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WORKING MOTHER, WASHINGTON POWERHOUSE? GOOD LUCK. Family-work balance is far from the only challenge powerful women face in this town. BY NEERA TANDEN In late 2006, my old boss Hillary Clinton started talking to me about the ideas that would fuel her presidential campaign. I had advised...

THE city’s favourite turban wearing councillor is to be honoured with an international award at a religious conference in America. Chaz Singh is set to fly to Washington DC tomorrow to be part of an honorary banquet put together by the organisation United Sikhs. He is set to be commended...

Intern in Washington, DC, This Summer SikhLEAD Internship Program - Applications Due Feb 14 - www.sikhlead.org Are you interested in getting a behind the scenes look of what goes on in your Senator or Congresswoman’s office? Have you ever wondered what goes on in a federal agency? The...

Local Sikhs Heading to D.C. After Navy Yard Shooting Mark Schaff Video at this link http://oakcreek.patch.com/groups/around-town/p/local-sikhs-heading-to-dc-after-navy-yard-shooting At least one temple member will join push for tougher gun laws in wake of another mass shooting...

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Washington Sikhs honor Punjab Environmentalist Baba Sewa Singh By Jagdeep Singh http://www.sikhsiyasat.net/2013/06/12/washington-sikhs-honor-punjab-environmentalist-baba-sewa-singh/ Washington DC, United States (June 12, 2013): It is learnt that the Guru Gobind Singh Foundation (GGSF)...

SALDEF’s Eight Year Partnership with MPD Results in Uniform Policy Change Today the seventh largest police force in the nation became the first major police department in the United States to explicitly and voluntarily allow Sikh Americans to serve as full-time, uniformed police officers...

HuffPost blogger Matteo Pistono is writing regularly from the Dalai Lama's "Kalachakra for World Peace" event in Washington D.C., running July 6-16. Scroll down to read all of Matteo's updates. What is the Kalachakra? The Kalachakra refers to a corpus of tantric Buddhist teachings, as...

A Sikh perspective on the King hearings Ravdeep Singh Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, will begin holding hearings Thursday on "the extent of the radicalization of American Muslims." Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic...

Sevaa of Motion By Anju Kaur, SikhNN staff writer, Washington Bureau Posted: Friday, February 25, 2011 | 01:11 pm Sanjay was flat as a board. His spine was fused together and so were his hips. A particularly debilitating and painful type of arthritis had left him unable to move for the last...

WASHINGTON: The news of US President Barack Obama not visiting the Golden Temple at Amritsar during his recent visit to India, is among the top ten religious stories of 2010 , according to the Time magazine...

The Sikh Coalition recently accepted a gracious invitation by the Washington Post to discuss some of the challenges faced by Sikh Americans in the post-9/11 environment. Thanks to Ms. Sally Quinn and Prof. Jacques Berlinerblau, Sikh civil rights issues received much-needed coverage. We...

“Being an American is not a matter of blood or birth. It’s a matter of faith. It’s a matter of fidelity to the shared values that we all hold so dear.” – President Barack Obama WASHINGTON, D.C. – UNITED SIKHS and several interfaith organizations held a meeting with senior White House...

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Sikh Summit In Washington DC To Engage Lawmakers Sikh Summit In Washington DC To Engage Lawmakers | GantDaily.com Washiington, DC, United States (AHN) – U.S. lawmakers and federal agency officials of Obama Administration have agreed to meet all week long with Sikh leaders from across...

Sikh Summit to be held in Washington in May fullstory Washington, Apr 6 (PTI) A Sikh advocacy group today announced to organise a Sikh Summit here in May where members of the community from across the US would meet lawmakers to appraise them about the various issues being faced by...

Ahmedabad's Bus Rapid Transit System wins Sustainable Transport Award in Washington Ahmedabad: The Ahmedabad Janmarg Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) has been hailed as the best mass transit system in the country. On Tuesday, it beat four of the world’s prominent cities in Washington DC to...

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By Ravinder Singh Robin Amritsar, Nov 17 (ANI): Hindus and Sikhs took centre stage at the recently held 28th InterFaith Concert in Washington, where nearly 1400 people from different religion participated. Sikh Kirtani Jatha and the participants of Hindu religion of the Pushpanjali group and...

A Sikh civil rights group has filed a complaint with Fairfax County police after an officer allegedly used a religious slur to justify searching a man outside of a Centreville bar. More...