By Zile Singh Since 1963, the United Nations has enacted 19 international legal instruments to prevent terrorist acts. On December 6, 2018, speaking at the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Coordination Meeting the UN Secretary-General said, “Policies that limit human rights only end up alienating the very communities they aim to protect and which normally have […]
LUDHIANA – Youth Akali Dal leaders Gurdeep Singh Gosha and Meetpal Dugri today blackened the statue of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi at Salem Tabri. The duo shot the video of their act and spread it on social media. They sprayed black colour on the face of the statue and red on the hands. Senior […]
HOUSTON – An 8-year-old boy from Guatemala died in US government custody in New Mexico early Tuesday, US immigration authorities said, marking the second death of an immigrant child in detention this month. The death came during an ongoing dispute over border security and with a partial government shutdown underway over President Donald Trump’s […]
A woman Kari Coudriet of Collierville, and Sharron, 17, Joy, 15, and Aaron, 14 — teen siblings of the Naik family from India — all died in the fire, said a statement released by the Coudriet’s Collierville Bible Church. NEW YORK – Three Indian teenaged siblings were among four killed in a fire at […]
Jagdev Singh Virdee, a senior statistician and fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, has been honoured for ‘services to statistics and to the Sikh community’. He has edited the BSR since 2015, providing key figures and insights into various aspects of the community. LONDON – Jagdev Singh Virdee, editor of the British Sikh Report (BSR) […]
SURREY – Surrey RCMP is requesting the public’s assistance in locating a missing elderly Indo-Canadian man from Surrey. Mohan Sahota was last seen at approximately 1:00 pm on December 23rd, 2018 in the area of 152nd St., and 80th Ave. in Surrey. He has not been seen or heard from since. Sahota […]
Prime Minister Khan in November laid the foundation stone for the corridor linking Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Pakistan’s Kartarpur to Dera Baba Nanak shrine in India’s Gurdaspur district to facilitate visa-free movement of Indian Sikh pilgrims. ISLAMABAD – Pakistan on Thursday described the Kartarpur corridor as the “high point of diplomacy” for the Imran […]
The man, who can only be identified as RSD for legal reasons, came to the UK from India in 1997 and was granted British citizenship in 2004. In 2011, he was found guilty of grooming and raping a 7-year-old child. LONDON – An Indo-British who was convicted of 23 counts of sexual abuse of […]
Corporal Ronil Singh of the Newman Police Department was shot and killed during a traffic stop when he was “working overtime on Christmas night to provide the best for his family.” In honour of Corporal Ronil Singh of the Newman Police Department, Capitol flags in California will be flown at half-staff, the Governor’s office […]
SANGRUR – An Australian woman and her brother have been booked for allegedly duping a Dhuri man of Rs 10 lakh. Complainant Sunil Kumar, who runs a shop in Dhuri city, has alleged that before his marriage to Australian woman Shally, it was decided that he would pay Rs 20 lakh to her […]
