New York, US: Representing Congress (INC) in Sikh Genocide Case, lawyers from “Jones Day”, an international law firm specializing in defending claims arising from human rights violations, has opposed the entry of default judgment against Congress (I). The opposition filed in the court states that the 1984 Sikh Genocide case “involves significant issues of public international law that should not be decided ...

Sikhs are a unique group of people that don’t write their history in ink, they write it in blood and Martyrs, the movie, is a testament to that. Martyrs is a second a documentary created by Jagmeet Singh Samundri, after his awarding winning documentary called ‘Rise of The Khalsa’. And now he is all set to create history by being the first in India to release in cinemas with Dolby Digital. Martyrs, the movie ...

In a video interview published Thursday afternoon, Time magazine editor Belinda Luscombe asked South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley a bizarre and perhaps offensive question about how much she tips certain cab drivers in New York City. “In New York City, which you’re visiting for a couple of days, a lot of our taxi drivers are Sikhs. If you get one, are you going to give him a slightly bigger tip?” Luscombe asked ...

Everett, MA: Fortune 500 company and well-known chain AutoZone, Inc. will be paying 75,000 dollars to settle a religious discrimination lawsuit. The retailer and supplier of automobile parts was charged with violating federal law by subjecting one of its employee to harassment and failing to accommodate his religious beliefs. According to the lawsuit, which was filed by the EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunit ...

Oakland, California: A quiet Christian college in Oakland became the site of one of the deadliest campus attacks in California history Monday when a disgruntled former student opened fire on his classmates, police say, killing seven people and injuring three. SWAT teams descended on Oikos University to search for the gunman as students ran out of the building and emergency workers carried bodies from the bu ...

Ottawa, Canada: Terry Milewski has been airing hatchet jobs against the Sikh community for many years now. There was his overtly racist report in 2007 on “Samosa Politics” in which he recommended isolating and shunning 100,000 Sikhs who participated in the Vasaakhi Nagar Keertan in Surrey–all because they dared to celebrate those who fought against injustice and human rights abuses in India. There was his i ...