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Lightning strikes UK gurdwara, one injured

London, UK: Worshippers at a gurdwara in the British city of Leicester had a lucky escape after its roof collapsed after being struck by lightning. CCTV footage showed that a group of elderly women were singing hymns at the Ramgarhia Sikh ...

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Canadian museum to mark Komagata Maru centennial

Toronto, Canada: A heritage museum in Canada has organised a yearlong exhibition to commemorate 100 years of the 1914 Komagata Maru incident, during which 352 Punjabi immigrants on a ship from India were denied entry. The exhibition at Abbotsford’s Sikh ...

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Sikh Shopkeeper who battled with knife-wielding racist

UK: This is the moment a shopkeeper wrestled a racist knifeman who tried to murder him in front of horrified customers and crying children in broad daylight. A series of dramatic CCTV images show Bhag Singh’s eight-minute fight with schizophrenic ...

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Sikh group wants Sonia to depose before US court

New York, USA: A Sikh rights group wants Congress president Sonia Gandhi to depose before a federal court here in a human rights violation lawsuit filed against her after she informed the court that she had not visited the US in ...

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