Washington: The police officer who risked his life to save victims of the Wisconsin Gurdwara shootout in 2012 was honoured by US President Barack Obama at a White House award ceremony.
Six people were shot dead while three others injured when gunman Wade Michael Page went on a shooting rampage in August, 2012. The toll could have been much higher if not for Lieutenant Brian Murphy of the Oak Creek Police Department who saved several lives after being shot 12 times from a close range.
"When a gunman opened fire on a temple in Wisconsin and Brian was the first to arrive, he did not consider his own safety," Obama said during the ceremony yesterday....
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11:16 AM, May 12, 2013
Washington: Members of the Sikh community joined other religious leaders in urging the US Congress to pass strict gun control laws to prevent the recent surge in gun violence in the country, including the one at a Wisconsin Gurdwara in 2012. The religious leaders gathered on the National Mall in Washington on Friday amidst a makeshift graveyard -- 3,300 grave markers in all representing the number of people who have...
01:59 AM, Apr 13, 2013
India's corruption woes, the Wisconsin gurudwara shooting and cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar's 100 centuries are among the top stories of 2012, according to a list compiled by Time magazine which chronicles the "highs and lows, the good and the bad" of the past year. ...
09:34 PM, Dec 04, 2012
New York: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has said it has concluded its probe into the August shooting incident at a gurdwara in Wisconsin, and found there is no evidence that the attack was part of any ongoing threat to the Sikh community. "There is no evidence to suggest the attack was part of any ongoing threat to the Sikh community," Special Agent in Charge of FBI's Milwaukee Division...
07:41 AM, Nov 21, 2012
Washington: US President Barack Obama on Tuesday wished people "happy Diwali" and "saal mubarak", as he praised the resilience of Sikhs in the aftermath of the tragedy at a Wisconsin Gurudwara this year in which six members of the community were gunned down. "To those celebrating Diwali, I wish you, your families and loved ones Happy Diwali and Saal Mubarak," Obama said, wishing everybody on the occasion of the festival...
11:56 PM, Nov 13, 2012
Madison: President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney storm into the final day of their long presidential contest, mounting one last effort to protect their flanks while engaging in the toughest battleground of all - Ohio. The two campaigns were ready to leave matters in the hands of voters and their schedules left little doubt where the election would be won or lost. Obama was holding rallies in Wisconsin and Iowa...
05:01 PM, Nov 05, 2012
With just two days to the US Presidential elections, President Barack Obama and his Republican opponent Mitt Romney have upped the ante on why they should be voted to power in some of the swing states like Wisconsin and Iowa. Obama, who is fighting for a second term, told voters in Wisconsin why they should re-elect him even as Romney reminded supporters in Iowa of Obama's "broken promises". ...
10:48 AM, Nov 04, 2012
Washington: A suspicious man carrying ammunition and "strange writings" was briefly detained outside an Oak Creek gurudwara in the US state of Wisconsin, where a white supremacist had gunned down six Sikhs in August. "This happened last Sunday. The man was detained due to his suspicious activity outside the gurudwara. The police questioned him. Later it was determined that he was not a threat (to gurudwara). So he was released,"...
11:37 AM, Nov 02, 2012
New Delhi: Three people were killed and four injured inside a spa on Sunday in a Milwaukee suburb shopping centre in the US state of Wisconsin, when a gunman went on a shooting spree. The suspected attacker, 45-year-old Radcliffe Haughton, was also found dead at the spa. Police say he died due to a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Police are investigating the case as a domestic-related incident. The shooting comes just...
06:19 AM, Oct 22, 2012
New York: External Affairs Minister SM Krishna met family members of victims of Oak Creek Gurudwara shooting and said India and the US stand united against those who perpetrate a culture of violence and hatred. Krishna paid a visit to the Froedtert Hospital in Milwaukee on Thursday and met the family of priest Punjab Singh, who is still in coma after being critically injured in the August shooting. He later...
08:46 AM, Oct 05, 2012
London: A 46-year-man in the US state of Wisconsin has been arrested for having sex in a street with a sofa, a media report said. Gerard Streator was spotted bending over an abandoned yellow settee with his trousers round his ankles in Waukesha city, The Sun reported on Thursday. The hotel worker was seen by an off-duty police officer at 11 pm "thrusting his hips" against the sofa, which was...
05:36 PM, Sep 27, 2012
Washington: The Wisconsin Gurdwara shooting incident, which left six Sikh worshipers dead, was an act of "senseless killing," US President Barack Obama has said, as he assured full support to the Sikh community in the country. "It was a senseless killing and it should not have happened," Obama told the Washington-based Sikh community leaders Dr Rajwant Singh and his wife Dr Balvinder Singh at a reception hosted by the US...
11:29 AM, Sep 26, 2012
Colourful turbans crowded around California Governor Jerry Brown as he signed two historic bills designed to battle workplace discrimination against Sikhs and Muslims in the state. Brown signed the Workplace Religious Freedom Act, Assembly Bill 1964 which ensures that employees receive equal protection under law, protecting workers who wear turbans, hijabs and yarmulkes, the Sacramento Bee newspaper reported. In California, employers faced over 500 cases of religious discrimination in 2011,...
01:58 PM, Sep 10, 2012
The decision comes in the wake of the firing at a Wisconsin gurudwara (Sikh temple of worship) that left seven Sikhs dead. ...
08:19 AM, Sep 10, 2012
Oak Creek: Sikh priest Punjab Singh has remained in a coma ever since the shooting rampage at a Wisconsin temple earlier this month that left six victims dead and three other people wounded, his family said. In their first public comments since the August 5 attack, Singh's sons described how they rushed from India to be with their father after the shooting, and how they now spend most of their...
01:19 AM, Aug 31, 2012
Washington: The death of a white supremacist who killed six Sikh worshippers during a shooting rampage at a US gurudwara has been declared a suicide. However, the police investigators are yet to determine the reason for the crime, which shocked the entire Sikh community not only in the US and India, but also globally. Michael Wade Page, 40, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head after he killed...
10:09 AM, Aug 29, 2012
Washington: An elderly Sikh man, in his early 70s, was allegedly beaten up by his neighbour in New Jersey following an altercation and was later arrested by the police because of keeping 'Kirpan', a Sikh article of faith. The incident happened on July 26, nearly 10 days before the shooting at Oak Creek Gurdwara in Wisconsin, United Sikhs, a Sikh advocacy group said on Thursday. Giving details of the incident,...
10:12 AM, Aug 24, 2012
Oak Creek: Mandeep Singh Khattra and his family received Michelle Obama with an embrace on Thursday as the first lady consoled relatives of worshippers gunned down earlier this month at a Sikh temple in suburban Milwaukee. "She gave us a hug and said, 'I'm sorry for what happened,'" said Khattra, 26, whose grandfather, Suveg Singh Khattra, was one of six people killed on August 5. "She asked what kind of...
08:06 AM, Aug 24, 2012
Washington: The police officer who was injured during the Gurdwara shootout early this month has been discharged from the hospital, while one Sikh worshipper remains critically ill even three weeks after the attack. Lt Brian Murphy was released from the hospital on Wednesday on the eve of the Oak Creek visit of US First Lady Michelle Obama. "Lt Brian Murphy has been released from the hospital. He asks that members...
10:14 AM, Aug 23, 2012
US First Lady Michelle Obama will be reaching out to Sikhs in Wisconsin on Thursday. ...
08:10 AM, Aug 23, 2012
