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“Shall we close the course for today” asked Amarpreet Singh at 7:00 pm after the students were sitting down and listening to the sikh history for 3 hours. “Noooo!!” the hall echoed with the voices of 450 attendees, almost 135 teenagers aged 13-21 yrs.

The Nihangs are sometimes misunderstood and as a result many commentators have dismissed their practices as being archaic or not in tune with the modern world. The book challenges this idea by showing a timeline of the Khalsa with excellent effect starting from Baba Buddha. Why Baba Buddha?

Congratulatory messages have been continuously pouring in for Manreet Kaur and with good reason. The twenty five year old from Halwara, a village situated some 25 kilometres from Ludhiana, has become the youngest and the first woman from Punjab to work with the United Nations under its volunteer program.

A Birmingham sixth-former is recovering after escaping the polar bear attack that left a teenager dead during an expedition to the frozen north.

"This shouldn't have to exist," Barrientos told IPS at the Los Piletones soup kitchen, which she runs. "What there should be is decent work, so that every man and woman could go out and earn a living. But until that is possible, we'll have to keep this going".

In May, the home affairs select committee advised that forced marriage should become a criminal offence. And when critics complain that few survivors will be willing to prosecute their families, Sanghera points to the leaps made in prosecuting domestic violence, and suggests victimless prosecutions...

Indian authorities are mandating that major municipal cremation centres must switch to propane to reduce deforestation and protect the environment.

Employers almost always change their stance after receiving a letter from the council citing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which says employers must accommodate workers' religious practice unless it causes the employer undue hardship, Gist said.