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Led by Sri Guru Singh Sabha President Jagjivan Singh, members of the Sangat of the Gurdwara Sahib Chitkora, Patna Saheb have petitioned Giani Raghbir Singh, Jathedar Akal Takht Sahib seeking disciplinary action against the Takht Committee as per Sikh tradition... More »
In a development that has sent shockwaves throughout the Sikh community, the Sikh Sangat of Patna has urgently appealed to the highest religious authority, Jathedar Giani Raghbir Singh Ji of the Akal Takht Sahib, seeking immediate intervention over the flagran... More »
Children — innocent souls caught in the crossfire of Israel and Palestine for the last five decades and more —have borne a disproportionate brunt of the conflict. The whole orchestration of war in Gaza is so stressful and inhuman that we are seeing genocide h... More »
Senior Journalist Tavleen Singh has written extensively for and against Narendra Modi. She has presented objective readings about the Sikh struggle and covered the Punjab in the 1980s and 1990s and she is entitled to her opinion. She is clearly insensitive to ... More »
In an absolutely undemocratic panic reaction, at the eleventh hour, less than 48 hours before the event -the M & N 20, scheduled to be held at the Constitution Club on 7 September, was abruptly canceled by the Constitution Club authorities, citing directions f... More »
Apart from political wranglings, financial bungling, and visionless working at Takht Patna Sahib, over the last four decades, the recent nomination of 3 members by District Judge Patna Shri Rajiv Ranjan Prasad, even before the elections to the Prabandhak Commi... More »
Recalling the historic occasion when in 1947, the Naga leadership rejected the British move to push Nagaland to either go with India or Burma -present-day Myanmar, the Government of the People’s Republic of Nagalim celebrated their 77th Independence Day on 14t... More »
Amidst a powerful diplomatic push by India issuing démarche to Canada, the United States, the UK, and Australia to disallow pro-Sikh freedom activists from pursuing their democratic rights in respective countries by alleging violence without any substantiation... More »
In an awe-inspiring revival of Sikh heritage, a momentous gathering at Sri Anandpur Sahib shattered the chains of time to resurrect the age-old tradition of Gurmatta (collective decision-making) which was languishing in obscurity for over a hundred years. This... More »
What is the significance of the Vaisakhi of Guru Gobind Singh? Every Vaisakhi, what transpired in 1699 at Anandpur Sahib and how it transformed a people is a story that needs to be retold. Through the prism of Vaisakhi, WSN editor Jagmohan Singh peeps into t... More »
It is of serious concern for all rights activists to learn that Matiullah Wesa, a well-known advocate for girls’ education in Afghanistan, who has been steadfast in his mission, despite the anti-education for girls atmosphere in Afghanistan, has been arrested ... More »
The Indian print and television media goes to town about the arrest of Sikh activist Amritpal Singh, while the Punjab police issued a late evening release declaring him a fugitive and announcing that four scores of his associates have been detained from variou... More »