Tag Archives: Kirpan

Eviction notice to more traders near plaza

Amritsar, Punjab: Within months of the displacement of traders in Ghee Mandi area near Jallianwala Bagh for a road-widening project, a similar threat looms large over the traders having shops on either side of the Golden Temple’s Ghantaghar entrance. The SGPC ...

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Kirpan case: Partial victory for petitioner

Chandigarh: In the historic IRS Kirpan case, the US 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed and remanded the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) claim for a trial and affirmed the Title VII claim. In other words, the panel has decided ...

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Sikh student who won kirpan case now considers leaving Quebec

Canada: Gurbaj Multani walked into his Montreal school when he was 11 years old and found 300 adults shouting at him. There was a time in his teens when virtually the whole province was united against him. But through it ...

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Sikh student in US not allowed on bus for wearing kirpan

New York, USA: A Sikh student in the US was not allowed to board a bus because he was wearing a knife called kirpan, a symbol of his faith, media reported. Harsimran Singh, a student of University of California in ...

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