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Many Indian skeletons in Kashmiri graves
9
April
2008
SRINAGAR:
The
strategies of the Indian state in dealing with minorities are pretty much
the same everywhere. While the National Human Rights Commission... |
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Andhra, Karnataka give minority status to Sikhs
9
April
2008
NEW DELHI:
Adding fuel to the controversy regarding granting minority status to Sikhs
in Punjab, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka granted minority status to Sikh... |
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From hate to hope
2
April
2008
My husband was
brutally killed by the Punjab
police. My brother-in-law was detained and then killed. I have
been harassed and tortured... |
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Ansar Burney on India visit
2
April
2008
KARACHI:
Pakistani human rights activist Ansar Burney will visit India this week
in a bid to persuade Punjab Chief Minister Prakash Singh Badal... |
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Tytler status report soon
26
March 2008
NEW DELHI: India's
top sleuthing bureau, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI),
that at one stage seemed in a hurry to let Sikh massacre accused... |
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Of a debate in Press Club and a joke among Turks
19
March 2008
NEW DELHI: This is
how many debates go in India, and even in many other parts of the
world, but the one at the Press Club in Delhi where Arundhati Roy... |
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Tytler figures in
US report on Human Rights
19
March 2008
CHANDIGARH:
After two witnesses decided to depose against him for his alleged
involvement in 1984 anti-Sikh riot cases, there is more trouble for
Congress leader Jagdish Tytler... |
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Iron Hearted activist Sharmila released and re-arrested
8
March 2008
India
celebrated the International Women’s Day in an unparalleled way.
The gritty activist Irom Chanu Sharmila who was released on 7th
March was re-arrested... |
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India’s Supreme Court says Sikhs not a minority
20 February 2008
New Delhi: In a significant development, India’s Supreme
Court refused any immediate relief to the Sikh community by refusing
to suspend the Punjab... |
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Yet another witness ready to expose Tytler
20 February 2008
CHANDIGARH: Giani
Surinder Singh, whose pictures taken by a hidden camera by a private
TV channel last month... |
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Bant Singh case calls out to the Sikh community
20 February 2008
Get acquainted
with Burj Jhabber, Bant Singh's village. A picture of where Dalits
figure in Indian system. In Sikhism, he was tagged Mazhabi Sikh... |
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$175 and seven years in jail for chopping off all limbs of man
20 February 2008
MANSA:
His daughter was raped six years ago. He was fighting to get justice
for her. But he was a Dalit, an eternal victimhood status in a
paradigm... |
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Dead Khalra keeps shaming system, cops keep
winning
13 February 2008
CHANDIGARH:
Law's proverbial blindness often comes to the aid of the rogues, and
the Jaswant Singh Khalra case is only proving this... |
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India’s
intellectuals snubbed in Dr Sen case
6 February 2008
RAIPUR: Within 10 days of India's top intellectuals, academicians,
lawyers and retired bureaucrats issuing a strong demand for the
release of activist and human rights... |
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Bilkis Bano finally gets
justice, at least some
23 January 2008
MUMBAI: In a justice done, though
perhaps not so completely for the victim, the sessions court in Mumbai sent
12 people to life imprisonment... |
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Now India wants quota for minorities
23 January 2008
NEW DELHI: Ironical are the ways in
which the Indian Government often functions. Close on the heels of
re-defining minorities in such a way as to leave Sikhs... |
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WE EXIST! You just don't see us!
