Author: Staff Writer

Source: Samachaar

Wire Service: IANS

http://www.samachaar.in/International/French_Sikhs_bringing_turban_ban_issue_to_Delhi_97468/

A delegation of Sikhs from France will land in New Delhi Thursday for the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD), the annual gathering of the Indian diaspora, to highlight the continuing problem of the ban of Sikh turbans in France....

Author: Jonah Owen Lamb

Source: The Fresno Bee

http://www.fresnobee.com/local/story/1768283.html

There's a lasting link between the 35-character alphabet used to write Punjabi and the Sikh religion.

The Sikh scriptures and the Punjabi language of many Sikhs were written in a script known as Gurmukhi. So to be fully initiated into the religion, you must know how to read it.

That has created a problem for the Sikh community of Livingston...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Zee News

http://www.zeenews.com/news591744.html

Mota Singh, who is the UK's first Sikh and Asian judge, has been knighted by the British Queen.

London-based Singh, who is also a Queen's Counsel, has been knighted in the Queen's New Year Honours List for "services to the Administration of Justice, Community Relations and to the Voluntary Sector". 

His decision to wear a white turban in court, instead of a wig,...

Author: Jeremy Gray

Source: The Birmingham News

http://blog.al.com/birmingham-news-stories/2009/12/sikhs_find_a_home_for_worship.html

In what was once Sonrise Community Church, the growing number of Sikhs living in the Birmingham area have started Alabama's first Sikh temple.

Sikhism, one of the world's major religions, originated in the 16th century but until recently there were too few followers in the...

Author: A. Kaur

Source: Global Sikh News

http://sikhsangat.org/2009/12/sikh-can-carry-kirpans-to-olympics-events-in-canada/

Sikhs will be able to carry a kirpan, or ceremonial knife, to Olympic events if they adhere to a number of conditions, the Vancouver 2010 Integrated Security Unit has announced.

ISU doesn’t expect the religious item will pose an additional risk at venues.

Anyone wearing a...

Author: Jagpal Singh Tiwana

Source: SIkhNet

http://www.sikhnet.com/news/women-executives-elected-halifax-gurdwara

At its annual General Body meeting held on December 20, 2009 Maritime Sikh Society, Halifax, Canada elected all women office bearers to run the Gurdwara for the year 2010.

This is not the first time that a woman has been elected President of this Gurdwara. In 1993, when Mrs. Gurdip Kaur Toor was elected...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: SikhNet

http://www.sikhnet.com/news/kaur-foundation-signs-educational-partnership-maryland-public-school-system

A pioneering partnership with the Kaur Foundation will build understanding and appreciation for the Sikh culture, customs, and perspectives in Howard County Public School classrooms and communities. The partnership was formalized with an official signing at...

Author: Sunita Sohrabji

Source: SikhNet/India West

http://www.sikhnet.com/news/sikh-inmates-caught-maze-vague-rules

California state prisons continue to operate under a patchwork mosaic of policy for accommodating Sikh religion-mandated turbans and beards, despite three-year-old regulations specifically crafted to meet the community’s religious requirements.

Many state prison facilities are unaware that the California...

Author: Erin Donaghue

Source: The Gazette

http://www.gazette.net/stories/12232009/bethnew184058_32563.php

To tree or not to tree? It's only one of the many dilemmas county Sikhs are faced with around the holiday season. And for followers of the faith, there seems to be just as many approaches to melding their own traditions with the Santas, reindeer, presents and elves that are pervasive in the communities in which they live.

For...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Hindu

http://www.hindu.com/2009/12/20/stories/2009122061572200.htm

A Sikh graduate student, working as a part-time pizza delivery boy in West Texas, was brutally assaulted, said the Sikh Coalition, an advocacy group.

When the young man, whose identity has been withheld for his protection, brought pizzas for delivery at a house, four men started eating them without paying, while hurling racial...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Global Sikh News

http://sikhsangat.org/2009/12/dixie-sikh-gurudwara-think-green/

Dixie Gurdwara is getting solar panels. Even as world leaders in Copenhagen are struggling to take positive decisions, the local Sikh community is setting an example and taking the lead to go climate friendly. Mississauga’s Dixie Gurdwara is going be the first temple in North America to go green.

“Solar panels...

Author: Ravinder Singh Robin

Source: Thaindian News

http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/india-news/pakistans-minority-minister-orders-inquiry-into-gurdwara-land-deal_100291516.html

Taking note of the deal of a land belonging to the Sikh Gurdwara in Pakistan, the Pakistan federal minister of minority has ordered an inquiry and directed authorities to submit the report at...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Times of India

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Sikhs-removed-from-US-Airways-flight-reach-settlement/articleshow/5343701.cms

Three Sikh musicians, removed from a flight at the Sacramento airport in California about a year ago, have received an apology and an undisclosed amount from the US Airways under a settlement with the airlines....

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Siasat Daily

http://www.siasat.com/english/news/us-army-accepts-second-sikh-turban-and-beard-intact

The US Army has agreed to accept a second Sikh, Captain Tejdeep Singh Rattan, with his Sikh identity intact after an eight month long campaign by a Sikh advocacy group.

Rattan, a military dentist, had refused to remove his 'dastaar' (turban) or shave his hair as a condition of...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Sikh Council on Religion and Education

http://www.sikhcouncilusa.org/article.aspx?article=gurunanak09

'Welcome to the White House' was the greeting with which Christina M. Tchen, head of the White House office of Public Engagement office, greeted a room full of Sikh men with all kinds of colorful turbans and ladies with traditional Punjabi dress, gathered to celebrate Guru Nanak's birth-anniversary for the...