Tag: Sikh

Rajya Sabha has a total of 240 MPs, while 5 seats are vacant. In such a situation, the majority figure is 121 on a total of 245 seats. Out of 245, 125 MPs were already in support of the Bill, while 113 MPs opposed it. 2 MPs had not made their stand clear.

In a freshly arising matter arising out of the Supreme Court, the Centre has approached with an application seeking permission to disband a special investigation team (SIT) in the 1984 Sikh riots. The SIT is headed by a former Delhi High Court judge S.N. Dhingra and comprised of retired IPS officer Rajdeep Singh and serving IPS officer Abhishek Dular (2006). The committee was set up by order of the Supreme Court on January 11, 2018, entrusted to supervise the further investigation in these cases, were the closure reports were already filed. However, later on, Singh cited ‘personal grounds’ to excuse him from the membership of the said SIT, and thus now the SIT has only two members.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday inaugurated the Kartarpur Corridor in Gurdaspur, Punjab. He sent the first batch of 550 pilgrims to Kartarpur from the check post of the corridor at Dera Baba Nanak. Modi dined at Langar with Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh and other leaders. He said in the rally that I thank Prime Minister Imran Khan for preparing the corridor in a short time. I also thank the labour friends of Pakistan, who helped to complete the corridor on their side so fast. The construction work of this corridor has been completed in 11 months.

“Hindus are in danger, Hinduism is in danger.” You might have been reading this in a lot of facebook, twitter and LinkedIn post, many Hindu...