Major Victory in Fight for Equality in US Army Washington: The U. S. Army announced today that it accepted a Sikh officer into its active forces.  The officer had sought an accommodation allowing him to maintain his religiously mandated turban ...

Sacramento, California: Sikh Coalition’s press release’s on the so called “First Bill on Kirpan” are misleading and sweeping in thin air, by saying this again and again, that, this is a kirpan bill, without clarifying that this is only an ...

Amritsar, Punjab: The Pingalwara Charitable Society, a home for destitute, aged, disabled, handicapped, orphans and mentally retarded, will open a school for deaf and dumb children at its Manawala branch. The school, named after founder of Pingalwara Bhagat Puran Singh, ...

Sacramento, California: California Governor Schwarzenegger said NO to a measure that would have required police to receive training in how to deal with members of the Sikh faith, who carry a small, curved sword called a kirpan. Civil rights activists ...