NRI News
Canadian province refuses helmet exemption to Sikhs
Friday, 22/08/2014
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2014/20140822/punjab.htm#23
Toronto : Sikhs would not be exempted from wearing helmets while riding motorcycles in Canada's east-central Ontario province, Premier Kathleen Wynne has said citing safety reasons.
Sangrur MP takes up Punjabi students’ cause with UK official
Friday, 22/08/2014
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2014/20140822/punjab.htm#18
Sangrur : British Deputy High Commissioner David Lelliott met Aam Aadmi Party MP from Sangrur Bhagwant Mann today. They held discussion on problems being faced by Punjabi students in England, Punjabis living in England illegally and the drug-menace.
US gurdwaras to launch drive to improve image of Sikhs
Friday, 22/08/2014
http://epaper.dailypostindia.com/Details.aspx?id=113248&boxid=60672&uid=&dat=2014-08-22
Washington: Amidst increasing incidents of hate crimes against Sikhs, Gurdwaras in the US have decided to launch an intensive national campaign running into $5 million to improve the image of the community in America.
No helmet exemption for Canadian Sikhs
Friday, 22/08/2014
http://epaper.dailypostindia.com/Details.aspx?id=113245&boxid=58861&uid=&dat=2014-08-22
Toronto: Sikhs would not be exempted from wearing helmets while riding motorcycles in Canada’s east-central Ontario province, Premier Kathleen Wynne has said citing safety reasons.
Top honour for Indian in South Africa
Thursday, 21/08/2014
http://epaper.dailypostindia.com/Details.aspx?id=113210&boxid=56849&uid=&dat=2014-08-21
Johannesburg : Indian-origin South African academic Leila Patel has been named the African country’s one of the top women researchers in the annual Women in Science Awards hosted by the Ministry of Science and Technology here.
British police find more illegal immigrants
Thursday, 21/08/2014
http://paper.hindustantimes.com/epaper/viewer.aspx
LONDON: Within days of 35 Afghan Sikhs being discovered in a container that arrived in Essex from Belgium, the British police apprehended another lot of foreign nationals in a lorry in south-west England on Tuesday and arrested one German national.
Turban row: US lawmakers appeal to basketball body
Thursday, 21/08/2014
http://paper.hindustantimes.com/epaper/viewer.aspx
WASHINGTON: A bipartisan group of 20 influential American lawmakers has asked the international basketball federation (FIBA) to end its discriminatory policy against Sikh players who wear the turban, an article of faith.
Wife charged with Sikh’s murder in New Zealand
Thursday, 21/08/2014
http://paper.hindustantimes.com/epaper/viewer.aspx
WELLINGTON: The wife of a Sikh man and her workmate have been charged with murdering him in New Zealand. Gurjinder Singh, 25, and Amandeep Kaur, 31, appeared in the Auckland high court on Wednesday to face the murder charge of 35-year-old Davinder Singh, New Zealand Herald reported.
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