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Gauri Gill The Americans
23
July, 2008
Stanford :
Shot across the United States from 2000 to 2007,Gill's photographs
document the Indian diaspora as it has settled across the country in
rural areas,
... |
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SCORE urges support for Nuclear Deal with US
23
July, 2008
WASHINGTON:
Chairperson of the Sikh Council on Religion and Education, Dr.
Rajwant Singh appealed to all political parties to support the stand... |
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Sikhi Spirit Shines at 4th July Celebrations
16 July
2008
Fremont, CA:
This year’s 4th July parade was celebrated by residents of Fremont,
Newark and Union City with pomp and pride as usual... |
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Punjabi girl performed Bharatnatyam Arangetram in America
16 July 2008
Dayton: Bahar Cheema, a sixteen year old Punjabi girl living in
Dayton, Ohio, USA performed her Bharatnatyam Arangetram on the stage
of the
Springboro... |
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Supreet Malhi is Miss USA Panjaban
16 July 2008
Washington
resident Supreet Kaur Malhi has won the Miss USA Panjaban award
becoming the most beautiful Punjabi lady in the United States... |
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Maharaja Ranjit Singh Mural by Jarnail Singh unveiled
9
July, 2008
SURREY: A mural
depicting the court of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, painted by renowned
artist Jarnail Singh was unveiled at Gurdwara Singh Sabha on Sunday... |
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US Sikh arrested, his kirpan, turban forcibly
removed
9
July, 2008
CONNECTICUT: A
Sikh truck driver was arrested and his turban forcibly removed after
marshals in a Connecticut court found his kirpan on him when he
went... |
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US man under probe for repeatedly attacking
Sikh youth
9
July, 2008
Houston: A
31-year-old US man is facing possible hate crime charges after a Sikh youth
told Colorado police that he repeatedly pulled his beard and called... |
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12-year-old Sikh girl's hair cut in school
2
July, 2008
NEW
YORK: A twelve-year-old Sikh girl's hair was maliciously cut by
another student. On June 9, Gurprit Kaur, a student at Public School
219 in
Flushing... |
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Sadhu Singh Rikhiraj felicitated
25
June, 2008
SPRINGFIELD:
After a meritorious 6 years of service, Sadhu Singh Rikhiraj was
felicitated by the American Council of Engineering Companies... |
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Sikhs need to evolve an intellectual paradigm
25
June, 2008
GLENWOOD: The
contribution and martyrdom of Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale was
unique in the annals of struggles for identity and self-respect,
though... |
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Sikhcess comes
to Fremont
25
June, 2008
FREMONT:
Sikhcess, a worldwide community service based organization, unveiled
definitive plans to feed the homeless worldwide through... |
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Smouldering Embers –Punjab’s Disappeared call
out again
25
June, 2008
NEW YORK:
“Smouldering Embers” –the book containing the report which brings
together data of people who disappeared involuntarily in the decade
after 1984... |
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Sneh Mehtani adds another feather in her cap
25
June, 2008
EDISON (NJ):
Popular restaurateur Sneh Mehtani was recently conferred the
International Women’s Entrepreneurial Challenge... |
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What would you ask Guru Nanak?
