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The Navy Seals use a combination of many styles of martial arts as part of their training. Although the techniques come from a variety of different art forms, they all produce devastating results and have quick movements. Combat jujitsu, Krav Maga and Muay Thai present the majority of the training disciplines to the Navy Seals. SIGNIFICANCE One of the most integral parts of Navy Seal training is the training of martial arts. Aside from possessing excellent physical fitness and stamina, Navy Seals are known for being proficient in a variety of types of combat training. Seals are adapt in explosives and firearms for long-distance combat. For combat situations where hand-t…
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When journalists had exhausted their questions, one of them repeated the query as to how he would deal with Musharraf. "I have already replied this question…I know you don't have more questions… let me end (press conference) with a joke." "Someone asked a Sardar what was his age. He replied, 30. After 10 years he was asked again, 'Sardarji, what's your age?' He said, 30. After another 10 years the same person once again asked his age and again he replied 30. "'Isn't it strange that 30 years back you were 30 and still you are 30,' the man asked and Sardar replied, 'I don't know but once I've said, I've said it… Whatever it is.' "So I've said what I have to…
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Ferozepur, Punjab: Posters motivating people to join the Naxalite movement have appeared in and around Zira town. Businessmen of the area have also reportedly received anonymous letters, urging them to fund the movement. At the bottom of the letter is written “Lal Salam” One person has been rounded up in this connection and a case under Sections 121-A and 153-A of the IPC had been registered at the Zira police station. Posters carried the names of organisations, including the Nepali Ekjut Communist Party, Purva Bangladesh Sarvhara Kendri Committee, Purvi Bengal Di Communist party (MLM Lal Jhanda), Communist Party, Bhutan, CPI (MLM), CPI (ML) Naxalwari and CPI (Maowadi).…
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Dont know too much bout these guys other than that really really hate the indian governemnt. Are they Hindu ? Secondlay was links ever forged with Khalistan movements ?
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NBC Portrays Sikhs in Negative Light: A Protest from the Sikh Nation NBC Press Advisories: We are writing this letter on behalf of the the Sikh Community in USA regarding the documentary Forbidden Love , due to be telecast on Jan 17, 2008. On Tuesday Jan 15, 2008 while watching the election coverage for the Michigan Primaries many Sikhs watched the advertisement for your report " Forbidden Love" which was flashed repeatedly. In this AD you show a picture of Jassi and Mithu, a sword and then the picture of a Sikh gentleman with flowing beard. This is a very provocative AD and portrays the Sikh community in a negative light. I, as community leader and activist request…
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NCM Protests State Dept Film Showing Sikhs As Terrorists :D New Delhi, July 5 (UNI) The National Commission for Minorities (NCM) has objected to a US State Department video showing gun-weilding Sikhs in the Golden Temple as terrorists, saying the film may in fact compound trouble for American Sikhs, some of whom have even been attacked after 9/11 because of their distinct identity. ''A War Without Borders', recently brought out by the US State Department's Bureau of Public Affairs to educate students about terrorism, shows armed Sikhs fighting the Army at the Golden Temple at a time when the community is struggling to portray its culture and traditions in real ways, f…
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http://sikhactivist.net/?p=411 The NDP completely boycotted and issued statements against Kamal Nath during his trip to Canada, as well. We're starting to see some great stuff from them. We definitely need more of this kind of work by Sikh groups and other like-minded organizations.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12071424 By Pallab Ghosh Science correspondent, BBC News NEANDERTHAL Hunter, gatherer, vegetarian masterchef? Neanderthals cooked and ate plants and vegetables, a new study of Neanderthal remains reveals. Researchers in the US have found grains of cooked plant material in their teeth. The study is the first to confirm that the Neanderthal diet was not confined to meat and was more sophisticated than previously thought. The research has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The popular image of Neanderthals as great meat eaters is one that has up until now been backed by some circumstanti…
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Punjab was in the grip of a saffron wave in support of former Chief Minister Beant Singh’s assassin Balwant Singh Rajoana with a near-complete bandh having been organised to demand clemency for Rajoana on a call given by the Akal Takht and various panthic organisations. Patiala witnessed tension and even violence after the district police failed to prevent youth, raising pro-Khalistan slogans, from moving into the Hindu-dominated inner city around the Arya Samaj chowk. This resulted in injuries to four persons besides a police commando. In Jalandhar, members of a radical outfit assaulted a head constable with a sword. They also tried to damage a statue of Beant Singh at…
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Near-stampede at Jor Mela Gurdeep Singh Mann Tribune News Service Fatehgarh Sahib, December 26 The concluding day of Shaheedi Jor Mela witnessed a near stampede here today. The number of devotees coming to pay obeisance to Baba Zorawar Singh and Baba Fateh Singh, the younger Sahibzadas of Guru Gobind Singh, had swelled up today as it was the last day of the mela. Three persons, including a woman devotee, fell unconscious in the milieu, while a mounted policeman and his horse too lost balance and fell down. The incident happened when a nagar kirtan was being taken out from Gurdwara Fatehgarh Sahib to Gurdwara Jyoti Swarup. Baton-wielding horse mounted police, escort…
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Nearly 3,00 Sikhs were killed 24 years ago, but no justice yet Sunday, 2nd November 2008. 7:55am By: Vishal Arora New Delhi: October 31 this year marked the 24th anniversary of the assassination of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by two of her Sikh bodyguards. The killing triggered unprecedented anti-Sikh violence that resulted in the death of nearly 3,000 Sikhs. A private news agency has highlighted the fact that more than two decades later, those held responsible for instigating the bloodbath remain unpunished. “Despite two commissions and eight committees set up to identify those responsible for the riots, not one politician or senior police official has been p…
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Nearly 70% of youth in Punjab are in the grip of drug News Source: www.punjabnewsline.com NAWANSHAHR- Thursday, 25 December 2008: Even as nearly 70 per cent of youth in Punjab is reported to be in the grip of drugs, being smuggled, as per a secret report of state police, by well-established and well-connected people in the state, very few among the DCs, SSPs, civil surgeons and the director, social security and welfare, Punjab seem to be interested in controlling the drug menace. As per a copy of the letter procured under RTI Act by general secretary of a local NGO, Human Empowerment League of Punjab (HELP), Parvinder Singh Kittna, after ten months of an orde…
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Nearly 700 Christians fearing attacks by Hindus took shelter in government-run relief camps Saturday after sectarian violence in eastern India left at least four people dead last week. Authorities were providing food, medicine and security to Christians who moved into the four relief camps on Friday in the rural district of Kandhamal in eastern Orissa state, said Pradeep Kapoor, the inspector-general of police. Meanwhile, two police officers were suspended for failing to prevent violence on Christmas Eve, when long-standing tensions between the Hindu majority and the small Christian community erupted over conversions to Christianity, Kapoor told The Associated Press. N…
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guru piyare khalsa jio.......WAHEGURU JI KA KHALSA WAHEGURU JI KI FATEH!! i am looking for an audio copy of the dasam granth please can sum one tell me where i can get a copy from or if i can download all the banis to listen too gur fateh jee
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