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Today is a family reunion. And, as at all family reunions, some of the guests and celebrants are close relatives and know each other very well. Others are distant relations and may just be getting to know each other or may not even have met. As at any family reunion, some of the guests may...

Iranian World Bank Economist Counts the Cost of Barriers to Women By Jeff Baron Staff Writer Washington — Nadereh Chamlou is a citizen of the world who has stayed put, an optimistic practitioner of the “dismal science” of economics. As senior adviser to the World Bank’s chief economist...

By ed hill ehill@derbytelegraph.co.uk THE world's first dedicated Sikh memorial is being planned in Derby to represent millions of Sikhs who died in six holocausts and both world wars. Planning permission is being sought to create the £1 million National Sikh Holocaust and Shaheedi Memorial in...

Misogyny in the Muslim World: Bound by Culture or Religion? Ida Lichtner M.D. Iranian Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani was forced into prostitution by her husband to finance his opium addiction, and now she faces stoning to death for adultery. In Sudan, police flog women sentenced under...

Alexander Hamilton's Religion: A Temperate Example For Today's Fractured World Matt Rosano A few Christmases ago my family thought it advisable to expand my reading diet. Left to my own devices, the scientific and philosophic are my staples. To wit, Christmas morn, along with the ties...

Global food prices rose to a fresh high in December, according to the UN's Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO). Its Food Price Index went above the previous record of 2008 that saw prices spark riots in several countries. Soaring sugar, cereal and oil prices had driven the rise, the report...

Together in a World of Differences and Delights by AL MARTINEZ I saw America in a mall the other night, and it was a good feeling. I saw a man in a turban pushing a baby carriage. I joked with a group of Japanese teenagers standing in line for pizza. I saw a woman chasing her infant son...

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=5314996&page=2 The giants of world politics are assembled in Toyako, Japan, for the G-8 summit this weekend, but while they may be big-time players, most of them wouldn't stand out in a crowd. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, center, U.S. President...

India loses Rs 24,000cr annually due to lack of toilets, hygiene: World Bank TNN, Dec 21, 2010, 12.03am IST <SCRIPT>var facebookktitle='India loses Rs 24,000cr annually due to lack of toilets, hygiene: World Bank'...

Ottawa (December 10, 2010): The World Sikh Organization of Canada and Canadian Sikhs join the rest of the world in marking International Human Rights Day 2010. 62 years ago on this day, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which guarantees...

http://www.rediff.com/news/slide-show/slide-show-1-indias-leadership-unknown-to-almost-half-the-world-finds-survey/20101202.htm More than half of the people in the former Soviet Union, the Americas and Europe don't have an opinion about India's leadership, it said, adding that this may be...

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When we talk about Sikh Empire its appears that all threats to us had dimminished until the British came but looking at this time line it shows that Dehli was still ruled by Muslim rulers: http://www.harisinghnalwa.com/timeline.html I hear that even today Delhi is run by Muslim gangsters, so...

Armistice Day Treaty οf World War I Most οf the first World War was a non-moving trench war, whісh seemedendless. Bυt, іn the spring οf 1918, the German Army tried tooverpower the Allied Forces on the Western Adjoin, аnd indeed, for thefirst time іn more than three years, the adjoin-line wеnt...

A group of American gurdwaras initiated a plan this month to create a venue for settling disputes that would reduce the large number of court cases that funnel out gurdwara resources. The World Sikh Council – America Region, at its recent convention, discussed forming a ‘connectional church’...

FOOD FOR THOUGHT: Alas ... if the Sikhs had such an International spiritual /religious leader with "vision, foresight and great communications" skills! -------------------------------------------------------------------- Diversity can be a force for good in the world By The Aga Khan, Special...

Sava Lakh Khalsa Banda Singh Bahadur This painting of Banda Singh Bahadur Ji was inspired by the following quote. “I will tell you, whenever men become so corrupt and wicked as to relinquish the path of equity and to abandon themselves to all kinds of excesses, then the Providence never fails...

<TABLE cellSpacing=2 cellPadding=2 width="95%" align=center><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top align=middle></TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top align=middle> UK Hosts World's First Sikh Awards</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top align=middle>The world's first awards to recognise Sikh contributions across society took...

Squadron Leader Mohinder Singh Pujji, the last Indian fighter pilot to have served in the second world war, has died aged 92. Navdeep Singh Kandola looks back at the story of Pujji and other Sikh fighter pilots Please see a wonderful video at this link...

Hi Lovely people: Just wanted your opinion on this to see if it worth trying to discuss anything civilly, and thus submitting any posts on this forum: I am self-confessed Dasam Granth cynic. I don't believe in its authorship, and don't need the Dasam Granth anyway, as I have Sri Guru Granth...