And it would have been the same at Dadar station had it not been for the Khalsa Aid Shri Guru Singh Sabha, who organized a langar (free meal) for the people stranded there.
Manjit Singh, 38, of the Gurdwara Singh Sabha, in High Road, Seven Kings, visited the country for two weeks with charity Sikh Relief, travelling to areas hit hardest after the initial quake killed more than 8,000 people.
THE Woolgoolga Sikh community has raised $3000 to provide relief for those in Vanuatu affected by Cyclone Pam. The deadly cyclone tore through the island nation in March
These are all after-shocks of the big tremor that hit Kathmandu on April 25th. These are continuing aftershocks since the earth is still settling down and the energy from the fault is still being released, one after the other..
For the first time, nine charities from both the UK and USA, have joined under one banner in their response to the devastating Nepal Earthquake which has claimed the lives of over 6,000 and left tens of thousands homeless.
"The lack of parking space, net facilities, food and water do cause a bit of a hamper but the efforts are on to get the place back to normal" Group Captain Lamba told ANI here.
How does one find light or offer hope to families in the intense darkness and nightmare of such moments? How does one reconcile the shock of empty places at the table for these families?
“The Sikh nation is no stranger to barbaric acts carried out against them... In 1675, Guru Tegh Bahadur was publicly beheaded on the orders of the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb..."
Sikh organizations of India and abroad, who came forward in helping the victims of natural disasters of Jammu & Kashmir, have made the Sikh community feel proud all around the world.
All Parties Hurriyat Conference chief Syed Ali Geelani on Tuesday thanked Sikh humanitarian aid group for their role in the relief operations in Jammu and Kashmir after floods hit the region early September, this year.
Bottles of mineral water, clothes, medicines and foodstuffs are being provided to the flood affected people. Pregnant women that were lacking any assistance are being treated affectionately by the volunteers of the Sikh body.
A relief camp started by Kashmiri Sikhs a day before deluge hit Srinagar inside a Gurduwara in uptown Srinagar provided timely rescue and relief to thousands of flood-ravaged people. Three weeks after, the camp is still busy providing relief to an unending rush of flood-hit.
Baba Ranjit Singh Khalsa also stressed working together in unity for any such humanitarian causes and supporting other Sikh charitable organisations across the world that immediately went in aid to the affected regions...
The UNITED SIKHS Kashmir Relief team has found that there are a number of homes in deprived villages which are in need of desperate reconstruction. Team Leader Amritpal Singh said, "Villagers will continue to need support because their homes are damaged by the floods and need rebuilding urgently."
Bhai Amrik Singh, chair of the Sikh Federation (UK), said: "It is a disgrace the persecution of the tiny minority of Sikhs from Afghanistan has largely been ignored and it takes an incident like this to remind us all that they are also being exploited by human traffickers."
Sikhs and Muslims in Kolkata have joined hands to appeal for communal harmony in Western Uttar Pradesh district of Saharanpur. They appealed to the Akhilesh Yadav led UP government to act on rumour mongers and are planning a visit of joint delegates to the district.
Eid passed off peacefully in this riot-hit town, and perhaps the likes of Raghubeer Singh and Prabhjot Singh had something to do with it. The uncle-nephew duo came to be known for the spread of desserts that accompany the celebrations — sweeter for their workers.
Didar Singh Bains, the legendary “peach king of California,” remains optimistic even as a severe California drought threatens to wipe out the $58 million agricultural business that his family has built up over seven generations.
[VIDEO] Till now they were caught up in the war torn Iraq but they arrived home on Monday. Many others are still being held captive by the suspected militants. Indian workers were greeted with garlands and were offered water and juices at the airport in New Delhi. Adequate arrangements have been made to send the workers back to their hometowns.
The Punjab government has submitted a list of 514 people from the state who are stuck in Iraq while Haryana officials said families of 147 people have provided details of their near and dear ones stranded there.
The recent floods in Pakistan's Indus Valley are of truly Biblical proportions. The UN estimates that the humanitarian crisis is now larger than the combined effects of the three worst natural disasters to strike in the past decade.
Sometime around 2050, there are going to be nine billion people roaming this planet—two billion more than there are today—and it's a safe bet that all those folks will want to eat.
What are down-to-earth answers drawn from Gurbani to help people tackling this world financial crisis; in pragmatic terms is it possible to create a counseling service based on the Guru's words?
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for a 50 percent increase in food production by 2030, saying that failure to feed the world's growing population will spark civil unrest and starvation.
