Sikh recruit wins payout for humiliation by police trainer Tim Stewart 27.07.09 A Sikh police officer is to receive a five-figure compensation payment after she suffered racist and religious humiliation while in training. Amandeep Kaur Grewal, who is of Indian origin, was singled out for unfair criticism and treatment by trainer Pc Lucinda Rigby because of her race at the Metropolitan Police’s training school in Hendon. When Mrs Grewal complained, Pc Rigby told her other students were laughing at her behind her back
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Sikh recruit wins payout for humiliation by police trainer
Enrol Now for UNITED SIKHS Miri Piri Camps in Michigan and London London, UK and Michigan USA – UNITED SIKHS Miri Piri camps in London and Michigan will be held this month and it is still not too late to enrol. The London camp, which is a day camp this weekend, will be held on 1st and 2nd Aug hosted by the Central London Gurdwara and the Michigan camp will be a week long camp from Aug 16th to 22nd.
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Jul 26th, 2009 | By Sanjeev Awasthi | Category: Himachal, News Nahan: National chairman of minority commission and Member Rajya sabha Sardar Tarlohan Singh today inaugurated day boarding school building of Hindi medium at Baru sahib in Rajgarh sub division being constructed by the Kalgidhar trust. Chairman of minority commission also participated in the SAHAJ PAATH BHOG program at Darbar Sahib
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Baru Sahib Day boarding school building inaugurated
Akal Takht tells Sikhs to go green I P Singh, TNN 27 July 2009, 03:34am IST Akal Takht Jathedar Gurbachan Singh gave a religious call to the community on Sunday saying Sikhs should now focus on cleaning the natural water resources rather than spending more money on building up new gurdwaras. SULTANPUR LODHI: Akal Takht, the highest Sikh temporal body, has embraced the save-the-environment mantra telling Sikhs across the world it was their ‘‘moral and religious duty’’ to care for the nature.
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British Sikhs on the mission Thu, Jul 23 05:07 PM A short drive away from Windsor Castle, a group of ferocious-looking, blue-turbanned men are trying to preserve a martial art that frightened the life out of the British when they ruled India. Grunting at each other like wild boars, they brandish swords and sticks according to the dictates of the Sikh fighting discipline of Shastar Vidya. Their teacher, Nidar Singh, believes he is the only “gurdev” or master of the art seriously practising today
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British Sikhs revive deadly art banned by the Raj
PTI 20.7.09 Chandigarh , July 20 The Shiromani Akali Dal today lodged a protest with the US against a bill prohibiting teachers from the Sikh community in Oregon State from wearing”religious dress”including turbans to public schools. In a letter addressed to US Ambassador-designate Timothy Roemer, SAD President Sukhbir Singh Badal said that he never expected such a move”from the oldest democracy of the world, that had heralded worldwide movement for personal and religious freedom”.
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PTI 20.7.09 Amritsar: Jathedar Akal Takht (highest Sikh temporal seat) Gurbachan Singh in an edict issued from Akal Takht directed the Sikh community all over the world not to carry Guru Granth Sahib (Sikh religious and pious scripture) to hotels, restaurants and marriage palaces for any kind of function. Singh said that most of the time, members of the Sikh community across the world take the copy of Guru Granth Sahib at marriage palaces to solemnized the marriage of Sikh couple as per the Sikh tenets but at the same time they remain failed to give due respect to Guru Granth Sahib, since Guru Granth Sahib was not mere the copy of religious scripture but also living Guru in Sikh community, even Supreme Court in a verdict issued had described Guru Granth Sahib as living Guru. Singh said that whenever, Granth Saib is carried or shifted from one place to another place that required proper norms and presence of requisite baptized members of Sikh community and other customs.
