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Toronto, Feb 6 (IANS) Wooing Bollywood tops the agenda of Dianne Watts, mayor of Canada's 'Indian city' of Surrey, when she begins her 11-day business mission to India Feb 10. Watts said she will use her city's 'many connections to India, both socially and economically', to woo businesses and...

Sikh-era Remains of a Fateh Jang Village by Zulfiqar Ali Kalhoro Qutbal is a historical village in Fateh Jang tehsil noted for its Sikh and Hindu period buildings. It was an important trade centre during the Sikh rule over Punjab and was also famous for Hindu merchants who controlled business...

By ed hill ehill@derbytelegraph.co.uk THE world's first dedicated Sikh memorial is being planned in Derby to represent millions of Sikhs who died in six holocausts and both world wars. Planning permission is being sought to create the £1 million National Sikh Holocaust and Shaheedi Memorial in...

“Sikhs in the City” The NY Punjabi and Sikhs Meetup Group Please join us for kirtan at our Gurdwara in Murray Hill. This once a month event organized by the volunteers of the Manhattan Sikh Association welcomes everyone to participate in this small, personal gathering to listen to kirtan...

On Dec. 4, Yuba-Sutter Sikh community members fed about 100 needy fellow human beings. About 200 sandwiches and soft drinks were served. Large numbers of volunteers and needy people showed up at this event despite the rain. The Sikh community organized this meal to celebrate Gurpurab (Day of...

KRISTIANSTAD, Sweden — When this city vowed a decade ago to wean itself from fossil fuels, it was a lofty aspiration, like zero deaths from traffic accidents or the elimination of childhood obesity. But Kristianstad has already crossed a crucial threshold: the city and surrounding county, with...

When Sikh students get teased about their religion, the newest immigrants are the most common victims, students say. Less Americanized students, whether they have been in the United States for two years or two months, are often the target of taunts and teasing by Western students — including...

Oct 8 (ANI): An Indian origin man, Daljit Singh, who is a Labour candidate running for the Papatoetoe local boards, has been named as one of two men charged over an alleged voting scam in New Zealand. Singh, a real estate agent and chairman of the Supreme Sikh Council of New Zealand, has been...

Save the date! Buy your ticket for the Sikh Art & Film Foundation's annual Film Festival and get your front row seat to the latest independent films from a Sikh and Punjabi point of view. The winner of the Sikh Coalition's Diversity Video Competition will be premiered at this year's Film...

Sikh group to get share from sale of city land - Winnipeg Free Press The city is selling a parcel of land that has sat idle for nine years after it offered it to a local cultural group. And it is going against its 2008 ban on funding cultural groups to give the Manitoba Sikh Cultural...

June 22, 2010 Members of the Sikh community in Edmonton today unveiled a special display at City Hall celebrating the martyrdom of Guru Arjun Dev Ji. The display gives an insight into the life of the first Sikh martyr and the fifth Guru...

There is no other way to say this. Radiation levels of the non-nuclear kind in Delhi may have reached way beyond what humans can live with. Almost four-fifths of the metropolis has people living in the midst of radiation levels ranging from “borderline” to “unsafe” and “extreme anomaly”, which...

SALDEF Discusses Post 9/11 Challenges at City Club of Cleveland On April 14th, the Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund (SALDEF) was invited to...

Sometimes religious fervour can transform an untended city into a model of development. In the case of Nanded in the state’s Marathwada region, among the least developed cities in the state, the big push came when the state and the central government decided to spruce it up ahead of Gurta Gaddi...

Geneva Sikhs to soon have gurdwara in city WSN-World News-Geneva Sikhs to soon have gurdwara in city WSN Network A number of Sikh organizations often visit Geneva because of the...

Young Boy Missing From Union City, CA Since Saturday Union City, CA: Jagmeet Sidhu, a 25 Year old male, has been missing since December 19th, 2009 from his home town Union City, CA. Jagmeet is 6 feet tall, has medium built and black hair. When last seen, he was wearing a yellow sweat shirt...

How Does a City Descend Into Savagery?<small> by SHEKHAR KAPUR</small> <!-- <small>November 11th, 2009</small>--> Moved by renowned journalist Rahul Bedi's recent recollection of the 1984 anti-Sikh pogroms, filmmaker Shekhar Kapur has come out with his own memories of the...

How Does a City Descend Into Savagery? <small>by SHEKHAR KAPUR</small> <!-- <small>November 11th, 2009</small>--> Source: sikhchic.com | The Art and Culture of the Diaspora | How Does a City Descend Into Savagery? This is the 65th piece in...

New York Da Dhaba by VISHAVJIT SINGH On the roads leading to Punjab, or roads within the State itself, if you need to find a place to eat salivating Punjabi food, you simply ask a bus driver or a truck driver. They know the dhabas that serve the best...

The Mind of a City BY Hartosh Singh Bal EMAIL AUTHOR(S) Research shows that cities are organised like mammal brains, since both systems respond to the problem of efficient transport In 1949 George Zipf noted that if you tabulate the cities in any country and rank them according to...