KARNAL: Sikh leader’s of Haryana seeking a separate gurdwara management committee for the state have decided to campaign against the Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal) in the forthcoming elections of the Delhi Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC). Didar Singh Nalvi, president of a faction of the Haryana SGPC (ad hoc), told HT, "Religious ...

GURDASPUR: An old, uncovered and unused well at Sri Hargobindpur, 20 metres from the Sri Hargobindpur-Amritsar road, is waiting for an accident to get the attention of authorities concerned. In the absence of a boundary wall or warning sign around the well, it is posing a threat to human life. Sources say ...

One of the marble memorial stone placed at the main entrance of Harmandar Sahib dedicated to the glory of Indian soldiers. Many such stones honouring the soldiers of the army who lost their lives in the 1965 and 1971 wars and the Kargli war dot the ...

BATALA: Shiromani Akali Dal (Mann) leader Gurbinder Singh Jolly was shot at late Monday near Malakwal village when on his way home from Kala Afgana village. The bullet struck his motorcycle but the leader saved himself. "The attack came around 7pm on Monday," Jolly, candidate of the SAD (Mann) from ...

FATEHGARH SAHIB: Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) president Avtar Singh Makkar on Thursday criticised the Haryana police for its alleged inaction following the killing of Sikhs in Haryana during the 1984 riots. Makkar was here to preside over the managing commit­ tee meeting of Mata Gujri College, Fatehgarh Sahib Makkar alleged ...

MAJITHA (AMRITSAR): The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Tuesday announced it would set up a three-member committee to inquire into the 1984 killing of Sikhs in Hondh Chillar village of Rewari district in Haryana. Party president and deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal said the committee would submit its report within ...

KARNAL: Following a recent expose of alleged mass-Sikh massacre in a remote Rewari village in 1984, president of the rebel faction of the Haryana Sikh Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (ad hoc) Didar Singh Nalwi has demanded an independent inquiry by CBI or a retired judge of Punjab and Haryana high court ...

AMRITSAR: With a view to popularise Sikh martial art, Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) has decided to hold World Gatka Cup at Anandpur Sahib in April this year. An event of this magnitude in the Sikh martial art has never been organised in the past. SGPC chief Avtar Singh Makkar ...

CHANDIGARH: The Shiromani Akali Dal (Delhi), led by Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) president Paramjit Singh Sarna, on Thursday secured registration with the Gurdwara Election Commission to contest the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) general house elections. Soon after, speaking with HT over phone from Delhi, Sarna talked of being ...

FATEHGARH SAHIB: The luxury train ride will still be intoxicating you'll not find a corner to get drunk. Put on Sikh pilgrimage circuit, the Shan-e-Khalsa Express will now run without a bar on board to serve liquor to guests. A passenger on the train late Monday confirmed that the saloon was ...

FATEHGARH SAHIB: It turns out the much celebrated Shan-e­ Khalsa luxury train dedicated exclusively to Sikh pilgrimage has on board a bar to serve the guests alcohol. And detractors of the SGPC leadership have been quick to react. The Dal Khalsa on Sunday asked SGPC president Avtar Singh Makkar to tender ...

AMRITSAR: Upset over the increasing pat-down of turbans at airports in the US, the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) on Tuesday decided to embark upon a worldwide awareness campaign on Sikh identity. The campaign would lay particular focus on the five religious symbols worn by the community - kara, kacha, kirpan, ...

KARNAL: The Nalvi faction of the Haryana Sikh Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (ad hoc) has said they would launch a mass movement to force the Haryana government cancel an order pertaining to holding of the SGPC elections in the state. A resolution decribing the government order as "unconstitutional, illegal and against the ...