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1984-5 Reactions From the Public in Amritsar Dr Dalvinder Singh Grewal With a bleeding heart, I returned towards the Dukh Bhanjani Beri with the officer. The stinking smell made me feel lousy. Near Dukh Bhabjani Beri, the officer told me that he had to visit the Tactical Headquarters of his...

We’re sorry, says Buddhist chief high priest Alyaa Azhar http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2013/08/13/were-sorry-says-buddhist-chief-high-priest/ Buddhist chief high priest K Sri Dhammaratana said as we live in Malaysia , we must be sensitive to other religions...

Public Atheist Monument Going Up Near Courthouse In Starke, Florida, Is Country's First Jaweed Kaleem Posted: 05/31/2013 5:43 pm EDT | Updated: 05/31/2013 6:25 pm EDT A small city in heavily Christian northern Florida is about to become home to the first public monument in the United...

New Pope's Election Conclave Will Be Secret, But Decision Was Once A Public Affair by Jaweed Kaleem http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/01/new-pope-election-conclave_n_2792722.html?ref=topbar Derived from the Latin phrase for something locked away "with a key," the papal conclave is one of...

No ban on wearing Sikh turbans in public: France Jayanth Jacob, http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/No-ban-on-wearing-Sikh-turbans-in-public-France/Article1-1010262.aspx Ahead of president Francois Hollande's visit to India on February 14 and 15, France has clarified that there...

A Tribune Investigation Punjab Public Transport - 1 Badals, buses and public losses How the public transport sector was manipulated by political bigwigs at the cost of the state exchequer and the weaker sections in Punjab...

Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday refused to comment on a letter sent by his ministry to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the 2G spectrum scam, saying he cannot make any remark on the matter is it is "subjudice". "The matter is subjudice. I cannot make any comment on it. The...

The fort under renovation. The Punjab State Tourism Department (PSTD) would take one year more to open the mid-18th century Gobindgarh Fort to the public. The hospitality industry, guides and art lovers are peeved over the delay in the opening of the fort to the public. They complained...

by Anju Kaur Sikh children in Sacramento, California, will have an opportunity beginning this fall to attend the first Punjabi-language school in the United States. The Sacramento Valley Charter School, a Punjabi non-profit group, received authorization from the Washington Unified School...

On May 20, local Sikh leaders donated books, DVDs and pamphlets to Queens libraries in an ongoing campaign to increase awareness of Sikh culture, history and religion. Community activist and the leader of the Sikh awareness project, Jagir Singh Bains explains that the awareness campaign was...

A MAJOR investigation has been launched after 200 militant protesters complaining about meat and alcohol being consumed at a Dudley Sikh community centre wrecked the place and attacked the police. After the dust settled after the major public disorder, two members of the public were in...

by Ananth Krishnan No mention of penalties for breaking the regulations The first thing Wang Shuying did after exchanging wedding rings was to whip out a cigarette lighter. Her first act as a newly-wed was to light a cigarette for her husband, following a widely prevalent modern Chinese...

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...

Golden Temple may go public with its treasure As of now one can see rare relics, ornaments only during ‘jalau’, a show of splendour Perneet Singh/TNS Amritsar, January 21 Soon pilgrims visiting the Golden Temple may not have to wait for a special occasion like the Gurpurb to catch a...

A tiny 165-year-old pamphlet, stored in a box at a Yorkshire public library, has been identified by a University of Manchester academic as the only surviving copy of a Chartist hymn book. Dr Mike Sanders, who came across the 'National Chartist Hymn Book' in Todmorden public library, has...

The positive enthusiasm garnered by the writings of the New Atheists evidences a growing sentiment in North America about organized religion and the role it should play in the public square, especially when it comes to setting public policy and legislation. The enthusiasm is a reaction to what...

Multiculturalism has "utterly failed." That stark assessment was not voiced by some disgruntled opponent of Canada's own efforts to promote multiculturalism as an intrinsic ingredient in this country's immigration policy. It was expressed by German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaking a few days...

Policy of Discrimination Reversed: Sikh American Child Allowed to Enroll In Texas Public School October 28, 2010 (Clute, TX) - SALDEF in collaboration with the Texas Civil Rights Project (TCRP) has succeeded in overturning a long-standing policy of discrimination against religious headgear...

http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/usa/Nearly-1-in-5-Americans-See-Obama-as-Muslim-101073314.html A new public opinion poll shows 18 percent of Americans wrongly believe President Barack Obama is a Muslim. The number of Americans with that mistaken idea has risen in the past year, although...

Sikh-Americans Demand Historic Ghadar Site Be Opened To Public by JASKI SINGH Not many people know there's an important piece of Sikh and India's revolutionary history in the middle of San Francisco (California, U.S.A.). At 5 Wood Street stands Ghadar Memorial Hall, a modest...