16 January 2008
NEW DELHI: When must a nation hang its head in shame? When a man
thousands know, believe and say was part of a blood-thirsty communal
massacre is made a minister?... |
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Canadian Punjabi journalist denied entry into
India
16 January 2008
NEW
DELHI/TORONTO: Canadian citizen and senior Punjabi journalist Harkirat Singh
Kular was denied entry to India and sent back to Canada... |
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Sikhs form inquiry panel on 1984 genocide
9 January 2008
Amritsar: Several Sikh organizations have formed a panel for
probe into the 1984 genocide, given the Central Government and CBI
delay on the... |
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And The Alarm Would Go, One, Two, Cha-Cha-Cha
9 January 2008
On October 31, 1984, I was 27 years old and I had been teaching
history at Jamia Millia Islamia for just over a year. I was living
with my parents at the... |
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Punjab Police Act faces legal challenge in
High Court
9 January 2008
CHANDIGAH: The Punjab and
Haryana High Court on Tuesday issued notice of motion to the State of
Punjab, Director General of Police, Union of India and... |
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Key Khalra case witness
acquitted of rape charges
27
December, 2007
Patiala: Shame
came in a liberal dose for the Punjab Police with an investigating CBI
senior officer of the rank of DIG officially informing an Indian court... |
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Court asks Indian govt why some ’84 victims
26 December
2007
New Delhi: The Delhi
High Court has asked the Indian Government as well as the government of the
national capital Delhi to explain why compensation... |
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Manmohan’s daughter asks White House, FBI to produce
26 December
2007
WASHINGTON: The American
Civil Liberties Union ( AC LU ), of which the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh’s daughter Amrit Singh is a key... |
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CBI to court: Police registering false cases against
witnesses
26 December,
2007
PATIALA: Shame came in a liberal dose
for the Punjab Police with an investigating CBI senior officer of the rank
of DIG officially..... |
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Police arrest ‘terrorists’, but media tears
apart claims
26 December,
2007
PHAGWARA: Punjab Police claimed it has
arrested three youths with RDX last Wednesday after a failed attempt
to...... |
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India's Orissa reels under anti-Christian
riots, many churches burnt
26 December,
2007
Orissa: Nightmare replaced celebrations for
Christians in India as right wing Hindu hoodlums of Vishwa Hindu Parishad..... |
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Don't hang 'em
19 December, 2007
The stage is set for
the UN General Assembly (UNGA) to formally call upon states that
maintain the death penalty to "establish... |
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Why victims' families oppose Death
Penalty?
19 December, 2007
Lorry Post
is an organizer with New Jerseyans for Alternatives to the Death
Penalty. He founded the group in 1999 to honor his daughter, who
was... |
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In 1947, it was my mother. In ‘84, It was me
19 December, 2007
Pali Grewal, 70, began her life in a Punjab which was eventually
partitioned; her teen years were spent internalizing what it meant
to be a refugee. As a grown woman she married an IAS... |
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Sikhs robbed of minority status now
19 December, 2007
CHANDIGARH: It was in May that the
World Sikh News had warned the Sikh community about the Indian government's
overt strategy to take away control of hundreds of Sikh institutions... |
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Media and
a gritty witness shame India judiciary to act
19 December, 2007
NEW DELHI: Shame
came haunting the Indian justice dispensing system in which the rulers, the
law enforcement agencies... |
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Punjab nods to police raj
19 December, 2007
In
another decision likely to prove controversial once the outcome is
known, the Punjab Council of Ministers under the chairmanship of
Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal gave its nod for... |
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RBI also strikes out Sikhs from 'minority' list
19 December, 2007
Chandigarh: Weeks before the Punjab and Haryana
High Court said Sikhs weer not a minority in Punjab, the Reserve Bank of
India,... |
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New Jersey abolishes death penalty, hopes soar in
Punjab
19 December, 2007
Trenton, New Jersey, 19 December: In
recent times, there have been few instances when hope is read in a news
item. In less than 72 hours since the New Jersey legislature... |
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World divided over value of free press
12 December, 2007
LONDON: The world is divided over the issue of
the importance accorded to press freedom, with not everyone sharing the
Western..... |
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Raising the Bar on Fake Encounters
12 December, 2007
India's leading Supreme Court advocate and one
of the country's top legal luminaries Soli J. Sorabjee this week
strongly.... |
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Sikhs turn to schools with DVD to tell their story
12 December, 2007
Since 2005, California Sikhs have pointed out to
the State Board of Education that Sikh culture and Sikh contributions to
California history... |
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Sikhs disappointed with Congressional defeat of hate
crimes bill
12 December, 2007
Washington: The recent defeat of vital hate
crime legislation in Congress has been seen as a set back by many of
America's minority ethnic groups... |
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Fighters decide pen mightier than AK-47
12 December, 2007
Chandigarh:As armed rebellion in Kashmir, Manipur, Nagaland and Panjab is on
the ebb, activists from these war-torn areas assembled... |
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India’s top sleuths remain blissfully unaware of key
witness, media corps speaks to him
5 December, 2007
NEW DELHI: One after the other newspaper
reporters have been able to easily contact a key witness living in the
United States regarding the 1984 anti-Sikh pogrom, but India's top... |
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Dal Khalsa’ seminar to focus on “Whither Human Rights
in India?”
