India rebukes Canada for allowing Sikh rally with float showing Modi in jail. Religious parade in Ontario also featured slogans and symbols linked to Khalistan movement ...

Khalistan is a proposed ethno-nationalist Sikh state that some Sikhs, almost entirely in the diaspora, believe should be carved out of a huge swath of northern India — not only India’s entire ...

STOCKTON — This farming city in the Central Valley has made headlines for its financial struggles and its annual asparagus festival. But thousands of miles away in India, it is a symbol of ...

However, the Khanda is also used as a symbol by those campaigning to establish an independent nation for Sikhs, called Khalistan, in the Punjab region in India's north-west.

Bakersfield resident Nirmal Singh stands in front of a Khalistan flag at the Yuba City Nagar Kirtan Sikh parade. The flag is a symbol of the separatist movement that calls for the creation of Sikh ...

(RNS) — To some Sikhs, allegations that recent Hindu temple vandalizations have been carried out by Sikh actors have served to foment tension between the religious communities as of late.

1982: The Seeds of the Khalistan Challenge. The issue of Khalistan groups setting camp in Canada traces back to the early 1980s. In January 1982, Surjan Singh Gill set up a ‘Khalistan government ...

The historic gurdwara, better known as the Ross Street gurdwara, was spray-painted with pro-Khalistan and anti-India graffiti. Following this incident, Lakshmi Narayan Mandir in Surrey was also ...

Satinder Pal Singh Raju, a activist in the Khalistan movement that aims to create an independent Sikh state out of India's Punjab region, survived a drive-by shooting on a rural stretch of I-505 ...

The Harvard International Review removed an article criticizing the Khalistan movement on Feb. 22 after the piece drew a wave of backlash from Sikh readers, including a complaint from Harvard’s ...

The Khalistan movement Sikhism was founded in the 15th century in Punjab, and in 1699 an influential leader of the faith at the time, Guru Gobind Singh, espoused the idea of Sikh rule.