The First Major Victory of the Sikhs over the Mughals-Battle of Chappar Chirai

The Battle of Chappar Chirai was the first major victory of the Sikhs over the Mughals and the beginning of the Sikh empire building effort.

The battle of Chappar Chirai changed the political map of India in 1710, till then Sikhs were not a united political force but the followers of a particular sect. And in spite of their numbers were yet to be taken as a serious power in the region of west India what is now known as Punjab. The battle of Chappar Chirai changed that and in a short span of one-year Sikhs started ruling the entire area between Sutlej river and Karnal. The Battle helped the Sikh leader Band Singh Bahadur achieve twin purpose of seeking revenge of the brutal murder of the two kids of Guru Gobind Singh Ji and to claim sovereign rights over the city of Sirhind, one of the most important trade centre of Mughal empire in the seventeenth century and he achieved both the purpose like no one ever before him did.

7 Most Powerful Punjabis acknowledged in Britain!

As per Guardian and Operation Black Vote established that of the 1,049 most powerful people in Britain, just 36 are from ethnic minorities and 7 are from Sikh backgrounds. 1. SIR HARPAL S KUMAR Kumar is the chief executive of Cancer Research UK, one of the UK’s biggest and most successful charities. He holds honorary […]

As per Guardian and Operation Black Vote established that of the 1,049 most powerful people in Britain, just 36 are from ethnic minorities and 7 are from Sikh backgrounds.

1. SIR HARPAL S KUMAR
Kumar is the chief executive of Cancer Research UK, one of the UK’s biggest and most successful charities. He holds honorary doctorates from two universities, and was a Baker scholar at Harvard Business School – making him part of the top 5% of his class. He is chair of the National Cancer Advisory Group and a member of the National Cancer Transformation Board.

2. JAS ATHWAL
Athwal is the leader of Redbridge council, which turned Labour for the first time in 2014 under his leadership. He is also the council’s first leader from a BAME background. He was first elected to the council in May 2010 and became leader of the Labour group in October 2011.

3.HARDYAL SINGH DHINDSA
Hardyal Singh Dhindsa is the police and crime commissioner for Derbyshire – the first and only PCC from a BAME background. He has been a local politician since 1993 having held a number of council cabinet posts – including education and social care, planning and highways, and leisure. He is a qualified probation officer, with more than 30 years’ experience.

4. PERMINDER MANN
Mann is the CEO of Bonnier Publishing UK, one of the UK’s top publishing firms. She was in the Bookseller’s list of the 100 most influential people in the publishing industry in 2015 and 2016 and was named as one of the top 10 most influential people in publishing and writing at the Hospital Club h100 awards. Mann co-founded Blink Publishing in 2014, the first publisher to collaborate with a vlogger, the bestselling Alfie Deyes.

5. DALJIT LALLY
Lally is the CEO of Northumberland county council and Northumbria Healthcare NHS foundation trust. She was awarded an OBE in 2015 in recognition of her improvements to health and social care services in Northumberland.

6. RANJIT BANWAIT
Banwait is the Labour leader of Derby city council. He was elected as the first minority ethnic leader of the council in May 2014. Banwait was elected as the councillor for Boulton Ward in 2006.

7. KARAMJIT SINGH
Singh is the chairman of University Hospitals of Leicester NHS trust. He has set up free medical camps in India, has been a commissioner at the Electoral Commission and a member of the Queen’s Counsel selection panel and is a voluntary trustee of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Singh was awarded a CBE in 1999 for services to the administration of justice.

Pakistani lawyer seeks to establish the INNOCENCE of Bhagat Singh after 86 Yrs

Eighty-six years after revolutionary Bhagat Singh was hanged for the murder of a British police officer, a Pakistani lawyer is fighting to prove the legendry Indian freedom fighter’s innocence in a Lahore court. Advocate Imtiaz Rashid Qureshi filed a fresh petition on Monday in the Lahore High Court for the early hearing of his case […]

Eighty-six years after revolutionary Bhagat Singh was hanged for the murder of a British police officer, a Pakistani lawyer is fighting to prove the legendry Indian freedom fighter’s innocence in a Lahore court.