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Sarkozy assures PM no ban on Sikh turbans IANS 16 July 2009, 09:40pm IST SHARM-EL-SHEIKH (Egypt): French President Nicolas Sarkozy has assured Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that there is no ban on Sikhs wearing Sarkozy’s assurance came after Manmohan Singh handed over to him a ‘non-official’ memo two days ago in Paris, official sources said here on Thursday. France is considering a bill to ban wearing of any religious symbols in the state schools. The country’s 6,000-strong Sikh community in France has been up in arms against the proposed legislation, saying that turban is not a religious symbol but an integral part of their life
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Sarkozy assures PM no ban on Sikh turbans
Wed, Jul 15, 2009 9:56:43 Sikh Captain Court Marshaled for false allegations of sexual harassment Captain Poonam Kaur claimed she had been sexually harassed, her allegations have resulted in her dismissal form the Indian army An Army General Court Martial (GCM) on Saturday dismissed of the Army Service Corps (ASC) of Captain Poonam Kaur The GCM, conducted at 5-Armoured Regiment in Patiala, indicted Capt Kaur on several other counts as well, including disobeying the orders of her Commanding Officer (CO), for providing false information to get married accommodation in Kalka and for addressing the media to discuss her service matters in contravention of Army rules, Indian Express has reported Kaur was, however, acquitted of the charge of “having an unbecoming conduct and character” and with regard to allegations of her having physical relations with her former driver Sepoy Sunil Kumar. Capt Poonam Kaur of ASC had, during her Kalka posting (beginning in October 2007), charged her Commanding Officer Colonel R K Sharma, besides two other officers Lt Col Ajay Chawla and Major Suraj Bhan with physically and mentally harassing her after she turned down their physical advances. A Court of Inquiry subsequently set up by the Army had found Capt Kaur guilty on 20 counts last July
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Tue, Jul 14, 2009 11:00:33 Hundreds of excited clamorous women met to celebrate the age old culture of Teeyan at Guru Gobind Singh Khalsa College in Chigwell Essex. The event was organised by the Sikh Women’s Alliance’s successfully for the third year, aiming to promote traditional village singing and women getting together to celebrate and have a fun day. Teeyan is a traditional panjabi event where women come together to celebrate the beginning of the monsoon season.
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Pay hike unjustified Punjab MLAs need to practice austerity AT a time when Punjab’s finances are in doldrums, the manner in which its legislators, cutting across party lines, have joined together to get their pay and perks enhanced is regrettable. Clearly, if the MLAs’ pay and perks are increased, it will be a drain on the state exchequer. Their argument that instead of reimbursement of their telephone bills, conveyance and other expenditure, they should be paid in cash as part of their salaries is also flawed and should not be entertained
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Pay hike unjustified.Punjab MLAs need to practice austerity
Shubha Singh, Indo-Asian News Service Book: Sikhs Unlimited Author: Khushwant Singh Price: Rs 495; Publisher: Rupa Did Chandigarh lose out to Bangalore as the e-capital of India due to then prime minister PV Narasimha Rao’s insistence that since Punjab had the benefit of the Green Revolution the next revolution should go to a southern state? According to Gurujot Singh Khalsa, one of the pioneers of the off-shoring and back office processing business in India, he started his initial venture in northern India, but real time data transfer between India and the United States could begin only after the first satellite earth station was set up in Bangalore in December 1993. Khalsa’s HealthScribe company was the first commercial subscriber to use its facilities for data transfer.
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An endearing look at Sikhs everywhere
Those, who paid gold coins for Sikh heads in mughal rules, could not finish the sikhs. And today, we are loosing Sikhi , by paying money from our own pockets at the Barber shops. Trimmed beards, caps on head, tambaku & whisky in mouth have become so common in Sikhs that even the movie makers project Sikhs as trimmers and not as bearded
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Where are the Dharam Parchar Committees formed by SGPC & DSGMC
Chrisliu（吉燠 in Lahore for a week） posted a photo: Located in the Naulakha Mandi that starts from Landa Market eastward to the Railway Station, this gurdwara is related to the misery of many sikh women who were imprisoned here to grind wheat and their sons who were beheaded and thrown into the deep well next to it. Unlike other gurdwaras, the Holy Book of Sikhism, Sri Granith Sahib is not placed here, though I did see a small doorless chamer with a bed that looks like the resting place for the guru.
