TORONTO: A young Sikh woman and three children were found dead under mysterious circumstances inside their apartment in Calgary city, police said on Thursday.
Calgary in Alberta province has the third largest concentration of the Punjabi community in Canada.
In a statement, Calgary police said they were called to a home in the northeast part of the city on Monday following reports of a dead woman.
They found the body of 27-year-old Harsimrat Kahlon and three newborns inside the apartment. It is unknown whether they were her kids.
Police said Kahlon's death did not look suspicious, but they were treating the deaths of the three newborns as suspicious. The cause of the deaths would be known only after weeks of testing, they said. No age or gender of the newborns was given. Police also didn't say when the deaths took place and how long they had been inside the home before they were found.
Quoting the landlord, a local newspaper said Kahlon had rented one of two suites in the home and had lived there for about three years. She lived with a man, the landlord said, without mentioning whether he was her husband or someone else. According to neighbours, the woman was reportedly pregnant at the time of her death.
with thanks : source : http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/indians-abroad/Sikh-woman-three-kids-found-dead-in-Canadian-city/articleshow/5104559.cms
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Friday, October 9, 2009
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Aap sab ji noo Guru Raam Das ji de Aagman diwas diyaan lakh lakh wadhaaiyan.
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AKHAR - sewa of humanity
Who we Are??
It was in the year of 2007, some like minded people guided by the Principle of Universal brotherhood, equality came together to make a lasting change in the lives of the under-privileged people. As a result AKHAR-SOH was born.
AKHAR is the need of Hour?? --In India there are 25 crore people living below the poverty line, and the weakest among them are the nomadic and semi-nomadic tribes. People belonging to these communities are landless, and they travel from one place to another place for business purpose.
AKHAR started with the sole aim of improving the socio-economic condition of nomadic/semi-nomadic tribes.Sikligars belong to the semi-nomadic tribe and their socio-economic condition is very weak.
Right now AKHAR works for Sikligars directly in the state of Maharshtra and indirectly through the other like minded organizations in other parts of the country.We aim to uplift them through education, and bring them at par with the other sections of the society.
Plz contact Sd. Ravinder singh & Sd. Balwinder singh on akharsoh.org
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It was in the year of 2007, some like minded people guided by the Principle of Universal brotherhood, equality came together to make a lasting change in the lives of the under-privileged people. As a result AKHAR-SOH was born.
AKHAR is the need of Hour?? --In India there are 25 crore people living below the poverty line, and the weakest among them are the nomadic and semi-nomadic tribes. People belonging to these communities are landless, and they travel from one place to another place for business purpose.
AKHAR started with the sole aim of improving the socio-economic condition of nomadic/semi-nomadic tribes.Sikligars belong to the semi-nomadic tribe and their socio-economic condition is very weak.
Right now AKHAR works for Sikligars directly in the state of Maharshtra and indirectly through the other like minded organizations in other parts of the country.We aim to uplift them through education, and bring them at par with the other sections of the society.
Plz contact Sd. Ravinder singh & Sd. Balwinder singh on akharsoh.org
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Thursday, October 8, 2009
Landmark ruling on marriage awaited
By NATION CorrespondentPosted Wednesday, October 7 2009 at 20:14
The Court of Appeal is set to determine whether unions made in temples without a Registrar of Marriages are legal under the law. A British woman is urging the highest court in the land to rule that her union with a Kenyan man she has lived with for 14 years is “not a marriage.”
Ms Papinder Kaur Atwal, through lawyer Ahmed Nassir, urged the appellate judges, Mr Justice Philip Tunoi, Mr Justice Philip Waki and Mr Justice Erustus Githinji to establish that “a ceremony conducted in a Sikh temple in 1995 between her and Mr Manjit Singh Amrit is not a binding legal marriage.”
Pending determination of the case, the judges have blocked Mr Amrit from evicting Ms Atwal from the matrimonial home.
Bigamy
“This court restrains Mr Amrit, his agents, servants, employees, companies and associates from evicting the applicant from the matrimonial home she occupies.”
