Zurich: Football's governing body has ruled that male head covers are acceptable to wear during matches, a decision that goes against Quebec's ban on turbans.
FIFA says male players can wear head covers as long as they are the same color as the team's shirt, have a "professional appearance", are not attached to the shirt and don't "pose any danger".
The Canadian football federation had asked FIFA to rule on the matter after Quebec refused to overturn its province-wide ban on turbans.
Quebec's director general of the provincial association, Brigitte Frot, had said that the provincial federation would allow turbans if FIFA indicated they were safe....
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12:53 AM, Jun 15, 2013
London: A Sikh man in Ireland has lost his appeal in a court to be allowed to wear the turban while on duty in a volunteer group for that country's police force. High court Judge Kevin Feeney in Ireland Thursday dismissed the appeal by Ravinder Singh Oberoi to be allowed to wear the turban while on duty for the Garda Reserve, a volunteer group formed to assist the Garda Siochana,...
05:39 PM, May 31, 2013
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...
03:06 AM, May 24, 2013
London: A Sikh bus driver in Finland is fighting for his right to wear a turban while at work. Gill Sukhdarshan Singh, who works at the Veolia bus company at Vantaa near the Finnish capital of Helsinki, is trying to set a precedent by making the authorities allow him to wear a turban at work, a Finnish public broadcasting company reported on Tuesday. "I have a right to my turban,...
02:40 PM, May 21, 2013
A family belonging to Amritdhari Sikh sect has alleged that a private school denied admission to their daughter as her turban was in breach of the school's uniform, a claim rubbished by the institution's principal. ...
02:26 AM, Mar 30, 2013
Sikhs members of BJP on Thursday urged their senior leader Sushma Swaraj to raise the issue of ban on turban with French President Francois Hollande. In a letter to Sushma, they said turban was not merely a religious symbol. It was a mandatory article of faith, which very much defines the core identity of a Sikh. ...
10:44 PM, Feb 14, 2013
Turban ban will be one of the main topics, which will be discussed during French President Francois Hollande's two-day visit to India. "India will take up the issue of France banning the turban," said Congress Party MP, Preneet Kaur. ...
10:38 AM, Feb 14, 2013
French President Francois Hollande is on a two-day visit to India and is expected to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday. This is Hollande's first visit to an Asian country. ...
08:00 AM, Feb 14, 2013
After a brief respite from the cold, The Indian Meteorological Department has warned that Western Disturbances could cause temperatures to drop by 4 to 6 degrees across North India. The cold spell started Sunday evening with Delhi experiencing light rain. ...
08:10 AM, Feb 04, 2013
The cold wave sweeping most parts of Himachal Pradesh further tightened its grip as mercury dropped by a few notches following fresh snowfall in tribal areas and other higher reaches during the past 24 hours. The high altitude areas in tribal belt of Lahaul and Spiti, Pangi, Bharmaur and Kinnaur and mountain passes experienced 20 to 30 cm of fresh snowfall while upper areas of Manali had mild a snowfall....
09:39 PM, Jan 13, 2013
France has told India that it has taken concrete measures to ensure that Sikhs would not have to remove their turbans or be touched during border checks and that physical check would be replaced by body scan. ...
03:48 AM, Dec 21, 2012
France has told India that it has taken concrete measures to ensure that Sikhs would not have to remove their turbans or be touched during border checks and that physical check would be replaced by body scan. The issue figured prominently during talks between a French delegation led by its Ambassador for Religious Issues in Foreign Affairs Ministry Roland Dubretrand and Minister of State for External Affairs Preneet Kaur and...
11:17 PM, Dec 20, 2012
The British army's first Sikh soldier allowed to wear a turban rather than a bearskin on ceremonial duties has suffered abuse from his colleagues over his headgear and his refusal to cut hair and his beard, a media report on Sunday said. Guardsman Jatinderpal Singh Bhullar, 25, who joined the Scots guards this year, has been given permission to wear a turban outside Buckingham Palace, breaking hundreds of years of...
03:17 PM, Dec 02, 2012
Taipei: Taiwan's Foxconn Technology Group closed its Taiyuan plant in northern China on Monday after a brawl involving possibly thousands of workers began in dormitory facilities early in the morning. The Taiyuan plant, which employs about 79,000 workers, makes parts for automotive electronics and assembles various electronic devices, according to Foxconn spokesman Louis Woo. "The fight is over now ... we're still investigating the cause of the fight and the...
10:23 AM, Sep 24, 2012
Washington: Sikh police officers in the American capital will be allowed to wear turbans and other religious items while on the job. The new uniform policy announced by Washington DC police Chief Cathy Lanier Wednesday makes it the first major metropolitan police department in the US to permit Sikhs to maintain their articles of faith. Developed with the Sikh American Legal Defence and Education Fund (SALDEF), the new police policy...
09:43 AM, May 17, 2012
Washington: The UN's rights body has concluded that France had violated the religious freedom of a 76-year-old Sikh man when he was asked to remove his turban for his ID photograph, a US-based Sikh group has said. United Sikh, a Sikh rights body, had filed a communication on behalf of Ranjit Singh to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in December 2008. Singh, despite his ill-health, has had no...
01:13 PM, Jan 13, 2012
London: Dr Indarjit Singh, the director of a charity linking several Sikh organisations in the UK, has become the "first turbaned Sikh" member of the British Parliament. "I am delighted to be the first turbaned Sikh in Parliament. It is an honour for the whole Sikh community," said Singh, the director of the Network of Sikh Organisations (NSO). Recommended by the House of Lords Appointments Commission, the 79-year-old Singh will...
11:11 PM, Sep 06, 2011
Melbourne: A Sikh man was denied entry into a hotel in Australia as he refused to take off his turban, a media report said on Monday. Confirming the incident, management of Royal English Hotel in Brisbane said it was trying to locate the man, whose identity is yet to be ascertained, to tender an apology. The hotel management told the Australian Associated Press (AAP) that one of its staff members...
11:26 AM, Jul 04, 2011
Italian Ambassador apologizes, again, for the second turban check for the golf coach Amritinder Singh at Milan airport. ...
10:17 PM, Mar 23, 2011
Minister of State for External Affairs Preneet Kaur on Monday urged the French government to reconsider the banning turbans in public. ...
03:26 PM, Dec 06, 2010
