Gurdwaras from all over the Washington and Baltimore came together for the second time for the Vaisakhi Sikh Day Parade in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, May 7, 2016.
While Capt Amarinder was addressing an NRI gathering in Bay area California, "Sikhs For Justice" (SFJ) served him with notice of intended "defamation law suit" under Canadian laws for accusing the human rights group of playing into the hands of Pakistan's intelligence agency ISI.
As per media reports shoes and bottles were hurled at former Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh during a gathering in Fresno, California yesterday.
For the third consecutive year, the Office of the Pentagon Chaplain commemorated Vaisakhi with members of the military and the Sikh community on Friday (April 29).
Daljeet Singh, a Sikh man who was detained by other passengers on a Greyhound bus and arrested at gunpoint for the “crime” of vaguely looking like what a Middle-Eastern Muslim might look like and speaking a foreign language, is demanding that Texas cops arrest the private citizens who falsely detained him, NBC News is reporting.
Challenging Capt Amarinder’s accusation against “Sikhs for Justice” (SFJ) playing into the hands of the Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Sikh human rights group announced to file a “Defamation” case against former Chief Minister in the Federal Court of California where he is expected to address gatherings.
An eminent member of the Sikh community Dr Suran Singh has been shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Pakistan. According to various sources, he was assassinated in Buner District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Friday 22nd April 2016.
As per media reports Karanveer Singh Pannu, a US based Sikh teenager who authored a book about bullying that the Sikh school children faces in the US was forced to remove his turban at the Meadows Field Airport in Bakersfield, California.
Following sixty-six acclaimed performances in the US, England, Scotland, Canada, and India, “Kultar's Mime”, a devised play composed by playwright and director J. Mehr Kaur, heads to Malaysia from May 19 to May 27, 2016.
To commemorate the 125th birth anniversary of Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, the Sacramento Sikh Sangat and Assemblyman Ken Cooley will formally present a California State Assembly Resolution to honor Dr. Ambedkar at the Gurdwara Sahib West Sacramento (2301 Evergreen Ave) on Sunday, April 24th, 2016 at 10:30 am.
The American Sikh Council (ASC) is very concerned about possible misplaced retribution by the ignorant extreme right wing fringe element not only in Germany but around Europe and North America.
The Friends of the American Sikh Congressional Caucus today thanked United States Federal Administration for organizing the Vaisakhi Celebrations at the White House.
The U.S. Army granted three more observant Sikh American soldiers long-term religious accommodations last Friday, permitting them to serve with their articles of faith intact.
While Narendra Modi attended Nuclear Summit, Hundreds of Sikhs from North America converged at Washington DC and protested India’s Constitutional Denial of the Sikh Religion and continued genocidal violence, reads a release by Sikhs For Justice.
Last night, the U.S. Army granted a Sikh American officer a long-term religious accommodation allowing him to continue serving his country while maintaining his articles of faith. The landmark decision makes Captain Simratpal Singh, a decorated combat veteran, the first active duty Sikh soldier to receive approval to maintain his articles of faith while actively serving in the U.S. Army.
Let’s talk about Barah Mah! Children will be introduced to the 2 banis of Barah Mah in the Guru Granth Sahib Ji and will engage in discussions of changing seasons during the year and its effects within ourselves.
The American Sikh Council (ASC) [formerly known as World Sikh Council - America Region] has expressed grief at the brutal act of violence on the Brussels Airport and the Maelbeek Metro subway station in the heart of Brussels, Belgium
On March 3, 2016, a federal judge ruled that the U.S. Department of Defense could not subject a decorated Sikh soldier to unfair and biased testing on account of his religious beliefs.
The assailant who pled guilty to viciously beating a Sikh man in a hate crime near Chicago last September was sentenced in a juvenile court on March 9.
Sikh Research Institute (SikhRI) has announced the launch of Sikhia, a powerful platform offering online courses on everything related to Sikhi, from the study of Panjabi and Gurbani to Sikh history and Gurmat Sangit.
Applauding decision of the Portuguese Minister of Justice to deny India's extradition request and releasing Sikh nationalist Paramjeet Singh, global Sikh community observed "Thank You Portugal Day" on March 07 and submitted "Letter of Appreciation" to Portugal authorities.
Parminder Singh was driving across the country with his family. As he parked his truck near Knoxville in Tennessee, some White men approached him in the parking lot. They seemed angry and their anger was directed at him. "Why did you come here?" they shouted. "Go back to where you came from."
For Mustafa Bazara, the evening was nothing more than a routine weeknight in Aleppo: He and his family were watching television around eight p.m. with the sound of bombs blasting in the distance.
National Conference on Bullying and Child Victimization is the largest and most comprehensive conference focused on all the aspects bullying and child related crime.
SALDEF says that the Colorado Division of Motor Vehicles will no longer require Sikhs, Muslims or others to remove religious head coverings to get their driver’s license.
A US Federal judge defended a decorated Sikh American soldier and ruled that the Department of Defense could not subject him to unfair and biased testing on account of his religious beliefs
Reacting to India's decision to deny visas to members of US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) Bhai Amrik Singh, the Chair of the Sikh Federation (UK) said: “It is clear India does not want to face scrutiny. Today it is about religious freedoms with visas being refused to the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF).”
On March 3, a man broke into a Gurudwara in Washington State's Sikh Temple of Spokane, and using ceremonial swords within the precints of the Gurudwara, inflicted over $30,000 in damage to the building and Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji.
After the Monday filing of an unprecedented lawsuit on behalf of Sikh Army Captain Simratpal Singh, which demanded that the U.S. military accommodate his Sikh articles of faith and abandon its impromptu discriminatory testing, Judge Beryl A. Howell swiftly ruled in Captain Singh’s favor on Thursday evening.
Authorities in Los Angeles have filed hate crime charges against a man who brutally assaulted a Sikh bus driver and called him a “terrorist” and “suicide bomber” during the attack last November.
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