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News Archive 2005
December
 Bags of support for Earthquake schoolkids- December 12, 2005
- Jasjot Kohli, Graduate Trainee in the Pensions Assurance Group, has become involved with a registered UK charity called United Sikhs (www.unitedsikhs.org)...
- Knife charge creates conflict over city's weapons ordinance
- December 12, 2005
- The arrest of a Wayne State University student has sparked conflict between upholding the city's knife ordinance and protecting religious freedoms.
- Underwear issues
- December 10, 2005
- Forbidden to wear his underwear, a Sikh prisoner in New York has not been eating for six months.
- French Government Issues Circular to Ban Turban for Driver's ...
- December 10, 2005
- The Ministry of Transports, Equipments, Tourism and Seas have issued a circular through which they have now banned the wearing of turbans on driving licenses.
- Charges dropped against Sikh student in USA
- December 05, 2005
- Mr Sukhpreet Singh, a student of Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan (USA), managed to get a reprieve for wearing kirpan in the university campus.
- Sikh student acquitted of charges of carrying kirpan
- December 05, 2005
- A 23-year-old Wayne State University student, who was arrested for carrying a kirpan, or a small knife on the university campus under the Detroit Knife.
- A Sikh Thanksgiving in Queens
- December 01, 2005
- The Sikh community of New York City hosted a thanksgiving feast for local religious leaders, the NYPD, court officials, and a representative of the DA's office, hoping to initiate a program of hospitality and patriotism.
- Lawsuit filed for rights violation of Sikh prisoner in NY
- December 01, 2005
- A lawsuit has been filed in a federal court in Manhattan to enforce the religious freedom of a Sikh prisoner who has been on a liquid diet since June to protest alleged rights violations.
November
- UNITED SIKHS volunteer recounts her work in Tsunami hit Sri Lanka
- November 29, 2005
- Mahlet Endale abruptly stopped her presentation on counseling work in tsunami-torn Sri Lanka on Tuesday afternoon when pointing to a smiling 8-year-old girl in a group photo.
- Regional Briefs
- November 13, 2005
- Seminar: As many as four research papers were read in a seminar jointly organised by the United Sikhs in collaboration with Khalsa College here on Wednesday. Mr Damanjit Singh, Mr Kanwaljit Singh, Mr Amandeep Singh and…
- Tracy family pledges $15,000 to quake victims
- November 6, 2005
- Mike Sandhu of Tracy said he and his family were upset when a powerful earthquake hit their homeland in northern India a month ago. But even as late as last week, they heard about remote villages where…
October
- Sikhs follow French Ambassador to Stanford Univ.
- October 31, 2005
- More than one hundred Sikh demonstrators protested against France's ban on religious insignias in public schools on thursday morning outside the Consulate General of France. Sangat came from as far as Central valley to…
- Local Sikhs Protest French Law
- October 29, 2005
- More than a hundred Sikh demonstrators protested France's ban on religious insignias in public schools Thursday morning outside the Consulate General of France in San Francisco. The protest came as French…
- French Ban on Religious Garb in Schools Prompts Protest
- October 29, 2005
- The case of three turban-wearing teenagers expelled from high school in the Paris suburb of Bobigny last year brought Bay Area Sikhs out in protest Thursday at the French consulate in San Francisco. …
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