ਚਰਨ ਕਮਲ ਸਿੰਘ posted a photo: A new illustration I came up with, this will hopefully be printed on to t shirts, more t shirts to come soon! keep an eye out. this was drawn in illustrator, my fave software! i apologize for the annoying watermark but alot of people seem to think its ok to take my work without asking and use it as their own
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Sant jarnail Singh Ji Bhindranwale
guru fateh,these are the photographs of mumbai marathon held on 17th january, 2010 wherein about 40 spastic children who are victims of cerebral plazy were taken on wheel chair to participate in the Dream Run, thanks with regards bhupinder singh kohli
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mumbai marathon of victims of cerebral plazy : B S Kohli
www.RWABhagidari.blogspot.com is a common platform for the interaction of RWA’s of Delhi, where, they can share the civic problems being faced by them, as well, can also contribute their suggestions, ideas, opinions & a lot more about their activities.
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A blog for Delhite’s : RWABhagidari.blogspot.com
JALANDHAR: Taking a leaf out of Sikh religion, the followers of Bhagat Ravidass have declared ‘Ravidassia’, a separate religion and affirmed Guru Ravidass their sole master. They have also released a separate religious granth ‘Amrit Bani Guru Ravidass’ which will replace Guru Granth Sahib in all Ravidass temples
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LUCKNOW: The Sikh community of Lucknow has strongly condemned Samajwadi Party (SP) member Amar Singh for comparing the SP leaders with `Panj Piyare’. Under the aegis of the Lucknow Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee (LGPC), a notice has also been served on Amar Singh. “We want Amar Singh to apologise in public within 24 hours of the receiving the notice or else we will lodge an FIR against him for hurting the sentiments of the Sikh community,” said RS Bagga, president of LGPC
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Sikh community seeks apology from Amar
My husband Kawaljeet Singh has met with an accident in Bangalore some 5 months ago on 27th August 2009. He was just crossing the Road Who hit him we dont know how he met we dont know this is a big mystery for us I came to know about this incident when one of his collegue call me and said That Kawal has met with an accident so very next flight I fly from Delhi and now he is totally bed ridden. His brain is seriously injured and a small part of the right brain has been removed by Apollo hospital.
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MCA leaders led by party president Ong Tee Keat, held a dialogue with representatives from the Malaysian Consultative Council for Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Sikhism & Taoism at Wisma MCA, Jalan Ampang today.
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MCA leaders hold dialogue with MCCBCHST (Malaysian Mirror)
In an unprecedented action the Akal Takht (highest Sikh temporal seat) here on Friday issued an edict excommunicating its former Jathedar(high priest) Professor Darshan Singh from Sikh community for uttering blasphemous remarks against the tenth Sikh master Guru Gobind Singh at a congregation in USA last year. This is first time probably, wherein any former head of the Akal Takht was expelled from Sikh community in the 540 year old Sikh history, said sources of Akal Takht office
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Former Jathedar of Akal Takht excommunicated from Sikh community
The Sikh clergy will hold a meeting on Friday to decide action against former Akal Takht jathedar Prof Darshan Singh Ragi. Ragi had been earlier declared ‘Tankhayia” (guilty of religious misconduct) for making controversial remarks against Guru Gobind Singh
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Sikh clergy to decide action against former jathedar today
Amid a rash of informal meetings and dialogue, the Malaysian Consultative Council for Buddhism, Christianity, Hindusism, Sikhism and Taoism has called on Prime Minister Najib Razak to take time out and sit with them and their Muslim counterparts to formally chart a way forward from the Allah row.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 28: (Harakah Daily)
PETALING JAYA: The Malaysian Consultative Council of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Sikhism and Taoism (MCCBCHST) has called on Malaysians not to speculate on the identity of the culprits behind the desecration of the mosques.
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9. Council: Don’t speculate on identity of culprits (The Star)
The Delhi High Court Wednesday issued notices to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Delhi government for the appointment of special public prosecutors to expedite the 1984 anti Sikh riot cases pending before the trial courts. A division bench of Chief Justice A.P. Shah and Justice Rajiv Sahai asked the CBI and the state government to respond by Feb 3
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Notices to CBI, Delhi government to expedite 1984 riot cases
Al Qaeda is planning to dress up suicide bombers as Sikhs and security chiefs fear that Muslim extremists may hide the explosives inside Sikh headgear. Al-Qaida is plotting to dress like Sikhs to exploit religious sensitivities about removing traditional clothing. A security source said: “Dressing as a Sikh may give would-be suicide bombers the edge in getting past checkpoints
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Al Qaeda planning to dress up suicide bombers as Sikhs
Harjinder Singh Sandhu and Purneet Singh Chhina, both Sikhs were kidnapped, beaten and, their bodies dumped in the back of a car. Harjinder Singh Sandhu, 28, lived in Brampton, he had a reputation liked to durgs and 26-year-old Puneet Singh Chhina was of Nepean, Ont, Sandhu was facing drug-related charges in Windsor at the time of his death
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Two Sikh men kidnapped and killed
A high-level delegation from the University of Cambridge, comprising Deputy Vice-Chancellor Dame Sandra Dawson and Michael O’Sullivan of Cambridge Overseas Trust, has shown interest in joining hands with Sri Guru Granth Sahib World University (SGGSWU) coming up in Fatehgarh Sahib near here. The delegation, presently visiting Punjab on the invitation of the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC), showed interest during an interaction with SGPC president Avtar Singh Makkar on Thursday. For detailed news, plz click the headline above.
