Ardass Diwas held at Akal Takht for the first time in 26 years

Ardass Diwas was held at the Akal Takht here for the first time in 26 years on Friday to honour the more than 30 people who were killed Hond-Chillar village in Rewari District at the height of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.

The event was organized and observed by the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbhandhak committee (SGPC).

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Badal demands judicial probe into Hond Chillar killings

Panchkula, Mar 4 (PTI) Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today demanded a judicial probe into the killing of 32 Sikhs in a Haryana village during 1984 riots terming the incident as the result of a premeditated conspiracy.

Talking to reporters after participating in a collective prayer held at a gurdwara here in the memory of Sikhs killed at Hond Chillar village in Haryana''s Rewari district in the riots, Badal said the "heinous and unpardonable act was part of a premeditated conspiracy."

Demanding an inquiry into the incident by a sitting judge of the Supreme Court, the Chief Minister said it was needed to bring the guilty to book.

Accompanied by his Advisor Daljit Singh Cheema, Badal earlier attended Gurdwara Nada Sahib to take part in the collective Ardas ceremony in the memory of riot victims of Hond Chillar village.

Meanwhile, an Ardas was also organized at Akal Takht (the highest Sikh Temporal seat) for those killed during the riots in Hond Chillar village.

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Sikhism of the Guru Granth

Bhai Vir Singh Sahitya Sadan is arranging Tenth Bhai Chanan SinghMemorial Lecture on Thursday, 10th March, 2011, at 5.00 P.M. in BhaiVir Singh Sahitya Sadan(Gole Market,New Delhi).

Prof. Imtiaz Ahmad of J.N.U. will speak on Sikhism of the Guru Granth.

Ambassador Bal Anand will preside over the lecture and Prof.Jai Rup Singh,Vice-Chancellor,Central University of Punjab,Bhatinda,will be the Guest of Honour.
All are invited to attend the lecture.

Telescopic darshan, till corridor to Pak gurdwara becomes a reality

Today, DSGMC and other Sikh bodies will install a telescope on the Indian side of the border, from where Dera Baba Nanak is 3 km away.

 

Even as India and Pakistan deliberate on a ‘corridor’ for Sikh pilgrims to pay obeisance at Kartarpur Sahib Gurdwara, situated three kilometres away from the international border, Sikh bodies plan to install telescopes on the Indian side for a “darshan” of the shrine. Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC), with help from Baba Sewa Singh of Khadur Sahib, will take up the project. 

DSGMC chief Paramjit Singh Sarna claimed the necessary permission from the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) for installing such a facility at the sensitive border had been taken. 

Dera Baba Nanak is situated 3 kilometres away from the border, inside Pakistan. Separated from India after Partition, the gurdwara, where Guru Nanak spent his last days, attracts hundreds of pilgrims daily to the border from where the shrine is visible on a clear day. 

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Helicopter to flag off Guru's gift

LUDHIANA: When residents of Dhandran village, located on the outskirts of Ludhiana, flag off `Baba', a horse that will be presented to 10th Sikh Master, Guru Gobind Singh,at Hazoor Sahib in Nanded on March 7, to atone for the refusal of their ancestors to help the Guru, they want everything to go right. 

 

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Dal Khalsa to ask UN officials to investigate

AMRITSAR: The Sikh radical organization, Dal Khalsa, has decided to approach the New Delhi-based UN officials to urge them to send their team to Hondh Chillar village in Rewari district of Haryana for investigating the massacre of 32 innocent Sikhs on November 2, 1984.

Dal Khalsa spokesman Kanwar Pal Singh said, "We will approach the UN officials in Delhi as the massacre at Hondh Chillar is a living testimony of the Sikh carnage executed under state patronage 26 years ago in Delhi and elsewhere."

He also slammed Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda for the delay in setting up a judicial commission to ascertain who ordered the killings of 32 Sikhs in Hondh Chillar. 

 

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Alleged killing of Sikhs disrupts proceedings

Proceedings in Parliament were disrupted on Tuesday as both Houses were adjourned till noon when Opposition members vociferously demanded a probe into alleged massacre of Sikhs in Rewari district of Haryana during the anti-Sikh riots of 1984, and into the alleged tapping of telephones of AIADMK supremo J. Jayalalithaa. 

As soon as the Lok Sabha assembled for the day, members of the Akali Dal rushed into the well of the House demanding an inquiry into the “massacre.” 

Members of the Samajwadi Party (SP) raised slogans demanding a caste-based census, while Shiv Sena members were seen waving placards and demanding new trains in the Marathwada and Vidarbha regions of Maharashtra. 

 

Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar first adjourned question hour till 11.15 a.m. and then till noon. When the House reconvened, she allowed the leaders of some parties to make their points. 

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