25
June, 2008
If
you had the opportunity to ask Guru Nanak one question, what would
you ask?... |
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Sikh Children’s Day
25
June, 2008
Los Angeles: The
Sikh Children’s Day is fast approaching on Saturday, July 26th, 2008
at Lankershim Gurudwara. The deadline to register for the
event is Sunda... |
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Sikhs
mark gurpurab with blod donation drive in
Greenwood
25
June, 2008
GREENWOOD:
Members of Greenwood's Sikh sangat donated blood Sunday with a dual
purpose: to help save lives and to honor a religious martyr... |
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Sikh celebration march
25
June, 2008
HUDDERSFIELD:
MORE than 1,000 Sikhs paraded through Huddersfield, a West Yorkshire
town 306 km north of London, to celebrate a major religious day... |
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Sikh offers opening prayer in Pennsylvania
Senate
18
June,
2008
Pennsylvania:
Ek
onkar satnam. There is but one God,”
began the prayer
that opened the Pennsylvania Senate on Tuesday... |
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Sikh student wears turban at
graduation ceremony
18
June,
2008
SAGINA (TEXAS):
Inspite of stiff resistance from the viceprincipal of the school,
Ms. Windsor, Simratpal Singh Hayer and his family did not budge and
managed... |
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Giani Hira Singh Award to Punjabi
Sahit Sabha California
18
June,
2008
SACREMENTO:
Amidst a galaxy of Punjabi litterateurs from all over the world, the
Punjabi Sath Giani Hira Singh award would be conferred... |
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Unique Punjabi teaching programme ‘Sojhi’ launched
18
June,
2008
FREMONT: In a
concerned and well thought of move to impart Punjabi language skills
to students from Grade 1 to Grade 8, Harinder Singh, the young
director... |
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Sikhs exhibit clout on Capitol Hill as 20
Congressmen attend event
18
June,
2008
Washington:
The hearing room of the Dirksen Senate Building of the U.S. Capitol
was spilling over with people and enthusiasm as over 20 elected... |
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Disney sued by Sikh over worker dress code
18
June,
2008
HOUSTON: A
turban-wearing Sikh who was allegedly sacked by Walt Disney World for
lacking the "Disney look" has sued the company for $1 million... |
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Dewan in memory of the martyrs of
June 1984
11
June, 2008
FREMONT: On 6the
June, the sangat of Gurudwara Fremont held a special Dewan in the
memory of the martyrs of June 1984 attack on Darbar Sahib. After the
Bhog... |
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Sikhs move European Court against French turban ban
11
June, 2008
WASHINGTON: The
United Sikhs, a Sikh non-profit body, has moved the European Court
of Human Rights in Strasbourg challenging a French law, passed... |
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Sikh musicology
chair at Hofstra hailed
11
June, 2008
NEW YORK: The
Hoftsra University's decision of setting up an endowed Chair to
study and teach Sikh musical traditions at the Department of
Religion... |
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Fremont Hockey Club honours touring hockey stalwarts
11
June, 2008
UNION
CITY: Indian Olympian Baljit Singh Saini and Pakistani Olympian
Mohammad Tariq Imran were honoured at a reception hosted at Raja
Sweets... |
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First turbaned Sikh in football team in Canada
4
June,
2008
SURREY: This was one
game that never generated interest among the Sikhs, probably because it also
involves use of the forehead to hit... |
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Sikh Foundation’s Claims Refuted
4
June,
2008
LOS ANGELES: The
Sikh Foundation of Palo Alto has opened a new chapter in, what some
are calling, the quest for destroying Sikhism... |
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` on road to be ‘King’
4
June,
2008
The long wait is over. For the first time in its history, a nation
that began by discounting the votes of African Americans will have a
black man as a major party... |
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Golf mag publishes morphed image of Sikh Guru, feels
sorry
4
June,
2008
Washington DC: An
American magazine Golf Digest carried a picture in its May 2008 issue which
many Sikhs saw as a morphed image of the popular rendition... |
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Guru Granth Sahib Scholarship Established in British Columbia
4
June,
2008
Surrey,
BC (KP) - A scholarship, named Guru Granth Sahib Scholarship, has
been established at the Kwantlen University College... |
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"Agony
Uncle" Harpreet Singh on beck and call
28
May,
2008
QUEENS: Are you fighting with your spouse? Are you facing problems
with admission for your kid on racial grounds? Are you unaware of
the services offered... |
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Jindal silent on Vice-President ticket
28
May,
2008
NEW
YORK: Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, apparently short-listed for
the Republican Vice-President ticket, refused to spill the beans on
what transpired... |
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Conclave to acquaint non-profit
forums with tax laws
28
May,
2008
SUNNYVALE: A number
of senior people known for thinking minds from Board of
Equalization, Employment Development Department (EDD), Franchise... |
