Toronto : Pritam Singh Jauhal, a 95-year-old World War II veteran who fought and won a high-profile battle to allow Sikhs wearing turbans into the Royal Canadian Legions, has died. Jauhal died peacefully in Surrey on Sunday, his daughter Varinder Bains was quoted as saying by The Globe and Mail newspaper. He spent 38 years in […]
Toronto : A quick-thinking Sikh man is being hailed as a hero in Canada after he saved a teenage girl from drowning by using his turban to pull her out of a frigid river. Avtar Hothi, a 65-year-old farmer from Kamloops, British Columbia, used his turban to save the teen who had fallen into the cold […]
SAN FRANCISCO : Rights group “Sikhs For Justice” (SFJ) has lodged a complaint with the US Department of State against Indian diplomat Venkatesan Ashok for terming American Sikhs as “extremists” and for his political activities in violation of Vienna Convention 1961. Complaint filed on June 24 to Ambassador Gentry O. Smith (Director, Office of Foreign Missions) […]
NEW YORK—The government of India is facing a daunting task to extradite Paramjeet Singh Pamma since INTERPOL has also withdrawn the arrest warrants against the Sikh nationalist who has been living in the UK since 1999 as a refugee. Communiqué from the “Commission For the Control of INTERPOL Files” regarding Pamma’s case states that “After […]
KENT, UK : A group of teenage vandals filmed themselves smashing up the inside of a Sikh temple and then gloated about their mindless destruction on social media. The yobs targeted the Gurdwara in Gravesend, Kent, yesterday evening – wrecking glass cabinets, throwing plates at walls and hurling sacred Sikh symbols in a show of […]