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Gurdwara Shahid Gunj, Lahore
Plan aims to increase Sikhs’ green quotient 5 Jul 2009, 0407 hrs IST, Narayani Ganesh, TNN NEW DELHI: EcoSikh is a five-year plan formulated by the US-based Sikh Council of Religion and Education (SCORE) to spread green knowledge throughout the Sikh community and encourage environmental activism among Sikhs worldwide. “A grid and pledge, named Eco-Sikh, persuades all Sikhs to create a global network of cooperation to help execute an action plan that will help meet today’s environmental challenges.
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Sikh students – Avail scholarships under the Minority schemes of Govt of India, under the Ministry of Minority Affairs. These include : Multi-sectoral Development Programme Pre-Matric Scholarship Scheme Post-Matric Scholarship Scheme Free Coaching & Allied Scheme Merit-cum-Means Scholarships Scheme Scheme of Research/Studies, Monitoring and Evaluation of Development Schemes including Publicity Schemes of Central Ministries/Departments included in the Prime Minister’s New 15 Point Programme for the Welfare of Minorities which are amenable to earmarking for minorities.
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Tue, Jun 30, 2009 1:07:17 Leicester Football Tournament A Great Success…..Khalsa Football Federation Great Opportunity For Professional Teams’ Scouts To Capture Young Sikh And Asian Football Talent..Manjit Singh Virdee Singh Sabha Hounslow beat GSA Erith by two goals in the final of the Premier Division to win the Leicester football tournament held at Victoria Park, London Road, Leicester on 27th and 28th June 2009. As in previous years members of the local teams FC Khalsa and GNG football club organised the annual tournament in which all rules and regulations of the Khalsa Football Federation were implemented. After Coventry and Hounslow it was the city of Leicester who had the pleasure of hosting the festival of football which was watched by approximately 10,000 people in over which over 100 team participated over the weekend which had just about perfect football playing weather.
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Ice Cubes posted a photo: This is the picture of the entire gurudwara complex of Takht Sachkhand Shri Hazur Sahib at Nanded in Maharashtra. It is one of the holiest of shrines for the Sikhs and is one of the five “Takhts” or seats. This is actually a panorama created by joining about 6 – 7 images and honestly the credit should go to Adobe Photoshop CS2 because there isn’t anything that i did to stitch them together
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Takht Sachkhand Shri Hazur Sahib, Nanded
Express News Service Posted: Saturday , Jun 27, 2009 at 0301 hrs IST Ludhiana: Sikh Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC) has decided to institute scholarships in collaboration with University of Cambridge (UK) for needy and meritorious Sikh students for research studies leading to M.Phil or Ph.D degrees. Addressing the press conference, Avtar Singh Makkar, president of SGPC, informed that the SGPC had received a proposal from Department of Human Resources, University of Cambridge (UK) in the month of February, 2009, regarding providing opportunities to students of Indian nationality from the Sikh community, who are of outstanding academic ability, to study at the Cambridge for programmes regarding M.Phil and Ph.d degrees. For this purpose, Michel O’Sullivan Joseph, Director of Cambridge Commonwealth Trust, arrived yesterday to discuss modalities for creation of scholarships.
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SikhsIndia 25th June, 2009 A delegation from the Interdisciplinary Centre for the Study of Religion & Worldview, K.U.Leuven, Belgium is to visit India in the month of August, 2009 to Study the Indian Religions. Prof.