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Fremont Gurdwara launches Fund Raising drive
on June 7
28
May,
2008
FREMONT: Sikh sangat
has been displaying a great deal of enthusiasm for collecting funds
for Gurdwara Sahib, Fremont. The Fund Raising shall be... |
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Vedanti launches Guru Granth tri-centennial
in North America
21
May,
2008
LOS ANGELES:
Giani
Joginder Singh Vedanti, the head of Sikhs’ highest seat Akal Takhat,
formally launched the Tri-Centennial Celebration... |
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Sikh-owned tech firm secures $100M investment
21
May,
2008
The cash comes
via a New
York private equity firm, Tailwind Capital Partners, which will both
invest in Optimal and arrange financing for it... |
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Western Union announces winner Essay
competition
21
May,
2008
ENGLEWOOD,
COLORADO : The Western Union Company (NYSE: WU), a worldwide leader
in money transfer services, has announced the winner... |
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Kamalnath invite incurs Sikh ire
21
May,
2008
CHICAGO: Protesting
Sikhs outside the prestigious Northwestern University's Kellogg School of
Management again raised the question of international impunity... |
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Freemont Truck Drivers rue rising prices
21
May,
2008
Freemont: Around 70
Truck drivers and operators convened a meeting here and discussed the
problems faced by them due to rising petroleum prices... |
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Student charged for setting patka on fire
21
May,
2008
HIGHTSTOWN: As soon
as it was clear to the Hightstown High School authorities that their student
Garrett Green had intimidated... |
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New Fremont gurdwara panel exposes huge bungling, sangat shocked
14
May,
2008
FREMONT:
In a shocking but not surprising revelation, the Sangat of Fremont was
informed by the present committee of the details of how hundreds... |
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United Sikhs donates book sunder SATL program
14
May,
2008
NEW YORK:
United Sikhs has donated 30 books on Sikhism to the Hercules Library
in California under its Sikh Awareness Through Libraries... |
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‘Mosque’ raid drill irks Muslims in US
14
May,
2008
SAN
FRANCISCO: American Muslim civil rights groups have denounced
an exercise by US security officials in which a place designated as a
‘mosque’ was... |
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Sikh passengers shun San Francisco airport
14
May,
2008
BURLINGAME: The
Sikh Coalition revealed this week that Sikh passengers are being targeted
for secondary screenings at San Francisco International.. |
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Medical camp at Yuba City Mela
14
May,
2008
Fremont:
Sahaita Incorporation, Fremont, with the collaboration of Punjabi
American Heritage Society, Yuba City and Healthcare providers from North... |
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‘One Light’ to be lit at Danville Film Festival
7
May,
2008
DANVILLE:
- One
Light a film by Angad Singh, which has already won acclaim
worldwide, will be screened at the Danville International Children's Film
Festival... |
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California Governor honours Sant Ranjit Singh
7
May,
2008
SACREMENTO:
In
the presence of more than 30 prominent Sikhs from California, at a
function orgnised by Commissioner Lahori Ram... |
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Sukhvir
is Wrestling runner-up
7
May,
2008
LIVINGSTON:
Sukhvir S. Chahal was placed second at the U. S. Wrestling Greeco
Roman Veteran National Championship... |
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San Jose Punjabis to raise funds for new Punjabi institute
7
May,
2008
SAN JOSE:
To garner funds for the Guru Nanak Heritage Institute for Punjabi
Studies, the State university would be hosting a formal gala fund... |
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SEVA Volunteers become Community Ambassadors
7
May,
2008
FREMONT:
Little
known and less trumpeted, SEVA (Sikhs Engaged in Volunteer
Activities) added another feather to its cap, when ten of their volunteers
graduated... |
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Businessman Dhami Busted For Drug Trafficking
30
April 2008
SACRAMENTO:
The Feds have busted a prominent West Coast businessman who has
been accused of trafficking drugs from Elk Grove... |
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Vedanti will be chief guest at Manhattan Sikh Parade
23 April 2008
NEW YORK:
Akal
Takht jathedar Giani Joginder Singh Vedanti will be the Chief Guest
at the 21st Sikh Day Parade, in Manhattan, NY on April 26, 2008... |
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Sikhs dealt this hate crime with forgiveness
23 April 2008
SILICON VALLEY: Forever shall the Sikh
community be proud of the way it handled this hate crime. At a time... |
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Sikh Religious Society new office bearers
elected
16
April 2008
CHICAGO: First
Board meeting for the newly elected SRS Board (2008-2010) was held
on Saturday, April 12th 2008, in SRS premises and was attended by
the following SRS Board... |
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The Uniqueness of Khalsa: Fremont Mayor, others say it
with Turbans
16
April 2008
FREMONT:
In a dark blue turban, it was Fremont Mayor Bob Wasserman. “It's
very interesting … It feels good.” |
