Despite the Modi wave and the backing of the Shiromani Akali Dal, BJP's situation in the Sikh-dominated West Delhi constituency looks grim because of the wrong choice of candidate. The party's candidate for the Lok Sabha Parvesh Verma, who recently won the Assembly elections from Mehrauli, is...
Bacteria give lessons in investment economics
By Simon Redfern
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23623601
Colonies of bacteria balance growth against risk, just like financial investors, ecologists have found.
Using lab-based synthetic biology, experiments in bacterial evolution...
England should give second chance to Monty Panesar
It pays testament to the special affection in which the cricketing public hold Mudhsuden Singh Panesar that he has acquired more nicknames than perhaps any other sportsman alive.
By Matthew Norman...
One of the few incidents that I would like to share, Just to show where we all stand and I have no shame in including myself there too. In daily life how much we go on complaining to people, complaining about life and being ungrateful for the very little things that we don't have, and how...
SC: Punjab must give flats to ’84 riot victims
Legal Correspondent
New Delhi, September 19
The Supreme Court today observed that it was the responsibility of the nation and the government to provide flats to all those rendered homeless in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
A Bench...
Give me control of Army, I will set everything right: Bal Thackeray
IANS | Sep 8, 2012, 02.52PM IST
Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray on Saturday claimed that if he was given
charge of the Indian Army, he would solve all problems and set things
right in the country within a month...
Last week, a news story claimed women were suffering from a rise in bacterial infections due to the current mania for Brazilian and Hollywood bikini waxes.
The treatment can cause hundreds of tiny tears in the skin, making us more vulnerable to bacteria.
Add this to the risk of bugs...
You can now make sure unwanted cars, bikes, computers and mobiles benefit worthy causes, reports Chiara Cavaglieri
Filling a collection tin, signing up to a monthly direct debit or giving old clothes to a local charity shop is about as far as most of us go for a good cause in our daily life...
Knowing that in life you can have ups and downs and also knowing that our own Guru's were put into prisons by the state's of their times. What support do Sikhs get from their own communities when things go wrong? Recently The case of Bhai Balwant Singh Rajoana comes to mind, but what do we do as...
Hi, I was born into a very poor family, I was born in a poor area of my city, My family then moved to a poorer part of the city where our house was robbed and now we been living on a council estate in another poor part of the city. My father is an massive alcoholic (typical of sikh men these...
By posing the above question, I am not asking for references about this world being an illusion like a dream. What I really want to know is more to the importance of dreams in Sikhism. It can be your personal experience, if you want to share. Or it can be a reference from scriptures or writings...
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Discrimination and hatred against Muslim and Sikh-Americans continues to be a legacy of the September 11 attack, even ten years on, Deputy Attorney General James Cole said Wednesday.
“We must reject any suggestion that every Muslim is a...
September 7, 2011
'Mosaic' doesn't give Canadians identity: officials
Cable says that could leave us susceptible to attack
By Jordan Press, Postmedia News - September 7, 2011
Canadian officials believe the federal government may have gone too far in encouraging diversity through the...
A new bill, initiated by Sikh activists and enacted by the New York City council, to protect workers against religious discrimination, adds momentum for such legislation at the federal level, a U.S. senator said.
"Like a lot of issues, pressure sometimes has to come from outside Washington to...
Many people don't believe in a personal God ,they refer to God as a life-force, an entity or some supernatural being.
If we are personal why would he be any different ,are we not made in his image,he is described very often as friendly, kind,loving and forgiving, these are all very personal...
I long for my Singapore of the ’60s and ’70s (we were living in Everton Park then). I had a neighbour family of 10 belonging to the Hokkien dialect group, another family of 4 Straits Born Chinese whom we affectionately call Baba, then it was us a Sikh family of 5 and in the corner house a south...
New Delhi, July 19 (IANS) Sajjan Kumar, former Congress MP and prime accused in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, Tuesday told a Delhi court that he wants to present evidence in his defence.
Sajjan Kumar, who was brought to the court for recording his statement, told Additional Sessions Judge...
I found it interesting that so many of us have names for the things we believe.
When something acquires a name doesn't it create a 'thing' that needs defining?
Is this how all the spiritual teaching and systems got started?
Once defined does it gain some kind of power...hmmm words have...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12607537
The government is expected to freeze the level of assistance given to India at £295m ($480m) a year. But why does a nuclear power with its own space programme need British aid?
In a widely-signalled move, it is anticipated that International...
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