Advocate Imtiaz Rashid Qureshi filed a fresh petition on Monday in the Lahore High Court for the early hearing of his case to prove Singh’s innocence.

The division bench of the Lahore High Court had in February last year asked the chief justice of Pakistan to constitute a larger bench to hear the petition by Qureshi, who runs the Lahore-based Bhagat Singh Memorial Foundation. But no action has been taken yet.

In the petition, Qureshi had said Singh was a freedom fighter and fought for independence of undivided India. Many Pakistanis, especially in the Punjabi-speaking Lahore area, consider Singh a hero.

Qureshi told PTI that Singh is respected even today in the subcontinent not only by Indians but also by Pakistanis. Even the founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, had twice paid tribute to him, he added.

“It is a matter of national importance.”

His petition wants the court set aside the sentence of Singh by exercising principles of review and order the government to honour him with a state award.

Singh was hanged by British rulers on March 23, 1931 at the age of 23 in Lahore, after being tried under charges for hatching a conspiracy against the colonial government. The case was filed against Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru for allegedly killing British police officer John P Saunders.

Qureshi said he hopes the case will be heard this month.

He said he has also written to the federal government for erecting a statue of Singh at Shadman Chowk in central Lahore where he was hanged along with Sukhdev and Rajguru.

“I have written to the government for building a statue of Singh but has not yet got any response from it in this regard,” he added.

He said Singh was initially jailed for life but later awarded death sentence in another “fabricated case”.

In 2014, Lahore police searched through records of the Anarkali police station on the court’s order and managed to find the First Information Report on Saunders’ killing in 1928. A copy of the FIR was provided to Qureshi on the court’s order.

Written in Urdu, the FIR was registered with the Anarkali police station on December 17, 1928 at 4.30 pm against two ‘unknown gunmen’. The case was registered under sections 302, 1201 and 109 of Indian Penal Code. Singh’s name was not mentioned in the FIR even though he was eventually handed down the death sentence for the murder.

Qureshi said special judges of the tribunal handling Singh’s case awarded death sentence to him without hearing the 450 witnesses in the case. Singh’s lawyers were not given the opportunity to cross-examine them.

“I will establish Bhagat Singh’s innocence in the Saunders case,” he said.

-Hindustan Times

How Akal Academy shaped the FUTURE of a Small Farmer’s Son

Commitment means staying loyal to what you said you were going to do long after the mood you said it in had left you.’ Ravinder Singh was born in a small family in the village Shahpur, district Patiala, Punjab. His family wasn’t financially sound. As the only one hope for income in the house, was […]

Commitment means staying loyal to what you said you were going to do long after the mood you said it in had left you.’
Ravinder Singh was born in a small family in the village Shahpur, district Patiala, Punjab. His family wasn’t financially sound. As the only one hope for income in the house, was his father who was a farmer. Mother, a housewife perhaps who had dreamt of her son being a famous personality and a younger sister who had much hopes riding on her brother.

In 1991, Ravinder was admitted to Akal Academy Baru Sahib. The kid was now to witness the color of spiritual values and chapters of hard work.

So, as time passed on, the vision of the young man kept on becoming more creative. And the paths were now more clear.

Possibly, to crack his ambition look for a path leading to the actual destiny he had aspired. After his 11th standard from Baru Sahib, he went to Mahindra College, Patiala to pursue his B.Sc. His goal was clear he wanted to excel in the field of agriculture.

So, as usual, the four year course made him more familiar to the subject and then it was the time to opt the field as a profession. Then he began his M.Sc in the same field.

Another positive outcome showed up in his career .Now, he is appointed as an ‘Agriculture officer’ in Canara bank at Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. And when one gets to know the criteria, gates of destination automatically open in life.

After working there for more than two years he was again offered a job in the agriculture department in another company ‘Axis Bank’. Gathering more and more experience Ravinder grew up his knowledge just like a seed into a tree.

Presently, with the blessings of Baba ji the son of a farmer is appointed as a field officer in a agriculture company named ‘Markfed Punjab’ at Chandigarh.

Some people keep on bothering in making decisions as taking risks in life but ones who stay committed are the true heroes.