5 December, 2007
CHANDIGARH:
To highlight the human rights conditions of ethnic and religious minorities
in the country, the Dal Khalsa is organizing a seminar... |
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Punjab's Top Guns get top guns for a song
28 November, 2007
Chandigarh:
In a rather disturbing news, the Chandigarh edition of the Indian Express
last week brought out how Chinese .32 bore revolvers that costs over Rs 2
lakh each would be... |
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Encountering The Truth Behind An Encounter
28 November, 2007
Bhai Sukhdev Singh 'Babbar', the chief of Babbar Khalsa International
was announced by the police to have been killed in an encounter with the
police... |
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KAC to hold 'protest' against Congress
president at 10, Janpath on 12 Dec
14
November, 2007
Guru Sar Mehraj-
Expressing anger at the Union government for its inability to detain the
megalomaniac baba, Gurmeet Ram.... |
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Gill tops list of people Europe may bar
7 November, 2007
LONDON: The Sikhs came one step closer in securing a ban on the
entry of KPS Gill to Europe at the Sikh lobby in the UK
Parliament... |
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Sikh Fedration (UK) Honour
7 November, 2007
Bhai Amrik Singh, the Chair of the Sikh Federation (UK) presented
Brad Adams, the Asia Director at Human Rights Watch, with a silver
plate... |
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Punjab
Police ‘CATS’ to be tracked
7 November, 2007
LONDON: On the 23rd anniversary of the aniti-Sikh pogroms of
November 1984 the Sikh Federation (UK), working with leading Sikh
organisations..... |
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Sikh nation finally moves to unmask mass
killers before the world
7 November, 2007
LONDON: When mass killer Narendra Modi was shut out of the United
States, it was a victory for the cause of human rights anywhere.
Now, the Sikh nation seems to have... |
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Suu Kyi meets junta official
31 October, 2007
Yangon: Burma’s
detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi met for the first time on
Thursday with a senior junta official appointed... |
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Tytler clean chit goes for a six, key witness ready to
testify
31
October, 2007
Jasbir
Singh from the USA, a crucial eyewitness of genocide of Sikhs, allegedly
masterminded by Jagdish Tytler, senior Congress leader from Delhi, has now
offered himself to... |
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1984 riots compensation soon
24 October, 2007
NEW DELHI: Twenty-three years after the
anti-Sikh riots broke out in the city in the aftermath of the
assassination of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1984, the
Delhi... |
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Killer Debate
24 October, 2007
NEW
DELHI: In his remarkable work ‘The Theory of the Leisure Class’, one
of America’s most original thinkers Thorstein Veblen told us more
than a hundred years back... |
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Missing thousands will hound India for years to come
24 October,
2007
Protecting the Killers is how the Human Rights Watch titled its
report asking the Indian government to "hold accountable members of its
security .... |
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Lawyer comes out with report on police impunity
24 October,
2007
CHANDIGARH: Well known human rights activist and lawyer R.S. Bains
has come out with a report on challenges faced by families of those
affected by counter-insurgency campaign in Punjab during
terrorism.... |
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Top Indian police officers spills beans about
fellow officers' role during militancy
24 October,
2007
CHANDIGARH: Trust the Indian media
not to see a 300 pound guerrilla in the room if it does not want to.
