Sikhs

Nod at key DU meeting to course on ‘Sikh martyrdom’, credits through online platforms leads to objections

July 06, 2025 1:52 am

Another agenda item that was criticised was the formal adoption of a provision allowing undergraduate and postgraduate students to earn up to 40% of their credits through online platforms such as SWAYAM and MOOCs

SGPC condemns Home Minister Amit Shah's 'anti-Sikh remarks’, seeks quota for community in Army

March 28, 2025 6:41 pm

The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee also criticised Shah’s alleged derisive comment on Guru Granth Sahib recitation; urges govt to withdraw false charges against farmer leaders.

January 10 1985, Forty Years Ago: Bhajan Lal On Sikhs

January 10, 2025 7:13 am

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on January 10, 1985.

Takht Damdama Sahib jathedar quits, says expelled SAD leader issuing threats to family

October 17, 2024 11:01 am

Akali leader Virsa Singh Valtoha had recently accused him of being influenced by the BJP and RSS on the issue of punishment to Sukhbir Singh Badal

India accuses Canada of ‘vote bank politics’: How political significance of Sikhs grew there

October 17, 2024 12:17 pm

Sikhs began migrating from India to Canada in the late 19th Century and today comprise around 2% of Canada’s population. How did the community come to occupy an important space in politics? We explain.

Was what I said wrong: Rahul Gandhi on Sikh remarks

September 22, 2024 2:02 am

While interacting with students and members of the Indian diaspora in the US earlier this month, Rahul Gandhi had talked about Sikh rights, which had led to strong criticism by the BJP.

Protest in Lakhimpur Kheri after UP cop allegedly calls Sikh man 'terrorist'

July 29, 2024 1:23 pm

Shiromani Akali Dal and Samajwadi Party have accused the Uttar Pradesh police of insulting the Sikhs and demanded action against the police officer.

‘Punjab Police ill-trained to handle online hate speech cases against Sikhs’: SGPC questions DGP claim that 120 police personnel given advanced training

July 08, 2024 8:38 am

According to Shiromani Gurudwara Parbhandak Committee, the Punjab Police are not trained enough to deal with organised hate crime and speeches against Sikh community, its principles, and SGPC.

A death on a melon farm sheds light on hard lives of illegal Indian migrants in Italy

June 26, 2024 7:33 pm

Gurmukh, head of the Indian community in Lazio, has appealed to immigrant farm labourers in the region to stop work after 2 pm on June 25 and assemble at the main bus stand in the city of Latina for the protest march.

100 years of Jaito Da Morcha: The British too tried to stop Sikhs by erecting barricades – 100 bullock carts, barbed-wire fence

February 19, 2024 10:12 am

To mobilise more support for Jaito Da Morcha, the SGPC started sending jathas from the Akal Takht, and each jatha would take a different route to reach Jaito to make the public aware of the agitation along the way.

Deputy CM Sukhbir Badal on Sikh riots compensation

January 12, 2015 10:39 am