NRI News
Sir Kingsley to portray NY Sikh cab driver in forthcoming film
Tuesday, 18/08/2015
http://epaper.dailypostindia.com/Details.aspx?id=137922&boxid=57953&uid=&dat=2015-08-18
New York: Three decades after his Oscar-winning portrayal of Mahatma Gandhi in the eponymous classic, Sir Ben Kingsley will now be seen as a soft-spoken Sikh New York cab driver in a forthcoming film, which touches upon the issue of discrimination the community faced in a post-9/11 America. Kingsley plays Darwan Singh Tur in the movie ‘Learning to Drive’, to be released this week and which also features Academy Award nominee and Emmy Award-winning actress Patricia Clarkson and ‘Mississippi Masala’ actress Sarita Choudhury. The 71-year-old actor plays a soft-spoken and righteous cab driver, proud of his Sikh identity, who settles in New York after getting political asylum in the country.
Death of Punjab man ‘saddest story’ in Oz
Tuesday, 18/08/2015
http://paper.hindustantimes.com/epaper/viewer.aspx
MELBOURNE: The death of a man from Punjab (33)— who worked under appalling conditions in Australia and died of tuberculosis — was “the saddest story” and will be reported to immigration office, a top Australian official said on Monday.
Fasting Sikh activist Khalsa’s son-in-law murdered in US
Tuesday, 18/08/2015
http://paper.hindustantimes.com/epaper/viewer.aspx
LUDHIANA: Fasting Sikh activist Surat Singh Khalsa’s sonin-law Satwinder Singh Bhola was murdered in Chicago, US, on Monday.
Sir Kingsley now portrays Sikh cabbie in post-9/11 US
Monday, 17/08/2015
http://www.indiapress.org/gen/news.php/The_Tribune/
New York : Three decades after his Oscar-winning portrayal of Mahatma Gandhi in the eponymous classic, Sir Ben Kingsley will now be seen as a soft-spoken Sikh New York cab driver in a forthcoming film that touches upon the issue of bias the community faced in post-9/11 America.
Bobby Jindal mocks Hillary Clinton over email saga
Friday, 14/08/2015
http://epaper.dailypostindia.com/Details.aspx?id=137692&boxid=61492&uid=&dat=2015-08-14
Washington: Louisiana’s Indian-American governor Bobby Jindal and other Republican presidential candidates have pounced upon Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton as her email saga took a new turn.
It’s Singh versus Singh in Canada polls this October
Friday, 14/08/2015
http://paper.hindustantimes.com/epaper/viewer.aspx
TORONTO: Canada, which created history by electing the western world’s first turbaned Sikh — Gurbax Singh Malhi — as a Member of Parliamant in 1993, may create another record by electing a first white Sikh MP in October 19 parliamentary elections.
‘Thugs’ disrupt inter-faith wedding at UK gurdwara
Thursday, 13/08/2015
http://paper.hindustantimes.com/epaper/viewer.aspx
LONDON: A group of over 20 men stormed a gurdwara here and stopped an inter-faith wedding between a Sikh bride and nonSikh white groom.
9 Sikh asylum seekers freed from US jail after hunger strike
Thursday, 13/08/2015
http://paper.hindustantimes.com/epaper/viewer.aspx
WASHINGTON: Nine of the 22 Indian Sikh asylum seekers, who were on hunger strike at an immigration jail in Florida demanding that a local court should hear their bond hearing, have been released from the prison.
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