Global Sikh News

• UAE’s Sikh community gets its first dedicated gurudwara
  

  

  Jebel Ali: The United Arab Emirates has inaugurated the country’s first official Sikh gurudwara. Guru Nanak Darbar opened on Friday in Jebel Ali around 35 km from Dubai, ending years of demand from the Sikh community for a dedicated place of worship. The gurudwara is believed to be the first of its kind in the [...]
  
  
• Punjab sets new voting record: 76.63% highest Turnout
  

  

  Chandigarh, Punjab: The electorate in Punjab came out to vote overwhelmingly for the 117-seat Assembly elections today with 76.63 per cent (preliminary estimate) of the 1.76 crore voters exercising their franchise. This is the highest figure since the state was reorganized in 1966, Election Commission sources said. Barring sporadic incidents of violence that left a [...]
  
  
• Dalip Singh’s guardian wanted £1,000 annuity from Sikh Maharaja
  

  

  Amritsar, Punjab: The Scottish surgeon who was appointed as guardian to Maharaja Dalip Singh was not above trying to feather his own nest at the Maharaja’s expense. Newly released documents show that Dr John Login tried and failed to persuade the East India Company to give him a £1,000 annuity from the personal privy purse [...]
  
  
• Over 500,000 bottles of liquor seized in 34 days
  

  

  Chandigarh, Punjab: Living up to its notoriety of being a Bacchus-loving state where election time is synonymous with free flow of alcohol, poll-bound Punjab has brought true the worst fears of the Election Commission (EC) that liquor would flow freely here. During the 34 days of surveillance, various teams have confiscated 5.12 lakh bottles of [...]
  
  
• Updates on Mata Sahib Kaur Sikh Academy
  Guru Roop Saad Sangat Jeeo, WaheGuru Ji Ka Khalsa, WaheGuru Ji Ki Fateh! As you may be aware that towards the end of last year, a group of Sikhs from across the country were in negotiations with the current legal owner of the premises at which the Gurdwara Mata Sahib Sikh Academy is located.  With [...]