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.”
UP TO 10,000 people from the Sikh community are expected to take to the streets of Coventry for the Vaisakhi parade later this month. The festival will tell the story of the founding of the Sikh faith and involve a number of floats.
Sikhs and Hindus are featured prominently in the nationwide PBS public television documentary “The Asian & Abrahamic Religions: A Divine Encounter in America” which will be shown on over 300 public television stations nationwide in the USA.
Surprising as it may sound but the girls have outnumbered boys in Pakistan. Despite the socio-cultural taboos associated with girl child like dowry, sexual abuse, weaker sex etc, the girl child were not aborted in certain areas of Pakistan like Southern Punjab and Khyber Pakhtonkhawa.