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Folk Legend and Activist Pete Seeger Dies at 94 by Cliff Weathers http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/folk-legend-and-activist-pete-seeger-dies-94?akid=11451.77236.SswECI&rd=1&src=newsletter952286&t=14 The banjo-playing troubadour was blacklisted during the McCarthy era for his...

Huddersfield Sikh community leader Bakhshish Singh Bhullar dies by Andrew Hirst http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/huddersfield-sikh-community-leader-bakhshish-6557710 One of the founding members of Huddersfield’s Sikh community has died. Bakhshish Singh Bhullar, 88...

'Proud' Derby Sikh soldier Bur Singh Johal dies, aged 98 By ELLA RHODES Bur Singh Johal, pictured above in his Army uniform and wearing his medals, above left, fought for the British Army in Burma, Malaya and Singapore during the Second World War. Bur Singh Johal, pictured...

Sikh pensioner who was attacked in city centre dies By Steve Carpenter http://www.coventryobserver.co.uk/2013/11/07/news-Sikh-pensioner-who-was-attacked-in-city-centre-dies-89059.html AN ELDERLY Sikh man who was assaulted in the city centre back in August has died in hospital. Mr...

Dowry deaths: One woman dies every hour PTI - Sep 1, 2013, 11.00 AM IST NEW DELHI: One woman dies every hour due to dowry related reasons on an average in the country, which has seen a steady rise in such cases between 2007 and 2011, according to official data. National Crime Records...

Sarabjit dies in Lahore hospital, India asks Pak to punish his attackers LAHORE/ISLAMABAD: Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh died of cardiac arrest in a Lahore hospital in the wee hours on Thursday after being comatose for nearly a week following a brutal assault by fellow inmates...

NEW DELHI—The victim of a gang rape earlier this month in India's capital that prompted widespread rage and a national debate over the treatment of women died in a Singapore hospital Friday, according to her doctors. A statement by Singapore's Mount Elizabeth hospital where the 23-year-old...

A 31-year-old Indian woman died in Ireland from blood poisoning after doctors allegedly refused to perform an abortion stating "this is a Catholic country". Irish authorities have launched a probe into the death of Savita Halappanavar, a dentist, who was 17 weeks pregnant and suffering a...

Comedian, satirist-cum-actor Jaspal Bhatti died in a road accident near Shahkot in Punjab on Thursday morning. Bhatti, 57, died after his car hit a trolley while he was travelling for a film promotion. He was on his way to Nakodar from Bhatinda. Bhatti , a constant thorn in the flesh of...

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Jagjit Singh dies Singh was called the 'king of ghazal' Renowned Indian singer Jagjit Singh has died in Mumbai (Bombay), aged 70. Mr Singh, who was famed for his semi-classical ghazal songs, suffered from a stroke last month and had been in a coma in hospital ever since. Popularly known as...

Isabelle Caro, a French model and actress who became the international face of anorexia* when she allowed her ravaged body to be photographed nude for an Italian advertising campaign to raise awareness about the disease, died on Nov. 17. She was 28. Her friends and...

Dec 22 2010 By Jessica Thompson THE FIRST Sikh special police officer to work in Hounslow has died aged 69. Rawail Singh Sembi died on December at the Vicarage Farm Nursing Home in Heston on December 12 after a four year battle with prostate cancer. Mr Sembi, who was born in India, in...

http://www.dnaindia.com/money/report_anti-outsourcing-bill-dies-a-quiet-death-in-the-us_1445417An anti-outsourcing Democrat Bill hell bent on taxing US firms’ offshore earnings failed a key vote in the Senate on Tuesday, in a legislative humiliation for the embattled Democrats just weeks ahead...

By Wesley Young | Journal Reporter Published: August 28, 2010 Bhag Singh Sidhu was born in India to a farmer and was the first in his family to get an education. He won a Rockefeller Foundation Scholarship to attend Cornell University, where he received a doctorate in botany. Sidhu...

During the 175 years of British rule in India, many pan-India institutions were created by the British to serve their imperial interests in the subcontinent. These included the railways, police, the revenue, postal and telegraph departments, a sound judicial system, roads and bridges linking...

Kolkata/New Delhi: Veteran Marxist leader Jyoti Basu died in a Kolkata hospital on Sunday. He was 95. "I have to give you a sad news that Jyoti babu is no longer with us," Biman Bose, chairperson of the Left Front coordination committee, announced to reporters a little around 1230 hrs...

New Delhi, Jul 13 (PTI) A key witness of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, whose testimony was recorded by CBI last year in New York, today died at AIIMS following a massive heart attack. "Gyani Surinder Singh died following a heart attack at AIIMS," senior advocate H S Phoolka, who has been...

Guru wounded in Austrian Sikh temple shooting dies: police AFP – Austrian police secure the area outside of a Sikh temple in Vienna. A visiting Indian guru died early … 1 hr 45 mins ago VIENNA (AFP) – A visiting Indian guru died early Monday after being shot in a clash between rival religious...

An undercurrent of tension prevailed in south Punjab Saturday following the death of Dera Sacha Sauda sect follower Jaswinder Singh at a hospital in Rohtak in neighbouring Haryana earlier in the day. More...