NEW YORK : State Senator Tony Avella (D-Bayside) has publicly announced his endorsement of Satnam Singh Parhar, who is one of six candidates vying for the competitive Democratic nomination in the Sept. 10 primary election for Mark Weprin’s former City Council seat.Avella said Parhar, a Sikh from India who is one of three South Asians […]
LONDON, UK : BBC radio DJ and presenter Bobby Friction has offended Sikhs by using the term ‘Sikh Taliban’ on Twitter and failing to issue an apology. Instead he has tried to justify his use of the term, that he incredibly continues to describe as a ‘metaphor’. His comments reproduced below have been described as […]
LUDHIANA : Bhai Ravinder Jeet Singh “Gogi”, son of Bapu Surat Singh Khalsa has stated that his father’s weight has fallen down to 40 kgs. Bhai Gogi stated that since Bapu Ji has resumed the intake of water, he is feeling better than he was at the hospital, however the overall condition is worsening day […]
New Delhi : The Government of India’s Union Home Ministry has given a one year extension to the Special Investigation Team (SIT), for conducting a fresh probe into the 1984 anti-Sikh Pogroms cases.The SIT was set up this year in February and was initially for for six months, following a recommendation by a committee, headed […]
Florida : Nine asylum seekers were released from an immigration jail on Monday following a 14-day hunger strike, according to the ACLU. Twenty-two asylum seekers , all Sikh Indian nationals participated in the strike, demanding that they be released while their asylum cases are evaluated. Thirteen of the Sikh men remain in Immigration and Customs […]