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About International Women's Day When: Tuesday 8 March 2011 Where: Everywhere What: International Women's Day (8 March) is a global day celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future. In some places like China, Russia, Vietnam and Bulgaria...

MAYFIELD HEIGHTS -- Building bridges and embracing diversity was an easy topic for the speakers at the Interfaith Fellowship Day on Feb. 7. The event was at Executive Caterers of Landerhaven. Illene Rosewater, planning committee co-Chair, said this was the event’s 56th year. Topics have...

Amritsar February 8: Akal Takht, the supreme temporal seat of Sikhs, has come out in support of ‘EcoSikhs” call to observe March, 14, the Gurgaddi Divas of 7th Sikh Master Guru Har Rai ji, as Sikh Environment Day. Endorsing the Call given by EcoSikh Akal Takht has urged upon all the Sikhs...

by Charlotte Feldman-Jacobs (February 2009) An estimated 100 million to 140 million girls and women worldwide have undergone female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and more than 3 million girls are at risk for cutting each year on the African continent alone. FGM/C is generally performed on...

Washington: An international Sikh group has appealed to all Sikh gurdwaras and institutions to celebrate March 14, the day Guru Har Rai became the 7th Sikh Guru in 1644 AD, as Sikh Environment Day. EcoSikh said it has received confirmation of participation from many Sikh institutions in India...

Gabe Crane Tu B'Shvat, long ago the annual date set aside in ancient Israel for determining the age of trees, essentially as a tax matter, today marks what has come to be known as the "Jewish New Year for Trees." In that fact, it is not unique -- it is one of four "new years" events...

1326 Indians die due to accidents, suicide every day ! TNN, Jan 17, 2011, 12.19am IST <SCRIPT>var facebookktitle='1326 Indians die due to accidents, suicide every day'; facebookktitle=facebookktitle+" - The Times of India"...

Today is a family reunion. And, as at all family reunions, some of the guests and celebrants are close relatives and know each other very well. Others are distant relations and may just be getting to know each other or may not even have met. As at any family reunion, some of the guests may...

Four hours a day on computers ‘can double heart disease risk’ Just four hours a day in front of a computer or television could double your risk of a heart disease and thus increase your chances of premature death, a new study has claimed. Researchers at the University College London have...

Early Americans celebrated New Year in March People once welcomed the New Year in March, the time of the vernal equinox when Mother Earth awoke to spring. Records show the Mesopotamians celebrated the first New Year some 4,000 years ago in mid-March to roughly coincide with the vernal...

Ottawa (December 10, 2010): The World Sikh Organization of Canada and Canadian Sikhs join the rest of the world in marking International Human Rights Day 2010. 62 years ago on this day, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which guarantees...

Effective yesterday Akal Takht announces new martyrdom day for Guru Teg Bahadur Amritsar, Nov 23: Akal Takht has put off the original date of martyrdom of Guru Teg Bahadur, the ninth spiritual master of the Sikhs. According to the Nanakshahi calendar the Martyrdom of Guru Teg...

Akal Takht announces new martyrdom day for Guru Teg Bahadur Dharmendra Rataul Posted online: Tue Nov 23 2010, 15:31 hrs Amritsar : A new controversy today erupted in Sikh circles with community members divided on when to observe the martyrdom day of Guru Teg Bahadur, falling tomorrow...

Punjab Newsline Network Thursday, 18 November 2010 CHANDIGARH: All India Sikh Students Federation have decided to organize a peaceful candle march on International Human Rights Day, 10th of December in evening at Amritsar (Sri Akaltakht Sahib) to raise voice against people who were involved in...

By Gagandeep Ahuja PATIALA: Confusion prevailed among Sikhs over date of observing Martyrdom Day of Guru Teg Bahadur, the ninth Sikh Guru. The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandak Committee (SGPC) and Punjab Government have mentioned November 24 where as Sri Akal Takht has asked to obwerve the day on...

Armistice Day & The Sikhs by BHUPINDER SINGH HOLLAND The Armistice Day (laying of arms on 11 November, 1918) came after the loss of millions of lives since the war began in early August 1914 between the Allied forces on one side and the German forces on the other. ARMISTICE DAY TREATY OF...

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This is the story of how the red field poppy came to be known as an internationally recognized symbol of Remembrance. From its association with poppies flowering in the spring of 1915 on the battlefields of Belgium, France and Gallipoli this vivid red flower has become...

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One of the things that most irritated me about Sunday school -- and there were many, including the fact that I had to wear tights, keep quiet and not ask why God wasn't a girl -- is that we were told, however covertly, that happiness was selfish. Religion, I came to believe, was all about...