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AMRITSAR: Sikh employees of international airports in India may not get the concession to wear kirpan while working airside. Sikh's single largest representative body, Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), is all set to lay seize to Sri Guru Ramdas International airport on June 8 th ...

June 2, 2011 Parliament to ‘accept and embrace’ wearing of kirpan, sergeant-at-arms explains JANE TABER Globe and Mail Update Posted on Thursday, June 2, 2011 11:06PM EDT Overlooked amid all the usual promises of improved decorum and tone in the House of Commons as MPs elected a...

Sikhs play down school knife fears Daniel Hurst Queensland parents should not be concerned by the prospect of Sikh students carrying ornamental swords to school, one religious leader says. The Queensland Anti-Discrimination Commission has raised concerns over planned changes to weapons laws...

Birmingham, UK - An employment tribunal ruled today (18th May 2011) that a Sikh Prison officer was not discriminated against when he was asked to remove his Kirpan, his article of faith, even though a proposal to allow the wearing of the Kirpan had already been agreed in principle...

United Sikhs Want Ban on Wearing Kirpan by Airport Staff Revoked AMRITSAR: United Sikhs, an international UN affiliated advocacy non government organization, has sought the intervention of the director general of Central Industrial Security Force, N R Dass, to revoke the ban on the wearing...

AMRITSAR: Bureau of Civil Aviation Security of the ministry of civil aviation has sought details of all baptized Sikh airport employees across the nation who wear kirpan to take a policy decision on the issue on whether they can wear the kirpan at the airside of the airport. Many airports...

AMRITSAR: United Sikhs, an international UN affiliated advocacy non government organization, has sought the intervention of the director general of Central Industrial Security Force, N R Dass, to revoke the ban on the wearing of the kirpan by airport employees at the airside of the Sri Guru...

May 12, 2011 Baptized Sikh employees not to wear 'kirpan' near aircraft Yudhvir Rana, TNN | May 12, 2011, 07.02pm IST AMRITSAR: Central Industrial Security Force has banned the Sikh employees to wear 'kirpan', Sikh's religious symbol, while performing their duties on airside at Sri...

PATIALA: Yadavindra Public School, here known as YPS Patiala has asked its Amritdhari students to remove Kirpan or leave the school. On one hand Sikh students in foreign countries has been fighting for turban and other religious belief but in its home state the school named after Sikh Raja...

By Anju Kaur, SikhNN staff writer, Washington Bureau Harpreet Singh Khalsa, a newly converted Sikh, stopped at a Maryland 7-Eleven convenience late one night in January when a police officer noticed him. The officer followed him into to the store because he was wearing a dastaar and...

Voter: Gurbaj Singh Multani, 21, 'kirpan kid' Few ordinary people had an impact on the politics of Quebec in the last decade more than Gurbaj Singh Multani. As a 12-year-old boy of Sikh origin, in the fall of 2001 he tripped in the schoolyard of École Ste. Catherine Labouré in LaSalle...

Implications of Kirpan Ban in Rochester Gurdwara's Lawsuit By Anju Kaur, SikhNN staff writer, Washington Bureau What began last year as a commonplace lawsuit about control of the Gurdwara of Rochester, New York, has turned into a case with possible implications about the ability of Sikhs...

TORONTO – A campaign to ensure that Sikhs have the freedom to wear the kirpan in government institutions across Canada is gaining overwhelming support. Jagmeet Singh, NDP candidate for Bramalea-Gore-Malton, obtained 2,500 signatures in just two weeks and people are still signing on. “The...

Calgary Herald - March 18, 2011 Argument ends with Calgary man murdering his wife in Punjab: reports Wife's throat slit with kirpan By Deborah Tetley, Calgary Herald - March 18, 2011 8:06 AM Ranjit Kaur, 55, was killed in Raipur, in the northeastern corner of the state of Punjab...

Somebody needs to set this writer straight on this: http://www.cynicsunlimited.com/2011/02/20/the-kirpan-yea-or-nay/ Finally, the idea of the kirpan as a White Christian versus minority non-Christian issue is literally brought to its heels by a letter from Ron Banerjee of the group Canadian...

February 17, 2011 Cultural ignorance explains why a mace is OK but a Kirpan isn't By MANJIT SINGH, Freelance - February 17, 2011 <script type="text/javascript"> function resizeImage() { var imgBox = document.getElementById('imageBox'); var...

Not long ago, Parti Québécois politician Louise Beaudoin was public enemy No. 1 in English Quebec. During her 1990s tenure as minister responsible for enforcing the provincial language law, Bill 101, Gazette caricaturist Aislin took to portraying Ms. Beaudoin as a leather-clad dominatrix. Ms...

Kirpan kerfuffle back in Quebec legislature: PQ introduces motion for debate QUEBEC - The emotional dispute over Sikh kirpans will resurface in the Quebec legislature Wednesday, with the opposition Parti Quebecois seeking to extend a debate that erupted last month. The PQ has proposed a...

* The Sikh community has some friendly advice for politicians in Quebec’s National Assembly: you can’t preserve your culture at the expense of someone else’s. When the World Sikh Organization of Canada was invited to speak in Quebec about Muslim women’s right to wear the niqab last week...

he first of two open houses aimed at helping more people understand the Sikh religion is Sunday. The Sahib Singh Sabha of Michigan, on Canton Center Road south of Palmer Road, is hosting the event from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Sunday. Guests can observe and take part in traditional Sikh customs...