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The D.C. police force on Wednesday became the first major metropolitan police department in the country to proactively allow Sikh officers to wear beards and religious items such as turbans while on the job.

Michael Wigge left Berlin without a penny and traveled 25,000 miles to Antarctica, hitchhiking, bartering and working his way by ship, plane, car and foot, from Europe to Canada and the U.S. and then through Latin America.

Akal Takht jathedar Giani Gurbachan Singh on Tuesday asked the Sikhs living in India and abroad to discuss and deliberate on the new draft of 'Sikh Anand Marriage Act-2012', which will enable the community members to get their marriages registered under a separate Act.

"They knew me, but they were wondering what I was up to." They need not wonder any more. That parade of Sikhs is now part of a 38-minute documentary about eight faith traditions Lodha made with fellow artist and creative partner Ray Dirks, curator of the Mennonite Heritage Centre Gallery.

Toronto police have developed a formal policy allowing Sikhs to bring their ceremonial daggers into courthouses.

A major energy company honcho says emphatically that Montek must be disheartened, collecting the medals of his imminent defeats. “There is too much politics that fuels government decisions, too much voter-appeasement an economist like him must hate,” he says.

It is now Montek Singh’s eighth year as head of the planning commission and it is a measure of both the calibre of the man and the power that flows from his friendship with the PM that he has turned what was once a low-voltage job into one of the most powerful and contentious positions in the country.

Professor Tejinder Singh Virdee FRS ~ On 19 April 2012 was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society.

After 33 years in the Army - which includes postings to Germany, Belize and Hong Kong - Singh rightly adds the MBE to his achievements which include the prestigious Meritorious Service Medal for his commitment to recruiting members of the BME community.