Last week, Representatives of the UNITED SIKHS, Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund (SALDEF), and Sikh Coalition met with the head of the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Administrator John Pistole to discuss racial & religious profiling of Sikhs at American Airports.
Most of the time when bombs exploded, Islamic terrorist groups were quickly blamed and Muslim men were arrested and harassed by the police. Only in recent years has the Indian establishment started taking the threat from the Hindu terror groups more seriously.
Your feet are your most powerful tool in prayer. They carry your intention; they receive the Earth. How you walk defines you and your relationship with the world.
Panini Keypad uses artificial intelligence to accurately estimate the characters that the user could be typing and places them to his fingertips. This approach is completely new and unique and results in sensationally simple usability to type on the phone for complex languages.
One in seven girls in developing countries is married before her 15th birthday—often to a man twice her age or older. Decisions about if and when to marry a girl are often made without her input, and sometimes without her knowledge. Child marriage puts girls, some as young as seven or eight, at risk of problems that will impact the rest of their lives.
Floods and landslides triggered by heavy monsoon rains have forced more 200,000 people from their homes in northeast India and neighbouring Nepal, and killed almost 80 people, government officials said yesterday.
Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) announced that it will submit a memorandum to the Secretary General of UN on July 25, demanding intervention of the UN as per Resolution 62-149 of 2008 calling for abolition and moratorium on the use of death penalty. The campaign and rally to save Professor Bhullar has the support of World Coalition Against Death Penalty, American Civil Liberties Union and Amnesty International.
The researchers were surprised to find that people seemed better able to recall the folder. "That kind of blew my mind," Dr. Sparrow said in an interview. The experiment explores an aspect of what is known as transactive memory - the notion that we rely on our family, friends and co-workers as well as reference material to store information for us.
A desire to break that Bollywood mould drove Darshi and another local actor to create the Vancouver International South Asian Film Festival (VISAFF), taking place this weekend at the SFU Woodward’s campus. The festival, founded by Darshi and Patricia Isaac, hopes to go beyond common perceptions.
Good God has not signed a deal with any one behind others' back. He is not a Christian, Muslim, Jew, Hindu, Sikh, Baha'i or otherwise. Ironically, each group builds its worth by denying the rights to sub-groups within their category. Religions have unabashedly transformed into private clubs.