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GGSF award goes to Nishkam Council, Dr. Balwant Singh
16
April 2008
WASHINGTON:
Washington based Guru Gobind Singh Foundation will confer the Sewa
Award 2008 to New Delhi based Nishkam Sikh Welfare Council... |
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Call to Sikhs
for census
16
April 2008
Stockton: The Sikh
Information Centre (SIC) has appealed to all Sikhs in San Joaquin
County, California and a nine-county region surrounding Fayetteville... |
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Sikhs angry at prosecutor's plea that removing a
Sikh's turban is not bias crime
9
April
2008
Hoboken, NJ: Reacting to the
Hudson County Prosecutor's suggestion that telling a Sikh to remove his
turban and physically attempting to do so... |
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Bhai Jandi seeks Sangat's cooperation to
extricate Gurdwara Fremont from acute financial crisis
9
April
2008
FREMONT: The
newly elected members and executive committee of the Supreme Council
of Gurdwara Fremont appealed to the Sangat for whole-hearted... |
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Sikh Childrens Day celebrated with fervour
and devotion
9
April
2008
FREMONT:
Hundreds of Sikh children participated in the various competitions
on the occasion of the Sikh Childrens Day 2008 with religious
fervour... |
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Bhog of Akhand Paths in Fremont Gurdwara on
April 14
9
April
2008
FREMONT: To overcome the
debt of $1 lakh and to complete the $ 7 lakh Canopy building
project, a fund raising will be started, said Harjot Singh Khalsa... |
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'Defamation suit by Indian can continue'
2
April
2008
NEW YORK:
An Indian American lawyer, who claimed he was defamed by an episode of TV
hit series “Law & Order,” can continue pressing... |
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Sikh Children Day on April 5
2
April
2008
The
5th Annual Sikh Children Day 2008 is being celebrated on Saturday April 5th
in Gurdwara Sahib Fremont... |
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San Jose airport workers to knock doors of
Mayor:
Chuck Reed
2
April
2008
SAN JOSE:
Majority of the workers including Sikh drivers at Hertz Rental Car
Company were cheated in violation of City Ordinance. Hertz Company
moved... |
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Harjot Singh Khalsa is Fremont’s new gurdwara committee president
2
April
2008
FREMONT: Gurdwara
Sahib of Fremont's former Supreme Council member S. Harjot Singh
Khalsa will be the President of the new management committee... |
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Finally, Fremont sangat chucks out old guar
26
March 2008
REMONT: In a
major victory and a landmark development in gurdwara management in
the United States, the candidates of the Sadh Sangat Slate... |
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$50,000 Guru Nanak prize for Dalai
Lama
26
March 2008
NEW
YORK: Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso has been selected as the first
recipient of Hofstra's international Guru Nanak Interfaith Prize,
Hofstra... |
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Sikh told to remove turban for photo receives
apology
26
March 2008
CHANDIGARH: The
California department of motor vehicles (DMV) has apologized to
Ramandeep Singh Anand and the Sikh American community after... |
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Sikhs did meet Pope John Paul II with kirpans
26
March 2008
WASHINGTON: While
there has been no further progress on the issue of Sikh delegation
recusing itself from a meeting with Pope Benedict... |
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Attackers of Sikh escape hate crime charge
26
March 2008
NEW YORK: A jury
in Oregon has declined to indict three men for committing a hate
crime when they tore off and did away with a Sikh trucker's
turban... |
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US man pleads guilty to attacking Sikh cabbie
26
March 2008
SILICON VALLEY:
A 21-yearold American man who attacked a Sikh taxi driver and called
him a "terrorist" is facing two years in prison after he... |
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Counting for Fremont gurdwara poll
on March 22
19
March 2008
FREMONT: The
counting for the election held for Fremont Gurdwara’s Supreme
Council will now be held on March 22, 2008, Saturday, thus
leading... |
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New York Congressman says he wants
to join Sikhs’
fight for justice
19
March 2008
New York: Sikhs for Justice, a forum which was the prime force
behind a convention organized to press for a totally new judicial
probe and hammer... |
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Sikhs raise right of self-determination at Geneva
19
March 2008
Geneva:
Sikh representatives from all across the world participated in the
UN Human rights meet at the UN office in
Geneva on March 15 and sought the right to self... |
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Bakersfield proposes Amritsar as
sister city
19
March 2008
AMRITSAR:
With the Punjabi community in Bakersfield, California, pushing for
Amritsar being designated a sister city, a memorandum of
understanding... |
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Fremont poll campaign peaks, change imminent
5
March 2008
FREMONT: As the hectic
activity in the elections to the Supreme Council of Gurdwara Sahib,
Fremont, reaches a crescendo, the victory of the common... |
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Who
Speaks for Sikh Americans?
