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Anxious over the incessant incidents of desecration of Sri Guru Granth Sahib in various cities of Sindh in the past five months, the Sikhs of Pakistan have decided to identify the miscreants responsible for the incidents and persuade them to mend their ways or face legal action. Former...

Sikhs caught up in France's battle to stay secular By Abhik Chanda (AFP) http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gvpHOc3xQ4lvz_DpQqm-61wW4lSw?docId=f543e88e-2876-47fc-9c79-70a1a51c1137 PARIS — France's Sikh community is ramping up a campaign for the turban to be allowed in...

Akal Takht chief wants Obama to take stringent measures to check hate crimes against Sikhs http://www.indianexpress.com/news/akal-takht-chief-wants-obama-to-take-stringent-measures-to-check-hate-crimes-against-sikhs/1173438/ Navjeevan Gopal Expressing deep concern over the attack on a...

Sikhs Want Guru’s Portraits Removed from Hollywood Bar By Sunita Sohrabji http://www.indiawest.com/news/13770-sikhs-want-guru-s-portraits-removed-from-hollywood-bar.html The Maharaja Room at Pikey Café in Hollywood, Calif., currently has several portraits of Guru Gobind Singh on its...

Sikhs open temple as Hindus keep looking for base http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/10687395.Sikhs_open_temple_as_Hindus_keep_looking_for_base/ OXFORD’S Sikh community had struggled for more than 40 years to find a permanent home but last year they opened the city’s first temple. The...

Local Sikhs Heading to D.C. After Navy Yard Shooting Mark Schaff Video at this link http://oakcreek.patch.com/groups/around-town/p/local-sikhs-heading-to-dc-after-navy-yard-shooting At least one temple member will join push for tougher gun laws in wake of another mass shooting...

Kabul to have 'mini city' for Afghan Sikhs August 11, 2013 by Navrajdeep Singh www.hindustantimes.com http://www.hindustantimes.com/Punjab/Patiala/Kabul-to-have-mini-city-for-Afghan-Sikhs/SP-Article1-1101068.aspx The Afghanistan government will build a 'mini city' for the...

Akaal Takhat Forms Committee to Represent US Sikhs VIPs make controversial stops during US visit By Anju Kaur, SikhNN staff writer, Washington Bureau Posted: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 | 12:13 am Sikh VIPs arrive in New York for a week-long tour announcing a US committee to...

JURUPA VALLEY: Sikh open house to build understanding after vandalism BY DAVID OLSON http://www.pe.com/local-news/riverside-county/riverside/riverside-headlines-index/20130910-jurupa-valley-sikh-open-house-to-build-understanding-after-vandalism.ece A month and a half after a Sikh temple...

SHOPIAN (Jammu & Kashmir, India), Sept 11: Miscreants pelted stones at the houses of some Sikh residents of Shopian town before being chased away by women in the locality, police said on Wednesday. Some troublemakers allegedly pelted stones at seven houses belonging to members of the Sikh...

New Documentary: Sikhs at Sandhurst By Jay-Singh Sohal http://www.sikhnugget.com/2013/09/new-documentary-sikhs-at-sandhurst.html This time last summer, my filmmaker colleague Juggy* and I walked through the corridors of Royal Military Academy, to discover the hidden history of "Sikhs at...

2 Sikhs shot dead in US utility store http://freepressjournal.in/2-sikhs-shot-dead-in-us-utility-store/ Washington : A day after an Indian author was shot dead in Afghani-stan two Indian-Americans running a grocery store in the state of Indiana have been shot dead by masked men...

For Sikhs, both life and death are intertwined by Kanwal Prakash Singh Sep. 7, 2013 Today, the Faith Forum continues its series about finding consolation and meaning in the challenges of death. In a human and temporal context, life is joyous, welcome and full of new beginning, while death...

This is my second thread here . The first one was about sexual orientation in which a few participants told me that they don't believe in reincarnation or bar bar da janam and that even SGGS talks of one life . so what do you guys believe in ? and how does it make any sense ? if not...

Gurcharan Singh Alcohol-a Sikh Social problem in Malaysia Alcoholism is a social illness and disease very peculiar to only the SIKHS, especially in Malaysia.When this matter is raised, they go into denial, refusal to acknowledge and refute any ownership. Every trick is used to justify...

Sikhs in South, North East lack access to education: Study http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/Chunk-HT-UI-PunjabSectionPage-Patiala/Sikhs-in-South-North-East-lack-access-to-education-Study/Article1-1114222.aspx Punjabi University's survey on Socio-economic conditions of the Dakhani...

Sikhs of north-east, south India don't flaunt surnames: Study Amaninder Pal Sharma http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chandigarh/Sikhs-of-north-east-south-India-dont-flaunt-surnames-Study/articleshow/22131981.cms PATIALA: Contrary to Punjab, where nearly every youth has started...

Leaders blame babudom for land woes of Sikhs Vishal Joshi http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Haryana/Leaders-blame-babudom-for-land-woes-of-Sikhs/Article1-1112507.aspx Hoping for a favourable solution for nearly 150 Sikh families in getting their rights to cultivate lands at...

New Delhi: Among various religious groups, Muslims have the lowest living standard with the average per capita expenditure of just Rs 32.66 in a day, says a government survey. At the other end of the spectrum, Sikh community enjoys a much better lifestyle as the average per capita spending...

Exactly one year ago, a white supremacist attacked the Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. Six people were killed. And from that tragedy went forth a chant that even made it onto a T-shirt: “We are all Sikhs.” A few days later, I attended an interfaith Ramadan break fast in Morristown, New...