Burglars steal £42k of Sikh jewellery in Portsmouth

 

Sikh jewellery worth more than £42,000 has been stolen from a house in Hampshire.

More than £17,000 in cash was also lost when burglars removed a safe from the property in Goldsmith Avenue, Portsmouth, at the weekend.

Police said someone got in through the back door of the property between 2345 GMT on Saturday and 0320 GMT on Sunday.

With thanks : BBC News : link above for detailed news.

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Sikhs warned of additional screening of turbans at US airports

Washington, Jan 14 (PTI) Already peeved by securitypat downs, Sikhs in the US have been warned that they couldnow face 100 per cent screening of their turbans at Americanairports as the new imaging technology cannot see throughtheir ''pagris''.

In a mass email alert to the community members, SikhCoalition, an advocacy group, told them that they should beready for additional screening at all the airports.

"Sikhs should now expect to be secondarily screened 100per cent of the time at American airports, even after passing through so-called Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) machines,"it said.

Although the Transport and Security Administration (TSA)publicly asserts on its website that its newest machines cansee through "layers of clothing," the TSA has made clear inboth word and practice that such machines are not powerfulenough to see through Sikh turbans.

 

with thanks : oneindia : link above for detailed news.

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Lohri Celebration in Chandigarh: Dr.Kitty Singh

B S Vohra in the service to the RWA Community !!!!!

After years of working with the RWA's, On 1st January, 2010, B S Vohra had launched RWA Bhagidari blog with the sole aim of making it a Common Platform for the RWA community so that they could interact amongst themselves to share the local civic problems, regularly faced by the residents & RWAs of respective areas. After a gap of twelve months, the blog has thousands of worldwide hits, over a thousand of postings & a good number of RWAs as its members as well readers.

In this period, B S Vohra received twice the Appreciation letters from the Delhi CM. He & the blog ( www.RWABhagidari.blogspot.com ) was covered regularly by many prominent TV Channels as well almost all of the prominent News Papers in English & Hindi.

 

 
The blog is also visible on Facebook, Twitter as well Youtube.

On 15th August B S Vohra launched the RWA web portal ( www.RWABhagidari.com ), which included a Directory of RWAs of Delhi East as well many more features.

In order the further strengthen the bond of RWA cooperation, he decided to launch the EAST DELHI RWAs JOINT FRONT. A good number of RWAs showed great interest in this Joint Front & willingness to join it. As per B S Vohra, “ I intended to raise the issues of RWAs directly with the Authorities, in addition to uploading on the RWABhagidari blog.” A good number of RWAs of Delhi East have already joined this Joint Front which is on the stages of Registration in the very first week of January, 2011.

B S Vohra says, “ we are thankful to all those, who joined us in our endeavour to raise the common civic issues of the residents.”

“ We are sure, even this Joint Front will be a great success as the cream of the RWA community from Delhi East has already joined us,” says Vohra while wishing a very happy new year to one & all.

'Not just White girls, Pak Muslim men sexually target Hindu and Sikh girls as well

AMRITSAR: A day after UKs' former home secretary Jack straw blamed some Pakistani Muslim men for targeting "vulnerable" White girls sexually, UK's Hindu and Sikh organizations also publicly accused Muslim groups of the same offence.

Straw, in an interview to the BBC recently, had said, "...there is a specific problem which involves Pakistani heritage men...who target vulnerable young white girls...they see these young women, white girls who are vulnerable, some of them in care ... who they think are easy meat."

Feeling emboldened by Straw's statement, UK's Hindu and Sikh organizations have also come in open and accused some Pakistani men of specifically targeting Hindu and Sikh girls. "This has been a serious concern for the last decade," said Hardeep Singh of Network of Sikh Organizations (NSO) while talking to TOI on Monday.

With thanks : TIMES OF INDIA : link above for detailed news.

Ex-Jawan released by Pak alleges brutal torture

Jammu:  Homecoming has been a long and arduous journey for 50-year-old Amar Singh, a retired soldier of the Indian Army, who was whisked away by the ISI sleuths in April 2010.

He had gone to Pakistan to visit the Sikh shrines and while he was waiting to board the train for India, he was taken away.

Released now, nine months later, Singh says he does not know where he was kept and claims to have been subjected to brutal torture.

''They kept asking me which Indian agency sent you here, and why," said Amar Singh.

with thanks : NDTV : link above for detailed news.

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Nagar Keertan on 11th Jan from Gurudwara Damdama Sahib to Gurudwara Bala sahib

As the SGPC has declared Jan 11th as the date of Gurupurab i.e. Parkash Purab of Guru Gobind Singh ji, A Nagar Keertan is being arranged on 11th Jan in Delhi from Gurudwara Damdama Sahib to Gurudwara Bala Sahib. It will begin from Gurudwara Damdama Sahib by 11 AM in the morning.