While the entire swathe of Indian newspapers, particularly... |
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Outrage in Kashmir as Army men kill teacher
24 October,
2007
Kupwara: Stung by massive protests
against the killing of a school teacher by a soldier following an
altercation with some Army men, the Jammu and Kashmir police on
Saturday registered a murder case .... |
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Anniversary of the abduction of Jaswant Singh Khalra
26 September,
2007
Twelve years
ago, on September 6, 1995, the Punjab Police abducted human rights
activist Jaswant Singh Khalra. The police .... |
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Another warrant against Bhai Hawara, another conviction
29 August, 2007
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Monday
issued a fresh production warrant against Bhai Jagtar Singh Hawara, accused
in the twin bomb..... |
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Six get jail for cheating 1984 pogrom victim Sikhs
8 August, 2007
New Delhi: Six people were sent to varying terms
of rigorous imprisonment in jail by a court here after it was proven that
they had.... |
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Kya Karega Kazi
1 August, 2007
The Muslim Personal Law Board has recently taken
a new initiative for “social reform” that involves the setting up of.... |
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Behind Bars
1 August, 2007
CHANDIGARH:
This was a case in which a chief minister had been assassinated, the case
had gone on for 12 years and more than 500.... |
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Officer who identified Sant Bhindranwale's body is
dead
11 July, 2007
Jalandhar: Apar Singh Bajwa (69), a
retired IPS officer, whose testimony had played a crucial role in settling
the controversy... |
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Amusement park compensates Sikh who was refused ride
because of helmet clause
11 July, 2007
TORONTO: An amusement park in Canada has awarded
compensation to a Sikh man after he complained he was discriminated... |
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Manmohan’s daughter blasts Bush,speaks out for Sikh
Americans
27 June 2007
WASHINGTON: Sikh Americans have found a
supporter in high-profile Amrit Singh, daughter of Indian Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh... |
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ROMA — With a cause
27 June 2007
VANCOUVER: A news anchor from Vancouver
dreams of giving a facelift to Sikh women who have been victims of
domestic violence.Roma... |
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Advocate Phoolka Speaks on the Struggle for Justice in
India
20 June, 2007
San Antonio, Texas: On the evening of 15 June
2007, Sikh Research Institute (SikhRI) hosted the Senior Supreme Court
Advocate of India... |
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International news agencies focus on fake
encounters in Punjab
13 June 2007
AMRITSAR: One of
the world's leading news agencies, the Associated Press, has now extensively
covered the shameful... |
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Anti-Sikh Pogroms in India & the Struggle for Justice
13 June 2007
“Many people complained that, in some cases, the
police were not merely hanging back, but giving active ... |
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Sikh sangat sends strong message with protest
at Indian Consulate
13 June 2007
San Fransisco:
The pain of June 1984 forces the Sikh community as a collective for a public
display of all that they have gone through in the... |
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An Armour of Lies
6 June, 2007
Many historians say that in
1915, the
Ottoman Empire
was responsible for the death of a million Armenians in an organized
campaign of genocide. But... |
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Babu Mangoo Ram And Emancipation of the Dalits
6 June, 2007
Before
1920’s, especially before the rise of Ad Dharm movement, the untouchables in
Punjab hardly envisaged the idea of seeking a separate identity. The
growing... |
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Netherlands recognizes Sikhs' right to wear
turban
16 May, 2007
AMSTERDAM: The government of the Netherlands
(Holland) has recognized the Sikhs' right to wear a turban when taking
pictures .... |
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Sikh denied flight because of turban, TSA apathetic to
religious symbol
9 May, 2007
SACRAMENTO: A Sacramento-based Sikh, Gurinder Singh, has complained that he
was denied a flight at Buffalo .... |
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Firm slapped with $24,000 fine after denying job to
Sikh
2 May,2007
FRESNO: A federal judge has ordered Bally Total
Fitness to pay $24,000 to a Sikh man who sued when... |
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India to
propose 'e-linking' of Kashmir, PoK
25
April, 2007
NEW DELHI: In a move aimed at
facilitating movement across the Line of Control, India is likely to moot a
proposal to Pakistan for "e-linking" Srinagar and Muzaffarabad for quick... |
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J&K govt issues 120 'most wanted' terrorists'
list
25
April, 2007
JAMMU: The Jammu and Kashmir
