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Putting an end to a year-old controversy, the members of Sikh community and Radha Soami Sect today jointly laid the foundation stone of a Gurudwara inside the premises of the sect...

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” - Dr. Martin Luther King

The obvious question about the prices, in a country where hundreds of millions of people still live on less than $2 a day, is: Why?

Life in Ballabgarh could not be more different from the complicated, stressful existence many of us lead in the rest of the world. But perhaps this community has something to teach us.

India sneaks up on you and, when you least expect it, you’re so stressed that you could explode.

“How can we not work?” he asked. “We have to eat.”

What was in store for future was not known. Their lands, animals and other valuables all were left behind. They had lost number of near and dear ones en-route..... Those who were sick were treated. However a new name 'Refugee' was attached by the volunteers from new India.

All decks have finally been cleared for rail connectivity to the Takht (seat of temporal authority) Damdama Sahib in Talwandi Sabo — the only one among the five Sikh Takhts that had been bereft of a rail link.

February 20th was a very auspicious occasion - David Cameron became the first sitting British Prime Minister to visit Sri Harimandir Sahib.

The 383th “BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS OF SEVENTH SIKH GURU SRI GURU HAR RAI SAHEB JI was celebrated with religious gaiety and devotion by the Sikh community of twin cities on Sunday

In each of several small rooms within The Golden Temple in Amritsar, India, which is equally accessible to all people, the 11th Guru projects out. From the Sikh standpoint, this is the center of the world, the soul of our existence; it gives reason and meaning to what we do with our time on Earth.

Fortunately academics like the ones who have written this book need to be applauded for writing on such a vast subject in a very cogent manner and making their point. Anyone with a conscience interested in truth, justice, equality and the rule of law in South Asia must read this book.

Sikh groups led by United Sikhs organization, Akali Dal (Delhi) and Sikh Forum held a peaceful protest outside the French Embassy in Delhi and submitted a memorandum addressed to French President Francois Hollande against the ongoing turban ban in French public schools.

We have now established the “SikhNet Charitable Trust” in India. This will allow SikhNet to do more work in India, as well as accepting Dasvandh from those who want to be part of this seva but do not have an international credit or debit card.

The Union ministry of external affairs (MEA) is likely to take up the issue of turbans with French President Francois Hollande when he visits India on Thursday.

Amritsar Vikas Manch firmly believes that Sri Guru Ram Das International Airport, Amritsar, has a lot of potential to be profitable, but there is lack of will on the part of those in authority to turn its fortunes around.

The two women sit in a grimy flat in west Delhi. The sound of traffic filters through the curtained windows. It is dark and they are talking about their rescue a few hours before and how – if – they might get back to their homes almost 1,000 miles away.

In a state where liquor vends are opened even before grocery stores and where 29 crore liquor bottles are consumed annually, residents of 140 villages from various districts, including 43 in Sangrur and 26 in Patiala, have submitted applications to the authorities concerned pleading that the vends in their areas be closed.

He is the real-life hero who has fought many battles in life— ranging from World War II to the one with cancer and is still ready to wage a war against adversities of life at 93 with a smile.

India has the worst air pollution in the entire world, beating China, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh, according to a study released during this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos.

A big budget animation film is going to be made on the lives of the four sons of tenth Sikh Guru – Guru Gobind Singh. The movie, Chaar Sahibzaade – is going to be directed by Bollywood director Harry Baweja.

This is as close to peace and quiet as it gets at India's Maha Kumbh Mela, a once-in-a-lifetime (well, this lifetime) Woodstock-gone-viral event billed as the world's largest religious festival. How big? It's expected to draw 100 million people over 55 days ending March 10.

We are also hopeful that this year on Sikh Environment Day, the Sikhs around the world will receive and celebrate the message of Guru that: 'Being Sikh is Being Kind to Environment.'

From bitter feuds between its vice chancellor and the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) to its website being hacked, the Sri Guru Granth Sahib World University, the first and only Sikh university, has been grappling with controversies almost from day one.

The five men accused in a brutal gang rape that led to nationwide protests entered not guilty pleas on Saturday to the 13 charges filed against them.

In a move to boost religious tourism in Punjab, chief minister Parkash Singh Badal on Wednesday approved a 'Sikh circuit tourism plan' worth Rs. 250 crore for developing prominent Sikh shrines in the state.

At a time when the fast-track court in Delhi has started the trial proceedings against the five adult accused, the father of the 23-year-old student has described her as 'the hero' of her family.

On July 1, 1590 AD, a board on the main gate of Gurdwara Panjvi Patshahi in Bilga village says, an important marriage party halted in this village located off Phillaur town in Jalandhar district. Having spent two nights in the village the groom left his old clothes and other articles here as he prepared for his wedding.

I ENCOUNTERED something on this trip to India that I had never met before: a whole new political community — India’s “virtual middle class.”

State government may have distributed financial aid to girls from poor Muslim families under the scheme meant to support their higher education and marriage.... on the occasion of National Girl Child Day on Thursday, but girls of the Sikh community from the economically weaker section protested in the city against not getting the benefit of the scheme.