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Need help or feeling lonely in Penang? Call Penang gurdwara helpline
By Asia Samachar Team | MALAYSIA | A Penang gurdwara has set-up a helpline for anyone needing help to purchase groceries and delivery or undergoing emotional distress as Malaysians face a partial...
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In our moment of precarious togetherness, let us discover a new purpose
By Gurnam Singh | OPINION | Though it is too early to begin to speculate what the mid and long term effects that the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) crisis will have on our universities, or for that...
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Dalbir Singh (1948 -2020), Seremban
SASKAAR / CREMATION: 11.30am, 27 March 2020 (Friday), at Hindu Crematorium, Jalan Templer, Seremban, Negeri Sembilan. Cortège leaves at 11.00am from residence at No 20, Jalan Nyior 3, Taman Nyior,...
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Cruelty on Sikh society
POST ATTACK: SIkhs outside the Kabul gurdwara that was atacked by a gunman killing some 25 Sikhs – Photo: Video grab from Ruptly By Dr. B.S. Bains | OPINION | Countries with religious sovereignty need...
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Explosive detonates as Kabul Sikhs cremate their loved ones
Sikhs prepare to cremate those killed in a barbaric Kabul gurdwara shooting By Asia Samachar Team | AFGHANISTAN | ON Wednesday, a gunman who claims to be from the Islamic States launched a barbaric...
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Malaysian gurdwaras to cancel Vaisakhi celebration
Taiping gurdwara Vaisakhi 2016 – Photo: GS Taiping Facebook By Asia Samachar Team | MALAYSIA | Malaysian gurdwaras will skip the congregational prayers and all gurdwara-based programmes for Vaisakhi...
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On Giving & Receiving or Too Much of a Good Thing?
A Sikh programme in Kampar in Perak, Malaysia – Photo: Shanno Randhawa By Santokh Singh Bains (Chicago) and I.J. Singh (New York) | OPINION | We all look for good things in life that please the eye or...
View ArticleMeals to help the needy
By The Star | MALAYSIA | EDITOR’S PICK | Many people who have relied on the support from others for their day to day routine were caught off guard with the sudden movement control order due to the...
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Khalsa Dharmak Sabha provides take-away langgar
Temperature check for gurdwara visitors on 20 March 2020, prior to latest set of restrictions – Photo: Khalsa Dharmak Sabha Singapore Facebook page By Asia Samachar Team | SINGAPORE | A Singapore...
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Poetics of Structure – Experiencing The Bones Of A Building
Poetics of Structure – Experiencing The Bones Of A Building – Design by Vishal J. Singh By Vishal J. Singh | GURDWARA DESIGN | “Fashions come and go, but geometry lasts forever,’ — Paraphrased from an...
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Naranjan Kaur Dhillon (1934-2020), Rahang, Seremban
SASKAAR / CREMATION: 12 noon, 29 March 2020 (Sunday) at Jalan Kuari Cheras, Kuala Lumpur. Cortège leaves Gurdwara Sahib Parliment at 11am | Malaysia ਘਲੇ ਆਵਹਿ ਨਾਨਕਾ ਸਦੇ ਉਠੀ ਜਾਹਿ ॥੧॥ NARANJAN KAUR...
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Klang police arrest 4 Punjabi men for alleged defying MCO, public drunkenness
Photo released by North Klang police By Asia Samachar Team | MALAYSIA | Police arrested four Punjabi men for alleged drunkenness in public as well as not complying with the movement control order (MCO)...
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Sikhs are finished in Afghanistan
ANGUISHED: A child after the attack on Gurdwara Guru Har Rai in Shor Bazaar, Kabul, on 25 March 2020 – Photo: Reuters By Asia Samachar Team | CANADA | A Sikh organisation har urged the Canadian...
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India’s brutal lockdown
Volunteers coming together to provide simple, nutritious meals to those stranded without food and work, specially the homeless in #LockdownIndia – Photo: Karwan e Mohabbat By Gurpreet Singh GP |...
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Kabul gurdwara attack ‘sheer butchery’, says NZ Ekta
By Asia Samachar Team | NEW ZEALAND | Charitable organisation Ekta New Zealand Inc described the attack on the Kabul gurdwara which killed 25 people was Sikhs ‘sheer butchery’. Ekta NZ spokesperson...
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Book Review: Sikh Homeland and Speeches in Parliament by Sirdar Kapur Singh
Photograph of Sirdar Kapur Singh taken by S. Baldev Singh at Chandigarh – Source: Gurtej Singh blog By Gurmukh Singh | OPINION | Sikh Homeland was not a separatist move but would have strengthened...
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Singapore Sikhs condemn ‘senseless attacks’ on Afghan Sikhs
By Asia Samachar Team | SINGAPORE | Singapore’s Sikh Advisory Board (SAB) has condemned the ‘senseless and reckless act’ when 25 people were killed in an attach on a gurdwara in Kabul, Afghanistan. “We...
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Private medical specialists urged to step forward
Dr Balwant Singh Gendeh By Asia Samachar Team | MALAYSIA | Private medical specialists can do their part in battling the novel covonavirus pandemic by coming forward to serve the nation. This is the...
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Covid-19 should be teaching us about our folly
By Jagdesh Singh | OPINION | If you’re reading this now, you’re probably trying to cope with anxiety and stress of the unknown. You’re probably barely coping, some might say. The barrage of news at...
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Afghan KL envoy condemns attacks ‘on our Sikhs and Hindus’
By Asia Samachar Team | MALAYSIA | The Afghanistan envoy in Malaysia has condemned the attack on the Kabul gurdwara, which killed 25 people, as an attack on its own people. In a letter, the Kuala...
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