NRI News
Indian-origin cousins sentenced in US for murder conspiracy
Tuesday, 27/10/2015
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Washington: Two Indian-origin cousins,convicted for conspiring to commit murder of the wife of one of them in 2013, have been sentenced to 15 years each in prison by a US court, media reports said. Pratikkumar Patel and his cousin Kalpesh Patel of Gallatin city in Tennessee, received the sentence of 15 years each from Circuit Court Judge for trying to arrange the murder of Krupaben Patel, the wife of Prattikumar Patel, wgnsradio.com reported. They were arrested in September 2013.
Confer Bharat Ratna on Master Tara Singh: Tarlochan Singh
Monday, 26/10/2015
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London: The government should confer ‘Bharat Ratna’, the country’s highest civilian honour, on Master Tara Singh for his contributions in the unification of India and the Sikh community, former lawmaker and Chairman of National Minorities Commission Sardar Tarlochan Singh has demanded.
New Canadian PM grooves to bhangra beats
Saturday, 24/10/2015
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Ottawa: Justin Trudeau, the newly elected Canadian prime minister, is seen dancing ‘bhangra’ to the beats of a Bollywood song in a recently uploaded video on YouTube.
Group of Indian origin people to raise funds for poor
Saturday, 24/10/2015
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New York: A Chicago-based group, which works to promote the interests of the Indian community, will organise a dinner to raise funds for the poor in Lombard, a village in Illinois, on November 13. The Global Organisation of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO) in Chicago will host a dinner at Viceroy of India Banquet Hall in Lombard to raise funds for group’s 2016 charitable outreach programmes, the Chicago Tribune reported on Wednesday.
20 agitating Sikhs held as protest turns violent in UK
Saturday, 24/10/2015
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London : Twenty protesters have been arrested by the British police after a Sikh demonstration outside the Indian High Commission here against alleged police brutality in Punjab turned violent, leaving one policeman injured.
Sikh protest stalls Central London
Saturday, 24/10/2015
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LONDON: Arterial roads and key areas of central London were gridlocked on Thursday as hundreds of Sikhs held a protest demonstration outside the Indian high commission against the recent deaths in Punjab and related incidents.
Tributes paid to Sikh ex-Mayor in Britain
Friday, 23/10/2015
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London : The authorities of Hounslow town in England paid tributes to former Mayor Sardar Sham Singh Jassar, who worked as a civil servant for more than 30 years.
US Sikhs condemn desecration of ‘bir’
Friday, 23/10/2015
http://www.indiapress.org/gen/news.php/The_Tribune/
Washington : Several Sikh-American groups have condemned the desecration of the Guru Granth Sahib, the holy book of the Sikhs, in Punjab and alleged that it was a “planned strategy” to destabilise and create “enough” fissures in the social fabric of the state.
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