Melbourne: Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Thursday promised to look into allowing Sikhs to wear turbans at work places and also while riding a motorcycle.
"We will work with your community to help make the necessary changes requested on cultural and religious grounds," Gillard assured Australian Sikh Association members in a closed door meeting at a Gurdwara in Glenwood, a suburb of Sydney.
The Association members also asked her to look into allowing Sikhs to wear their six-inch sword into government departments on official functions and to introduce a school policy differentiating Sikh children from other religion.
Gurdwara Trustee spokesman Balvinder Singh Chahal said countries like Britain and Canada had already allowed Sikh civil engineers and workers to wear their turbans instead of hard hats at work sites and while riding motor cycles....
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03:06 AM, May 24, 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
Amritsar: Reacting sharply to the Supreme Court's verdict on Khalistani terrorist Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar, Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) on Friday said the judgement was "the death of democracy". "There are two kinds of laws in India. One kind of law is for the Sikh minorities and the other is for the rest of the country," SGPC president Avtar Singh Makkar said. He added the bureaucratic setup of the...
05:00 PM, Apr 12, 2013
Pakistan's Supreme Court on Wednesday imposed a complete ban on the transfer and development of land around shrines of minority communities in the wake of allegations about the illegal sale of a gurdwara's property by a state-run body. ...
05:06 AM, Feb 07, 2013
Washington: Two men have been stabbed outside a Gurdwara in California and more than a dozen people pepper-sprayed in violent clashes that broke out between two groups over a power struggle to control the shrine. According to an eyewitness, violence erupted outside the Tierra Buena Gurdwara in Yuba City of California at about 6:45 pm (local time) on Sunday when the meeting of its board of directors ended and some...
07:27 AM, Nov 12, 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
The Oak Creek Police are yet to determine the motive of Wade Michael Page for the shooting, which killed six Sikh worshippers. ...
10:49 AM, Sep 11, 2012
Washington: A dramatic video of the tragic Gurdwara shooting incident in Wisconsin was released on Tuesday in which Wade Michael Page, the white supremacist who gunned down six Sikh worshippers, is shown on the rampage. "He (Page) was on a mission and he had to be stopped," Oak Creek police officer, Sam Lenda, who shot at Page told reporters at a news conference in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, after the police...
10:29 AM, Sep 11, 2012
Amritsar: After several allegations that his upcoming film 'Son of Sardaar' hurts religious sentiments, actor-producer Ajay Devgn reached Amritsar on Monday to meet members of the Sikh community. A five-member committee of the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabhandak Commitee will discuss the film with Devgn. It was alleged that the official trailer, released on YouTube, shows Sikhs in a bad light and contains demeaning dialogues. Chandigarh based advocate Navkiran Singh had issued...
03:42 PM, Sep 03, 2012
Washington: US police are looking into the possibility of a link between the Wisconsin Gurdwara killings with the slaying of two elderly Sikhs in California in 2011. A white supremacist, Wade Michael Page, went on a shooting rampage inside a Gurdwara in Oak Creek city of Wisconsin killing six people on August 5. Detective Kevin Papineau of Elk Grove Police Department in California says that he is working with the...
12:36 PM, Aug 18, 2012
Jalandhar: Bibi Jagir Kaur, a prominent Akali leader and a minister in the Punjab government, will now spend five years in jail. The former chief of the Shiromani Gurudwara Prabhandhak Committee has been sentenced for the forced abortion of her daughter Harpreet. But it could have been worse. Kaur was accused of murdering her daughter over her marriage with a person from a lower caste. The Patiala CBI court has...
11:46 PM, Mar 30, 2012
Chandigarh: The special CBI court in Patiala acquitted Punjab cabinet minister and former Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC) president Bibi Jagir Kaur in her daughter Harpreet Kaur's murder case on Friday but found her guilty of forcing her daughter to undergo abortion. The court sentenced Kaur to five years rigorous imprisonment and also fined Rs 5,000. She has also been found guilty of abducting her daughter Harpreet, who had died...
04:06 PM, Mar 30, 2012
Chicago: A gurdwara here has been locked down by police authorities after it was allegedly found violating several rules related to safety standards. Gurjot Parkash Sahib gurdwara, located in the suburb of Island Lake, was locked down by police on December 8 because of certain safety violations that had put public safety in jeopardy. The authorities found that fire exit doors of gurdwara were locked from inside with deadbolt and...
08:47 AM, Dec 12, 2011
London: Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday lauded the efforts of the hundreds of Sikhs and other people of Indian origin who gathered outside the Guru Singh Sabha gurdwara over the last 48 hours to protect it from rioting mobs on the streets of London. Cameron made a special mention of the efforts in his statement during the special session of the House of Commons, as he highlighted how Britons...
06:19 PM, Aug 11, 2011
London: Cries of 'Jo bole so nihal, sat sri akal' rent the air as over 700 Sikhs and other Britons of Indian origin gathered around the Guru Singh Sabha gurdwara in Southall to protect the place of worship against rioting mobs on the streets of London. The gurdwara, the largest in London, brought together the Asian community in Southall with people holding swords, 'kirpans' and hockey sticks. There were reports...
07:23 PM, Aug 10, 2011
CNN-IBN was the first channel to report the illegal land grab by Pakistani military establishment. ...
04:39 PM, Apr 23, 2010
Akali Dal Members raised a din over the issue. ...
12:46 PM, Aug 06, 2009
Amritpal Singh was arrested for his role in last month's shootout at a gurdwara. ...
03:03 AM, Jun 17, 2009
The gunman is a 33-year-old Indian, identified as Amrit Singh. ...
11:09 AM, Jun 16, 2009
Eye-witnesses say a man managed to escape just before flames were seen. ...
10:14 AM, Mar 18, 2009
