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PUNJAB-ORIGIN MAN HELD FOR ASSAULTING AIR CANADA STAFFER, FLIGHT RETURNS TO TORONTO
Thursday, 31/12/2015
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TORONTO: A Punjab-origin Canadian man was arrested for assaulting an Air Canada flight attendant on the Delhibound flight from Toronto on Wednesday, police said.
US Sikhs feel they are victims of mistaken identity
Wednesday, 30/12/2015
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WASHINGTON: Sikhs have been mistaken for terrorists and radicals and continue to suffer after the 9/11 terror attacks in the US, community members feel following the latest attack on an elderly Sikh man in California which is being probed by police as a hate crime.
Two Punjab-origin Britons to go on charity drive to Amritsar
Wednesday, 23/12/2015
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LONDON: Two Punjab-origin British friends are set to drive from a town in south-east England to the Golden Temple in Amritsar, travelling through 17 countries in 14 days, to raise 25,000 pounds (around Rs 25 lakh) for the British Heart Foundation (BHF).
Indian-American surgeon aims to save on Indian road victims
Monday, 21/12/2015
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Washington: An Indian-American surgeon is hoping to raise $25 million to train 1.5 million first responders - the first rescuers to arrive at an accident scene - in five years to prevent over 1,000 deaths on Indian roads every day that cost the nation $50 billion annually.
Sikh Americans lead efforts to counter attacks
Sunday, 20/12/2015
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Washington: With hate crimes against Muslims and Sikhs rising in the wake of the terrorist attacks in Paris and California, 15 diverse civil rights and faith-based organisations, led by the National Sikh Campaign (NSC), have joined up to address hateful rhetoric against religious minorities.
Indo-Canadian community’s addiction problem - mirrors Punjab drug abuse
Sunday, 20/12/2015
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TORONTO: It is the most rustic of drugs. Made from crushing dried poppy pods, the powder is then dissolved in water or steeped in tea for a quick high. Called doda, its Punjabi name, it has proved to be the gateway drug to harder narcotics like heroin and cocaine, the use of which is now rife in the Indo-Canadian community in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA).
12-year-old Texas Sikh accused of issuing bomb threat; mother protests
Sunday, 20/12/2015
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ARLINGTON (TEXAS): The mother of a Sikh middle-class student accused of threatening to detonate a bomb at his Texas school is asking police to drop charges, saying that her son never made such a threat.
Sikh boy sent to juvenile detention centre for joking about bomb
Saturday, 19/12/2015
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Houston: A 12-year-old Sikh boy in the US had to spend three days in a juvenile detention centre after he jokingly told a classmate that he had a bomb in his school bag, police has said. Armaan Singh Sarai of Arlington, Texas, was locked up on December 11.
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