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Chandigarh, Dec 16 (PTI) Jailed Khadoor Sahib MP Amritpal Singh on Tuesday appeared before the Punjab and Haryana High Court through video conferencing and argued on his plea for parole to attend the ongoing Winter Session of Parliament. Amritpal Singh (32), a Khalistani sympathiser who has been lodged in Assam's Dibrugarh jail following his detention in April 2023 under the National Security Act, has challenged the Punjab government's decision denying him parole to attend the Winter Session of ...Read More >
Senior Congress leader and former Union minister P Chidambaram remarked 1984 Operation Blue Star as the "wrong way" to reclaim the Punjab's Golden Temple, reiterating that former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi paid the ultimate price for that decision. "No disrespect to any military officers, but that was the wrong way to retrieve the Golden Temple. A few years later, we showed the right way to retrieve it -- by keeping the Army out. Blue Star was the wrong way, and I agree that Mrs Gandhi paid w ...Read More >
Shimla: Congress leader P Chidambaram said Operation Blue Star was not the right way to capture militants holed up in the Golden Temple in 1984, due to which the then Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, "paid with her life". "There was a way to retrieve and capture all militants but Operation Blue Star was the wrong way and I agree that Mrs Gandhi paid with her life for the mistake but the mistake was cumulative decision of the Army, intelligence, police and civil defence and you cannot completely b ...Read More >
BJP MP Nishikant Dubey accused former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of attacking the Golden Temple in Amritsar in collaboration with Britain and alleged that the Congress party has used the Sikh community for political gain. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Nishikant Dubey on Monday accused former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of attacking the Golden Temple in Amritsar in collaboration with Britain and alleged that the Congress party has used the Sikh community for political gain. In a post on X, ...Read More >
Guwahati (Assam) [India], July 7 (ANI): BJP MP Nishikant Dubey on Monday accused the Congress party of being responsible for the rise of Bhindranwale and for taking help from the British Army during Operation Blue Star in 1984. He also alleged that Congress had committed multiple injustices against the Sikh community. Speaking to ANI, Dubey said, 'The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Britain had written a letter to the Ministry of Home Affairs in 1984. Operation Blue Star happened in June 1984, ...Read More >
Guwahati (Assam): BJP MP Nishikant Dubey on Monday accused the Congress party of being responsible for the rise of Bhindranwale and for taking help from the British Army during Operation Blue Star in 1984. He also alleged that Congress had committed multiple injustices against the Sikh community. Speaking to ANI, Dubey said, "The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Britain had written a letter to the Ministry of Home Affairs in 1984. Operation Blue Star happened in June 1984, this letter is dated Fe ...Read More >
Guwahati (Assam) [India], July 7 (ANI): BJP MP Nishikant Dubey on Monday accused the Congress party of being responsible for the rise of Bhindranwale and for taking help from the British Army during Operation Blue Star in 1984. He also alleged that Congress had committed multiple injustices against the Sikh community. Also Read | Kozhikode Shocker: 2-Month-Old Baby Boy Dies After Developing Uneasiness During Circumcision Procedure in Kerala, Case Registered. Speaking to ANI, Dubey said, "The ...Read More >
Hyderabad: In a social media post on Monday, BJP parliamentarian Nishikant Dubey claimed that former prime minister Indira Gandhi mounted an attack, Operation Blue Star, on Sri Harmandir Sahib in Amritsar in 1984 in collusion with Britain, when officials of the British Army were present in the city. "In 1984, Indira Gandhi launched an attack on the Golden Temple in collaboration with Britain, with British army officers present in Amritsar at that time," Dubey wrote on X. Taking a dig at Congre ...Read More >
