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Do you support the strikes @dallysingh101?

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https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/punjab/second-leopard-shot-within-week-in-ropar-forests-466814

Kaur at 3) and Singh at 4) https://forebears.io/england/west-midlands/surnames 1 Smith 34,153 1:83 5.40% 1 2 Jones 28,884 1:98 7.59% 2 3 Kaur 24,685 1:115 41.99% 93 4 Singh 23,216 1:122 27.36% 54 5 Williams 17,778 1:159 6.55% 5 6 Begum 16,610 1:170 21.05% 60 7 Taylor 15,637 1:181 5.33% 3 8 Hussain 13,547 1:209 17.48% 63 9 Evans 13,048 1:217 8.44% 13 10 Khan 12,307 1:230 11.96% 40 https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/west-midlands-most-common-surnames-25804221 West Midlands' most common surnames - and the fascinating meanings behind them These are the 10 most popular surnames in our region - is yours on the list? 05:30, 1 JAN 2023 NEWS By Nathan ClarkeCommunity Reporter

How is it going , have you given up meat @redoptics2013? Further to this, I have heard second hand from a relative who told us ( I don’t know the Katha source) that apparently Halaal was meant as a way to discourage Muslims from eating meat because of how cruel the method is , but this got lost somewhere. Makes sense if one is killing animals individually themselves

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@dallysingh101 Bump @BhForce, what do you say? it makes more sense to me that Simran would be first as it’s ‘simpler’ but reciting Gurbani first can also put one in the right mindset to do Simran properly

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@BhForce A broad question We all know that Reincarnation and Karma are complex and the results of current and past lives. It is said in Gurbani (I think) that those who think of their partners/women at death are born again as prostitutes; those who think of their house then become ghosts; those who think of money/greed become pigs. Can anyone give some other examples ? I remember there are some of men from Gurus' times who became an animal and later Sants have come into the world and taken those souls out of that Jooni Are there other clear examples of how a specific action will lead to specific consequences? Are those born deaf or blind so, because they caused others to be that way in previous lives ?

Casteism cannot be the only reason for the Christian success since many converts are from jatt backgrounds also. Why are many of the Gurdware Granthis who are from ‘lower ‘ backgrounds not doing more to get their fellow ‘caste’ kin into Sikhi? What would be the alternative to SGPC?

Do you have more info on the Movie , Ji? Any official paperwork you can share ? Thanks

A broad question We all know that Reincarnation and Karma are complex and the results of current and past lives. It is said in Gurbani (I think) that those who think of their partners/women at death are born again as prostitutes; those who think of their house then become ghosts; those who think of money/greed become pigs. Can anyone give some other examples ? I remember there are some of men from Gurus' times who became an animal and later Sants have come into the world and taken those souls out of that Jooni Are there other clear examples of how a specific action will lead to specific consequences? Are those born deaf or blind so, because they caused others to be that way in previous lives ? Those who are more learned than me, e.g. @Ranjeet01 @BhForce

I'm sure there was another Bhai Amritpal Singh thread in 'What's Happening' but cannot find it now

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/sex-offender-zombie-drug-groping-b2241532.html

https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/local-news/man-caught-young-girl-hotel-7960049 Man caught with young girl in hotel room after picking her up at train station A member of the public called the police after seeing two men talking to her near a train station NEWS By Paul WhitelamSenior reporter 15:14, 22 DEC 2022 Enter your postcode for local news and info Tahmid Majid (Image: Lincolnshire Police) A sex offender discovered by police with a young girl in a hotel room after a tip-off from a member of the public has been jailed for nine years. Tahmid Majid, 24, was caught after he and another man were seen talking to the girl in a passageway near Grantham train station on June 26, 2022 and were trying to persuade her to go with them on a train to Manchester. A conversation about how the girl could earn large sums of money and would be given a house to live in was overheard and the witness called Lincolnshire Police. Officers attended the area and established the girl had left in a taxi with the two men. Shortly afterwards, they tracked her and Majid to a hotel room and he was arrested. Enquiries revealed he had been travelling from London to engage in sexual activity with the young girl for more than two years. Majid, of Whitehorse Road, Croydon, had denied two offences of sexual activity with a child between February 2020 and June 2022.

