Punjab police have launched a massive crackdown on Sikh activists ahead of Pathic Ekatarta (gathering) at Sri Amritsar today (17th of March).
British Columbia Gurdwaras Council (BCGC) has written a letter to the Canadian Foreign Minister (copy available with Sikh Siyasat News) to raise concerns regarding paramilitary troop mobilization by India at the East-Punjab-Haryana state boundaries and the alleged repression of farmer activists.
A Ghaziabad court today acquitted Sikh Political Prisoner Prof. Devinderpal Singh Bhullar in a 1994 case. Prof. DPS Bhullar who is on parole attended the hearing in person at the Ghaziabad district court today along with his counsel Advocate Jaspal Singh Manjhpur. The court had reserved the case for verdict today.
Farmer leader, Baldev Singh Sirsa, confirmed today that a 21-year old activist was murdered by police bullets at Khanauri today.
On 5 February 1762, the pages of Sikh history unfurled a somber chapter known as Vadda Ghallughara, The Great Sikh Genocide, unfolding at Kup Rahera near Malerkotla.
Punjab police has put Panth Sewak personality Bhai Diljit Singh under house arrest. A team of six police officials visited Bhai Diljit Singh's house today and informed him that the state government has decided to put him under house arrest.
“The new extremism definition about to be unveiled today in Parliament, on the Sikh New Year, will formalise the engagement ban that leading Sikh organisations that are critical of the Indian government have already experienced”, the Sikh Federation UK said in a written release.
The World Sikh Organization of Canada (WSO) is deeply disappointed by the decision of the Court of Appeal of Quebec largely upholding Bill 21, Quebec's controversial secularism law. The WSO maintains that Bill 21 is a direct attack on religious freedom and will continue to fight this unjust law.
A death underlines the small farmers’ struggle for fair income in a so-called Punjab of agricultural prosperity. Shubhkaran Singh, 22, leaves behind a family that had to sell off an acre of its 3.5-acre land to run the household and marry off its eldest daughter. He’s gone, while the loan waiver he fought for hasn’t come.
The World Sikh Organization of Canada (WSO) condemns the mistreatment and unjust detention of Sikh activists in Dibrugarh Jail, Assam.
An annual Jorr Mela takes place at Mastuana Sahib from 30 January to 1 February every year in the memory of Sant Attar Singh Mastuana.
The World Sikh Organization of Canada (WSO), Ontario Gurdwaras Committee (OGC), and British Columbia Gurdwaras Council (BCGC) have jointly applied for standing in the Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference in Federal Electoral Processes and Democratic Institutions, led by Justice Marie-Josée Hogue.
Social and political organization Misl Satluj’s Instagram handle is blocked in India.
Recent events, from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s revelation about India’s role in Bhai Hardeep Singh’s murder to the US rebuke against India’s attempted assassination of Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, have exposed India’s state terror alongside its coordinated transnational assassination campaign against Sikhs around the world.
Commemorating 75th World Human Rights day, the Dal Khalsa will hold a rally and march on Dec 9 against transnational killings of Sikh activists, long imprisonments, illegal detentions, inhuman torture and misuse of UAPA/NSA in Punjab since last few years.
Apparently legislative assembly elections 2023 in Madhya Pradesh will be a closely fought race
In Mizoram state assembly elections, Zoram People's Movement (ZPM) appears to be poised to improve its past tally of 8 seats. Corruption and plight of kuki zo refugees from Manipur and Myanmar appear to propelling the electoral prospects of ZPM.
Arvind Kejirwal led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Delhi government's Sentence Review Board (SRB) has rejected the case of premature release of Sikh political prisoner Prof. Devinderpal Singh Bhullar.
Taking a significant step, the Dal Khalsa has shot off a missive to French President who is slated to be the chief guest of India’s 75th Republic Day celebrations on January 26, claiming that at this stage, when the Indian government’s role into transnational repression is under world scrutiny “your acceptance to be the chief guest has acutely disappointed the Sikhs worldwide,".
Dal Khalsa leader Kanwar Pal Singh, reacting to the verdict of the Supreme Court on Article 370 abrogation in Kashmir said, "Clearly, the Indian top court’s verdict endorsing the Indian government’s decision to abrogate Article 370 has come on explected lines.
The Justice Department of the United States of America has opened the indictment filed against an Indian man for plotting assassination of a Sikh political activist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun on US soil.
The activists of Sikh Youth of Punjab, held prayers for the well-being, high spirits and freedom of Bandi Singhs at Sachkhand Darbar Sahib on the eve of Bandi Chhor Divas.
Recitation of Shri Omprakash Balmiki's iconoclastic verse from the floor of the Upper House of the Parliament has roiled politics in Bihar.
The press interaction on the Air Force One with the NSAUS Mr Jake Sullivan underscored the concerns of the US media regarding the Delhi chapter of G20 Convention.
On 5 February 1762, the pages of Sikh history unfurled a somber chapter known as Vadda Ghallughara, The Great Sikh Genocide, unfolding at Kup Rahera near Malerkotla.
We have now learned that India’s terror campaign of killing freedom seeking Sikhs across the world includes targets in the world’s most powerful country, the United States of America. The Financial Times, a newspaper in the United Kingdom, reported on 21 November 2023 that an assassination attempt on Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, General Counsel of Sikhs For Justice, a group advocating an independent Sikh state called Khalistan.
The Punjab & Haryana High Court's decision on October 7, 2023, is based on the order issued by SSP Jalandhar on May 31, 2023. Justice Avneesh Jhingon's order states, "The present petition seeks directions for the registration of an FIR by respondents No.1 to 4, based on the inquiry report submitted by the 'Justice Gurnam Singh Commission of Inquiry, Punjab.'