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Cambridge keen on tie-up with World Sikh University
By George Gaynor » A CATERER who supplied a dessert containing eggs at a Sikh wedding was today ordered to pay £415,000 damages to the Oxford widow of a man who died after eating it. Kuldip Singh Bhamra, 49, was allergic to eggs but believed he was safe, because the wedding banquet was held at the Ramgarhia Sikh Temple in Forest Gate, London, in 2003, and followers of the religion do not eat eggs
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Oxford egg death widow’s £415,000 damages award upheld
PUTRAJAYA, Jan 20 — MCA will host a round table discussion with various religious bodies and organisations to promote greater dialogue, understanding and cooperation among the different religious faiths. Its president, Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat, said the organisations include the Malaysian Consultative Council of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Sikhism and Taoism.
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MCA to host round table talks with religious bodies (The Malaysian Insider)
India’s Supreme Court yesterday dismissed a lawsuit asking it to order the government to amend India’s Constitution to eliminate a provision in Explanation II to Article 25 that says the reference in the Constitution to the power to legislate regarding Hindu religious institutions should be construed to also include Sikh, Jain and Buddhist institutions. Sikhs want it made clear that Sikhism is a separate religion.
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India’s Supreme Court Refuses To Order Constitution Amended To Clarify Status of Sikhs
New Delhi, India: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a petition requesting a separate religious identity for Sikhs. The petition filed by J S Sethi said the community which is issued birth certificates under the Hindu law faces an uphill task to explain to the immigration authorities across the globe that the community is different from the Hindus. “It is very difficult to convince the people abroad, especially the immigration authorities, that though they are given birth certificate under the Hindu Marriage Act, they are Sikh by religion,” senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, counsel for the petitioner, told a Bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan.
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SC rejects plea for separate religious identity for Sikhs
A city court Monday asked a complainant in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case if she still wants to pursue the matter in which the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed a closure report. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Lokesh Kumar issued notice to Harbinder Kaur, who lost her doctor-husband Iqbal Singh Chadda in the riots sparked by the assassination of then prime minister Indira Gandhi, to appear before the court Feb 23. The court asked Kaur if she still wants to pursue the case.
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Complainant in 1984 riots asked if she wants to pursue case
London: A controversial BBC film about the Indian Army storming Golden Temple in 1984, which depicts late Sikh leader Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale “in a similar way to Osama Bin Laden”, has provoked a furious response from many members of the community in Britain, a media report said. A number of Sikhs have condemned the documentary, 1984: A Sikh Story , which they see as nothing but a slur on Bhindranwale, who was killed during the ‘Operation Blue Star’ ordered by the then Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi, the Daily Mail reported
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BBC documentary provokes furious response from Sikhs
The merciless tsunami that devastated the people of Samoa four months ago has had its emotional and empathic impact among many in this country, prompting them to mobilise material and financial resources to support relief work and rehabilitate the victims. The New Zealand Sikh Society of Auckland, led by Ranvir Singh Lali, Daljit Singh, Rajinder Singh, Manpreet Singh and others, raised $5000 for poor people in the affected areas.
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Sikhs donate cash for tsunami victims
Venkat Raman A prominent member of the Sikh community in Auckland is enraged over the harassment and “nasty” treatment meted out to his wife and toddler son by Immigration officials at the New Delhi airport. At press time, Ranvir Lali Singh, Secretary of the New Zealand Sikh Society Auckland and a builder, was considering lodging a serious protest after his homemaker wife Shubhneet Kaur and their two-year-old son Bachint Vir Singh returned to New Zealand spending three agonising days travelling between New Zealand and India and barred from entering their home country
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Deportation of family enrages Sikh leader
A Kaur Anandpur Sahib, Punjab: A former Project Director at The Smithsonian’s prestigious National Museum of American History, George Jacob, has been named director of the Khalsa Heritage Complex in Anandpur Sahib reports the Midland Daily News. The Khalsa Heritage Complex is one of the largest museum complex in India currently in advanced stages of construction. Smithsonian trained Jacob, an internationally sought veteran museologist, has been the founding director of two museums in his career
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George Jacob named as director of the Anandpur Sahib Sikh Museum
THE president of Melbourne’s largest Sikh temple has requested additional night-time security from Victoria Police in the wake of an arson attack on another Sikh temple earlier this week. The request, made to Victoria Police in a letter yesterday, asks for “increased vigilance” from local authorities around the high-profile Sikh temple in the eastern Melbourne suburb of Blackburn, which has previously been visited by the Premier and the state Opposition Leader.
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Sikhs call for security after Melbourne temple attack
CRANBOURNE’S Sikh community says it is under attack after yesterday’s deliberately lit fire in a partially-built Lynbrook temple. Police are still investigating the blaze, which started at about 12.30am inside the Nanaksar Sikh Temple. It is the latest in a string of incidents at the Evans Rd site during the past 12 months, including graffiti, theft, break-ins and petty vandalism.
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Sikhs fear more attacks after Lynbrook temple blaze
Gurpreet Singh Anand Intrepid traveller, who braved the cold of the North Pole, South Pole and Mount Everest, takes us on a journey in the footsteps of the travels of the first Master, Guru Nanak Sahib Ji in Gujarat. During the course of an earlier interview, the author told us, “Life is a journey, from one path to another, from one pilgrimage to another and I am destined to do that.” Exclusive to World Sikh News, this first person account candidly brings to life, the aura and pristine glory of the place with awe and respect. Like his words, the pictures taken by the author bring forth the beauty and expanse of the place
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Gurdwara Lakhpat Sahib Ji