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About 25,000 Sikhs from across the UK attended a rally in Trafalgar Square to mark an attack on their holiest shrine in India, organisers have said. Earlier Sikhs marched from Hyde Park to Trafalgar Square to commemorate the 1984 attack on the Golden Temple in Amritsar, Punjab, north India...

Sikhs leaving Italian airports will no longer be asked to take off their turbans or taken for checking in toilets if they protest, according to sources close to Minister for External Affairs S. M. Krishna who held bilateral talks on the issue with his Italian counterpart Franco Frattini in Rome...

June 02, 2011 Australia: Gurdwara Attacked, Sikhs Appeal for Security Melbourne - Jun 02, 2011 A Gurdwara in the Australian state of Victoria has been vandalized in what is believed to be a "racial" attack, sparking fears among the minority community which has appealed for greater...

Are the Sikhs Hindus? By Nonica Datta No matter what the RSS chief, K.S. Sudarshan, might say with regard to the origin and development of Sikhism, Sikh consciousness has invariably followed an independent course. "ALL MUSLIMS living in India are Hindus. All Sikhs are Hindus," asserted...

by Professor Himadri Banerjee If you ask any senior middle class Kolkatan about his perceptions of Sikhs, he would likely be responding in many voices. Literature has not only made him aware of many Sikh heroes of history but in his memory of bygone years the community also dominantly figures...

Neighbours pleased as council orders Sikhs to shut temple By Amanda Williams » BULLDOZERS are set to move in at a Sikh temple which has been ordered to shut after lengthy protests from neighbours. Oxford’s Sikh community claim they will be left ‘homeless’ after Oxford City Council decided they...

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...

Center accepts Punjab CMs plea on black lists of NRI Sikhs, deletes 142 names Punjab Newsline Network Thursday, 12 May 2011 By Deepti Dharmani CHANDIGARH: Acting on the repeated pleas of the Punjab government, the Government of India has finally deleted the names of 142...

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...

On Friday, May 6th, two major news outlets, CNN and Financial Times (FT), published online articles about Osama bin Laden using images of a Sikh to supplement the news stories. Both images were featured on the outlets’ homepages and were likely viewed by millions of readers. Within...

Instead of repeating last week’s violent melee over the power struggle for the presidency of a Richmond Hill Sikh temple, worshipers took to prayers Sunday to find a way to sort out their differences. About 30 members of the religion staged a peaceful rally outside the Baba Makhan Shah Lobana...

by Dr. Tarunjit Singh Butalia Secretary General, World Sikh Council: American Region A recently released WikiLeaks cable from August 2005 included an assessment by a senior diplomat at the American Embassy in New Delhi, India. It describes the parliamentary apology tendered by the Indian Prime...

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Country's transportation minister urging European colleagues to look at hand search alternatives By Hindustan Times Updated: 04-28-2011 11:06 am London, April 27 -- The British Government wants airport security staff to stop searching Sikhs' turbans using their hands. Transport...

Worshippers wielding swords and cricket bats interrupted a prayer session at a Sikh temple in Queens to attack their rivals in a vicious power struggle, the New York Post reported Monday. Rival factions at the Baba Makhan Shah Lobana Sikh Center in South Richmond Hill have been bickering for...

Hi I've been studying the basics of Sikhism, and am looking for any Sikh contacts in Israel so I can learn more. Does anyone know of any Sikhs here? Thanks

Reward for help to trace Sikhs' killers Washington: Police in California and Indian-American groups have offered a reward in the case of an attack on two elderly Sikh men, as the second victim of the possible hate crime also died of injuries. Gurmej Atwal, 78, and Surinder Singh, 65, were...

The previous year was a bad one for Pakistan's minority communities including Muslims of various sects, Sikhs and Hindus due to threat to their lives by militants, according to a new report which suggested even worse times ahead. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan's report said 418 Muslims...

Satpal SinghInterfaith Committee of the World Sikh Council GET UPDATES FROM SATPAL SINGH Like Vaisakhi: Sikhs Celebrate Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness As I write this, the airwaves are abuzz with the trembling and choking voice of a Libyan woman, who is putting her life at...