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Group of Indian origin people to raise funds for poor

Saturday, 24/10/2015

http://epaper.dailypostindia.com/Details.aspx?id=142941&boxid=58270&uid=&dat=2015-10-24

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.

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20 agitating Sikhs held as protest turns violent in UK

Saturday, 24/10/2015

http://www.indiapress.org/gen/news.php/The_Tribune/

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.

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Sikh protest stalls Central London

Saturday, 24/10/2015

http://paper.hindustantimes.com/epaper/viewer.aspx

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.

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Tributes paid to Sikh ex-Mayor in Britain

Friday, 23/10/2015

http://www.indiapress.org/gen/news.php/The_Tribune/

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.

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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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RANA GURJIT SINGH INAUGURATES MARKFED SALES BOOTH AT LOHIAN

Thursday, 01/08/2019

https://www.brightpunjabexpress.com/index.php/2019/07/31/rana-gurjit-singh-inaugurates-markfed-sales-booth-at-lohian/

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

https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/diaspora/indian-americans-urge-trump-to-fully-support-india-on-kashmir/813832.html

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.