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What I Have Learned From 1984 For those who don't know me, a brief introduction. I am now a 58 year old Internet addict, writer and budding artist, of sorts. Twenty- six years ago, there was no Internet, I wrote occasionally and my artwork was primarily tie-dying my husband's turbans...

Honour for falsely accused Cranford detective Honour for falsely accused Cranford detective - Hounslow Chronicle A CRANFORD detective who was falsely accused of sending racist hate mail to himself and colleagues has been honoured by the country's Sikh community. Gurpal Virdi was...

A newly wed woman and her mother-in-law were brutally murdered by the bride’s family members in what appears to be an honour killing in Punjab’s Tarn Taran district late on Tuesday night. Gurveen Kaur (19), her husband Amarpreet Singh (22) and her mother-in-law Kuljit Kaur were attacked by...

source: http://www.punjabnewsline.com/content/honour-killing-claims-two-lives-punjab Honour killings have become commonplace in Punjab. Wednesday, 12 May 2010 AMRITSAR: In another case of 'honour killing', a woman was murdered Wednesday in Punjab's Tarn Taran district by her family for...

Judge calls for new law to deal with honour killings Judge calls for new law to deal with honour killings - India - The Times of India CHANDIGARH: The woman judge who awarded death penalty to five for the brutal murder of Manoj and Babli, a young couple who had married in breach of...

Turban, a matter of pride and honour by Roopinder Singh The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Opinions PRIDE and honour make a potent potion and the turban evokes these feelings in those Sikhs who wear a turban. People have been wearing turbans since time immemorial and you find...

Jyoti Basu: Sikhs Remember and Honour a Friend by KINSUK BASU, SUBHAJOY ROY & POULOMI BANERJEE Jyoti Basu (July 8, 1914 - January 17, 2010) was the Chief Minister of West Bengal, India from 1977 to 2000. He passed away at the age of 95 in Calcutta last Sunday. Our deepest condolences to...

The ignorant press is trying to turn this into a Sikh Honor Killing when there is no such belief in Sikhism to support this theory, trying to make out that the right hand was cut as that is the hand she wore her kara on! A mother was found dying in a street with serious head wounds and her...

Sikhs will perform during the Vancouver Olympics Of the seventy plus new acts that will perform during the Vancouver Olympics, Sikh icon Harbahajan Singh Mann will lead the bhangra celebrations. This will take place on February 27, 2010 at the prestigious Queen Elizabeth Theatre 649 Cambie...

source: TheStar.com - Canada - Shining a light on honour killings' dark corner Shining a light on honour killings' dark corner HANDOUT, VANCOUVER PROVINCE/THE CANADIAN PRESS PICTURE ARCHIVE (left), FACEBOOK Amandeep Atwal, left, was killed by her father; Aqsa Parvez's father and brother...

Summary "Honour" killings of women can be defined as acts of murder in which "a woman is killed for her actual or perceived immoral behavior." (Yasmeen Hassan, "The Fate of Pakistani Women," International Herald Tribune, May 25, 1999.) Such "immoral behavior" may take the form of marital...

PM gets rare honour as Chief Guest on French Day Jul 14, 2009 at 1656 hrs French President Nicolas Sarkozy talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the presidential tribune prior to Bastille Day parade. Paris: In a rare honour for India, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was the Chief Guest...

When Sikhs bolstered French honour by Lt Gen (retd) Baljit Singh Whenever the controversy centred around the Sikhs and their turbans resurfaces in France, my memory invariably reaches out to a slice of history from 1915 as recorded in the chronicles of World War I:hmm:. For 10 turbaned Sikh...

The 48-year-old driver is in hospital for kidney and respiratory damage caused by the attack over the weekend. A veteran Sikh lawyer and activist may be stripped of his Order of Canada, the country's highest civilian honour, as early as next month after being disbarred for professional...

Shabana Azmi and awards have almost become synonymous. So it comes as no surprise that her new film, Loins Of Punjab Presents , has won the best feature film honour at the 2007 First Run Festival in New York. More...

Though his Loins Of Punjab Presents hasn't done as he hoped it would, director Manish Acharya is now gearing up to release a longer edition of the film on DVD. More...

New Delhi, Oct. 9 : The Supreme Court today condemned honour killings but stopped short of handing out the death penalty to the relatives of a Sikh girl who wiped out the family of her lower-caste husband in 1999. More...

Move over Mira Nair and Deepa Mehta, funny bro Acharya is here with Loins of Punjab Presents . Khalid Mohamed tells more. More...

LONDON: A 70-year-old British Sikh woman has been jailed for life for the so-called "honour" killing of her daughter-in-law while holidaying in India nine years ago. More...

A veteran Sikh lawyer and activist may be stripped of his Order of Canada, the country's highest civilian honour, as early as next month after being disbarred for professional misconduct. More...