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By Pola Singh | Malaysia | At a Sikh wedding, all eyes are drawn to the couple. The bride is radiant in her embroidered Punjabi outfit, jewellery and carefully draped dupatta. Beside her, the groom stands proudly in his sherwani and turban. Relatives admire them, cameras follow them, and their parents smile for the photographs.
By Asia Samachar | Hockey | Malaysia’s Young Tigers staged a remarkable comeback from two goals down to defeat Pakistan 4-3 in a dramatic shoot-out and capture the Sultan of Johor Cup Under-21 hockey title at the Taman Daya Hockey Stadium in Johor Bahru tonight (October 24). The hosts fought back from a 0-2 deficit
By Hardev Singh Virk | Opinion | The Story of My Trials and Tribulations [1] As a young boy in high school, I experienced a drastic change in my life from riches to rags. These circumstances were created by a family feud that devastated my dreams in life. However, I found solace in my deep faith in the
By Prabhjot Singh | Panjab | It was almost 100 years ago that Punjab created waves on the international hockey horizon when it sent players like Thakur Singh from Sansarpur to New Zealand on a first ever tour down under. Though Punjab’s contribution to global hockey has been immense, this border State, once known as the
By Asia Samachar | Malaysia | Johor-born karting sensation Sahill Singh has been crowned the Junior Category champion of the Malaysian Karting Championship (MKC) 2026, completing an impressive season with three victories and five podium finishes across six rounds. A third-place finish in the final round at Pinnacle Kart, Subang, was enough for the 13-year-old
By Asia Samachar | Opinion | Parvinder Singh had fought his own battle with drug addiction before taking on what he saw as a far bigger enemy — Panjab’s flourishing trade in addictive substances. His journey from former addict to outspoken anti-drug campaigner won him admirers, enemies and, ultimately, cost him his life. The 42-year-old
By Harmeet Shah Singh | Opinion | Dharmendra Pradhan resigned as India’s education minister this summer, less than 50 days after a Gen Z movement that began almost as a joke forced its way into a national phenomenon. The Cockroach Janta Party filled New Delhi’s Jantar Mantar protest site and marched in Mumbai, Bengaluru and Nagpur.
By Manjit Kaur | Opinion | Can you imagine waking up one morning and discovering that everything you see is the same colour? Perhaps blue, green, or pink. Imagine a world where every flower, every tree, every face, and every landscape shared the same shade. How strange, how lifeless, and how impoverished that world would feel. We
By Asia Samachar | Hockey | “Silver nahi lena tha, gold hi chahiye tha.” (I didn’t want silver, only gold.) For Baljeet Kaur, there was no settling for second best. The 25-year-old hockey player from a modest Punjab family had set her sights firmly on Asian Games gold — and she was confident of bringing
By Asia Samachar | Pakistan | Pakistan is inviting Sikhs living in the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States to invest in the proposed Guru Nanak Expressway, a highway project aimed at improving connectivity between two important Sikh religious sites. Federal Minister for Communications Abdul Aleem Khan said the project would be opened to
By Asia Samachar | Canada | OTTAWA: Canadian International Trade Minister Maninder Sidhu will lead nearly 300 delegates on a major trade mission to India next week, marking Canada’s largest trade delegation to the country in more than three decades. The October 12–17 mission will visit Mumbai and Bengaluru, bringing Canadian businesses together with Indian
K E Y P O I N T S Sikh martyrdom (shaheedi) is rooted in truthful living, righteousness and resistance to injustice, rather than the glorification of death itself. The sacrifices of Guru Arjan Dev Ji and Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji demonstrate the defence of truth, freedom of conscience and the religious rights of others.
By Santokh Singh Bains | Opinion | The largest concentration of Sikhs in the Caribbean region is in Trinidad and Tobago, which is a twin-island country located in the southern Caribbean area just off the coast of Venezuela. It is estimated that there are about 300 Sikhs in this nation. The gurdwara, which is located on
By Asia Samachar | Malaysia | Sikh Naujawan Sabha Malaysia (SNSM) has relaunched its Daswandh Scheme, inviting Sikhs across Malaysia to make a recurring contribution of at least RM1 a month towards programmes supporting the development and strengthening of Sikhi. Akal Takht Jathedar Giani Kuldip Singh, who was visiting Malaysia recently, became the first contributor
By Pola Singh | Malaysia | There are gatherings we attend, enjoy and soon forget. Then there are those special occasions that remain in our hearts long after everyone has returned home. The 80 Plus Golden Seniors’ Malaysia Day celebration on 14 September 2026 was one of those memorable evenings. About 50 enthusiastic seniors came
