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New Delhi -- A San Francisco professor has become embroiled in a dispute with militant Hindu activists who, she says, threatened to parade her naked in the streets and rape her because she was working with a local organization investigating religious and caste tensions in eastern India...

A San Francisco professor has become embroiled in a dispute with militant Hindu activists who, she says, threatened to parade her naked in the streets and rape her because she was working with a local organization investigating religious and caste tensions in...

A GANG of at least 15 thugs armed with baseball bats left two Asian teens in hospital following a vicious assault in a quiet residential street. But police have ruled out reports that the attack was motivated by tensions between Sikh and Muslim youths...

Chandigarh, June 18 Sikh militant Jagtar Singh Hawara was using women and religious places to dodge security agencies and regroup his terror network in Punjab after his sensational jailbreak last year, say police...

Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown and Anne Gust, a lawyer who's been his sweetie since friends introduced them 15 years ago, got married in Oakland yesterday, and it was romantic, traditional, pink-and-white and surprising to at least a few of their friends. "...

“Our last God was older than the Buddha by 12 years,†Rajiv Jain said at the opening of the new Jain temple in Elmhurst with an air of authority that gave away his stature as the neighborhood encyclopedia of Jainism...

School children play football in a playground waterlogged by heavy monsoon showers in Trichur, in the south Indian state of Kerala, Friday, June 17, 2005. The southwest monsoon has been vigorous over Kerala and active over coastal Karnataka, according to a news agency...

Chennai, June 15: The BJP on Wednesday rejected the VHP's demand that L K Advani should quit politics and asked the Sangh Parivar outfit to "mind its own business." http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/Hinduism/SIG=11ok27aoq/*http%3A//www.centralchronicle.com/20050616/1606001.htm

THE headteacher of a school that agreed to allow a Sikh pupil to continue wearing a ceremonial knife, has insisted it does not mean Christian pupils are being discriminated against...

CONTROLS on pupils bringing ceremonial knives into our schools are virtually nonexistant, a survey conducted by the Slough Express has found. Of the 12 schools contacted by this newspaper only one gave a clear policy on the wearing of 'kirpans', the Sikh ceremonial knife, by pupils...

A Sikh being held in a Northern California county jail has sued his jailers for refusing to allow him to continually wear a turban. Harpal Singh Cheema, 47, of Union City, claims his religious freedom is being violated by Yuba County jail restrictions regulating his use of head covering...

New Delhi, May 16 A Delhi court today sentenced five persons to life imprisonment for burning a man to death during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots following the assassination of the then PM Indira Gandhi...

Punjab Chief Minister Amrinder Singh, second right, and Indian aviation minister Praful Patel, second left, flags off Air India's flight from Amritsar to Toronto, at the Rajasansi International Airport in Amritsar, Sunday, May 15, 2005. After a gap of two decades, India's international carrier...

One year after the Sikh Cultural Society of New York broke ground for their new $15-million temple, members of the society are optimistic the East Coast’s biggest gurdwara will be completed by the end of next year...

A SIKH who says he was the victim of a racial attack in The Fez nightclub in Reading is furious his assailant is going to get away with it...

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Copyright © 2005 Central Chronicle, Bhopal (India). All rights reserved. Best viewed in 800 x 600. NEW YORK: A New York school district has lifted the suspension on a Sikh teenager for carrying a kirpan - a ceremonial knife mandated by his religion to be carried on his person...