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Sidak is a distinctive leadership development program for young adults seeking to increase their commitment towards the Sikh faith. A two-week intensive immersion in Sikh culture, language, values and community though understanding bani (scripture), tvarikh (history), and rahit (discipline), is held annually in San Antonio, Texas.

The UN World Food Programme says it is delaying airlifting food to Somalia's capital for administrative reasons. It was to be the first airlift of food aid since the UN declared a famine in two areas of Somalia last week.

Members of the Norwegian royal family,.. attended the memorial. At times during the service the royal couple appeared to be overwhelmed by emotion. Jens Stoltenberg, prime minister, said at the cathedral service in Oslo: "Every single one of those we have lost is a tragedy in itself. Together, it is a national tragedy."

When secrecy is used to protect a higher order of knowledge, it can make the keepers of the secrets think of themselves as a higher order of humans. Corruptio optimi pessima, goes the old saying. Blight at the top is the deepest blight. It is the sin of taking God’s name in vain.

Andy Warhol once said that everyone will be famous for 15 minutes; he'd obviously been to the Golden Temple in Amritsar.

If people face dire economic straits, “you try and sell your land and go abroad,” Kumar said. “If you’re prosperous, still you go abroad because, culturally, it gives you a higher status.”

The published birs have some spelling mistakes while some pages have been left blank. Though these birs have already been handed over by the gurdwara managements to SGPC, a controversy is raging with Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Managing Committee (DSGMC) demanding a clarification and apology from SGPC president Avtar Singh Makkar.