The remaining two are Takht Sri Patna Sahib (Patna, Bihar) and Takht Hazur Sahib (Nanded, Maharashtra). With senior Akali leader Birkram Majithia and several other party leaders opposing the ...

The occasion saw a huge rush of devotees at the Takht, one of the five Sikh temporal seats, in Anandpur Sahib of Rupnagar district. After paying obeisance, the Chief Minister said the Hola Mohalla ...

Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann on Saturday condemned the removal of two jathedars (heads) of Akal Takht and Takht Sri Kesgarh Sahib, saying it seems an act of ‘badlakhori (vengeance ...

The new Jathedar of Takht Sri Kesgarh Sahib hails from Jabbowal village in Amritsar and has been working as a preacher since 2001. A postgraduate in history, he pursued Sikh religious studies from ...

Giani Kuldeep Singh Gargajj, officiating chief priest of Akal Takht – the highest Sikh temporal ... the desecration of the sacred Guru Granth Sahib. The statement came a day after he visited ...

Giani Kuldeep Singh Gargaj was appointed as the Jathedar of Takht Kesgarh Sahib and assumed charge on Monday amid tensions from the Nihangs and Damdami Taksal, who had threatened to disrupt his ...

Baba Sukha Singh, head of the Kar Sewa sect, Sarhali, was honoured at a congregation held by the managing committee of Takht Sri Hari Mandir Sahib, Patna Sahib, (birth place of 10th Sikh Guru Sri ...

Amid the row over the removal of two jathedars by the SGPC, Giani Kuldeep Singh Gargaj on Monday assumed charge as the jathedar of Takht Sri Kesgarh Sahib at Anandpur Sahib and the acting jathedar ...

The Akal Takht in Amritsar and the Takht Kesgarh at Anandpur Sahib are two of the five seats of temporal authority of Sikhism. The move may adversely affect the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD ...

CHANDIGARH: Amid opposition from Nihang bodies, Daddami Takshal and other sikh bodies, Giani Kuldeep Singh Gargaj took over as the new Jathedar (High Priest) of Takht Keshgarh Sahib today at ...