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.”
A young Norwegian politician used her blog to describe being caught up in the Utoya massacre. Prableen Kaur, 23, was one of the 650 people on the island as Anders Behring Breivik started shooting.
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.
The Komagata Maru incident, which played out in Vancouver’s harbor... is one of the most infamous events in the early history of the city. with financial backing from the fed. government and input from leaders of the local Sikh community, Simon Fraser University is overseeing the creation of an extensive website that will tell the story in great depth.
The right to freedom of religion has been core to the Sikh belief since the very dawn of our faith. Sikhs pride themselves in protecting the right to religious freedom for all people,... It is unfortunate that the Hungarian Parliament adopted a new law that discriminates against minority religions and infringes on European and international human rights standards.
Lt. Gen. Bikram Singh, quoting Jawahar Lal Nehru, said: “To be secure on land, we must be supreme at sea.” He lauded the contribution of the Indian Navy and said its dedicated sailors made the Navy respected throughout the world.
The foundation,... wants to encourage the development of relevant tools and technologies that will improve basic sanitation, such as waterless toilets that do not rely on sewer connections and hygienic ways to empty pits and process and recycle waste.