The amendment in the Punjab Village Common Land (Regulation) Act would come as a relief to a number of Sikh families of Kaithal and Kurukshetra facing prospects of eviction.
EcoSikh in its first ever plantation drive in a village named Kalwa, in Haryana, a Northern Indian state, helped to raise 125 tree saplings including Lemon, Cheeku and Guava, to celebrate Earth Day on April 25, 2012.
Already facing a demand for a separate Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) from a section of Sikhs in Haryana, the management body for historical gurdwaras, could do well to listen to what the community leaders expect from them in this tiny hill state.
The All-India Sikh Students Federation (AISSF) today claimed to have discovered a village in Haryana’s Rewari district where Sikhs were killed in the 1984 riots and since then the homes inhabited by them and the village gurdwara have been lying in ruins. Responding to the claim, the SGPC said it would investigate into the matter.
Avtar Singh was re-elected the president of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) for a sixth successive term at the Teja Singh Samundri Hall here today. He was elected SGPC president for the first time in 2005...