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Delegation from the Interdisciplinary Centre for the Study of Religion & Worldview, K.U.Leuven, Belgium
Kathmandu, June 24: The frequent strikes across Nepal have not only crippled daily life, but have badly hit the business of Sikh community forcing majority of its members to emigrate to India. For the Sikh community living in Birgunj, a southern Nepalese town bordering India, the frequent strike and shut down have even crippled their livelihood. The Sikhs, who came from India decades back and now engaged in transport business, are suffering the most and many have already left the country, The Kathmandu Post reported.
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www.sohnijodi.com has started its “Sikh Matrimonial – free service to the community” , for the benefit of Sikh community all over the world.You have to send a mail to SOHNIJODI with your profile with or without a pic, and it will be uploaded free of cost on the Sikh web portal www.sohnijodi.com. The portal which covers Sikh news, views, pics, vids, and a lot more about sikhism, received 8,641 visitors with 83,574 hits in the month of June, 2009.
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The Yuba City Police Department has given a confirmation to the SALDEF (Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund) to join the police forces. They have issued the confirmation saying they have always respected the Sikh identity and would continue to do so in the future. According to current Yuba City Police Chief Robert D
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Invitation to American Sikhs to join the police force
Parents of Himachal student cry foul over his suicide June 23rd, 2009 – 10:57 pm ICT by IANS Shimla, June 23 (IANS) Parents of a Class 10 student of a prestigious residential school in Himachal Pradesh, who allegedly committed suicide Sunday, are suspecting a foul play behind their son’s death, police said Tuesday. Karam Singh, 16, of Akal Academy at Baru Sahib in Sirmaur district, died after he was found hanging in the school toilet
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MasterCard appoints Citi’s Ajay Banga as president and COO 21 Jun 2009, 0418 hrs IST, PTI NEW YORK: Global payment firm MasterCard has roped in Citigroup’s Ajay Banga as its new president and chief operating officer (COO), while indicating that the Indian banker could be its next CEO in about a year. Banga, currently Citi’s Asia-Pacific CEO, will get an annual salary of $800,000 besides other benefits at MasterCard, while he has also been given a sign-in bonus of $4.2 million. As per his contract, Banga’s upfront payments would remain intact even if he leaves the company after not being offered the position of CEO at MasterCard by June 30, 2010
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MasterCard appoints Citi’s Ajay Banga as president and COO
Mastuana temple to effect structural changes: Akal Takht 21 Jun 2009, 0511 hrs IST, Yudhvir Rana, TNN AMRITSAR: Coming down heavily on the management of Mastuana gurdwara for reportedly planning a replica of the venerated Golden Temple, Sikh religious bodies and intellectuals who gathered under the aegis of Akal Takht on Saturday called for demolition of domes, doing away with a pond and changing the structure’s name of Sri Guru Singh Sabha. Unleashing the broadside at a meeting convened by him at Teja Singh Samundari Hall, Akal Takht jathedar Giani Gurbachan Singh, while talking to the media later, said, “My statement is to be treated as hukamnama. The congregation of Sikh religious bodies has decided that the gurdwara’a sarovar be filled with earth, Har Ki Pauri and four domes be demolished and its name changed.” Appearing unforgiving towards Baba Baldev Singh Suharaewala for hurting religious sentiments of Sikhs with a Golden Temple look-alike, formerly known as Gurdwara Sach Khand, Angitha Sahib, the jathedar added, “He will be summoned to Akal Takht for submitting a clarification.” The changes will reportedly be effected under the supervision of Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee engineers to rule out any likening whatsoever to Harmandar Sahib.
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Mastuana temple to effect structural changes: Akal Takht
Dya Singh is an icon of the Australian music scene and has quietly gained a phenomenal ‘standing’ worldwide as a ‘world music’ artist in the last 15 or so years. Dya Singh is one of the many Indian artists that MAV supports and promotes through our mission to foster cultural diversity and respect through the promotion, enhancement and celebration of multicultural arts in Australia
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Legendry Sikh artist Dya Singh is an icon of the Australian music scene