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Unmindful of the international opprobrium against India as it slipped to Rank 161 in 2023 on the World Press Freedom Index of Reporters Sans Frontiers, the Narendra Modi-led right-wing Bhartiya Janata Party government continues to play Orwellian Big Brother th... More »
Dal Khalsa, a prominent pro-freedom Sikh organization, has vehemently criticized the Indian government’s attempt to absolve itself from a conspiracy aimed at assassinating US-based Sikh sovereignty champion Gurpatwant Singh Pannun. Calling the US to intervene,... More »
On the eve of India’s Independence Day, in an extraordinary show of dissent, activists of the Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) and Dal Khalsa gathered in the industrial capital of Punjab -Ludhiana, on the hot and sultry day of 14 August, protesting injustices an... More »
The Amritsar police and administration swung into action late last night making preventive detentions of scores of Dal Khalsa activists throughout the state and especially in Amritsar to thwart the possibility of Dal Khalsa hoisting the Sikh flag as planned by... More »
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 immedia... More »
As India continues to push to the wall its minorities, national and regional identities by crushing their rights and reducing the space for co-existence, taking the mantle of being the voice of the Sikhs, the Sikh political body -Dal Khalsa has urged the US Pr... More »
ਸੱਤ ਸਾਲ ਪਹਿਲਾਂ ਜਦੋਂ ਕਸ਼ਮੀਰ ਦੇ ਅਫਜ਼ਲ ਗੁਰੂ ਨੂੰ ਦਿੱਲੀ ਦੀ ਤਿਹਾੜ ਜੇਲ ਦੀ ਚਾਰ ਦਿਵਾਰੀ ਅੰਦਰ ਅਚਾਨਕ ਫਾਹੇ ਲਗਾ ਦਿਤਾ ਗਿਆ ਸੀ, ਉਹ ਸ਼ਾਤ, ਅਡੋਲ ਅਤੇ ਰੱਬ ਦੀ ਰਜ਼ਾ ਵਿੱਚ ਸੀ। ਜੇਲਰ ਸੁਨੀਲ ਗੁਪਤਾ ਨੇ ਉਸਨੂੰ ਫਾਂਸੀ ਲਗਦੇ ਨੂੰ ਦੇਖਿਆ ਸੀ, ਉਪਰੰਤ ਉਹ ਆਪਣੇ ਘਰ ਜਾ ਕੇ ਆਪਣੇ ਪਰਿਵਾਰ ਨਾਲ ਫੁੱਟ-ਫੁੱਟ ਕੇ ਰੋ ਪਿਆ। ਸੁਨ... More »
Seven years ago, when Kashmiri national Afzal Guru was surreptitiously hanged in the closed environs of the Tihar prison in Delhi, he was calm, cool, collected and God-fearing while the jailer who saw through his hanging -Sunil Gupta, ‘broke down and cried’ wh... More »
Sikh political leaders, human rights activists, social and religious activists presence at Shaheen Bagh has added a unique dimension to the ongoing protests at Jamia and Shaheen Bagh, rattling the administration and boosting the morale and spirit of the protes... More »
Terming violence on JNU students and teachers as fully state-sponsored, unleashed through the BJP’s student wing Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad -ABVP goons, Punjab political parties -Dal Khalsa and Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) squarely blamed it on the I... More »
At a well-attended Jor Mela conference at Fatehgarh Sahib, held to pay glowing tributes to Mata Gujri and younger sons -Sahibzades of Tenth Master Guru Gobind Singh, the Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) and Dal Khalsa raised substantive issues concerning the Sik... More »
Sikh political party -Dal Khalsa, in a statement released in Amritsar today, has said that the abrogation of article 370 for removing special status of Kashmir, the Ayodhya verdict giving the disputed land to the Hindu community, the discriminatory provisions ... More »