A group of Sikhs have travelled to battlefields where members of their community fought in World War I. BBC Asian Network’s Poonam Taneja joined them. The location is the quaint French town of Neuve-Chapelle and a gathering of Sikhs surrounds a stone podium as prayers are recited in Punjabi.
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Sikhs take journey to remember WWI fallen
Security has been tightened at the Golden temple here in view of the 26th anniversary of Operation Bluestar on Sunday. Policemen in plainclothes are also deputed outside the premises as a precautionary measure in view of expected presence of radical Sikh activists in the temple. The Sikh bodies, including SGPC and Akal Takht, observe the anniversary of Operation Bluestar every year.
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High security at Golden Temple for Bluestar anniv
A Delhi court has reserved its order on framing of charges against Congress leader Sajjan Kumar and others in the Sultanpuri carnage that left six persons dead during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. Additional Sessions Judge Sunita Gupta, after hearing arguments both from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the accused on Saturday, said the court will pronounce its order on July 1. The CBI lawyer sought the prosecution of Kumar, a former Outer Delhi MP, and four others for murder, rioting and other offences under the IPC while the defence counsel requested discharge of the accused on the grounds of insufficient evidence
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1984: Order on framing of charges on July 1
Fatehgarh Sahib (Punjab), Jun 4 (PTI) A court here today acquitted a Sikh, whose name figured in the black list maintained by the centre for alleged anti-national activities during the dark days of terrorism in Punjab. Forty-year-old Sukhwinder Singh alias Sukhi Sumundari was aquitted by court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate here. Sukhi?s counsel told reporters outside the court premises that the court acquitted Sukhi as the prosecution had failed to prove charges against him
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Black listed Sikh acquitted by court
The Shiromani Akali Dal Core Committee on Political Affairs (CCPA) called upon the Centre for an expeditious enactment of the Anand Marriage Act for Sikhs, along the lines of similar acts for other religions. Sources said the draft of this Act is ready for ratification by the Union Cabinet. After the clearance, it is likely to be introduced in the Parliament in the next session.
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Enact Anand Marriage Act for Sikhs: SAD urges Centre
Ephraim Radner is writing a good bit these days, sometimes for editors who take some considerable joy in giving his essays provocative titles, as in the Living Church’s latest posting of his essay titled, “Actions Now Have Consequences.” TLC seems to take some glee in the fact that actions have consequences, but does not seem to think that this has always been the case. But dear friends, actions always have consequences, and we all know that. The snotty title is just that, a poke in the eye
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Radner’s writings of the week.
A document presented by Pope Benedict XVI toward the end of a visit to Cyprus pointed to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the rise of “political Islam.”
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Catholic Bishops Deplore Mideast Christians’ Plight
I like to think that I would write what I write and think what I think even if I weren’t metropolitan, although I suppose it’s conceivable that I would hold different views if I lived all by myself in the middle of a bog.
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Poor David Laws: to some his sin was trying to stay in the closet
I watched the 1990 World Cup semi-final between England and West Germany in a pub in south London. When the Germans won on penalties, an enraged mob poured out onto the street and torched a Volkswagen.
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Supporting England is just not the same without xenophobia
There is no such thing as a just price. That is what my O-level history teacher said years ago, shocking me out of my schoolgirl boredom with this startling idea: I had, without thinking, assumed prices were fair, like sixpence for every Mars bar.
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Fair pay can’t be defined, but still the snoops are after our wallets