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June 28, 2011 Indian group warns women joining 'SlutWalk' AFP - June 28, 2011 8:03 AM Protesters during a Slutwalk march for the right of women to wear what they want without harassment on June 25, 2011 in Auckland, New Zealand. Photograph by: Hannah Johnston, Getty Images A...

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Afghan-Sikhs are faced with the problem of not having proper burial places for deaths of Sikhs By Tan Ong Afghanistan (CHAKRA) — On a two day visit to Afghanistan, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, met members of the Afghan-Sikh minority community in Kabul. He listened to their issues with regards...

Harkrishen Kung may be retired but his involvement in Hamilton's Indian community keeps him busier than ever. The former dairy farmer and father of four has been awarded a Queen's Service Medal for his services to the Indian community. His involvement with the New Zealand Sikh Society has...

June 5, 2011 Vast Indian diaspora builds bridges June 05, 2011 Haroon Siddiqui - The Star, Toronto On Jan. 9, 1915, Mahatma Gandhi returned home after 22 years in South Africa where he invented non-violent resistance to fight racial discrimination. He would use satyagraha (Truth...

Key historical documents from India, including an illustrated history of Kashmir, are for sale at a UK auction. The Kashmir manuscript contains nine paintings, including that of the famous maharajah Ranjit Singh, and is expected to sell for more than $13,000. Other items include original...

May 18, 2011 Monkeys protect Indian government officials Rhesus monkeys invade Indian government buildings at night. Now the government has tasked langur monkeys with shooing their simian rivals away. By Ben Arnoldy, Staff writer posted May 18, 2011 at 3:24 pm EDT New Delhi...

May 9, 2011 Indian court urges death penalty for 'Honour Killings' AFP - May 9, 2011 7:02 Photo: An Indian woman feeds the pigeons in front of The Gateway of India in Mumbai. Photograph by: Sajjad Hussain, AFP/Getty Images NEW DELHI - India's top court said Monday the death penalty should...

April 27, 2011 Indian bribery website reveals $8M in petty payments April 27, 2011 Erika Kinetz MUMBAI, INDIA—For the last 12 years, a businessman in the northern Indian city of Kanpur has been paying a 5,000 rupee ($113) bribe to government officials to get his income tax refund...

Rupinder Gill’s parents left India for a small, “whiter than snow” Ontario city in search of that well-worn cliché: a brighter future for their children. For the first 17 years of Gill’s life, however, most of that brightness came from the television screen in her basement. The Gills were...

“No proof was offered nor any case filed to support accusations of militancy,” said Parvkar S. Dulai, director of CSC, “whereas the Indian state’s long, sordid history of silencing those who peacefully question its policies through brutal torture and murder in custody has been heavily...

Mar 7, 2011 Indian men lead in sexual violence, worst on gender equality: Study Neha Bhayana, TNN | Mar 7, 2011, 12.30am IST NEW DELHI: Nearly one in four Indian men has committed sexual violence at some point in their lives and one in five has admittedly forced his wife or partner to...

Indian man has 39 wives, nearly 100 children Reuters - February 22, 2011 The more, the merrier is certainly true for Ziona Chana, a 66-year-old man in India's remote northeast who has 39 wives, 94 children and 33 grandchildren -- and wouldn't mind having more. They all live in a...

PATIALA: Sikhs have from years been facing the humiliation in various countries due to their Turbans. France is one among such nations where tying turban is still not accepted, said Basant Singh Panjhattha, France Sikh Council President. Basant Singh expressed these views during his visit to...

Feb 16, 2011 Madan Singh Jamrud is an important place at the mouth of the Khyber Pass. It was the scene of a glorious battle between the Sikhs and the Afghans Jamrud is a fort about 10 miles off Peshawar. Located at the opening of the Khyber Pass, it formed the outermost limit of the Sikh...

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...

A California federal appeals court has denied the political asylum request of a Sonoma County man who says he was beaten by police in his native India because his father was writing a book about Sikh separatists. Ratnesh Sharma, who left India a decade ago, says he helped his father write the...

Bangalore/Washington, Jan 30 Taking strong exception to US authorities’ radio-tagging scores of Indian students duped by a "sham" university in California, India today described it as an "inhuman act" and demanded severe action against those responsible. “We demand that the US government...

WASHINGTON: Hundreds of Indian students , mostly from Andhra Pradesh , face the prospect of deportation from the US after authorities raided and shut down a university in the Silicon Valley on charges of a massive immigration fraud . The Tri-Valley University in Pleasanton, a major suburb in...

FATEHGARH SAHIB: The Canadian government wants to utilize the expertise of Indian students and engineers as it believes Indians can run the world if given a chance. This was stated here by Patrick Brown, Member of Parliament from the Barrie constituency of Ontario. ?Since the educational...