Various Sikh bodies have asked Punjab government whether it took up the issue of turban ban with the visiting French president Francois Hollande during his visit to Chandigarh.
This short documentary film by Raina Ambika is entitled Harleen. In her own voice, 22-year-old Harleen Kaur exposes her personal experiences of growing up in Wisconson and her relationship with her religion, nationality, and identity.
In a letter to International Basketball Federation, lawmakers in the US have urged that turbans should not be seen as a violation of official rules of the world body.
Last Tuesday, Amandeep Singh, 25, of Yuba City, achieved another step in his journey and became a sworn reserve deputy with the Yuba County Sheriff's Department.
"… I have known Sikhs to pick bullets out of their turbans during and after battle. In fact the turban absorbs the shock of a bullet possibly rather better than a tin helmet. If the turban is properly tied, it will also form an effective buffer too, for instance from a toss from a motor bicycle.
[VIDEO] The federal transport minister says there’s no need to re-impose a rule that required passengers to remove religious headgear when going through airport security.
It was a way of connecting Sikhs with the greater non-Sikh community. I thought this was a crazy idea. However I was pretty familiar with it as I had previously tied turbans on non-Sikh friends before.
“How do I look?” asks Kim Kraemer, visiting from Stratford for a late Mother’s Day celebration with a group of women. “Fantastic,” one of them yells back.
"Sikhs have to explain what it symbolizes and what values it represents," said Geoff Garin, former political strategist for presidential candidate Hillary Clinton presenting the key findings of the report at a briefing arranged by the National Sikh Campaign (NSC).
A Sikh businessman is raising issue with a local town judge in New York who asked him to remove his turban in court. Harjit Singh Paul, who was in court for a case filed by a customer, was shocked when the judge asked him to remove his turban.
[VIDEO] MavsGoGreen and the Sikh community at UTA held a Tie-a-Turban event to create awareness about the Sikh religion and the significance of the turban on the Central Library mall
[VIDEO] The less than three minute videos poppy feel, unique fashion and Sikh pride are probably factors that contribute to this video already going viral on the internet.
[VIDEO] On 11 April, we are inviting entire Norway to feel, smell and try a turban, which they get to take home with them. With several thousand people attending from all over Norway, all dressed in turban...
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Employment laws had exempted turban wearers from the requirement to wear a safety helmet on construction sites. But the exemption did not apply to less hazardous environments, such as factories and warehouses.
The lack of a written directive has meant that many school heads are still ignorant that Sikh students are forbidden from shaving hair from any part of their body, including their beard and moustache.
“We’ll soon be turning a new chapter in the history of the Harris County Sheriff’s Office. One of our very own HCSO family members will be adding a new dimension to his uniform. He’ll be allowed to wear his turban."
If my time in the Army taught me anything, it's that when adversity strikes we band together and find solutions. This policy might be bureaucratically complicated, but the solution is as simple and straightforward as it gets.
Cotton is the primary raw material used in making turbans, patkas, other clothing we use as Sikhs. It takes anywhere from 700-2700 litres of water to grow enough cotton to make one turban.
POLICE have apologised for being overly lenient towards a group of drunk women who racially abused a Sikh taxi driver before one of them tore off his turban and burnt it.
The court granted an injunction to a young member of Sikh religious community. the decision was unprecedented in Brazil and should serve as a precedent for other processes.
Glenwood’s Sikh community want to keep their turbans on while cycling in suburban streets “Our community is very law abiding we don’t want to break the law ... what we want is to make it legal.”
“My friends and family were like ‘you should really start up a fashion blog for Sikh women’- because obviously, when we’re representing our religion, you have to wear modest clothing and still be fashionable,” she said.
The WSO regularly provides information to the Canadian Forces with respect to Sikh practices and articles of faith. When Wanda McDonald made her request to wear the turban, the World Sikh Organization was consulted...
Two schools now have to allow their large Sikh student body to wear turbans. "In two separate landmark decisions the Highest Administrative Court has held that GO has the obligation to... respect diversity and plurality."
The Sikh warriors and Khalsa wear the dastar as per the wishes of Guru Gobind Singh Ji. But some people think the dastar is only for men, and women are not required to wear it. This article will explain why I, a Sikh woman, wear the dastar.
