Browsing Tag: India

Sikh men with trimmed beard & shorn hair find their names in electoral rolls, vote with élan, Sehajdharis too exercise their franchise.

Drawing on the Sikh tradition of kar sewa (voluntary service), he began to pull out the silt and sewage. Over the six years that followed, thousands of volunteers joined him, carrying out physical labour, raising funds for equipment, and launching a campaign...

In December 2009, writer-director Rohit Jugraj officially announced his next film, titled 21, based on that one day in the 1897 battle of Saragarhi, when 21 young Sikh soldiers guarded their post against an army of over 10,000 Afridi Pathans. While Jugraj got busy writing the screenplay for Abbas Mastan’s Players, Sanjay Dutt and Sunny Deol were also known to be exploring the same subject for their next.

So India entered a bright world of market-driven capitalism after years of socialist darkness, and was set on its current path of almost 8 percent annual growth in gross domestic product. Or so the story goes.

Stating that their file for money transfer is being shunted between ministries, SGPC president Avtar Singh Makkar said that once set up, the press would help meet demand for the Granth among overseas Sikh devotees.

Somebody has given the governments of India and Pakistan the strange idea that preventing their citizens from visiting each other and not letting divided families meet will resolve the Kashmir dispute and prevent terrorism.

A leaked US Embassy cable on state of affairs in Punjab has put Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmit Ram Rahim Singh in a spot and states that Khalistanis could have been using a gaffe made by him to regroup while stoking the separatist sentiments.

Justice S S Nijjar, one of the two Supreme Court judges on the bench scheduled to hear a petition filed by the Sehajdhari Sikh Federation in connection with the voting rights of Sehajdhari Sikhs in the September 18 SPGC polls, chose to withdraw from hearing the case.

With the Panthic parties bracing up to battle it out in the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) elections on September 18, numerous Panthic issues — that actually matters to the Sikh community — are still hanging fire.

What has kabaddi got to do with the Sikh Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) elections, popularly known as the mini parliament of Sikhs?

Travellers from Amritsar will be able to reach London in 12 hours with bmi, British Midland International. This flight*, operating three times per week, launches the only direct service between Amritsar and the UK. Economy Class return fares start from as low as INR 38,091, including taxes.

WikiLeaks has revealed that US immigration officials had documented visa fraud, with applicants from Punjab and Gujarat topping the list. ...that such persons had applied under the garb of religious preachers from India. And the US immigration officials were keeping an eagle eye on them and conducting ground investigations in India.

Tapping its rich mine of educated female talent has been an important factor in allowing India to become one of the world's fastest-growing economies. But recently this particular dynamo has been showing signs of strain.

An anti-corruption movement led by a feisty 74-year-old social activist is snowballing into one of the biggest challenges in decades for the ruling Congress party and if not contained risks sparking India's own version of an Arab Spring revolt.

So why I have felt like sharing such a personal story with my friends today? It made me think of the Partition and the reasons for which Pakistan was made. I am at a loss when I see our 17 year old friendship.

Senior Sikh advocate practising in the supreme court H.S. Phoolka here today announced about the formation of independent groups in all the districts of Punjab led by Sikh advocates to keep watch on activities of all candidates contesting SGPC General election.

Pakistan's new Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar met her Indian counterpart S.M. Krishna in New Delhi in an engagement that saw no major breakthroughs over outstanding disputes but a commitment to pursue dialogue.

Lt. Gen. Bikram Singh, quoting Jawahar Lal Nehru, said: “To be secure on land, we must be supreme at sea.” He lauded the contribution of the Indian Navy and said its dedicated sailors made the Navy respected throughout the world.

For Indians, "navigating uncertainties is an art, not a source of complaint," says INSEAD's dean, Dipak Jain. "We have the training to deal with complexities." Growing up in a nation where resources are often tight "forces you to blow through the constraints and find the answer," agrees Nikesh Arora,..

Floods and landslides triggered by heavy monsoon rains have forced more 200,000 people from their homes in northeast India and neighbouring Nepal, and killed almost 80 people, government officials said yesterday.

A desire to break that Bollywood mould drove Darshi and another local actor to create the Vancouver International South Asian Film Festival (VISAFF), taking place this weekend at the SFU Woodward’s campus. The festival, founded by Darshi and Patricia Isaac, hopes to go beyond common perceptions.

Scientists, health workers and community outreach officials in India believe they're finally on the cusp of a major milestone, the defeat of polio throughout the country.

Almost two years after it was constructed - the Guru Teg Bahadur GTB) Memorial at Singhu Border, a village situated near National Highway No. 1 - is yet to be inaugurated and thrown open to the public. The reason: the Delhi government has not found a VVIP to inaugurate the memorial.

OUTSIDERS, especially Indians, have expressed dismay ever since Osama bin Laden was killed last month in Abbottabad, a prime military town in Pakistan. Here is a state that both fights, and protects, Islamic fanatics. Even when Pakistanis themselves are the main victims of attack by jihadis, the state fails to act.

The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) has today lifted the ban it had imposed in April on the wearing of a Kirpan by employees working on the airside at the Sri Guru Ramdas International Airport, Amritsar, following a campaign by the UNITED SIKHS and the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC).

Sheikhupura Fort, a precious heritage dating back to Mughal era seems to be left to decay in the absence of any serious efforts by the authorities concerned with regard to its preservation.

If your children are between the ages of 8 and 25 and ready for an intense Sikh experience in a place that will sweep them off their feet, you want to get to know about the Akal Gurmat Camp to be held at Baru Sahib in the foothills of the Himalayan Mountains for an entire month this summer - July 26 - August 26

Aman further said, “My parents belong to Nelon village of Ludhiana, and I came to India to visit them. I really wanted to do anything I could to let the world know of Indian players. I will teach them techniques that are still not popular in India. I want them to bring laurels for the nation and make us all proud."

...an enormous country of limited literacy and considerable bureaucracy – there can be no doubt: A concerted, cooperative, more thoughtful and more efficiently targeted effort is required to pull India once and for all out of poverty, and to give hundreds of millions of current and future Indian children a real shot at sharing the wealth of the new and miraculous Indian economy.

“Jinnah sahib in his speech in the Central Assembly on Sept 12, 1929, said `the man who goes on hunger strike has a soul. He is no ordinary criminal, who is guilty of cold blooded, sordid wicked crime’. “It is clear that Jinnah Sahib considered Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev freedom fighters. If the father of the nation admires a freedom fighter, how can we ignore him?