Members of the Canada-based Nach Baliye dance group, which is actively working against the menace of dowry and female foeticide, reached Khalsa College here today to motivate students to take a ‘No Dowry’ pledge. More than 300 students of the college participated in this international anti-dowry campaign that was initiated by Dr Harshinder Kaur in Canada. She, along with her husband, was... 

JALANDHAR: Notwithstanding the US state department’s argument that comedian Jay Leno’s comments were satirical in nature and constitutionally protected under free speech, two separate complaints against Leno have been lodged in the US – one with the Federal Communications Commission and the other with the superior court of California. The US-based Sikh rights group ” Sikhs for... 

Charlottesville, Virginia, a historic city of more than 43,000 people and once the home of three US presidents – Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and James Monroe – now has a Sikh American mayor. Satyendra S Huja, initially elected to the Charlottesville City Council in 2007 and reelected in November 2011, was chosen mayor unanimously by the five-member city council on January 3. The term... 

WASHINGTON: Major Kamaljeet Singh Kalsi, the first turbaned US Sikh soldier in last 30 years has received Bronze Star Medal, the fourth-highest combat award for his meritorious services in Afghanistan. Kalsi, a doctor, received the medal for “exceptionally meritorious service as an emergency medicine physician” while deployed in Afghanistan during the first half of 2011, the Sikh Coalition... 

FRESNO, Calif. — A Sikh man waiting for a plane at Fresno Yosemite International Airport has been stabbed in an unprovoked attack. The victim was treated at the airport and boarded his flight. Police Lt. Tom Rowe tells the Fresno Bee that a 26-year-old man approached the victim and stabbed him the upper torso at about 5:30 p.m. Sunday. No words were exchanged before the attack. The attacker,... 

Michigan-based Gulshan Singh, 18, felt strongly about countering the widespread bullying of Sikh teenagers in the U.S. “I wanted to do something about it but never knew how to, or never had the means to do it,” said Mr. Singh. In the end, he chose to rhyme about it – and to make a three-minute music video to go with it. The video, titled “Let It Out,” sums up the emotions of a Sikh teenager... 

Martin Singh, a Nova Scotia businessman with four degrees, will announce his bid Sunday morning, at a hotel in Mississauga, Ont., west of Toronto, a source close to his campaign confirmed Thursday, reported Postmedia. OTTAWA — A little-known but long-time New Democrat – a white turbaned Sikh – with few ties to the Ottawa political scene is expected to officially announce his bid for leadership... 

A recent Opinion L.A. blog post ran into some misunderstanding with readers over the accompanying photo. The post noted the quiet opening of an Islamic community center near the ground zero site in New York and said the lack of outcry “may indicate a lull in Islam-bashing in political discourse.” The post was headlined “Is anti-Islamic sentiment subsiding?” and featured a photo... 

The Sikh Youth Vancouver group are holding a public meeting on Sunday, Oct. 2 at 3.00 p.m at the Himalaya restaurant- (Main and 50th St, Vancouver to discuss a number of controversial issues. The group who are still in litigation with existing Ross Street Temple administration say Sikh Youth Vancouver fought for a fair election process for the past 1½ years and are urging locals to get involved. The... 

JALANDHAR: Three days after a US federal court reserved its order in the case filed against Union minister Kamal Nath for his alleged role in leading a mob during the anti-Sikh riots in November 1984 in Delhi, hundreds of Sikhs protested in front of UN Headquarters in New York during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s address to the General Assembly demanding sacking of Nath from his cabinet. Men,...