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NEW DELHI: As French President Nicolas Sarkozy landed in Delhi on Sunday, government sources indicated that the contentious issue of Sikh turbans in France would again be taken up with the French side. The government is expected to politely convey to Sarkozy how strongly India feels about the...

ROHTAK: Communications minister Kapil Sibal launched the eagerly-awaited mobile number portability scheme in Haryana on Thursday to allow cellphone users to change their operators while retaining existing numbers. "On Jan 20 next year, mobile number portability will be available...

WASHINGTON: Disappointed, but determined not to give up, the Sikh community in the US now wants President Barack Obama to visit gurudwaras in Pakistan when he visits the country next year, after Amritsar's Golden Temple was not included in his India trip in November. "With the White House's...

VANCOUVER - A spokesman for a Sikh group says it's time North America's oldest Sikh temple society modernized century-old traditions to prevent young people from joining gangs. Jatinder Singh of Sikh Youth Vancouver says the Khalsa Diwan Society is stuck in...

MUMBAI: A Right to Information (RTI) activist who was in the forefront in exposing corruption in PDS, foodgrain and fuel distribution in the Marathwada region has been found dead in Nanded. The circumstances behind how 43-year-old Ramdas Ghadegavkar, a local Shiv Sena leader, died are...

Tags:sikh temple in austin|austin gurdwara sahib 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...

NEW DELHI: The Centre on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that it was well within its power under UGC rules to de-recognise the 44 deemed universities for allegedly failing to maintain requisite quality education. Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium, appearing before a Bench of...

Note: This Biographical Sketch of this Great Hero of Bluestar 1984 was posted on Anz-Sikhs a Yahoo Based Forum of Australian/New Zealand Sikhs moderated by Aman deep singh. General Shabeg Singh General Shabeg Singh- the great general of modern times belonged to village Khiala, about...

Sikh-American U.S. Federal Attorney to Prosecute Times Square Bomber sikhchic.com | The Art and Culture of the Diaspora | Sikh-American U.S. Federal Attorney to Prosecute Times Square Bomber Sikh-American U.S. Federal Attorney Preet Singh Bharara, spearheading the prosecution of 9/11...

3 Pakistanis arrested in Times Square bomb probe 3 Pakistanis arrested in Times Square bomb probe - Yahoo! News WATERTOWN, Mass. – Three Pakistani men who authorities say supplied funds to Times Square car bomb suspect Faisal Shahzad were arrested Thursday in a series of raids across the...

Victims of Jihad Will March at Times Square Terror Attack Site Victims of Jihad Will March at Times Square Terror Attack Site -- NEW YORK, May 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NEW YORK, May 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following event advisory is being issued by Human Rights...

Full story in video Bomb Found in Times Square (MSNBC) - Video Library - The New York Times T-Shirt Vendor: Reluctant Hero of Times Square[/B] T-Shirt Vendor Takes On New Persona: Reluctant Hero of Times Square - City Room Blog - NYTimes.com The T-shirt vendor who alerted the...

The only means of communication in and out of Haiti right now seems to be by Twitter and similar kinds of mobile media. Here are some recent pictures from today's New York Times front page, taken from a slide show. All the pictures can be seen at this link: The New York Times - Breaking News...

At times, poignancy of simple, human actions denotes feelings, emotions and perspectives much larger than any one action can bring out. Little Sikh kids holding candles earlier this month near the Gurdwara Sahib, Fremont, the Sikh youth...

Hundreds of Indian students who come to the UK to pursue courses in colleges are unable to find part-time work to fund their stay and studies here and have been forced to eat in gurdwaras in Southall. There has been a three-fold rise in the number of Indian students coming to the UK since the...

In the status of the deceased, the best answer is to tell the people who lost someone what they want to hear. No one would say "sorry to tell you but your grandma is in hell looking up at you".

When Times Are Hard... by Gurmukh Singh Global recession is already being compared with the Great Depression of 1930s. For the Sikh community, the economic downturn is affecting their lives in the countries they live in, and also the country of their origin, India. Global recession...

A Book Review by RANA SIDDIQUI ZAMAN As the correspondence between Amrita Pritam and Imroz hits the stands in English translation, Imroz speaks about a relationship that transcended social norms and life itself. In today's world, it is difficult to believe the ocean of love we...

Man marries 14 times in 30 months An employee of Air India has been arrested in Mumbai after it emerged he had 14 wives. Tushar Waghmare, alias Tushar Bapat, 40, used an internet marriage site to tie the knot repeatedly during the last two and a half years. His online profile read...

Los Angeles: Job-seeking in this 21st century recession may just have gone viral and mobile. Since the start of the recession in December 2007, about 6.7 million workers have been laid off according to latest statistics -- at a time the popularity of social networking sites such as Facebook...