The World Sikh News

06/08/2021

DSGMC President Manjinder Singh Sirsa meets a match with Delhi High Court seeking "to balance spiritual feelings with free and fair elections."
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With elections to the general house of the DSGMC just two weeks away, electioneering is gearing up. Sirsa continues his upmanship unabated, Directorate maintains stunning silence and Sarna goes to court through an associate who has filed a petition in the Delhi High Court seeking a restraining order...

06/08/2021

With hope in mind, prayers on their lips, Delhi Sikh citizenry, having witnessed the human devastation in the second wave of Coronavirus, prepares to go to Gurdwara management polls as the Delhi government prepares.
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With the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi Anil Baijal having cleared the decks for holding DSGMC elections and the Directorate of Gurdwara Elections having today briefed the police and municipal corporation staff regarding preparedness for the polls, it is a matter of time when notification will be issu...

06/08/2021

Why should Sikh voters overcome their lethargy and vote conscientiously? Why should the contest be Panthic-agenda based and not mere rhetoric and blames? The Sikh Forum vows to be a watchdog, reports WSN Delhi Desk’s Gurmeet Singh.

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With two weeks to go for the general elections to the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee -DSGMC, scheduled for 22 August, apolitical activists of The Sikh Forum, expressing concerns at the management of Sikh affairs in Delhi, have delineated a broad agenda and appealed to enlisted Delhi Sikh v...

04/08/2021

Why do elections to Takht Committees not evince much interest among the Sikh Sangat? WSN editor Jagmohan Singh analyses the developments at the birthplace of Guru Gobind Singh and calls for more Panthic participation and vigilance.


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In the mid-term polls of office bearers of the Managing Committee of Takht Sri Harmandir Ji, Patna Saheb, a team owing allegiance to the Shiromani Akali Dal Badal sweeped the elections defeating some key post holders. Incumbent President Delhi-based Avtar Singh Hit who assumed leadership almost thre...

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19/07/2021

As the Sikhs and Hindus in Afghanistan, today are sitting ducks with the Taliban gaining ground across the country, international help can save their lives. WSN reports.


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With the Taliban foraging into vast areas of war-torn Afghanistan, the government planning elite forces to counter them, the conditions for Muslims inimical to the Taliban and to Sikh and Hindu minorities who are still entrenched there grows fearful and scary by the minute. As per the World Sikh New...

19/07/2021

WSN urges readers to sign this petition to ensure that whatever remains of our heritage can be preserved as we are pitted against a bunch of incorrigible nincompoops.

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As the SGPC continues to draw flak from Sikh circles for rushing to dismantle heritage structures, The Sikh Collective has started an online petition at change.org addressed to the SGPC president Bibi Jagir Kaur asking her to form a permanent committee of experts and to set up Standard Operating Pro...

19/07/2021

Sukhbir Singh Badal Shiromani Akali Dal Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee

19/07/2021

To save Sikh Heritage and legacy, The Sikh Collective invites you to sign a petition to SGPC President Bibi Jagir Kaur seeking the formation of an Experts Committee and setting up Standard Operating Procedures for Heritage Conservation.

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SGPC must form Experts Committee and set SOPs for Heritage Conservation -Sikh Collective

19/07/2021

Heritage author and activist Dr Balvinder Singh visits The Golden Temple early morning today. In this photo essay, he shares his sublime inner thoughts.
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Conservation of art, architecture, archaeology, historical archives, heritage and legacy runs through his veins. There are very few such souls in Punjab and India. He has been squirming on his bed for the last three days reading news, viewing videos of the destruction of heritage in the foreground o...

18/07/2021

Professor Emeritus at Oxford Brookes Business School -Dr. Pritam Singh pays a tribute to the scholar par excellence who recently passed away.

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In the death of Dr Darshan Singh Tatla on 4th July in Birmingham, the academic field of Punjab and Sikh studies has lost an internationally reputed scholar of unique talent, commitment and achievements. If I had to name one person whose thoughts, feelings, dreams, excitements and disappointments wer...

17/07/2021

Senior Journalist SP Singh pays a very personal tribute to Surekha Sikri, recalling the characters played by her and the impact on him in his younger days.

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A star isn’t always someone who stares down at you from gigantic billboards. Someone who appears on a screen looks like your neighbour or relative, and quietly makes a place in your heart and hippocampus, is also a star. Sr Journalist SP Singh pays a very personal tribute to one such star – Sure...

16/07/2021

Sceptical whether the apex court will go the whole hog, Sikh body Dal Khalsa welcomes its rethink on the law of sedition in India.

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While the Supreme Court of India today posed specific questions relating to the need for the sedition law, even after 75 years of independence, Sikh political body Dal Khalsa has said that while the step of the Supreme Court is appreciable, there is an immediate need to scrap the law, rather than be...

16/07/2021

The real tribute to Fr Stan Swamy is to ask the most seditious question of our politics: Who all are responsible for what is nothing but murder? Sr Journalist and anchor SP Singh poses some uncomfortable questions to top Punjab leaders, and wonders why Congress is hiding its manifesto.
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Conditioned only to read what is published, and not trained at all in reading what is not published, most of us are ill-equipped to read the headlines that do not appear in newspapers or in our television debates or make it to our social media handles. Unfortunately, real politics is often played ou...