The judges gave the order after submissions urging them to quash a judgment by High Court judge Mr Justice David Onyancha who found Ms Atwal “guilty of bigamy.”
Justice Onyancha ruled on July 3 that Ms Atwal had contracted an earlier marriage on January 4, 1986 with Mr Intermit Singh Purewal.
Ms Atwal admits she was forcefully married off to Mr Purewal by her parents at the age of 17 at the Registrar’s Office in Coventry, in the United Kingdom. But the marriage was “not consummated” as she fled to her parents’ home the same day, the court heard.
Nullified
Justice Onyancha nullified the marriage between Mr Amrit and Ms Atwal solemnised in a Sikh temple in London on September 25, 1995. He also gave Mr Amrit custody of their only son.
The judgment was criticised by Mr Nassir, who said that the judge erred in saying that there was a “second marriage” between Ms Atwal and Mr Amrit.
Mr Nassir said that the ceremony conducted at the Sikh temple could not be described as a marriage because it was not presided over by a Registrar of Marriages as stipulated by British law.
However, lawyer Ochieng’ Oduol defended the judgment, saying that Ms Atwal admitted that she did get married at the age of 17. A ruling whether or not on there were two marriages will be made on November 3.
with thanks : source : http://www.nation.co.ke/News/-/1056/669490/-/unil8s/-/
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The Court of Appeal is set to determine whether unions made in temples without a Registrar of Marriages are legal under the law. A British woman is urging the highest court in the land to rule that her union with a Kenyan man she has lived with for 14 years is “not a marriage.”
Ms Papinder Kaur Atwal, through lawyer Ahmed Nassir, urged the appellate judges, Mr Justice Philip Tunoi, Mr Justice Philip Waki and Mr Justice Erustus Githinji to establish that “a ceremony conducted in a Sikh temple in 1995 between her and Mr Manjit Singh Amrit is not a binding legal marriage.”
Pending determination of the case, the judges have blocked Mr Amrit from evicting Ms Atwal from the matrimonial home.
Bigamy
“This court restrains Mr Amrit, his agents, servants, employees, companies and associates from evicting the applicant from the matrimonial home she occupies.”
The judges gave the order after submissions urging them to quash a judgment by High Court judge Mr Justice David Onyancha who found Ms Atwal “guilty of bigamy.”
Justice Onyancha ruled on July 3 that Ms Atwal had contracted an earlier marriage on January 4, 1986 with Mr Intermit Singh Purewal.
Ms Atwal admits she was forcefully married off to Mr Purewal by her parents at the age of 17 at the Registrar’s Office in Coventry, in the United Kingdom. But the marriage was “not consummated” as she fled to her parents’ home the same day, the court heard.
Nullified
Justice Onyancha nullified the marriage between Mr Amrit and Ms Atwal solemnised in a Sikh temple in London on September 25, 1995. He also gave Mr Amrit custody of their only son.
The judgment was criticised by Mr Nassir, who said that the judge erred in saying that there was a “second marriage” between Ms Atwal and Mr Amrit.
Mr Nassir said that the ceremony conducted at the Sikh temple could not be described as a marriage because it was not presided over by a Registrar of Marriages as stipulated by British law.
However, lawyer Ochieng’ Oduol defended the judgment, saying that Ms Atwal admitted that she did get married at the age of 17. A ruling whether or not on there were two marriages will be made on November 3.
with thanks : source : http://www.nation.co.ke/News/-/1056/669490/-/unil8s/-/
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Bono Rocks Out With Sikh Fan On Stage
October 07 2009 15:35 PST
Oh my! U2 lead singer Bono sure takes his fans seriously and wants them to have a good time at his concerts! During the Irish rock group’s 360 Tour stop in Washington D.C., Bono helps a Sardar fan up on stage from the screaming crowd, gives him an American flag to hold up and continues to sing the chart buster "Sunday Bloody Sunday."
