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The most recent headgear controversy in athletics concerns a sport that may surprise you: basketball. Last Saturday night at the FIBA Asia Cup, India had to start its game against Japan minus two of its top players, 6-foot-11 Amrit Pal Singh and 6-foot-8 Amjyot Singh. Minutes before the...

Top Green Beret Officer Forced to Resign Over Affair With WaPo Reporter ABC News By JAMES GORDON MEEK, RHONDA SCHWARTZ and BRIAN ROSS 21 hours ago A legendary Special Forces commander was quietly forced to leave the U.S. Army after he admitted to a love affair with a Washington Post war...

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...

NEW DELHI: Living in government-alloted flats in Tilak Vihar, they have received free electricity for almost three decades but now the 1984 anti-Sikh riots victims have been asked to apply for new connections to get uninterrupted supply. Some 500 families in the area say they are being...

Forced Marriages: Summer Holidays Prompt Warnings http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23639070 Teachers, doctors and airport staff need to be alert to the problem of forced marriages over the school holidays, the government has warned. Ministers said there were concerns about teenagers being taken...

Izhar Alam who killed Sikhs in 1990s; indulges in forced conversions of poor Sikhs to Islam By Parmjit Singh http://www.sikhsiyasat.net/2013/07/19/izhar-alam-who-killed-sikhs-in-1990s-indulges-in-forced-conversions-of-poor-sikhs-to-islam/ Malerkotla/ Amritsar, Punjab (July 19, 2013): It...

Cop says he was forced to stage encounters Tells High Court he is willing to depose against his seniors; submits a list of ‘victims’ Saurabh Malik Tribune News Service http://www.tribuneindia.com/2013/20130706/punjab.htm#2 Chandigarh, July 5 The past has come to haunt the Punjab...

FATEH MULTIMEDIA..which has produced some excellent short movies as parchaar of GURMATT has been closed down die to no funds...while such producers who misuse sikh symbols prosper.. Sikhs really dont know how to use their money...buying camrys for sants..golden palkis and golden domes, marble...

U.K. Discusses Criminalization Of Forced Marriages DAVID STRINGER 10/10/11 01:19 PM ET LONDON — Forcing someone into marriage could be made a criminal act under possible changes to British law, Prime Minister David Cameron said Monday. Alongside moves aimed at cracking down on...

Jasvinder Sanghera has long campaigned against forced marriage but, she says, it is still widespread – and thousands of girls will not return to the UK after the summer holidays Rolling hills, stone cottages and a pub where customers are greeted by name – the Yorkshire village that Jasvinder...

Scores of forced marriages are Kent's "secret shame" claims campaigner Hundreds of victims of forced marriages are suffering in silence in Kent, according to a charity dedicated to exposing the county’s "secret shame". The Karma Nirvana organisation has reported a 52 per cent increase in...

Workers in China's Apple iPad and iPhone factories were forced to sign pledges that they would not attempt to kill themselves, an investigation has revealed An investigation of the 500,000 workers by the Centre for Research on Multinational Companies and Students and Scholars Against Corporate...

A rabbi is suing the US Army for refusing to let him serve unless he removes his beard. The US military, as well as many police forces across America, require recruits to be clean shaven. But what is wrong with sporting a beard in the line of duty? Chin straps, goatees, stubble, soul patches...

After ‘Honor Killing’ it is ‘Forced Teen Marriage’ Thursday, February 17, 2011 Indian Weekender India correspondents Close on the heels of the “honour killing” label that the mainstream New Zealand media gave Indians following the alleged homicide in the Waikato, it is now squarely accusing the...

As many as 50 underage New Zealand girls a year are being forced into marriages by Sikh and Muslim religious leaders who abuse a loophole in the Marriage Act to get away with it. A respected ethnic women's group, Shakti Community Council, is making the claim this week as it launches a media...

JALANDHAR: A group of Sikhs was reportedly forced to remove turbans at Milan airport before they could board a flight on January 27. This comes in the wake of an uproar over full pat-down, including turbans, in the US recently. On Friday, Karamjit Singh Dhillon, president of Indian Overseas...

Naomi Lakritz, The Calgary Herald Published: Monday, August 09, 2010 There's an unfortunate similarity between the Taliban and the government of France. Both believe in legislating how women can dress. That dress codes could be established by the Taliban is no surprise. That...

Jalandhar, Punjab: The lure of greener pastures, coupled with the nexus of a fake travel agent, has landed two girls into the vicious circle of forcible prostitution. The girls have been trapped at Singapore since June 19. President of Lok Bhalai Party, Balwant Singh Ramoowalia, lodged a...

Forced into early marriage or denied sexual and reproductive choices…. a large majority of women have yet to find their place in what is essentially a man’s world. Empowered, really? A quarter of young Indian women’s first sexual encounters within marriage are forced It’s convenient to...

Thousands of girls from Punjab forced into prostitution abroad 　 Punjab Newsline Network Saturday, 03 July 2010 JALANDHAR: Lambasting the Punjab government for their failure to curb the menace of human trafficking, President of Lok Bhalai Party, Balwant Singh Ramoowalia claimed that...