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In Ferguson, Black Town, White Power By JEFF SMITHAUG. 17, 2014 POLITICS, wrote the political scientist Harold Lasswell in 1936, is about “who gets what, when, and how.” If you want to understand the racial power disparities we’ve seen in Ferguson, Mo., understand that it’s not only about...

The North Dakota town that thwarted a neo-Nazi takeover By Jude Sheerin http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25646954 Neo-Nazi Craig Cobb (centre) apparently imagined Leith would accept the order. He was wrong. Bobby Harper remembers thinking there was something strange about his new...

KARTARPUR: Where It All Began by I.J. Singh (New York) & Amarjit Singh Buttar (Connecticut) Ever since India was divided into Bharat and Pakistan in 1947, Sikhs from all over the world have been travelling to Nankana Sahib (now in Pakistan) to honor Guru Nanak at his birth place. The Sikh...

British town Warwick’s first Sikh mayor sworn-in http://www.indianexpress.com/news/british-town-warwicks-first-sikh-mayor-swornin/1123544/ A Sikh man has been elected as the first Indian-origin mayor of the "historic" Warwick town in Britain's West Midlands region. Prabhjit Singh...

India Independence Day Function Disrupted in UK Town Prasun Sonwalkar - OutLookIndia - London - Aug 21, 2012 India's Independence Day celebrations in UK's east Midlands was cancelled after alleged pro-Khalistan elements disrupted the event by preventing people from attending it and...

by Nick Mayo The Sikh trust intending to build a secondary school in Slough has name the proposed new home of Slough Town FC as its ideal site. The Slough Sikh Education Trust says the old Arbour Vale Schools site, in Stoke Road, is the only one that can be supported under the Government's...

Curfew lifted in Bhikhi town of Punjab Punjab Newsline Network Wednesday, 05 January 2011 MANSA: The curfew was lifted completely from Bhikhi town of Mansa district in Punjab on Wednesday while Simranjit Singh Mann President of SAD(Amritsar) has demanded interference of Akal Takht...

Curfew imposed in Punjab town after clashes Indo-Asian News Service Bhiki, January 02, 2011 Curfew was imposed in this town in Punjab's Mansa district on Sunday after a group of protesters clashed with police and also damaged at least six vehicles. "Curfew has been imposed in Bhikhi...

Malaysia-The town that Barfi put on the map SERENDAH will never be erased from my mind for two reasons: its exceptional barfi and the horrendous traffic jams that often led to chaos in the little town in the 1960s and 1970s. Prior to the advent of the North-South Expressway in the 1980s...

Gurpreet Singh: Sikhs seek to rename Indian town of Boj Boj after Komagata Maru Gurpreet Singh Boj Boj Sikh community leader Sohan Singh Aitiana stands at the train station where Komagata Maru passengers were expected to board a train in 1914 bound for Punjab. Gurpreet Singh Former Boj...

Fordlandia: novelistic history of Henry Ford's doomed midwestern town in the Amazon jungle Cory Doctorow at 4:39 AM Wednesday, Jun 2, 2010 Greg Grandin's Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City is the best kind of historical nonfiction: a...

Tension prevails in Punjab town as Ravidass community instate their new granth in gurudwara Punjab Newsline Network Monday, 31 May 2010 <script type="text/javascript"><!--google_ad_client = "pub-0261932740446176";/* 300x250, created 5/4/10 */google_ad_slot = "6194387391";google_ad_width...

First US Town to Ban Bottled Water Last week residents in Concord, MA voted to ban the sale of plastic water bottles in their municipality as of next January, which could make it the first town in the U.S. to make such a move. The vote has environmentalists excited, while the $10 billion...

A new Sikh temple has opened its doors in Cape Town. The Gurudwara Sahib Cape Town was inaugurated last month to cater for the growing Sikh and Punjabi communities. Sikhism is one of the youngest major religions of the world and was founded by Guru Nanak Dev Ji in the late 15th century. The...

Source : Little India : One Nation Under Little India, Largest Circulation Indian Publication In USA and thanks to Kelly for finding it Indian Majority Lavina Melwani Sat Oct 15, 2005 Travel to Millbourne, Pa., the only town in America with a...

A Team of Punjab government officials, including four senior IAS officials, are on a three-day visit to Gujarat to study the state's urban development plan and replicate it in their own state. The officials were on Monday shown a film on the urbanisation policy of the state. They were also given...

Tension prevailed in a Punjab town near here Friday after a family of three committed suicide in the morning and police later opened fire at a mob, which alleged that the deceased were victims of police harassment. One person died in the firing. More...

Jalandhar (Punjab), June 8 (IANS) Tension prevailed in a Punjab town near here Friday after a family of three committed suicide in the morning and police later opened fire at a mob, which alleged that the deceased were victims of police harassment. One person died in the firing. More...

Tension prevailed in a Punjab town near Jalandhar on Friday after a family of three committed suicide in the morning and police later opened fire at a mob, which alleged that the deceased were victims of police harassment. One person died in the firing. More...

A 17-year-old boy Wednesday brought fame to this Punjab town like no one else ever. Achin Bansal topped the merit list of the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) joint entrance examination (JEE) among all students in the country. More...