government has submitted to the centre a list of 120 “most wanted” militants
sheltering in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and Pakistan after engineering... |
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Of Globle Rights
conclave and Religious Freedomsloble
4 April,
2007
As European countries gathered to celebrate
their 50th birthday in Berlin on the 50th anniversary of the Treaty
of Rome, the Sikhs held an international human rights.... |
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Ripudaman Singh Malik sues govt for malicious
persecution
28 March 2007
Vancouver: One of the two Sikhs acquitted in the
1985 Air India jumbo jet crash case is suing the British Columbia and
federal governments... |
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Day after they burnt the husband, mobs returned to
kill son and son-in-law
28 March 2007
NEW DELHI: One day, the mob burnt alive her
husband. Next day it returned to kill her son and son-in-law. Indian
establishment remained apathetic... |
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Mumbai cops asked to ban anti-Sikh jokes on Net
21 March, 2007
MUMBAI: Sikhs have for years been the subject of
many a politically incorrect racist and often crude jokes, but as
awareness.... |
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After 7 judges' refusal, Delhi HC admits appeal
against Sajjan verdict
7 March 2007
New Delhi: In 1984, they were killed. In 2002,
the court acquitted the accused. In 2003, the CBI appealed against
acquittal... |
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Rajasthan minority panel writes to royal family on
Kirpan issue
17 January 2007
Jaipur: The Rajasthan state minority
commission has written a letter to the royal family seeking details related
to the Kirpan... |
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Medha cautions Punjab, Haryana on farmers
10 January,
2007
New Delhi: Punjab and Haryana
governments hell-bent on forcing farmers to sell their lands to
industrialists may soon have a new .... |
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Equal Opportunity panel rules in favour of Sikh
employee
25 October 2006
NEW YORK: The U.S. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has now ruled that the National Wholesale
Liquidators discriminated... |
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Denmark Sikh loses sword case, sword too
25 October 2006
AAHRUS (DENMARK): The Sikh youth
Ripudaman Singh, who was facing trial because he was wearing a
traditional... |
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A choice of heroes
4 October 2006
My hero,
Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan. On May 28, 1998, at 3.16 p.m. Pakistani Standard Time,
my hero shook the granite mountains of Ras Koh... |
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PM’s daughter ploughs own furrow in Bush land
4 October 2006
NEW YORK:
At least one member of
the family of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is ploughing a lone
furrow not exactly... |
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Reiterating commitment to the cause
4 October 2006
CHANDIGARH:
It was 25 years ago
on September 29 that in the first such major action, the Dal Khalsa hijacked
the Indian Airlines... |
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A Wife’s Appeal for Justice
4 October 2006
I am the
wife of Mohammad Afzal, the man accused of conspiring to attack the Indian
Parliament on December 13, 2001. Afzal has been condemned... |
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Indians suffer prejudice in Paris
6 September
2006
PARIS: Prejudice and paranoia have
come together in Paris, most so at the Charles de Gaulle airport. While the
situation is worse for... |
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Worldwide Vigils for Justice for Anti Sikh Pogroms
Victims
Over the past and forthcoming weeks, the Sikh
community in different parts of the world are gathering in city centers to
remember those... |
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Amnesty sought for 28 Indian convicts in Qatar
Dubai: The Indian Embassy in Qatar has submitted
names of 28 Indian convicts to be considered for the annual amnesty
declared... |
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Finally, Akal Takht, top
clergy order SGPC, DSGMC to act to save Bhullar
AMRITSAR: So loud was the national pitch raised
in support of the demand for pulling back Parliament attack convict Mohd
Afzal from... |
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Sikhs across globe to mark November pogrom anniversary
with vigils
LONDON: As the Sikh community marks the 22nd anniversary of the
November 1984 planned massacre of Sikhs in Delhi and elsewhere... |
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Wakf, Gurdwara, Cricket Managers To Comply With RTI
New Delhi: Gurdwara managements, Wakf boards,
cricket boards and Cooperative bodies are among entities accountable under
the Right... |
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SECRET CREMATIONS: NHRC under fire from Nobel prize
winner
Jalandhar: The National Human Rights Commission
which faced criticism from rights organisations for not expressing any
opinion about... |
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