A Victoria-based Sikh association on Tuesday received a grant of 10,000 dollars from the Australian state’s Labour government as part of a programme to strengthen multi-cultural communities through inter-faith dialogue and collaboration. James Merlino, Minister assisting Premier John Brumby on Multicultural Affairs, and Member for Burwood, Bob Stensholt, presented the Victorian Sikh Association with the grant. “Victoria is the most multi-cultural, harmonious state in Australia and rivals any of the multicultural centres of the world,” Merlino said
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Sikh Association gets 10000-dollar grant from Victoria govt in Oz
NEW DELHI: A woman, who lost five of her family members in 1984 anti-Sikh riots, today claimed before a Delhi court trying Congress leader Sajjan Kumar and others that she did not go to the police station after the incident as policemen were among the rioters. “I did not want to go the police station because the police officials were among the rioters,” Jagdish Kaur told Additional Sessions Judge Sunita Gupta.
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Policemen were among anti-Sikh rioters in 1984: Witness
NEW DELHI – Jagdish Kaur, a witness of November 1984 Sikh massacre, during her cross examination in the court of Additional Sessions Judge Sunita Gupta identified Sajjan Kumar as a person instigating the mob during the massacre. Along with Sajjan Kumar, Jagdish Kaur identified Sajjan Kumar’s nephew Balwant Khokkar, Girdhari Lal and Captain Bhagmal as accomplices
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Witness Identifies Sajjan Kumar In 1984 Massacre Of Sikhs Case
TORONTO – A Canadian Sikh security guard in Toronto, who moved the Ontario provincial human rights commission for being forced to wear a hard helmet by Home Depot, has won his case against the world’s largest home-improvement retailer. In its ruling, Ontario’s Human Rights Tribunal said Home Depot (Canada) discriminated against Deepinder Loomba by “enforcing” a hard hat on him and threatening him with dismissal if he didn’t comply. Headquartered near Atlanta in the US, Home Depot has about 180 stores across Canada.
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Canadian Sikh Wins Discrimination Lawsuit Against Home Depot
Parambir Singh Salar posted a photo: This is on of the highest and the most beautifiull lakes in the world , nested deep in North Sikkim at breath taking(litereally ’cause of the height) altitude of 17000+ft ASL. The lake is named after Padmasambhava, the Indian tantric Buddhist who conducted rituals here. It is said that this is why, even at the height of winter, one portion of the lake never freezes
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Gurudongmar lake
The Queen has recently given the Sikh Nishkam Centre in Birmingham an award for its exemplary voluntary services to society. The group running the centre is headed by “Bhai Sahib” Mohinder Singh, whom I previously discussed in the “Music of Unity/Politics of Division” article. Bhai Sahib is also the chairman of the British Sikh Consulative Forum (BSCF), and has been heavily involved in numerous charitable and humanitarian activities along with interfaith bridge-building efforts for many years.
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Sikh centre given an award by the Queen
Ankur Thatai | A T Images posted a photo: Punjabi village girl dressed up with cultural costume peeping through her muddy house wall. Copyright Ankur Thatai | A T Images All Rights Reserved Caution: Using picture without photographer’s written consent is a criminal offence.
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Punjaban!
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Wednesday framed charges of murder and rioting against senior Congress leader Sajjan Kumar and others in connection with a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case in which six persons were killed in Sultanpuri in New Delhi. Additional Sessions Judge Sunita Gupta, after finding prima facie evidence against the Congress leader and others, decided to record statements of witnesses from August 23. DETAILED NEWS CAN BE VIEWED FROM THE LINK IN HEADLINE ABOVE.
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1984 anti-Sikh riots case: Charges framed against Sajjan Kumar
NEW DELHI: After seeking exemption from deposing before the court on Monday citing ill-health, a key witness in the 1984 anti-sikh riots case allegedly involving senior congress leader Sajjan Kumar once again failed to get her statement recorded after she developed uneasiness during the proceedings on Tuesday. Additional sessions judge Sunita Gupta posted the matter for Wednesday as Jagdish Kaur, a key witness in the Delhi Cantonment case, developed high blood pressure while in court
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Anti-sikh riots witness again fails to record statement due to ill-health
Amritsar Sikh bodies protest move; SGPC says the doors will be back in a year Amid controversies related to their origin, the centuries old and huge gates at Darshani Deori, which serve as entrance to the sanctum sanctorum of Golden Temple, were removed on Sunday for “preservation”. The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) decided to remove the gates as they were in need of immediate repairs
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210 years on, Golden Temple gates removed for repairs
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Inviting sharp reactions from Congress, Kerala CM V S Achuthanandan has alleged that former PM Rajiv Gandhi led the massacre of Sikhs in Delhi in the aftermath of Indira Gandhi’s assassination. The CM made the controversial remarks while inaugurating a CPM office in Alappuzha on Saturday.
