Over the past 15 years, a scourge of suicides has claimed the lives of an estimated 250,000 farmers in India. And the death count is still climbing, according to a new report by the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHRGJ) at New York University. “On average, one farmer commits suicide every 30 minutes in India,” said Smita Narula, director of the CHRGJ
The photographs that document the artist Gauri Gill's visit to Kabul in 2007 suggest a city that has been left for dead. In black and white, her shots are almost devoid of people: we see an illustrious library greying with dust, a bombed-in palace and a line of cattle seeming to approach its once-grand entrance. Anonymous hands grasp at the cages of the city's Ka Furushi bird market, as groups of tiny canaries whirr in a startled flapping of wings.
The sale by Mullock's auctioneers, of Shropshire, (English Midlands), includes an antique reproduction of the British Imperial State Crown - possibly a proof for the Imperial Crown or made as a gift commemorating the coronation. The crown is decorated with the famous Kooh- I-Noor Diamond and carries an estimate of 800 1200 GBP.
Since 2005 many Canadian youths of Punjabi origin have been killed due to their involvement in the organized crime. During 2006 the Punjabi community convened various forms and focus groups to formulate the viable approach to curtail the drug and alcohol use involving youth. After a number of community consultations it was decided to educate...
If your children are between the ages of 8 and 25 and ready for an intense Sikh experience in a place that will sweep them off their feet, you want to get to know about the Akal Gurmat Camp to be held at Baru Sahib in the foothills of the Himalayan Mountains for an entire month this summer - July 26 - August 26
Being a Sikh within the British police force in the 1980s was no easy fate, as Sergeant Kashmira Mann discovered when he became the third turbaned officer to join the Metropolitan Police Service. The Slough man was one of the few ethnic minorities in the force at the time and as a result, bore the brunt of its racism.
Many analysts were surprised that just six attackers could occupy part of the base for such a long time against a force of hundreds of commandos and navy marines. Pakistan security agencies are known sometimes not to give full accounts of violent incidents, and often hold suspects for months without informing the public.
Between 1905 and 1908 a little over 5000 Sikhs arrived in British Columbia. In the eyes of the British Columbians of the time this was nothing short of an invasion. After all, this was supposed to be a white man’s province and British Columbians were determined to keep it that way.
Aman further said, “My parents belong to Nelon village of Ludhiana, and I came to India to visit them. I really wanted to do anything I could to let the world know of Indian players. I will teach them techniques that are still not popular in India. I want them to bring laurels for the nation and make us all proud."
India made its contribution to the Second World War by providing almost two million volunteers in a couple of years. At the outbreak of the Second World War, in September 1939, the Indian Troops, totaled 2,005,038.