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San Jose, California: Twenty-five years after the state-sponsored massacres of Sikhs in India, and thousands of miles away, the politics of hate motivating such crimes affects the Bay Area. In our fascination with India's culture and economic power, the American public and its leaders have ignored the reality of pervasive human rights abuses. This affects the Bay Area, where Indian hate groups have received ideological and financial support by people, politicians and corporations unaware of the origins of these groups. On Oct. 31, 1984, two Sikh bodyguards of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi assassinated her in retaliation for an Army attack on the center of Sikh reli…
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UK: Controversial plans to demolish a Sikh temple and replace it with 19 flats and two houses have been given the go-ahead. Gravesham Council’s regulatory board approved developer Thamesview Living’s scheme for the Siri Guru Nanak Darbar Gurdwara in Clarence Place, Gravesend, on Wednesday. SAVE, a campaign group for preserving historic buildings, has been fighting to save the 137-year-old building and says the council will “end up being very embarrassed by the decision”. Director William Palin said: “There are certain tests you must show you have dealt with if you want to knock a building down in a conservation area, such as first putting it on an open market and trying …
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Vancouver, BC: Khalsa elementary students expect to return to their Prince Albert street school site by December after a blaze largely destroyed their school this summer. Eight of 10 portables, which comprised the school on the East Side property at 5987 Prince Albert St., were gutted in the July 30 fire which forced students to start classes elsewhere this September. Kindergarten to Grade 3 students are being taught in space within the Khalsa Darbar temple on Prince Edward Street while they wait for the reopening. Grades 4 to 7 students are being ferried out to the school's Surrey campus. Khalsa schools, which teach Punjabi, Sikh history and religion, and Gurbani, Kir…
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Alamgir, Punjab: Taking note of the suggestions made by the World Health Organisation (WHO) regarding the spread of epidemics, the management committee of the Gurdwara Manji Sahib at Alamgir has launched a crusade against the dreaded H1N1 virus. The devotees coming to pay obeisance at the shrine are being alerted about the swine flu threat through display boards. Besides, the preachers make reference about the prevention, diagnosis and prognosis of the disease during religious discourses. The management has also coordinated with the health officials to facilitate the awareness campaign launched by the authorities. Kingi Singh, head granthi at the gurdwara, said taking pr…
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-59098305 Canada challenges compensation order for indigenous children Published 10 hours ago Canada says it will appeal against a court order to pay billions of dollars to compensate indigenous children who went through the child welfare system. Last month, a top court upheld a 2016 ruling that the government underfunded First Nations services compared with those for non-indigenous children. It ordered C$40,000 ($31,350; £23,340) payouts to each child who was in the on-reserve welfare system after 2006. The case has b…
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Amritsar, Punjab: Targeting small group of supporters of ex-Sikh ragi Darshan, the SGPC has appealed to the Sikhs not to pay any heed to “propaganda unleashed by them” against the Sikh high priests, as they had been using “inappropriate” language against the clergy. Darshan has recently been excommunicated from the Sikh Panth by the Sikh high priests. Meanwhile, it has also hailed the decision of the Bhagat Ravidass Sadhu Sampradaye, Samaj Bachao Morcha and other organisations of the Ravidassia community, which have rejected the formation of the separate religion for the commnity. At its executive meeting held here today, the SGPC condemned Prof Darshan Singh a…
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Delhi, India: Twenty-five years after the 1984 Sikh Genocide, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) today filed two separate chargesheets against former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar, blaming him for two of the “murders” 25 years ago. Twelve others - including Sajjan’s relative Balwan Khokkar - have also been charged for the crimes. The CBI has imposed charges under sections 302, 153-A, 109, 436, 295, 201, 396, 427, 436, 449 and 505 of the Indian Penal Code in its chargesheet filed in the Special CBI court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kaveri Baweja here today. The hearing is slated for January 18 and will be taken by another special CBI court of Additional Chief Metro…
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In a desperate attempt, Ragi Darshan and his followers are flagging down YOUTUBE videos related to Darshan Singh's pronouncement regarding Dasam Granth & Ninem Bani. They are claiming false copyrights for these videos. Most of the videos are of JUS Punjabi show. It seems that Ragi Darshan and his defensive confused followers have been trying to cover up their lies. They simply do not want to face the truth. Below are the videos that were removed from YouTube by Ragi and his followers: [flash=320,260" codebase=http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash.swf Part 1 http://www.sikhclips...93ee8a9bf8ae7d0 Part 2 http://www.sikhclips...d7c260cc007e8b…
