Bhai Ranjit Singh (82), who fought a legal battle against the French Government to keep intact his identity as a turbaned Sikh, has returned to India with pain in his heart.
He rues that neither any Sikh outfit nor the Indian Government helped him in his two-decade-long fight.
Ranjit, who was born in Shahpur village of Ambala, Haryana, had left for France in 1991. Then, he was issued an ID with the turban and it was due for renewal in 2001.
Congress president Rahul Gandhi said in a tweet that,There is a leak in everything, the 'chowkidar' is weak.
The incident took place at Jadavpur in the south Kolkata on Sunday, a police officer investigating the case said.
In a sign of the Indian diaspora's growing influence, two cabinet-level officials of Indian-descent represented the biggest superpower, the US, and its neighbour, Canada, at the UN Security Council's ministerial-level meeting on peacekeeping on Wednesday.
The Yogi Adityanath government has decided to introduce ‘Ramji’ as the middle name of the Father of the Constitution B R Ambedkar in all official correspondence and records, an order that has raised Opposition hackles ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
The Punjab Police on Thursday said it has arrested two Kenyan women and a man from Hoshiarpur in the state after 300 grams of heroin was seized from them.
Suspended Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP from Patiala, Dharamvira Gandhi on Thursday launched ‘Punjab Manch’ which, he said, will take the shape of a political party in coming months and contest the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.