Browsing Tag: SGPC

Movement on women’s rights has been slow even in progressive societies. In the United States women got the right to vote only in 1920, a good 150 years after the birth of this nation.

Ontario premier Kathleen Wynne’s scheduled visit to Amritsar as part of her 10-day business trip to India has landed in controversy even before her arrival. The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) has decided not to honour the Canadian leader with a siropa (robe of honour) during her visit to the Golden Temple on Sunday.

Additional Secretary of Dharam Parchaar Committee S. Balwinder Singh Jaura today issued the result of session 2014-15 examination in which participants of Sikh and non-Sikh origin took part.

Supreme Sikh Gurdwara body Shiromani Gurudawara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) has purchased screening rights for the super hit animation film ‘Chaar Sahibzade’.

With three days to go before the Sikh New Year begins on March 14, the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) is expected to work overtime to get the calendar ready for ‘Nanakshahi Samat 547’.

In a landmark decision that is sure to delight environmentalists and pilgrims alike, SGPC has decided to grow natural organic vegetables and grains at its Sattlani Sahib farms near Amritsar.

SGPC has finally accepted the demand of non-resident Indian (NRI) Sikhs by agreeing to print Guru Granth Sahib in British Columbia, Canada.

The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) has criticised the decision of the International Basketball Federation to ban two Sikh players from playing in the ongoing Asian Cup basketball championship in Japan. Secretary Manjit Singh called upon the Sikh community worldwide to come out against this ban.

And now marble is king. Sikhism is the world’s youngest religion and perhaps the only one in which trees have contributed to spiritual evolution. More than 50 Sikh shrines across the country, and some in Pakistan, are named after trees. These are trees under which the Sikh gurus sheltered, rested or met their followers during their travels.

A number of the members of the Board of Jathedars and Executive Committee of the Sikh Council UK met with Giani Gurbachan Singh the Jathedar of the Akaal Takht earlier today at Ramgharia Sabha, Southall.

"It has been decided that Guru Granth Sahib cannot be placed in a house or location where liquor bars and substances having ingredients like tobacco, intoxicants and halal meat exist," Akal Takhat Jathedar (head) Gyani Gurbachan Singh said.

This year Eco-Amritsar started celebrating this day as an annual event with the environmental focus areas....

The Sikh Clergy is facing flak from several quarters for pursuing legal action against those who tattoo specific Sikh symbols and verses of the holy Gurbani on their body.

The SGPC held a Akhand Path Sahib of Sri Guru Granth Sahib on June 04... In Ardas, held during this Samagam, it was mentioned that the Central Govt. of India had launched armed attack of June 1984

SGPC) would lay the foundation stone of memorial to victims of 1984 anti-Sikh riots on June 12th in Gurdwaa Rakabganj Sahib complex situated in front of Parliament House, Delhi.

The Sikh clergy here on Wednesday failed to resolve the controversy over militant preacher Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale’s name inscribed on the Operation Bluestar memorial and the signboard in the ‘parkarma’ of the Golden Temple complex.

Now don’t laugh – it can happen! Wahiguru can do anything – 'keera thaap dehai patshahi laskar karai swah' - anoint a worm as the king or reduce an army to ashes. Lucky us – Guru is always there to take care of us!

SGPC president Avtar Singh Makkar expressed resentment over the visa denial, saying that it was a matter of grave concern for the Sikh community.

SGPC president Avtar Singh Makkar said all Sikh girls in Jammu and Kashmir, willing to study after their senior secondary in any type of course, will be provided with free education, free hostel accommodation and free food by the SGPC.

For me, Sikhism and Punjab are complementary to each other as they say “Punjab jeyondan guran de naa te”.

Putting an end to a nearly three-decade-old legal battle for Rs 1,000 crore compensation from the Union government for the 1984 Operation Bluestar, the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) on Monday informed the Delhi high court it is withdrawing its suit.

“The biggest advantage of this application is that the Kirtan of ilahi bani automatically loads when the app is launched” he reportedly added.

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.

Two SGPC employees were caught stealing from the Golden Temple offerings yesterday.

SGPC is contemplating to re-write Sikh History starting with the lives of the Guru Sahibs up to the British rule era in Punjab. A panel consisting of various scholars has been set up under the patronage of Roop Singh, SGPC secretary.

The Shiromani Gurudwara Prabhandak Committee (SGPC) has decided to install a portrait of Shaheed Jaspal Singh (Gurdaspur) at the Central Sikh Museum located at the Harmandir Sahib complex.

The leaders have urged the Jathedar of the Akal Takht, the apex religio-temporal seat of the community, to take a tough stand on the issue and protect its interests. They asked the SGPC leadership to concentrate more on the affairs within the community.

Humans are social animals and, in time, their way of life evolves into a codified set of traditions and laws - a code of conduct.

India’s media will spare no energy or ink in its attempt to trivialize anything that appears on the world scene which is even remotely pro-Sikh. The envy and jealousy of the Sikh has indeed become visceral to the Indian character, to the point of it having turned pathological.