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I thought it meant people who become Sikhs because they observe other Sikhs and want a piece of the action? We were a much more powerful community when this was written.

I don't blame India for this at all. 'Russia is offering oil at a heavy discount. We will be happy to take that': India looks to bail out Putin as it considers taking up Moscow's offer to buy crude oil at a reduced rate amid Western sanctions India may take Russian offer to buy crude oil, other supplies at discounted price New Delhi exploring logistics but otherwise ready to take up offer, officials said India is latest country to offer a sanction-busting lifeline to Russia, joining China Beijing lifted wheat import restrictions after the invasion of Ukraine in February India may bail out Russia by taking up an offer to buy crude oil and other commodities at a discount despite Western attempts to isolate Moscow through sanctions. India, which imports 80 per cent of its oil needs, usually buys only about 1 per cent from Russia. But with oil prices up 40 per cent so far this year, the government is looking at increasing this if it can help reduce its rising energy bill. 'Russia is offering oil and other commodities at a heavy discount. We will be happy to take that,' an Indian government official said, declining to elaborate on how much oil was on offer and what the discount was. The official added that such trade required preparatory work including transportation, insurance cover and getting the right blend of crude, but once that was done India would take Russia up on its offer. Iraq was the top crude oil supplier to India in 2021, accounting for 25 per cent of the country's total crude imports. Saudi Arabia (16 per cent), the UAE (11 per cent), Nigeria (8 per cent) and the US (7 per cent) were other key suppliers. India is the latest country to offer a sanction-busting lifeline as the Russian-waged war enters its third week after China lifted wheat import restrictions at the end of February. Imports had been restricted amid concerns over Russia's measures to prevent plant diseases, particularly in agricultural crops. Neither Beijing nor New Delhi have condemned the invasion in Ukraine and both abstained from a vote at the United Nations calling out Russian aggression last month. Both governments are walking a diplomatic tightrope in order to preserve their vital trade links with Russia which is now facing serious economic woes after being targeted by sanctions. Meanwhile the UK will send India - a country with its own space programme - £55.3million in aid in 2021/22, up from £41.5million in 2020/21. (Dalsingh's comment - well don't f**king send it then. Like we all don't know it's bribery money anyway.......) US officials have said in recent weeks they would like India to distance itself from Russia as much as possible, while recognising its heavy reliance on Moscow for everything from arms and ammunitions to missiles and fighter jets. One person within India's security apparatus said the West understood India's position, given that it needs to keep its armed forces well supplied amid simmering territorial disputes with China. Reuters has reported that Indian officials are trying to set up a rupee-rouble mechanism with Russia to continue bilateral trade. Russia has urged what it describes as friendly nations to maintain trade and investment ties. Apart from oil, India is also looking for cheaper fertiliser from Russia and its ally Belarus, according to one of the officials. Indian officials said they could not suddenly replace Russia with other suppliers, particularly in the defence sector. India's dependence on Russia for its military hardware still runs as high as 60 per cent, despite a significant reduction over the last decade. US officials have declined to say if India would be sanctioned should Russia send S-400 missile systems as part of a $5.5 billion deal signed in 2018 for five of them. Initial supplies of the system started late last year despite a US law aimed at deterring countries from buying Russian military hardware. Ely Ratner, US Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs, told a US Congress hearing last week that India was diversifying its defence suppliers. 'We recognise that India has a complicated history and relationship with Russia. The majority of the weapons that they buy are from the Russians,' he said. 'The good news is that they are in a multi-year process of diversifying their arms purchases away from Russia - that's going to take some time. 'But they are clearly committed to doing that, including the indigenisation of their own defence industry and that's something we should support.' British Foreign Minister Liz Truss also said last week that London should pursue closer economic and defence ties with India to help it reduce its reliance on Russia. Since 2011, New Delhi has cut its defence imports from Russia by 53 per cent. D. Bala Venkatesh Varma, a former Indian ambassador to Russia, said New Delhi should not be expected to pay a price for a standoff between global powers. 'This is not a fight we have created,' he told an online seminar on Monday. It comes days after Ukrainian President Vlodymyr Zelensky asked US President Joe Biden to cut Russia off from international waters during their Friday phone call. His requests included more sanctions on Kremlin elites and further blocking Russia out of global trade, people familiar with the call told CNN. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10611333/India-looks-bail-Russia-considers-taking-Moscows-offer-buy-crude-oil-discount.html

I'm scared to comment in case I'm wrong. Is that girl raised in Canada, she's got a strong accent?

