First Sirdar Kapur Singh Scholar becomes first Harvard-Wharton joint degree student Philadelphia, USA – Sonu Kaur, the first Sirdar Kapur Singh scholar under the Sikh Education Foundation chapter set up by UNITED SIKHS at Harvard University, entered Wharton School as the…
New Delhi: UNITED SIKHS launched last weekend a monthly Learning Values workshop series at the Guru Nanak Public School, Rajouri Garden, New Delhi, for children between the ages of 6 to 8 years. The main aim of the workshop was to…
New Delhi: UNITED SIKHS launched last weekend a monthly Learning Values workshop series at the Guru Nanak Public School, Rajouri Garden, New Delhi, for children between the ages of 6 to 8 years. The main aim of the workshop was to…
Queens, New York – A Grand Jury filed an indictment today against Umair Ahmed, a 17 year old schoolboy, for forcibly cutting a 15 year old Sikh schoolboy’s hair, accusing him of 9 charges, including coercion and menacing as a hate…
New York City, New York: Anthony Bryant, a 36 year old New Yorker, was sentenced to do community service for 10 days and ordered to make restitution for damages caused to Mr Avtar Singh Dhanjal’s car, after he pleaded guilty…
TSA Commits to First Steps; Erroneous New Policy Remains in Effect Washington D.C. – Representatives from the UNITED SIKHS, Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund (SALDEF) and the Sikh Coalition met on Monday with officials from the Transportation Security…
Washington DC – Discrimination against Sikhs in the workplace has not subsided since its rapid increase in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks, according to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) figures disclosed recently. In fact, complaints to the EEOC…
TSA Acting Special Counselor Reassures UNITED SIKHS about Increased Turban Screening at US Airports Washington DC – UNITED SIKHS was contacted yesterday by the Transportation Security Administration’s ( TSA ) Acting Special Counselor, Kimberley Walton, who said that the TSA is keen to…
A team of five volunteers visited Khalsa College, Amritsar from 6th August to 31st August ‘ 07 under the UNITED SIKHS – Oxford University TravelAid Project. One volunteer, Kiran Kaur, was the UNITED SIKHS volunteer coordinator and four of them,…
Whilst US airports increase Turban screening London , UK – The Department of Transport UK has confirmed to UNITED SIKHS that there is no change in the existing procedures for screening Turban wearing Sikhs at UK airports. As before, if…
