Sikh Priests

The Akal Takht has disqualified the priests at a Bathinda gurdwara from performing religious services after they performed a same-sex wedding at the shrine last month.

Protests broke out after a man allegedly hit two Sikh priests and desecrated the 'Guru Granth Sahib' at a gurdwara in Punjab's Morinda town on Monday.

A Sikh priest was attacked with sharp-edged weapons and his leg was chopped off in Tarn Taran district, a police official said on Friday.

The Sikh priest transferred Rs 1.25 lakh to the bank account number given by the accused. The complainant was also duped in name of payments for visa fees and money exchange, police said.

A farmer from Punjab protesting near the Delhi-Haryana border died early this morning, allegedly because of the bitter cold. The 37-year-old man, a father of three, was found dead at a site where thousands of farmers have been protesting for 22 days against central farm laws.

A day after a Sikh priest supporting the farmer protests died by suicide at the Delhi-Haryana border, ML Khattar, the Chief Minister of Haryana, expressed grief, saying Baba Ram Singh dedicated his life to the service of people.

The priest of a Gurdwara from Haryana, Baba Ram Singh, who joined the farmers' protest, has died by suicide; he had shot himself.The 65-year-old was at the Delhi-Sonipat border at Kundli, where he reached on Tuesdayevening.

Jagjit Kaur, 19, is the daughter of Bhagwan Singh, a "granthi" (priest) of Pakistani Gurdwara. Her family alleges that she was converted to Islam at gunpoint and made to marry a Muslim man in Lahore's Nankana Sahib.

The priest of a gurdwara in California was allegedly assaulted on Thursday night in an apparent hate crime, media reports said on Friday.

Nirpreet Kaur was only 16 when she saw her father being burnt alive by a frenzied mob near a gurdwara in Delhi's Raj Nagar on the morning of November 1, 1984.. Her father was the head priest at the gurdwara.

The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) has asked the Sikh high priests to look into the controversy surrounding Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Golden Temple while wearing a cap.

Three teenage boys went on trial in Germany on Wednesday, accused of a terrorist bomb attack on an Indian wedding that left a Sikh priest badly wounded.

Over 20,000 people have signed an online petition on the White House website seeking help of US President Barack Obama for the release of former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh's assassin Jagtar Singh Hawara. Sikh hardliners claim to have parallely declared him as head priest or Jathedar of the Akal Takht, the supreme temporal seat of Sikhism in ...

In an unprecedented development, the five Sikh high priests, Panj Pyaras of the Akal Takht today asked the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) to remove the Jathedars of five Takhts (seats of Sikh religion), alleging that they had "created furore and restlessness in the community".

A woman and a 'granthi' (Sikh priest) were arrested in Punjab on Monday on charges of desecration of the holy Guru Granth Sahib, police said on Monday.

The Akal Takht has disqualified the priests at a Bathinda gurdwara from performing religious services after they performed a same-sex wedding at the shrine last month.

Protests broke out after a man allegedly hit two Sikh priests and desecrated the 'Guru Granth Sahib' at a gurdwara in Punjab's Morinda town on Monday.

A Sikh priest was attacked with sharp-edged weapons and his leg was chopped off in Tarn Taran district, a police official said on Friday.

The Sikh priest transferred Rs 1.25 lakh to the bank account number given by the accused. The complainant was also duped in name of payments for visa fees and money exchange, police said.

A farmer from Punjab protesting near the Delhi-Haryana border died early this morning, allegedly because of the bitter cold. The 37-year-old man, a father of three, was found dead at a site where thousands of farmers have been protesting for 22 days against central farm laws.

A day after a Sikh priest supporting the farmer protests died by suicide at the Delhi-Haryana border, ML Khattar, the Chief Minister of Haryana, expressed grief, saying Baba Ram Singh dedicated his life to the service of people.

The priest of a Gurdwara from Haryana, Baba Ram Singh, who joined the farmers' protest, has died by suicide; he had shot himself.The 65-year-old was at the Delhi-Sonipat border at Kundli, where he reached on Tuesdayevening.

Jagjit Kaur, 19, is the daughter of Bhagwan Singh, a "granthi" (priest) of Pakistani Gurdwara. Her family alleges that she was converted to Islam at gunpoint and made to marry a Muslim man in Lahore's Nankana Sahib.

The priest of a gurdwara in California was allegedly assaulted on Thursday night in an apparent hate crime, media reports said on Friday.

Nirpreet Kaur was only 16 when she saw her father being burnt alive by a frenzied mob near a gurdwara in Delhi's Raj Nagar on the morning of November 1, 1984.. Her father was the head priest at the gurdwara.

The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) has asked the Sikh high priests to look into the controversy surrounding Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Golden Temple while wearing a cap.

Three teenage boys went on trial in Germany on Wednesday, accused of a terrorist bomb attack on an Indian wedding that left a Sikh priest badly wounded.

Over 20,000 people have signed an online petition on the White House website seeking help of US President Barack Obama for the release of former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh's assassin Jagtar Singh Hawara. Sikh hardliners claim to have parallely declared him as head priest or Jathedar of the Akal Takht, the supreme temporal seat of Sikhism in ...

In an unprecedented development, the five Sikh high priests, Panj Pyaras of the Akal Takht today asked the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) to remove the Jathedars of five Takhts (seats of Sikh religion), alleging that they had "created furore and restlessness in the community".

A woman and a 'granthi' (Sikh priest) were arrested in Punjab on Monday on charges of desecration of the holy Guru Granth Sahib, police said on Monday.