Are they Canadian raised apnay? Blokes selling themselves to other blokes??? Rent boys??!? I don't think anything is going to change that. From what people have posted from those areas it seems like a deeply embedded culture now. It's sort of strange, but from here it almost seems as if apnay over there have the same sort of image/reputation paks over here have? But then, paks over here don't readily pimp out their own, but it seems like apnay over do/would?

I knew that bibi from when I was young. Trying not to think about it.

Really? So they're hiding that? How deprived are they?

How comes we have so many low IQ types???? That's what we need to answer and resolve maybe? I've said previously when you meet some of these young women they are like infantilised, giggly, dizzy broads? Is it genetic, or is it the result of some closeted upbringing?

I might have asked you before, but what do you think are behind the suicides and (from what you're saying) disproportionate deaths. A brother died here in London a few weeks ago on a building site, apparently something fell on him...... Another bibi died the other day because her car broke down on one of those smart motorways and van smashed into her. Waheguru. From how it seems over here, I always thought you lot had better social facilities and a better integrated community over there?

I don't know what's happened, and it's not like it didn't happen in the past, but it feels like these days more blokes than ever consider an inebriated women, wondering the streets in the middle of the night as fair game? I don't think it's victim blaming to tell women to be careful about this. It's a reality.

Is it any different to this? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7965513/Saudi-teenager-fled-abusive-family-posts-bikini-picture.html I heard also (from a brother in Canada), that loads of Syrian women who fled with their families as refugees and ended up in Toronto, ran away from their husbands to BC?

I think it's a medical thing? I did a 6 month stint on a site near a famous medical university the other side of the water. The students there were very 'friendly' on the station platform (I didn't bite). I think it's because most of the guys they have been around are brainbox nerds (like themselves), so other types of rough round the edges guys 'stimulate' them more.

Don't forget to take it with vit k2 as well folks!

I don't think there is any 'Sikh extremism' problem in the UK. What you are talking about are individual people with personality issues (probably mainly NPD) meeting other confused people and dominating and abusing them. Often the confused person is confused about their sexuality by the sounds of it? Or just someone with low self-esteem (maybe a mixture of such things?). This seems more like social issues than anything too me. You are right that they need to be addressed, but they are more about weak minded, gullible people clumping together (and what subsequently naturally ensues) than any extremism from what I understand. Given that we've had umpteen genuine murderous Islamist extremist attacks here that have killed a fair few people, including school aged girls at an Aria Grande concert, plus thousands of under-aged girls groomed, raped and abused on industrial scales (which certain brothers and sisters have been confronting over decades) I think people like yourself need to be careful of throwing that extremism label around, because it just reinforces a obfuscating narrative pushed by anti-Sikh quarters. Plus, from how it looks here, I think many US Sikhs could do with a bit more anakh themselves seeing as so many seem to have been attacked over there on the regular.

A new hot Sidhu Moosewala record explaining it all to them in rhymes? Maybe some of this in the background for good effect too? Seems to get the average pendu's attention? 'Bruin!!!'

Exactly. How could he be panthic where every second word out of his mouth was some pro-casteist shyte.

Are these all singers? And then people wonder why I sl@g off the bhangra industry......I don't know how some of you listen to that low IQ crap.. 'bruin!'

I think we should be very careful of anyone who is trying to convert to Sikh from here.

lmao

What makes me laugh is that the US is well known for it's neo-nazis and she's calling this place out! I mean, the US's not exactly a place where racial tensions are unknown - and that too for a LONG while. I've met black doctors and professionals from here, who've told me some shocking stuff about they were treated and threatened when they passed through certain areas out there. "What'chu doing here boy!"

I'm just saying that example she used was not exactly a typical case.

If you're talking about who I think you are, that wasn't exactly a common case. The guy had gay abuse accusations against him, and was apparently a known casteist and bully targeting vulnerable people.

I don't get it. Looks like no desire to develop the economy out there?

The only (semi) positive I can think of is that making Jaggi's case prominent like active people have, has decreased the chance of the brother ending up like so many did in the recent past with the infamous Panjab police tactics. Thank Waheguru the brother is still alive at least. The inaction or inability of both Scottish and english politicians to have any sway on the matter is telling.

So are things going to start improving in Panjab now?

What's happening in Delhi?