Browsing Tag: School

To 12-year-old Suzannah Pabla, piercing her nose was a way to connect with her roots in India. To Suzannah's school, it was a dress-code violation worthy of a suspension.

A YOUNG Sikh has been removed from a Finchley school after he was banned from wearing a religious dagger.

National Heritage Academies has acknowledged that they will allow Sikh students to wear the Kirpan in their schools. Sikhs in the six states were pleased with the news.

Bhaji Pardip Singh had been working at the school and before he left the staff requested for a Sikh Awareness Day to be arranged so that the school could be educated on who Sikhs are and what they believe as there no Sikhs living around that area.

Sonu and Manjinder embody a larger tension within the Sikh community – the internal dilemma among children to remain true to their faith while still fitting in with their peers.

In an unprecedented judgment European Court of Human Rights has justified the ban imposed by French Government to bear turbans in Schools; the controversial judgment was delivered on Thursday.

It is also believed Sarika herself may have a cheque from the education bosses, who have been ordered to pay the student banned from wearing the Sikh Kara damages believed to be at least five figures.

The Nishan-e-Sikhi tower under construction is in a four-acre land and is financially supported with donations by Thakral family and Sikh sangat.

"Jeans are like a uniform for young people across the world but these old fogies find them provocative."

A federal judge ruled that the Needville Independent School District’s policy of punishing the American Indian kindergartner for religious beliefs that require him to wear his hair long violated both state law and the U.S. Constitution.

An MP has strongly criticised school governors after it emerged that their decision to ban a Sikh pupil from wearing a religious bracelet will cost the school more than £76,000.

Healthy. Happy. Holy tells the stories of four second-generation Western Sikhs. The film follows them from their early childhood in the American Sikh Sangat, to their years in Indian boarding schools and their return to the United States as teenagers.

Sarika Singh and her high Court victory

Hundreds Pour into the Streets in Support of March for Sikh Children.

The Hasselt Civil Court overturned today a ban on the patka which was imposed on five Sikh schoolboys since 2005.

Most Schools Avoid Religion, But It's Required In Modesto Schools.

Akaal Purkh Ki Fauj (APKF) survey team has opened the eyes of quite a large number of people about the present standards of education.

Jagpal Singh Tiwana writes from Halifax.

Today Veer Ravjeet Singh was invited to a primary school in London to share knowledge of Sikhi with the students and staff.

A Sikh schoolgirl who was excluded from classes when she refused to remove a bracelet worn as a symbol of her faith will take her fight to the High Court today.

United Sikhs thanks school for swift and positive action.

The petition is handed in at Downing Street.

The Sikh Research Institute (SikhRI) has announced the release of the new Middle School Curriculum under their Sojhl (Punjabi for “insight”) school curriculum program.

TURBAN ROW: Sikhs are preparing to beat the French ban on the turban by opening schools.

The Shaheed Sikh Missionary College here has made special arrangements to impart its training to pupils.

Sikh students wanting to get admission to PTU will have to undergo an identity test.

Way cleared for allowing reservation to Sikh students in SGPC institutions Tribune News Service.

A high school student from New Jersey has been expelled and is facing criminal charges for allegedly setting a fellow student's turban on fire...

Hindu parents at a school in Punjab are protesting after the school's Sikh authorities asked all students to wear traditional Sikh turbans to school...