In a colourful parade augmented by exotic tastes and music, Kelowna’s maturing cultural profile will be on display this weekend. The Okanagan Sikh community is putting on its first Vaisakhi parade Saturday, mirroring activities that have traditionally rolled out in larger urban hubs.
Ardas means a formal prayer, supplication or humble request. It is derived from the Persian word 'Arzdaasht' meaning a petition. It is human nature to pray when one needs help say for wealth, children, personal affairs, health for peace and so on. How nice would it be if things get done on their own and one does not have to pray for getting something? That is the way Gurbani teaches...
The release had stated that taking a serious view of the incident, Sukhbir has ordered registration of an FIR under Section 295-A of the IPC against both the police officers after receiving the report of a magisterial inquiry conducted by Mohali ADC Mohinder Singh Kainth into the “disrespect to the Sikh religion”.
In a ray of hope to Gujarat's minorities, chief minister Narendra Modi is learnt to be reconsidering his earlier decision not to provide Government of India-sponsored pre-matriculation scholarship to more than 52,000 students belonging to Muslim, Christian, Parsi, Sikh and Buddhist communities.
Shasta County’s Sikh community is placing fresh emphasis on its annual Vaisakhi Festival, a Day for Non-Violence, in the wake of an apparent hate-related drive-by shooting last month in Elk Grove, near Sacramento.
In a surprising twist to a hate crime case, a California man who previously pleaded guilty of assaulting taxi driver Harbhajan Singh, told the court Friday that he plans to change his plea.
Make no mistake, India's future will not be brighter for having sunk to 914 girls per 1,000 boys. The daughter deficit will create a society that is much less stable and much more volatile than it would be with a more balanced ratio. The sustainability of peace and stability -- for India and the region -- will be progressively undermined in lockstep with the devaluation of India's daughters.
Dhillon, president and CEO of San Antonio-based Amer Technology Inc., is making the case that offshoring is no longer as attractive an option as it once was for American companies and that they can now find the same services being done here at home for close to the same cost.
In an effort to decrease tensions in the community caused by misinformation about the large Sikh festival of Vaisakhi, Sikh Research Institute Canada (SRIC) has organized two informational forums on 14 April and other events over the weekend.
In the March 9 letter written by Jaswinder Pal Singh, assistant to Jathedar Gurbachan Singh, the Akal Takhat said the trustees had “mocked the holy Sikh Kakars with the selfish motive of winning your lawsuit.”