5
March 2008
While
Sikhs have lived in the U.S. for over 100 years, our numbers have
grown tremendously after 1960s immigration reform. With this
increase in numbers... |
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WSC
will stay away from inter-religious meet with Pope
5
March 2008
WASHINGTON: The World
Sikh Council - America Region (WSCAR) was rendered unable from
attending the interreligious meeting with Pope Benedict... |
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Contest throws up many issues
27
February 2008
FREMONT:
The unnecessary burdening of Gurdwara Sahib Fremont with loans
of lakhs of dollars has emerged as a key issue in the upcoming... |
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Navjeet K. Bal Appointed Commissioner of the
Department of Revenue
27
February 2008
New York:
Navjeet K. Bal, an Indian-American has been appointed as
commissioner of the Department of Revenue (DOR) in Massachusetts... |
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EEOC visits Dallas gurdwara to create greater awareness
20 February 2008
NEW YORK: The Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) visited Dallas'
Gurdwara Singh Sabha recently, in an effort to educate... |
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SYA warns against
proclivity to repress Sikh struggle
13 February 2008
SAN FRANCISCO:
The Sikh Youth of America has termed the arrests of Bhai Daljit
Singh Bittu, Akal Takht's former jathedar Bhai Jasbir Singh... |
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Woman arrested for trying to rip Sikh's turban
6 February 2008
WASHINGTON: A New Jersey woman has
been arrested on charges of bias intimidation and harassment after she tried
to rip off a Sikh man's turban... |
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Sikhs participate to honour Martin Luther King's
services
6 February 2008
Washington:
Guru Gobind Singh Foundation represented the Sikh community in the
InterFaith Conference’s InterFaith Prayer Service marking the
birth... |
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Fremont brothers cremated
30 January 2008
PATIALA: After a
more than month-long wait, the bodies of Fremont's Kalsi brothers —hirtyyear-
old Paramjit Singh and fortytwo- year-old Ravinder Singh... |
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2nd Annual Guru Nanak Celebration on US Capitol Hill
23 January 2008
Washington: On Sunday, January 20, 2008 Sikhs
from around the Nation congregated in celebration of Siri Guru Nanak Devji’s
Birth Anniversary... |
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Another Indian student killed in campus violence
23 January 2008
WASHINGTON: After another Indian student was killed in the US on
Monday, the police said the murder in North Carolina does not appear to be a
case... |
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Punjab-origin NRI shames community, kills infant daughter
23 January 2008
CHANDIGARH: Punjabis will have to clearly do a
lot more to get rid of blots like this. Just two weeks after an
Indian-American with roots in Ambala set... |
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NY Sikh seriously injured in unprovoked attack opposite gurdwara
23 January 2008
Jamaica, NY: A Queens resident living opposite a gurdwara has been charged
with a hate crime for breaking the nose and jaw of a Sikh worshiper... |
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Jindal sworn in as Louisiana guv
16 January 2008
WASHINGTON: With his hand on a
bible and “thanks be to Almighty God,” Bobby Jindal was sworn in on Monday
as the first governor... |
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Research grant for student from India
16 January 2008
MINNEAPOLIS: An Indian student
in Kolkata, Shrey Garg, has received a $1,700 University of Minnesota
Undergraduate Research Opportunity... |
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Intellectuals Mull over Whither
16 January 2008
THE
operation Blue Start of June 1984 created turmoil in Sikhs’ relationship
with the Indian nation state. If 9/11 attack on twin towers rocked... |
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Hillary’s fortunes take U-turn after New Hampshire win
9 January 2008
WASHINGTON: Defying all
prepoll projections, Hillary Clinton stormed to a dramatic win in the
New.... |
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Richmond killings leave community shocked,
police still groping for motive
2 January 2008
RICHMOND: The new year began on a rather sad note with the blind
killings of two Sikh brothers – Ravinder Singh and Paramjit Singh
Kalsi – leaving... |
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