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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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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