Browsing Tag: News

News: Punjabi Diaspora and Amritsar International Airport

Amritsar's connectivity with the Punjabi diaspora shall not be adequate unless it is connected to Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton in Canada as well as Los Angeles and San Francisco on the West Coast of America.

News: SGPC Chief says Sikh history to be rewritten

In view of doubts raised by some scholars, the Shiromani Gurudwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) today said the entire official Sikh history would be reviewed and rewritten.

News: Dream come true for peon’s daughter

For Sandeep, daughter of a peon employed in Morinda Sub-Tehsil, the journey to making it to the IAS was tough. But it was her determination that paved the way.

News: Sikh violence wanes in Punjab, grows in Canada (Opinion)

(Recent events) have given rise to fears of a revival of Sikh radicalism in Canada — perhaps on the scale witnessed in the 1980s and 90s, when Sikh separatism flared up in the Punjab and terrorists in Canada destroyed Air India Flight 182.

News: United Sikhs Emergency Shelters help Thousands in Haiti

The spirit of our Haitian mission was summed up by Jaipal Singh as follows: “Our local staff - our dear friends - were a constant reminder of our mission, and challenged each one of us to carry the torch of Guru Nanak in Haiti.

News: Charitropakhyan and I

The whole text of Charitropakhyan deals with different aspects or shades of a woman's nature, some good some bad. The claim by some that these are useless sensual tales arises from incomplete reading of Charitropankhyan with a fickle mind already polluted by the kaamic mud which is all around us.

News: Religion: Tolerance comes from understanding

Why might so many Canadians hold such inaccurate views of Sikhism? The article speculates that media coverage of complex social, economic, or political issues may oversimplify matters, leading to erroneous "reductive reasoning" in which readers tend to wrongly attribute religion as the cause.