Srinagar: Before towering cranes and cutting-edge engineering transformed the Himalayan landscape, the monumental dream of connecting "Kashmir to Kanyakumari" by rail began with the plodding footsteps of humble mules. This extraordinary backstory underpins the official realization of the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Rail Link (USBRL), inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on June 6, 2025, a project crowned by the awe-inspiring Chenab Bridge. According to Afcons Infrastructure Limited, the ...Read More >
Amritsar: Akal Takht officiating jathedar Giani Kuldeep Singh Gargaj refrained from delivering his traditional address to the Sikh community from the Akal Takht rostrum on the 41st anniversary of Operation Bluestar, observed as "Ghallughara Diwas", on Friday, yielding to mounting pressure from Sikh religious organisations, mainly the influential Damdami Taksal (Chowk Mehta),Sources at the Akal Takht secretariat said the decision to forgo the address was taken to preserve peace within the panth a ...Read More >
On the 41st anniversary of Operation Bluestar, pro-Khalistan slogans echoed at the Akal Takht in Amritsar. Supporters of radical Sikh groups raised these slogans. Dal Khalsa activists displayed portraits of Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and Khalistani flags. Giani Kuldeep Singh Gargaj led prayers for the release of Sikh prisoners. Harjinder Singh Dhami honored families of those killed in the 1984 operation.Pro-Khalistan slogans were on Friday raised by supporters and activists of radical Sikh outfi ...Read More >
Amritsar, Jun 6 (PTI) Pro-Khalistan slogans were on Friday raised by supporters and activists of radical Sikh outfits at the Akal Takht, the supreme temporal seat of Sikhs, while a peaceful bandh was observed around the Golden Temple and interior walled city on the 41st anniversary of Operation Bluestar. Dal Khalsa activists were seen holding placards bearing portraits of slain militant leader Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and also Khalistani flags. The entire periphery of the Golden Temple near ...Read More >
Amritsar (Punjab) [India], June 6 (ANI): Pro-Khalistan slogans were raised by several people at the Golden Temple in Amritsar on the 41st anniversary of Operation Blue Star on Thursday. People raised slogans of 'Khalistan zindabad' as SAD (Mann faction) leader Simranjit Singh Mann reached the Golden Temple on the 41st anniversary of Operation Blue Star and also the death anniversary of Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, who was killed during the operation. Also Read | Goa: Man Held for Trying to Trad ...Read More >
Lieutenant General (retired) Kuldip Singh Brar commanded Operation Bluestar 20 years ago, when the Indian Army entered the Golden Temple to remove the terrorists who had turned the Sikhs' holiest shrine into a private bunker. It was one of the Indian Army's most difficult operations, and undoubtedly the most controversial. In the second part of a four-part interview with Deputy Managing Editor Amberish K Diwanji, General Brar looks back at the compulsions that forced him to send his men into th ...Read More >
Hyderabad: Twelve people were arrested in connection with Wednesday's violent protest against an ethanol factory proposed at Pedda Dhanwada village in Jogulamba district. Sub-inspector D Jagadeeswar said the police used video footage to identify those involved in the unrest.In a video statement on Thursday, the SI said notices were issued to five others. "Protesters came armed with sticks and red chilli powder. They pelted stones at the police and set fire to a container and makeshift shelters m ...Read More >
Amritsar: Damdami Taksal chief Baba Harnam Singh Khalsa remains adamant in blocking Akal Takht officiating jathedar Giani Gargaj from delivering his message to the community or honouring the families of Sikh 'martyrs' on the 41st anniversary of Operation Bluestar on Friday, casting a shadow over efforts to maintain calm.Giani Gargaj on Wednesday assured that nothing untoward would occur on "Ghallughara Diwas" (Operation Bluestar anniversary) while Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) p ...Read More >
Jalandhar: The ongoing Panthic crisis -- in which Akal Takht and Takht Patna Sahib-based clergy appear in conflict with each other, and Damdami Taksal and a few Nihang groups have opposed Akal Takht acting jathedar Giani Kuldeep Singh Gargaj's June 6 address -- seems to be a continuation of events that have taken place in recent past, but it is rooted in a contest for control over Sikh institutions and religious affairs -- one that is being fought with Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on one side and D ...Read More >
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