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Amritsar, Punjab: Prime Minister Stephen Harper wrapped up his three-day visit to India Wednesday with a visit to the Sikh Golden Temple in Amritsar. Harper was surrounded by a massive crowd during the hectic visit to the temple, said CTV's Graham Richardson, who is travelling with the prime minister. "There were thousands of people there thronging around the prime minister as he walked through the temple. You may remember that Jean Chretien did this in 2003 and it was quite out of control," Richardson told CTV's Canada AM. Harper was surrounded by men in barefoot wearing orange robes, along with crowds of Indian camera operators and photographers as he visited the impor…
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Punjab:Deprived of cash flow and faced with a huge subsidy bill, the cash-strapped Punjab government has virtually been selling off over Rs 400 crore of its government securities each month this year, in order to stay afloat. Since January 2009, the Punjab government has raised Rs 3,458 crore by getting its state development loans (SDL) auctioned through the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). This is not all; Punjab plans to raise Rs 5,000 crore through selling its SDL during this financial year. In this fiscal alone (since April 2009) Punjab has auctioned its state development loans worth Rs 1,743 crore. With the state government facing additional liability on account of t…
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<strong>Amritsar, Punjab:</strong> The high court today stayed the proceedings before a trial court in Amritsar against 19 Dal Khalsa activists in a 55-month-old sedition case registered at the city’s Islamabad police station. Justice Arvind Kumar also fixed October 20 for the final arguments in this case. The sessions court had framed charges against the activists, including its president Harcharanjit Singh Dhami for hoisting what they referred to as the ‘sarkar-e-khalsa’ flag on January 26, 2005. Giving details, Kanwarpal Singh of the Dal Khalsa said while the FIR named ten “top leaders” and mentioned another 25 “unidentified” people.
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Chandigarh, Punjab: The Centre should discontinue its practice of naming only retired Army generals or retired police chiefs as Governor of Punjab, says Simranjit Singh Mann, President of the Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar). Since the present incumbent, Gen SF Rodriguez (retd), has completed his conventional five-year term in office, Mann wants that he should be immediately replaced and Punjab should be spared the agony of another Governor from the forces. He was talking to The Tribune here today. He alleged that the Governor hardly visited Punjab. His visits to different parts of the state could be counted on fingertips, Mann said. Besides enjoying Constitutional sancti…
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Vancouver, Canada: Akal Takht has directed members of one group of Sikhs of Canada to explain their “forging unity” after recent parleys in Surrey (Canada) with another group of Sikhs who were ex-communicated from the Sikh Panth for violating its 1997 edict prohibiting partaking of langar by Sikhs on and chairs. Moderate Sikh leaders of Vancouver-based Ross Street gurdwara and hardliners controlling the Surrey’s Dashmesh Darbar gurdwara had met last month and had announced truce by over seven-point programme “in the larger interests of the Sikhs” . Apart from deciding on separate Baisakhi processions on separate weekends in Surrey and Vancouver, the two sides had stipul…
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British Columbia, Canada: Prof Gurbachan Singh Thailand was to do katha for two weeks at a Gurdwara Sahib in BC during last week of Nov. 2009. His style of katha is very dodgy. He starts with Gurmat principles in the beginning of katha, but being a hard core Kala Afghana followers, diverts his katha to attack Gurmat openly. He started attacked Gurmat during very first day of his katha this time. He said there is no benefit of getting baptized with khande bate di pahul. Getting up at Amrit vela and doing Naam Simran was also denounced by him. There is no benefit of such things, said GS Thailand in one of his sermons. On hearing such ugly vichaars, sangat complained to Ma…
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Surrey, Canada: The determined struggle of the youth to restore the tradition of Gurdwara Sahibs to their pristine glory and ensure that Gurdwaras accomplish the purpose for which they are built, in a remarkable show, the Sikh Youth Slate comprising eighteen dedicated, selfless and committed individuals won the Gurdwara elections early today with a decisive margin of 13, 400-7,200. Their mission is clear and focused, “We are a group of progressive-minded Sikhs, consisting of men and women, students, businessmen, entrepreneurs and professionals from fields such as law, finance and software development. We genuinely desire to work towards the betterment of the community, a…
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