Sunday, December 3, 2023

Sikh

Nikhil Gupta asked ‘hitman’ not to kill Sikh separatist leader around scheduled meetings between India and US

US federal prosecutors have charged an Indian national in an alleged 'murder-for-hire' plot to try to assassinate a Sikh political activist in New York, a media report said. Authorities said Nikhil Gupta (52) worked with an unnamed Indian official to...

Family demands probe into UK Sikh separatist Avtar Khanda’s death

The family of Avtar Singh Khanda -- the principal orchestrator of the violence at the Indian High Commission in London who died this year -- has sought a formal inquest into his death from the chief coroner for England...

Sikh trio fights to keep turban, beard at US Marine boot camp 

Three Sikh recruits, working to join the US Marine Corps, fought for an emergency appeal in District of Columbia's federal court to get an immediate exemption to the Corps' boot camp rule of cutting their hair and shaving their...

SC to hear pleas challenging CAA on Sep 12

The Supreme Court would hear on September 12 a batch of pleas challenging the constitutional validity of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) which seeks to grant citizenship to non-Muslim migrants who came here from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan on...