Screen grab from video shared by @officeofssbadal on X NEW DELHI: Senior Sikh leader and Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Sunday condemned the disruption of a peaceful Sikh Nagar Kirtan procession in South Auckland, New Zealand, expressing concern over the threat posed to religious freedom and communal harmony.Sharing a video of the incident on X, Badal said, “Nagar Kirtan is a...
NEW DELHI: A 66-year-old Sikh man died from head injuries sustained after being assaulted following a car accident in New York. This incident marks the second attack against a Sikh individual in New York within a week.Jasmer Singh was allegedly the victim of a brutal assault by 30-year-old Gilbert Augustin after their vehicles collided in Queens the previous Thursday.After the collision between Singh...
NEW YORK: The Indian-origin Sikh mayor of Hoboken city in the US state of New Jersey has opened up about being the target of a series of letters that threatened to kill him and his family. The letters, which he received last year, first called on Hoboken Mayor Ravi Bhalla, who is a practising Sikh, to resign, but then began threatening his and his family's life, targeting him for his Sikh faith, CBS...
NEW YORK: In a racially-motivated attack, a man punched a 19-year-old Sikh teen multiple times and attempted to remove his turban onboard a Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) bus in New York City.Police said both men were riding on a shuttle bus on Sunday morning near 118th Street and Liberty Avenue in Richmond Hill when the suspect approached the victim, ABC7 news channel reported."We don't...
BATHINDA: With data about hate crimes in the United States of America (USA) released on Monday, it has come to fore that the Sikhs still remain the second most targeted group under religiously motivated hate crime incidents. In the data for 2022 the highest ever Anti-Sikh hate crime victimisations have been recorded at 198. The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) records such crime cases across...
LONDON: In a shocking incident of "institutional racism" in the UK, nurses reportedly tied a Sikh patient's beard with plastic gloves, leaving him in his own urine and offering him food he could not eat for religious reasons, according to a media report. Despite the man complaining about the discrimination in a note on his deathbed, the nurses were allowed to carry on working, The Independent newspaper...
WASHINGTON: A group of eminent Indian-Americans has condemned the brazen hateful comments and a hostile environment against Hindus in Canadaand asked Ottawa not to mix freedom of expression with freedom for terror and endorse hate crimes by being silent on the issue. The demand by Indian-Americans came after an offensive video from a pro-Khalistan group threatening Hindus in Canada to leave the country...
NEW DELHI: Canadian security agencies have been actively pursuing credible allegations of a potential link between Indian government agents and the murder of a Sikh leader in British Columbia in June, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Monday.The startling accusation was followed by the Canadian foreign minister stating that a high-ranking Indian diplomat has been expelled over the killing.The Indian...
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