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India-born arrivals set to dominate British-Sikh community in UK

London,UK: The British-Sikh community may once again be dominated by India-born arrivals, reversing the trend of a decade earlier when 56 per cent were born in the UK. The new statistics, based on recently released Census 2011 data, have profound implications for ...

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Sikh shooting victim slowly improves

Millwaukee, USA: Day after day, Raghuvinder and Jaspreet Singh hovered by their nearly comatose father and repeated a single word—a word their dad probably spoke more than any other in his lifetime: “Waheguru.” The Punjabi word is a term Sikhs ...

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Sikh driver settles beard dispute with limo company

Toronto,Canada: It came down to the wire: a beard-based rights complaint was a hair’s breadth away from going before the province’s human rights tribunal this week, before an 11th-hour settlement was reached. Gurmukh Singh, a Sikh man who used to drive ...

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Sikhs support Obama signing Executive action on gun control

Washington DC, US: Welcoming the gun control steps taken by President Barack Obama, the Sikh community in the US has asked the Congress to support his proposals, saying too many innocent people have become victims of these senseless killings. “Sikh community, ...

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