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VS links Rajiv to Sikh riots, Anderson escape
LUDHIANA: A leading clothing retailer operating from the US has decided to withdraw its designs carrying the objectionable use of the Kbanda religious insignia and an image of the Sikh guru on its products, including underwear and thong collection. Following an outrage in the Sikh community settled in the US, CafePress , an online retail chain that imports from Punjab and Kerala-based garment manufacturers, said its products did not carry “any malicious intent” and offered an apology “for any offence its products had caused” to the community
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‘Khanda’ On Underwear – US Firm Calls back Design
The facts speak for themselves. Twenty-six years after the country’s worst industrial disaster in the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, which killed around 4,000 people immediately and several thousands over the years, a trial court sentenced seven of the accused to two years in jail. The accused, all former employees of Union Carbide, were out on bail immediately.
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Lessons Not Learnt
Amritsar, Jun 6 (PTI) Akal Takht, the highest temporal seat of the Sikhs, today observed the 26th anniversary of Operation Blue Star at the Golden Temple here as genocide day, saying the wounds inflicted on the community’s psyche by the offensive were yet to heal. “The Sikh community all over the world still feels the unhealed wounds of Operation Blue Star, Akal Takht Jathedar Gyani Gurbachan Singh said addressing a function held by the SGPC to mark the occasion at the Temple where the operation was carried out by the Indian army in 1984 to flush out pro-Khalistan militants. DETAILED NEWS CAN BE VIEWED FROM THE LINK IN HEADLINE ABOVE
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26th anniversary of Operation Blue Star observed
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
PTI Patna: A local court has acquitted all the 27 accused involved in anti-Sikh riots of 1984 due to the absence of witnesses against them in Bihar’s Rohtas district. Additional district and sessions judge (III) Nand Kishore Sharma while acquitting the accusedearlier this week (May 31) for want of evidences also crticised the police machinery for its failure to produce the four witnesses in court, whose absence led the court to let off the accused.
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27 anti-Sikh riots accused acquitted in Bihar
AMRITSAR : A rare collection of hand-written manuscripts of Hindu, Sikh and Muslim religion along with outstanding relics of European Renaissance, collected by a Sikh scholar in Punjab village are in state of gross neglect. A Sikh scholar Dalip Singh of remore village Mallu Nangal on Indo-Pak border in this district who owns the collection is a disappointed man. He has got a collection of various religious books hand written even from the times of 15th centuary.
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Rare collection of hand written manuscripts in Punjab village getting ruined
New Delhi, Jun 1 (PTI) A Delhi Court today issued notice to the CBI on a petition challenging an order of a lower court accepting the closure report in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case against former Union Minister Jagdish Tytler. Additional Sessions Judge V K Khanna sought a response from the probe agency by July 24 on the revision petition filed by riot victims. Lakhwinder Kaur, whose husband was killed in the riots, sought further investigation by the CBI into the case following claims about emergence of fresh evidence
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Court notice to CBI in ’84 anti-Sikh riots case against Tytler
A district judge today allowed a plea of a sessions judge to transfer a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case allegedly involving senior Congress leader Sajjan Kumar. District Judge Bimla Makin decided to hear the matter herself on June 2 after receiving a request along with details related to specific reasons from Additional Sessions Judge V K Goyal in a sealed envelop
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District judge to hear ’84 anti-Sikh riots case against Sajjan
Delhi will soon have a new tourist spot, just in time for the Commonwealth Games. Guru Tegh Bahadur Memorial, an architectural marvel that promises to give an insight into the life and teachings of the Ninth Guru of Sikhs, is ready and likely to be inaugurated soon
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Delhi gets its latest architectural marvel
T he Harper government vowed to review its immigration rules after Canadian visa officers in India touched off a furor by barring dozens of people on the grounds that their service in army, police and intelligence units made them complicit in human-rights violations. Immigration Minister Jason Kenney issued an apology on Friday, saying Canadian immigration officials should never have cast aspersions on India’s institutions. The incidents, he said, showed visa officers have too much latitude.
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Indian visa uproar prompts Canada to launch immigration-policy review
A Delhi court on Friday framed murder charges against senior Congress leader Sajjan Kumar in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case. The Kadkaddooma court framed charges against Sajjan Kumar and five others for allegedly killing five people in Delhi Cantonment during the riots that followed the assassination of then prime minister Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards. Earlier, the Delhi High Court Tuesday reserved its order on Congress leader Sajjan Kumar’s petition contesting the framing of charges against him in the killing of five people in the city during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots
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Charges framed against Sajjan Kumar
New Delhi, May 4 (PTI) CBI today sought initiation of trial of Congress leader Sajjan Kumar and others in a Delhi court in 1984 anti-Sikh riots cases, alleging the members of a particular community were targeted by them during the carnage. “This (riots) was not a work of a few persons. The manner in which the incidents took place showed that it was getting support from a prominent person wielding greater control over the area
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CBI seeks trial against Sajjan Kumar in 1984 riots cases