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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.

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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.

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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).

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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.

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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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RANA GURJIT SINGH INAUGURATES MARKFED SALES BOOTH AT LOHIAN

Thursday, 01/08/2019

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Jalandhar : In a major step to boost the rural economy besides providing employment to youth in villages, MARKFED has launched a sale booth in Lohian, which would, provides more than 100 eatable items.

 

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Indian-Americans urge Trump to ‘fully support’ India on Kashmir

Sunday, 04/08/2019

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Washington : The Indian-American community in the US has urged the Trump administration to “fully support” India’s decision to revoke the constitutional provision that accorded special status to Jammu and Kashmir and to continue to exert pressure on Pakistan to end its support to cross-border terrorism.