A delegation of SGPC, led by Akal Takht Jathedar Giani Raghbir Singh, intends to meet death row prisoner Balwant Singh Rajoana in Patiala Central jail. SGPC secretary Partap Singh said, “The SGPC has requested the DG (Prisons) and Superintendent of Central Jail, Patiala, that a meeting with Rajoana, who has been observing hunger strike since …
The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today demanded a judicial probe into the manner in which gangsters lodged in jails in Punjab were plotting and executing target killings, including the recent killing of Karni Sena chief Sukhdev Singh Gogamedi in Jaipur. This follows the reports that Punjab Police had alerted Rajasthan Police about the Bishnoi gang’s …
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AAP is allegedly including projects sanctioned by the previous governments in the party’s list of achievements to send a powerful message across to the electorate in an election year that the government was on a developmental spree. AAP National convener Arvind Kejriwal and Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann had come out with a list of projects …
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US Principal Deputy NSA Jonathan Finer told his Indian interlocutors the importance of holding accountable anyone found responsible in the probe announced by India to investigate an alleged Indian link to a foiled plot to kill Sikh separatist Gurpatwant Singh Pannu on American soil. “Finer acknowledged India’s establishment of a committee of inquiry to investigate …
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Fatehgarh Sahib Lok Sabha MP Amar Singh on Wednesday demanded that Government of India confer Bharat Ratna on Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh, Kartar Singh Sarabha, Udham Singh, Madan Lal Dhingra and other great freedom fighters. Speaking in zero hour today, he said that India’s struggle for independence was a 100-year long struggle waged by from every part …
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Representatives of the Punjab State Ministerial Services Union (PSMSU), who have been on a pen-down strike since November 8, on Wednesday announced extension of their agitation till December 11. The decision to extend the strike was taken a day after their talks with a Cabinet sub-committee over their demands, including implementation of the old pension …
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The Punjab and Haryana High Court today issued a notice of motion to the state of Punjab and SGPC, among others, on a plea seeking directions to exclude the constituencies falling in Haryana for SGPC polls. The Bench of Acting Chief Justice Ritu Bahri and Justice Nidhi Gupta also fixed February 2 on the petition …
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Akal Takht has directed the SGPC to review its decision on the mercy petition of Balwant Singh Rajoana if the Centre does not commute his death sentence by December 31.Earlier, the SGPC had rejected Rajoana’s demand to withdraw the petition filed on his behalf. Rajoana, the death row convict in former CM Beant Singh’s assassination …
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Beant Singh assassin Balwant Singh Rajoana on Tuesday began a hunger strike at Central Jail here after the SGPC executive turned down his request to withdraw the mercy plea filed by the Sikh body on his behalf. Last week, Rajoana had threatened to proceed on hunger strike on December 5 as he had asked the SGPC …
A UK police force investigating a hate crime have renewed their appeal for information related to an incident in which a Sikh man in his late 50s sustained injuries after a group of boys attacked him in Slough, southeast England. Thames Valley Police said the victim, named locally as Inderjit Singh, was walking through Langley …
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