The happy fan, whose name is Amp Bains, sings along to the song and rocks out big time to the tunes of the huge hit. Soon the two men are holding each other and singing into the mic at the same time, what a love fest!
View it below :
with thanks : source : http://www.desihits.com/blog/article/bono-rocks-out-with-sikh-fan-on-stage-20091007
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Oh my! U2 lead singer Bono sure takes his fans seriously and wants them to have a good time at his concerts! During the Irish rock group’s 360 Tour stop in Washington D.C., Bono helps a Sardar fan up on stage from the screaming crowd, gives him an American flag to hold up and continues to sing the chart buster "Sunday Bloody Sunday."
The happy fan, whose name is Amp Bains, sings along to the song and rocks out big time to the tunes of the huge hit. Soon the two men are holding each other and singing into the mic at the same time, what a love fest!
View it below :
with thanks : source : http://www.desihits.com/blog/article/bono-rocks-out-with-sikh-fan-on-stage-20091007
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Sikh community comes forward to help flood victims in AP
Hyderabad, Oct. 6th, 2009
At a time when Kurnool and Mahboobnagar districts of Andhra Pradesh are witnessing large-scale loss of human lives and property due to unprecedented floods, the Sikh community has come forward to help the flood victims.
Central Gurudwara Saheb, Gowliguda, and Prabhandak Committees of Sikh Gurudwaras collected clothes, food and other essential items from community people, voluntary organisations and philanthropists.
A 70 members team of Sikh youths left to the flood affected villages to distribute blankets, medicines, bread, biscuits, rice, utensils, water packets and non-perishable food items to the people who lost everything in the floods, a release by President of Central Gurudwara Saheb Gowliguda, Trilok Singh, said.
Source : PTI
taken with thanks from: http://www.indopia.in/India-usa-uk-news/latest-news/681317/National/1/20/1
At a time when Kurnool and Mahboobnagar districts of Andhra Pradesh are witnessing large-scale loss of human lives and property due to unprecedented floods, the Sikh community has come forward to help the flood victims.
Central Gurudwara Saheb, Gowliguda, and Prabhandak Committees of Sikh Gurudwaras collected clothes, food and other essential items from community people, voluntary organisations and philanthropists.
A 70 members team of Sikh youths left to the flood affected villages to distribute blankets, medicines, bread, biscuits, rice, utensils, water packets and non-perishable food items to the people who lost everything in the floods, a release by President of Central Gurudwara Saheb Gowliguda, Trilok Singh, said.
Source : PTI
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2009 Awards Announced
The 2009 SikhNet Online Youth Film Festival inspired submissions of over 40 films from young filmmakers around the world. The judging process was especially difficult this year because of the quality of the films which, in the opinion of the judging panel, is improving every year.The panel of judges watched every film, most more than once, and marked them all on Creativity (originality,) Message (Was the film inspiring and/or uplifting? Did it communicate the filmmaker's message clearly?) and Technical Execution (videography, editing, post production, etc.) Although there was often a clear first place winner in a category, the race between the second and third place films was often a very close one and the judges enthusiastically debated the merits of the films in contention for those awards. Finally the judges have made their decisions!
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All the films may be viewed online at www.SikhNet.com/FilmFestival where you can choose your own favorites as well as leave comments for the young filmmakers.
Hearty congratulations to all the 2009 winners!
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Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Edict against Dera Sacha Sauda : Sikh bodies urge Takht chief to ensure implementation
Neeraj Bagga Tribune News Service
Amritsar, September 29
Sikh religious, political and social organisations have requested Jathedar Akal Takht Gurbachan Singh to ensure that The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) and the Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal) implement edict against Sirsa- based Dera Sacha Sauda ,in Punjab.
The Akali Dal (Panj Pradhani), the Khalsa Action Committee, the Sikh Students Federation, the Dal Khalsa, Khalra Mission Organisation and the Sikhs for Human Rights made this request in a memorandum to the Jathedar here today.
