadly Surge of Religious Intolerance in India”

March 1, 2020

While nearly 40 people are dead from the ongoing violence in Delhi, a number of US politicians are raising their voices against the communal conflict which appears to be instigated by Hindu nationalist organizations affiliated with India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.

USCIRF Condemns Delhi Violence; Urges India To Protect Muslims

February 27, 2020

The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) expresses grave concern over the ongoing violence taking place in Delhi, India’s capital city.

Kashmir: Indian State Invoking UAPA Against Those Accessing Facebook, Twitter Through VPN/Proxy Servers

February 18, 2020

For the past seven months, Kashmir has been under a lockdown after the union government announced the scrapping of the Constitution's Article 370 and the bifurcation of the erstwhile state into two Union Territories — Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.

British Govt. Must Take Tough Stand Against MP’s Deportation From India: Sikh Federation UK

February 18, 2020

A British MP was denied entry into India yesterday. Labour party MP Debbie Abrahams was stopped at Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi on Monday and she was sent back to Dubai, from where she had come to Delhi.

British MP Who Expressed Concerns About Kashmir Deported By India Without Explanation

February 18, 2020

British MP who was vocal on Kashmir issue was denied entry into India at IGI Airport in Delhi after her arrival on a valid visa. Reports say that the MP was deported back to Dubai from where she has come after her visa was revoked.

Misuse of Sedition Law Continues: Now 3 Kashmir Students Booked & Arrested in Karnataka

February 16, 2020

As per reports emanating from Karnataka 3 Kashmiri students have been arrested on charges of ‘sedition’ by local police.

When Afzal Guru was hanged, I cried says then Tihar jailer Sunil Gupta

February 10, 2020

On the occasion of his seventh death anniversary, political activist from Amritsar Kanwar Pal Singh revisits the hanging of Afzal Guru through the eyes of Sunil Gupta’s book -Black Warrant.

In India What We Are Seeing Is The Symptoms Of Fascism: Noam Chomsky

February 8, 2020

An interview Karthik Ramanathan did with Noam Chomsky, Professor of Linguistics, University of Arizona at his office in Tucson. Noam Chomsky taught at MIT for over 50 years and is a leading critic of US foreign policy and an inspiration for many generations of human beings.

Now Shots Fired at Shaheen Bagh; Only Hindus Will Prevail in India, says Attacker

February 1, 2020

As per reports emanating from New Delhi, a man fired shots at Shaheen Bagh area where protest against contentious Citizenship Amendment Act is going on for several weeks now.

Facebook Profile of Dal Khalsa Leader Bhai Gajinder Singh Blocked in Indian Subcontinent

January 30, 2020

Facebook profile of Dal Khalsa leader Bhai Gajinder Singh has gone inaccessible in the Indian subcontinent. It is believed that it is either blocked by the Indian State, or by the Facebook at the behest of the Indian State.

UK Based Indian Groups Shot Open Letter to Narendra Modi Regarding CAA-NRC-NPR

January 27, 2020

We are writing to you to express our outrage at India's descent into open fascism under your government. Since 2014 we have watched the growing epidemic of mob-lynching, rapes and attacks on Muslims, Dalits , Christians and Adivasis, along with attacks on dissenters, human rights defenders, journalists, lawyers and even judges who dare to speak out and uphold the truth about what is happening in India under your government.

Serial Blasts Rock Assam on India’s “Republic Day”

January 26, 2020

Amid tightened security for India’s Republic Day (January 26), serial blasts rocked Eastern parts Assam Amid tightened security for Republic Day celebration, serial blasts rocked Upper Assam on Sunday morning.

Modi Government’s Decisions Find No Takers in Punjab

January 20, 2020

The bandh call stands in continuity of a number of moves showing that the Punjab stands against Modi-Shah's Hindutva moves.

India Is Increasingly Isolated in Global Opinion: Former NSA Shivshankar Menon

January 11, 2020

On January 4, 2020, The Wire uploaded a video of a talk delivered by former National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon, where he spoke out in stern disapproval of the Centre’s stance on several issues.

After 27 Years, 6 Cops Convicted in Baba Charan Singh Karsewa and 5 Others’ Murder Case

January 9, 2020

A CBI court in Mohali today convicted six Punjab police cops for custodial murder of Baba Charan Singh Karsewa in 1993 while acquitted 3 others.

Violence at JNU Planned to Boost Hindu Rashtra: Response of Punjabi Commenters

January 9, 2020

A number of commenters, activists and thinkers held a meeting in Chandigarh on Tuesday (Jan. 7) and condemned brutal attack by masked armed goons on JNU students.

Innocents no more — Excerpts from Partap Bhanu Mehta’s Writeup on JNU Attack

January 8, 2020

A writeup titled "Innocents no more", penned by academician and thinker Partap Bhanu Mehta has appeared in The Indian Express's January 7, 2020 edition. Sikh Siyasat has extracted some excerpts of the write-up for the under sub-titled for in order to share it with the readers of the Sikh Siyasat News.

Hindu Raksha Dal Claims Responsibility For JNU Attack

January 7, 2020

As per reports in Indian Media, Pinky Chaudhary, president of 'Hindu Raksha Dal' has claimed the responsibility of Sunday's attack on students of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU).

Delhi Police FIR Against Injured JNUSU President Aishe Ghosh, 19 Others

January 7, 2020

As per reports emanating from New Delhi, the Delhi police has registered an FIR against Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union (JNUSU) president Aishe Ghosh and 19 others for allegedly attacking security guards.

Blaming Amit Shah for Engineering Violence on JNU Students, Sikh Body Demands His Resignation

January 6, 2020

Terming it a state-sponsored violence on JNU students and teachers unleashed by BJP’s student wing ABVP goons, the Dal Khalsa and Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) squarely blamed it on Home Minister for engineering it. Both the organization demanded resignation of Home Minister Amit Shah and removal of Delhi police commissioner.

Delhi Police Shameful Bystanders To Mob Brutality On Students in JNU: Amnesty India

January 6, 2020

New Delhi: In response to a masked mob attacking at least 26 students and teachers in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), the Executive Director of Amnesty International India, Avinash Kumar said “The violence unleased on the students inside the JNU campus is shocking. For the Delhi police to tolerate such a violent attack that has resulted […]

New Indian Army Chief Says Borders with China Not Settled Yet; Keeping Peace May Lead to Eventual Solution

January 2, 2020

New Indian Army chief M. M. Naravane on Wednesday said that the Indian State's border with China were not settled yet. He said with China, the Indian state has "Line of Actual Control" (LoAC). He hoped that maintaining peace and tranquility along India's border with China will lead to an "eventual solution" to the boundary dispute.

India Declares Nagaland As ‘Disturbed Area’, Extends AFSPA to the Land of Nagas

January 1, 2020

The Government of India (GoI) has declared Nagaland as a disturbed area while extending draconian Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) to the region. AFSPA grants 'special powers' to India's armed forces. It also provides for including impunity from legal proceedings for actions done by Indian armed forces.

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