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Five civilians die in latest Kashmir violence (AFP via Yahoo! News) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/sikh/SIG=138vv94dh/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050916/wl_sthasia_afp/indiakashmirunrest_050916054937 Array Fri, 16 Sep 2005 05:49:37 GMT Suspected Muslim...

Indian politician accused in 1984 Sikh carnage says he is not guilty (AFP via Yahoo! News) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/sikh/SIG=13fsd3fbc/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050818/wl_sthasia_afp/indiareligionsikhpolitics_050818105013 Array Thu, 18 Aug 2005...

A number of Sikh transit employees in New York filed discrimination charges over a policy requiring them to display company logos on their turbans...

Prime Minister Tony Blair pledged to work with Muslims in Britain to promote the "moderate and true voice" of Islam, as the spiritual leader of the Church of England warned against finding "scapegoats" for the London bombings...

India has expressed shock over reports that a mosque and two Sikh temples had been attacked by arsonists in Britain following this week's multiple bomb blasts in London...

Twelve workers were missing and feared drowned after a ferry crowded with two dozen people capsized on the rain-swollen Sutlej River in northern Punjab state...

Indian troops have been deployed in strength and tracks cleared of snow for the annual pilgrimage by Hindus to one of their holiest cave shrines in Indian Kashmir, officials said...

Hindu nationalist leader Lal Krishna Advani criticised the Indian government for scrapping an anti-terror law which he said was crucial to deter attacks such this week's storming of a disputed religious site...

Friend to kings and popes, presidents and paupers, the Dalai Lama has long been a symbol of hope for five million Tibetans living in exile or in their homeland occupied by China in 1950...

India's main opposition Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party has sacked former foreign minister Yashwant Sinha from the post of party spokesman, a party leader said, after a series of remarks criticising senior leaders...

The son of poor Mexican immigrants, Antonio Villaraigosa, became Los Angeles' first Hispanic mayor in 130 years, imploring citizens to share his dream of a renaissance for the troubled city...

Young Indo-Canadian and South Asian deceased men dominate police files in Canada's westernmost province of British Columbia like no other ethnic groups...

Police in the Indian capital New Delhi have arrested a Sikh militant they say belongs to a hardline group and who was allegedly carrying arms and explosives, a police official said...

The US Supreme Court handed down two key rulings meant to clarify the law on the separation of church and state, but immediately fanned a fierce debate on God's place in US society...

England beat Bangladesh by five wickets in their Triangular Series one-day international at Headingley here. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/Islam/SIG=12uerc9s5/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050626/ts_afp/cricketengbanwin_050626164429

Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin and Irish President Mary McAleese joined victims' families at an emotional ceremony in the southwest of Ireland to mark the 20th anniversary of the Air India Flight 182 bombing...

The supreme religious post of the Dalai Lama should be abolished if Tibet became autonomous and democratic, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader said in an interview published here...

With his tattoo of the Star of David hidden from view, Mohammed al-Mahadi prays to Allah in his new West Bank home near the radical Jewish settlement where he spent much of the last decade...

The Church of England appointed its first black Archbishop, naming Ugandan-born John Sentamu, a leading activist on racism and inner-city crime, to the church's second-most important position...

Survivors of one of the worst massacres during the 2002 sectarian riots in Gujarat filed a compensation claim against the western Indian state's ruling Hindu nationalist BJP party...