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The Amritsar Tragedy Col Dr. D S Grewal The mowing down of around 60 and injuring around 50 (forty being very serious) at Amritsar Dhobi Ghat in Chaura Bazaar area on the eve of Dussehra (19-10-2018) by DMU Train moving at a speed of 110 kmph has shocked India especially Punjab. More shocking...

Revisiting the Air India tragedy from a Ghadar perspective by Gurpreet Singh on Jun 23, 2013 at 2:24 pm On the centenary of the Ghadar Party—which formed in North American to fight colonialism in British-controlled India—it's time to revisit the Air India to analyze political factors that...

MONROE, Conn. — On the first day back, Sean Murray said, his 9-year-old son, Brendan, was eager to return to school and see his friends, but he was nervous at the same time. “Brendan had two kids in his class whose siblings were killed,” Mr. Murray said. “He’s been getting counseling outside...

Sikh leader Sarbpreet Singh forged community from tragedy http://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2012/12/23/sikh-leader-sarbpreet-singh-forged-community-from-tragedy/Yz3IUxgO8a8kab1R9g2abO/story.html Following the Wisconsin shootings, this Hopkinton man organized a service that enlightened...

The Tragedy of Child Brides Gordon Brown: Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; UN Special Envoy for Global Education Posted: 10/09/2012 8:20 am This Thursday the first International Day of The Girl Child aims to focus attention on two major issues affecting millions of vulnerable...

Yet another asylum-seeker tragedy was playing out in the Indian Ocean last night, with at least 75 people believed drowned when their boat capsized and a second boat reportedly also in trouble. Details of the second vessel remained sketchy as darkness fell but the Australian Broadcasting...

A Very Human Tragedy I.J. Singh Let me tell you a simple but true tale of woe. I leave out any hint of the location simply because it is true. We Sikhs now have almost 200 gurduaras in North America. Who runs them in our name? Who takes care of them and who provides the basic religious service...

UK riots: Birmingham's Muslims and Sikhs debate response to tragedy Emotions run high at candlelit vigil for three men killed in riots as Asian communities weigh up how to react When the prime minister, David Cameron, said on Wednesday that the riots had brought out "some of the best of...

UNHCR in Somalia 'human tragedy' warning Many young children are in such a weak condition it is difficult to save their lives The levels of malnutrition among children fleeing Somalia's drought could lead...

The earthquake in Christchurch, according to an eyewitness account by Labour MP Dr Ashraf Chaudhary, destroyed many places of worship frequented by members of the Sikh, Muslim and Hindu communities. Following a visit to the affected areas on March 1, he urged ethnic communities to offer...

Komagata Maru tragedy remembered This article is part of community-wide centennial celebrations honouring the building of the National Historic Site Gur Sikh Temple (est. 1911). These centenary celebrations bring to the forefront the efforts of those first Sikh pioneers who helped to build our...

Rev. James Martin, S.J. Catholic priest and author, The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything There are as many paths to God as there are individuals. This is the fourth post in a series that looks at six of the most well-traveled paths for contemporary believers. The previous post...

Christina Taylor Green's patriotism was inspired by a tragedy on her birth date — Sept. 11, 2001. Another national tragedy took the third-grader's life. Christina was shot and killed Saturday, along with five other people killed outside a supermarket where a neighbor had taken her to meet...

The story of young actress Afshan Azad, assaulted by her brother because her boyfriend was not Muslim, has hit the headlines because she starred in Harry Potter. But there are thousands of girls like her every year who aren’t able to tell anyone their story. They don’t just face domestic...

The Bhopal Gas Tragedy has been one of the worst incidents in the history of India, right up there with the unpunished anti-Sikh riots of 1984, and the Gujarat anti-Muslim riots of 2002. The gas attack, in the dead night of early December 1984, had a personal connection for me. My dad had been...

Bhopal Tragedy: SAD Draws Parallels With '84 Riot Ruling Shiromani Akali Dal in Punjab today drew parallels between 1984 anti-sikh riots and the Bhopal gas tragedy saying their victims had not got justice and accused the Congress of shielding the culprits in both the cases. "The...

The Dec 2-3, 1984, Bhopal industrial disaster had capped off five weeks of what was probably the bloodiest time in independent India's history until then. In a macabre sort of way, the Bhopal disaster seemed to provide perfect denouement to the series of dystopian events that preceded it...

What a great decision: Bhopal Gas Tragedy: Eight accused convicted: Chief Judicial Magistrate Mohan P Tiwari convicted the eight accused under Sections 304(A) (Causing death by negligence) and 303-II (Culpable homicide not amounting to murder) of Indian Penal Code. ALMOST A quarter century...

Lake District Tragedy: Sikh Community Grieves for Youngsters By SSNews, 5kfoundation Sep 26, 2006, 05:01...

... The first involved the leader of the world Sikh religion issuing a dictat against same-sex marriage just as the prime minister arrived in New Delhi, squashing ... http://www.940news.com/news.php?cat=9&id=n030449A