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Sikhs of Jammu and Kashmir are happy that like the members of the Sikh community from across India, all the 261 applicants for visa to visit Pakistan Gurdwaras during Baisakhi have been granted visas. This has become possible due to the initiative of the Distr... More »
After the well-attended demonstration of unity and resistance of Sikh political and human rights representatives in Amritsar, the fasting by the detainees in the Dibrugarh prison has been withdrawn following the resolutions adopted at the meet, but Punjab has ... More »
The Sikh community has expressed strong objection to a recent judgement by the Jammu and Kashmir High Court, which ruled that ‘Singh’ and ‘Kaur’ are not necessary suffixes for identifying a person as a Sikh. The judgement has sparked controversy and it is perc... More »
The governance of historical Gurdwaras across India has been an issue of continual debate and concern within the Sikh community. Historically, these Gurdwaras, which are not just places of worship but also pivotal cultural and social hubs, were managed by Maha... More »
In a brazen display of audacity, the Bhagwant Mann-led AAP government of Punjab has unabashedly meddled in Sikh religious affairs, passing an amendment to the Sikh Gurdwara Act 1925. This contentious move has stirred up a storm in Panthic circles, raising crit... More »
The editor of The Sikh Review for 33 years -Saran Singh recently passed away. In this article published in the historic Sikh magazine -The Sikh Review -around some time after the Indian army attack in June 1984, the celebrated bureaucrat and author talks about... More »
As the SGPC continues to draw flak from Sikh circles for rushing to dismantle heritage structures, The Sikh Collective has started an online petition at change.org addressed to the SGPC president Bibi Jagir Kaur asking her to form a permanent committee of expe... More »
After two years of the Justice Sen order of the High Court of Meghalaya at Shillong, ordering status quo ante in the premises and lives of the poor Sikhs residing in the Bara Bazar area of Shillong for the last two centuries and more, the government of Meghala... More »
Celebrated octogenarian Sikh writer and scholar -Bhai Harbans Lal reviews another well-known author Gurcharanjit Singh Lamba’s painstaking work on the evolvement of the Sikh code of personal and community conduct, called the Sikh Rehat Maryada in Sikh circles,... More »
Embarrassed by the leakage of the exhaustive report of the Fact-finding Committee on 267 Missing Saroops of Guru Granth Sahib, putting up a brave face, the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee President Gobind Singh Longowal released the report with affidav... More »
Recently, Indian and Pakistan media and Sikh social media platforms were inundated with news of threat by one Sohail Butt Attari of Lahore to close the historic Gurdwara Shaheed Ganj and open a mosque there. Bhupinder Singh who visited there last year places t... More »
WSN INVESTIGATIVE REPORT: World Sikh News editor Jagmohan Singh has been actively associated with social activists, conservation campaigners and political personalities to focus attention on Gurdwara Aarti Sahib in Puri, which has been on the verge of destruct... More »