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  1. gur_meet

    India Sword-wielding Sikhs Clash At Golden Temple

    Sword-wielding Sikhs clash at Golden Temple on Operation Bluestar anniversary; at least six injured Sikh groups clashed inside Golden Temple on Friday. (Source...
  2. aristotle

    1984 Anti-Sikh Pogrom Sikhs Demand Declassification Of Documents Related To Operation Bluestar

    Amritsar, June 2 (ANI) Sikh intellectuals as well as Sikh radicals maintain that the scars following army action in Golden Temple, code named Operation Bluestar, are deep and could not be easily forgotten but they want government to declassify the secret documents related with army action...
  3. aristotle

    United Sikhs New Report Shows Increasing Hate Attacks On Sikhs

    WASHINGTON — A major report to be released today in Washington, D.C. highlights the rising number of incidents of hate, violence, and bias against Sikhs worldwide. The Global Sikh Civil and Human Rights Report – to be issued at a briefing held by UNITED SIKHS at 441 Cannon House Office...
  4. aristotle

    World War 1 To Show Their Contempt For Death, Some Sikhs Had Refused To Hide In The Trenches

    Excerpts from a collection of Guardian reportage from the first world war 12 Nov 1914: When the Indians Arrived The people of the Raj – modern India and Pakistan – were not consulted about their participation in the war. More than 1 million soldiers served overseas in the Indian army – and...
  5. aristotle

    Young Sikhs In Maryland Fight Bias With Diplomacy In The Classroom

    One recent afternoon, two dozen teenagers stayed late at Hoover Middle School in Potomac, Md., for a presentation on Jewish culture. They tasted matzoh brittle, spun dreidels, colored Purim masks and watched a video of a rabbi blowing a ram’s horn. Some clowned or texted, but one student...
  6. aristotle

    USA Sikhs Honour Police Officer Shot During Oak Creek Attack

    A Maryland-based Sikh organization has honored retired Oak Creek police officer Brian Murphy for his service when a gunman killed six worshippers at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek on Aug. 5, 2012. The Guru Gobind Singh Foundation, a Sikh advocacy organization, honored Murphy on...
  7. IJSingh

    Hard Talk Bullying & Harassing Of Sikhs

    We Sikhs are no strangers to bullying and harassment. We are also a minority and destined to remain one no matter where we live, whether it is somewhere in India where the faith originated over 500 years ago or in a modern megapolis like New York, London or Toronto. And minorities make...
  8. Harry Haller

    India West Delhi's Sikhs May Give Cold Shoulder To BJP

    Despite the Modi wave and the backing of the Shiromani Akali Dal, BJP's situation in the Sikh-dominated West Delhi constituency looks grim because of the wrong choice of candidate. The party's candidate for the Lok Sabha Parvesh Verma, who recently won the Assembly elections from Mehrauli, is...
  9. Harry Haller

    India The Many British Connections To Massacres Of Sikhs

    <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD id=tdTextContent class=DetailedSummary> Murky British connections to the Indian government's attack on the Golden Temple in Amritsar in 1984 have fuelled demands for full disclosure in UK and India. Prime Minister David...
  10. Harry Haller

    UK Sikhs Set For Vaisakhi Procession West London

    Thousands expected to line the streets of Hounslow this Sunday to watch colourful parade Sikh worshippers prepare for last year's Vaisakhi procession through Hounslow Thousands of people are expected to take to the streets of Hounslow this Sunday for a procession marking one of the...
  11. aristotle

    Legal Sikhs In US Army: India Welcomes Lawmakers' Backing

    WASHINGTON: Indian ambassador S. Jaishankar has welcomed US lawmakers plea to end US defence department's presumptive ban on Sikh Americans serving in the US military with their beards and turbans. Over 100 members of Congress from both Democratic and Republican parties made the plea in a...
  12. Inderjeet Kaur

    Khalsa Aid Khalsa Aid On The Syria-Lebanon Border 2014

    Ravinder Singh, the founder and CEO of Khalsa Aid,has not hesitated to go wherever aid is needed, from Kosovo to Somalia to Haiti and other troubled spots in the world. His latest sewa is taking him to the refugee camps along the Syria-Lebanon border, a very dangerous undertaking. Khalsa Aid...
  13. aristotle

    USA More Than Half Of Sikh Kids Bullied In School, Turbaned Sikhs Suffer Most

    Over half of Sikh students experience widespread bullying in U.S. schools which is more than double the national rate, according to a new report. The report ‘Go Home Terrorist: A Report on Bullying Against Sikh American School Children’ is based on survey of over 500 Sikh students, and...
  14. Admin

    Events When Sikhs Conquered Delhi

    When Sikhs Conquered Delhi by Major-General Kulwant Singh (Retd.) Nadir Shah's brutal offensives and the eight invasions by Ahmed Shah Abdali had made the Mughal Empire fragile and weak. Sikhs had emerged as a strong and powerful force in northern India, and eventually halted Abdali's...
  15. spnadmin

    USA Sikhs Demand More Representation In US City Administration

    Sikhs demand more representation in US city administration http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/sikhs-demand-more-representation-in-us-city-administration-114022701139_1.html Around 40 members of the Indian and Sikh communities here have asked for more representation in the...
  16. Abneet

    World Afghanistan's Sikhs Face An Uncertain Future

    Afghanistan's Sikhs face an uncertain future The religious minority faces discrimination, lack of political power, and obstacles to cremating their dead. By: Ali M Latifi Kabul, Afghanistan - Awtar Singh Khalsa still remembers the sounds of stones and insults being hurled at the...
  17. spnadmin

    United Sikhs United Sikhs’ Aid And Relief Team Continues To Help Victims Of Typhoon Haiyan In Philippines

    United Sikhs’ aid and relief team continues to help victims of Typhoon Haiyan in Philippines By Jagdeep Singh http://www.sikhsiyasat.net/2014/02/26/united-sikhs-aid-and-relief-team-continues-to-help-victims-of-typhoon-haiyan-in-philippines/ Philippines (February 26, 2014): According to...
  18. spnadmin

    USA Comcast-NBC Is Looking For Videos Of Sikhs In America: At Gurdwaras, Bowling, On A Motorbike, Volunt

    Comcast-NBC is looking for videos of Sikhs in America: at gurdwaras, bowling, on a motorbike, volunteering By Deepak Chitnis http://www.americanbazaaronline.com/2014/02/25/comcast-nbc-looking-videos-sikhs-america-gurdwaras-bowling-motorbike-volunteering/ WASHINGTON, DC: A casting call...
  19. aristotle

    USA US Sikhs Attain Legal Victory, Allowed To Wear Turbans In Driving License Photos

    A Sikh American has won a legal victory in the US state of Minnesota allowing Sikhs to wear their turbans in driving license identification photographs. The major legal victory for Sikh Americans came yesterday when Jatinder Singh of Blaine, Minnesota and SALDEF (Sikh American Legal Defense...
  20. spnadmin

    World Sikhs Embraced By Hawke's Bay Community

    Sikhs embraced by Hawke's Bay community By Anna Ferrick http://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-today/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503462&objectid=11198526 Baljit Singh, secretary of the Hastings Sikh Temple, says in the 25 years he has been in Hawke's Bay he has not experienced any racism...
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