A leaked draft of the UN’s most comprehensive study ever on climate change shows increasing evidence that links human activity to global warming.
Over the second weekend of December Sikh Research Institute’s educational team conducted trainings in Connecticut for teachers, parents and students.
It's a pageant to showcase Sikh pride and it does that with elan. The participants underwent evaluation for their education, physique and personality. The knowledge of Sikhism was an essential qualification for the title.
Tirath Dhatt, Chair of the Trust states that “In Kulbinder we have the leader we need to fulfil the vision of Anand Primary School being an outstanding place of learning at the heart of its community where all children are able to fulfil their academic, sporting and creative potential.”
In artist Neeta Mohindra’s works, where stage and canvas are an intrinsic part of the creative connect, Mohindra finds expression through theatre and painting.
What I hope happens is that the sense of community that is building right now continues so we can critically use this horrible event to address the problem of lethal violence in all of its forms — the other many, many acts of senseless violence that happen on a daily basis...
"What do you think is under the turban?" a woman asked the children.
Sikhs here acknowledge differences between the Oak Creek attacks and the Connecticut massacre, but also the complete similarity in the pain of loss.
The UN Human Rights Committee has ruled that France's ban on the wearing of "conspicuous" religious symbols in schools - introduced in a law adopted in March 2004 - violated a Sikh student's right to manifest his religion, protected by the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).
But what about the country at the other end of the spectrum? What is the role of guns in Japan, the developed world's least firearm-filled nation and perhaps its strictest controller?