General secretary, Akali Dal (Panch Pardhani) Harpal Singh Cheema said apart from Sikh sangat, the sikh political and religious organisations must be held accountable for implementing Akal Takht edict issued on May 20, 2007 directing all sikhs not to have relations with the Dera Sacha Sauda followers and all Naam Charcha Ghars be removed from Punjab.
He informed the Jathedar assured to take up the demand at the meeting of the Sikh high priests scheduled to be held here on October 1. He claimed the Jathedar also said the present dispensation in the state was not a panthic government but a coalition with the BJP and added a panthic government would only be formed when all Sikh political organisations joined hands.
He said unresolved Dera Sacha Sauda-Sikh issue was causing fissures in the families and rift in society in Malwa in general and Bathinda in particular.
Cheema added they also sought the Sikh families which bore the brunt during the anti-Dera Sacha Sauda campaign must be felicitated.
Convener of the Khalsa Action Committee (KAC), Bhai Mohkam Singh demanded a case under the Illegal Activity Prevention Act against Sanjiv Bhardwaj, Hindu Suraksha Samiti leader for ‘irresponsible’ statement .Bhardwaj had asked from the government to make it clear whether Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale was a terrorist or a sant and announced cash award of Rs 7 lakh to catch Jagtar Singh Hawara, who escaped had from prison.
with thanks : source : http://www.tribuneindia.com/2009/20090930/punjab.htm
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Amritsar, September 29
Sikh religious, political and social organisations have requested Jathedar Akal Takht Gurbachan Singh to ensure that The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) and the Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal) implement edict against Sirsa- based Dera Sacha Sauda ,in Punjab.
The Akali Dal (Panj Pradhani), the Khalsa Action Committee, the Sikh Students Federation, the Dal Khalsa, Khalra Mission Organisation and the Sikhs for Human Rights made this request in a memorandum to the Jathedar here today.
General secretary, Akali Dal (Panch Pardhani) Harpal Singh Cheema said apart from Sikh sangat, the sikh political and religious organisations must be held accountable for implementing Akal Takht edict issued on May 20, 2007 directing all sikhs not to have relations with the Dera Sacha Sauda followers and all Naam Charcha Ghars be removed from Punjab.
He informed the Jathedar assured to take up the demand at the meeting of the Sikh high priests scheduled to be held here on October 1. He claimed the Jathedar also said the present dispensation in the state was not a panthic government but a coalition with the BJP and added a panthic government would only be formed when all Sikh political organisations joined hands.
He said unresolved Dera Sacha Sauda-Sikh issue was causing fissures in the families and rift in society in Malwa in general and Bathinda in particular.
Cheema added they also sought the Sikh families which bore the brunt during the anti-Dera Sacha Sauda campaign must be felicitated.
Convener of the Khalsa Action Committee (KAC), Bhai Mohkam Singh demanded a case under the Illegal Activity Prevention Act against Sanjiv Bhardwaj, Hindu Suraksha Samiti leader for ‘irresponsible’ statement .Bhardwaj had asked from the government to make it clear whether Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale was a terrorist or a sant and announced cash award of Rs 7 lakh to catch Jagtar Singh Hawara, who escaped had from prison.
with thanks : source : http://www.tribuneindia.com/2009/20090930/punjab.htm
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Hemkund Sahib closed for winter
Dehra Dun, Oct 5 (PTI) The portals of famous Sikh shrine of Hemkund Sahib in Chamoli district were closed today for pilgrims for the winter.The doors of the shrine were closed with rituals following which Granthis took the Guru Granth Sahib to Gobindghat area, the winter sojourn of the holy book, sources in Hemkund Sahib temple committee said.Hemkund Sahib shrine is situated at a height of nearly 14,000 feet and attracts lakhs of pilgrims from home and abroad every year.The shrine is closed every year in October-November as the area remains snow-bound during the winter.
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Sunday, October 4, 2009
Sikh matrimonial : Dr. J S Kapur
Please view matrimonial profile of Sikh Boy - Dr. J S Kapur, DOB - 6.3.1982, 5"-11", MBBS, persuing MD. Details on Sikh web portal www.sohnijodi.com
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