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Yuba city, California: Jagtar Gill’s eyes shone Tuesday as he spoke about the pride he has for his son. A college graduate, a banker and now mayor of Yuba City, Kash Gill is the first and only one in his ...

San Jose, California: When he first came to this country from his native Punjab 15 months ago, it didn’t take long for SJSU student Gurjaspal Singh to get a feeling of people in the United States. An hour before he ...

San Francisco, California: A nonprofit Sikh organization launched a BART poster campaign this month in hopes that a photograph of an elderly crying woman will spur mainstream riders to learn more about the massacre of people in India 25 years ago. The 20-poster, $10,000-campaign on BART stations in San Francisco and Oakland is spearheaded by the Fremont-based Ensaaf group, said co-director Jaskaran Kaur. Ads appeared Nov. 2, and will last a month. The campaign is in honor of the 25th anniversary of pogroms against Sikhs in India.

New York, USA: Prof. Darshan Singh Ragi has recently surrounded himself in controversy after narrating a fictitious story which he falsely claimed appeared in Dasam Granth. While doing kirtan on 23rd August at Rochester, New York, Ragi said, “Guru Gobind ...