KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 22 — Seemingly innocuous pictures of pigs in the front and middle pages of today’s International New York Times (NYT) have been blacked out in the Malaysian edition of the paper, raising both amusement and concern among readers.
A representative from the printing company...
Muslim women can be forced to show faces under new West Australian law
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/01/muslim-women-forced-show-faces
Legislation was drafted after woman who wore a burqa had a false statement conviction quashed
A new law requiring Muslim women to remove a...
Mes Aynak: Afghanistan's Buddhist buried treasure faces destruction
William Dalrymple
The Guardian, Friday 31 May 2013 17.00 EDT
Mes Aynak, a magnificent Buddhist city, is the most important archaeological discovery in a generation. But it is sitting on a vast copper deposit and is...
Pareidolia: Why we see faces in hills, the Moon and toasties
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22686500
People have long seen faces in the Moon, in oddly-shaped vegetables and even burnt toast, but a Berlin-based group is scouring the planet via satellite imagery for human-like features...
Obamacare Faces Near-Solid Block In The South
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/30/obamacare-block_n_2985587.html
ATLANTA — As more Republicans give in to President Barack Obama's health-care overhaul, an opposition bloc remains across the South, including from governors who lead some...
Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s palace faces neglect
PK Jaiswar Tribune News Service
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2010/20101105/punjab.htm#7
Amritsar, November 4 Even after the Centre declared the historic summer palace of Maharaja Ranjit Singh a protected monument six years back, the...
Photo essay: Faces of Vaisakhi parade, Surrey, BC Special
Surrey - On a sunny weekend day, East-Indian residents of Lower Mainland celebrated their Vaisakhi holiday that marks the birth of religious community known as khalsa. The Sikhs all over the world celebrate their harvest festival in...
EDL’s “Sikh” spokesman Guramit Singh faces excommunication by global Sikh authorities
by Jai
4th April, 2011 at 9:00 am
Further to the recent joint statement by multiple British Sikh and Hindu groups condemning the English Defence League (EDL) and any Sikhs who support them, the EDL’s...
An interesting query had come to me from a close female relative who happens to be an Amritdhari person. One of her female Sikh colleague had hair on her face like we Sikh have our beards. She had been facing a lot of comments from her friends and relatives and were constantly advised to get rid...
Bradley Manning will wake up tomorrow, at a military base in Virginia, to his 189th day in custody for the alleged leak of more than 250,000 diplomatic cables to WikiLeaks.
Manning, 23, a US army intelligence analyst brought up in the Oklahoma Bible belt and west Wales, is locked up with...
Two faces of modern India
October 02, 2010
Ramesh Thakur - Toronto Star
Indians joke that their economy grows at night while the government sleeps. The federal and state governments have indeed been asleep at the wheel as a much foretold disaster loomed over the Commonwealth Games that begin...
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HOUSTON: A newly-built Sikh temple in Austin may soon be razed or moved following a Texas appellate-court ruling that it violated zoning laws, resulting in an outcry from members of the community.
The temple was completed in...
Man Who Aided Terrorists Faces Tougher Sentence
By TIM HULL
ShareThis
(CN) -A man serving 14 years in prison for raising and laundering money for a violent Sikh separatist group faces a longer sentence, according to the 2nd Circuit, because he may...
Liberal MP faces death threats, called 'Sikh traitor'
Canwest News Service,with files from National Post
Chris Wattie/Reuters
VANCOUVER -- Violent postings on Facebook condemn former B.C. premier and Liberal MP Ujjal Dosanjh as a traitor to the Sikh religion and threaten to "pierce him...
Jews Worry As Slaughterhouse Chief Faces Jail Time
Jews Worry As Slaughterhouse Chief Faces Jail Time
As Sholom Rubashkin sits in an Iowa jail awaiting a possible life sentence on fraud charges related to his now-defunct kosher meat business, his ultra-Orthodox Jewish support base has...
Global Politician - Indian Army faces Massive Shortage of Officers
Indian Army faces Massive Shortage of Officers
Syed Ali Mujtaba, Ph.D. - 3/17/2010
The approval of the Union Government to open a second Officers' Training Academy (OTA) at Gaya in Bihar marks a major step to solve the...
I was wondering why do we have to hide our beutiful faces behind artificial I.Ds & Avtars.
God has made us so unique & wonderful that our original face is the most beutiful I.D.
No two people look alike. No two twin brothers are the same.
No two snow flakes are same.
Each one of us has been...
A paralysed Sikh man seeking refugee status in Canada is facing deportation after the immigration office rejected his plea to stay in the country on compassionate grounds, prompting the Indo-Canadian community to come out in his support and stage protests.
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Another bad news is on its way for Punjab police. After drugs and alcohol, it’s the deadly AIDS which has started taking a toll on Punjab police cops.
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CHANDIGARH: Another bad news is on its way for Punjab police, which is already battling drug addiction and alcoholism amidst its ranks, especially in border districts.
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