https://www.easterneye.biz/ex-met-officer-who-paid-woman-for-sex-during-covid-lockdown-barred-from-future-policing-roles/ Ex-Met officer who paid woman for sex during Covid lockdown barred from future policing roles Hassan Mahmood pleaded guilty to breach of rules and was fined £660. By: Chandrashekar Bhat A former Met Police officer, found guilty of misconduct during pandemic restrictions, has been barred from returning to any policing role. Hassan Mahmood visited a woman in her house in Mitcham in south London in January 2021 and paid her for sex. He was fined £660 at the City of London Magistrates’ Court earlier after admitting to having participated in a gathering of two or more people in violation of Covid regulations. The breach took place when the UK was passing through the second wave of the pandemic, exerting pressure on the health system. He resigned from the force in November last year and Scotland Yard said he would now be added to the “Barred List held by the College of Policing.” Anyone appearing on the list cannot be employed by police, local policing bodies, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services or the Independent Office for Police Conduct.

https://euobserver.com/migration/155357 Kiwis are my slavery — the hellish life of a Sikh labourer in Italy The Pontine Plains in central Italy (Photo: Silvia Marchetti) By SILVIA MARCHETTI LATINA, ITALY, 28. JUN, 06:56 The Pontine Plains are a fertile, sunny patch of land south of Rome where exploited Indian migrant labourers pick premium kiwis that are exported across Europe. Italy is the world's second top producer of kiwis and this area is also home to one of Europe's largest Sikh communities. With their traditional red turbans and long beards, the men tend to the fields year-round. Deep Singh, a 40-year old fruit picker from the Punjab region in India, thought his worst nightmares were over when he succeeded in leaving his country and landing in Italy. But he was wrong. Since the past 13 years he has been living a hellish life under the authority of several landlords. He works 12 hours per day, every day, without a single day off, for just €3 per hour, but at the end of the month he gets paid for only 12 days' work. That's barely €400 a month. "A Russian human trafficker brought me to Italy after a horrible, long trip inside a truck with other refugees. Our only food and water were the plants we tore from outside the window and the ice formed on the glass," Singh told EUobserver. "I endured all that because I was coming to Italy, where I thought I could work peacefully", he said. But soon he realised he had become a modern slave, and that picking kiwis was a torture. "For hours, I work with my arms raised high up above my head, it hurts, but I must remain silent, I can't complain because those who do are kicked out and have no means to survive. It's hell," Singh said. This type of labour exploitation is systematic in Italy, spread from north to south. According to recent data there are over 400,000 exploited migrant fruit and vegetables pickers in Italy who work without a job contract and get usually paid just €2 per hour. They're at the mercy of so-called 'caporali', middle-men who hire day workers for landlords — a system dubbed an "agro-mafia". The Piedmont region in the north of Italy, where kiwis are also grown, heavily relies on labor exploitation — in Saluzzo's fields there are over 12,000 foreign pickers — as does Sicily, Calabria and Puglia, mainly for tomatoes and oranges. Authorities are cracking down on rural exploiters but often clash with "omertà" — or fear-induced silence in migrants who are worried of getting fired by their masters if they denounce their inhumane conditions. Political parties in parliament have been pushing for more regulation to protect rural workers, which prompted the government to earmark €89m in 2020-2022 to tackle labor exploitation. According to police data each year roughly 300 landlords in Italy face trials while 100 are arrested for exploiting at least 1,500 irregular seasonal fruit pickers, but investigations take a long time and it's hard tracking down the perpetrators. Susanna Cenni, deputy president of Italy's lower house agriculture commission, however, says a lot has already been done to curb the phenomenon. "The government's strategic 3-year roadmap has boosted controls and transparency in hiring labourers, parliament has carried out many investigations while the new post-Covid recovery plan earmarks extra resources to hire more inspectors and provide rural workers with decent homes", she said. Meanwhile, Deep has kiwi nightmares and has come to hate those bright green berries on which his life depends. He says he almost broke his back loading truckloads of kiwi boxes to be shipped to Germany, England and Holland.