Orlando,USA: Late Saturday night leading into early Sunday morning, Orlando, Florida was stunned by a devastating hate-crime when 29-year-old Omar Mateen entered the Pulse nightclub (an LGBT community based social lounge), and gunned down more than 49 individuals, also wounding…
Washington D.C.: My name is Mannirmal Kaur, and I’m a political science student at North Carolina State University eagerly planning to pursue a career in public interest law. I’m very excited for you. Let me explain why. Last summer, I…
ONTARIO: – The UNITED SIKHS expresses dissatisfaction with the Ontario Liberal Government’s vote to defeat a motion that would have recognized the brutal murder of thousands of innocent Sikhs as genocide. The November 1984 Sikh Massacre, in which an estimated…
Washington DC: Due to several requests, the deadline to apply to the UNITED SIKHS Advocacy and Humanitarian Aid Academy (AHAA) has been extended to June 10, 2016 AHAA is a six-day training program designed for students and young professionals 17 and…
“My MP said he could not help me because it was not under his purview and a Sikh Govt Minister said that I should be prepared to take my CFA level 2 examination this Saturday without wearing my Kirpan”, Rattan…
Dr Sardar Suran Singh, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Minister on Minority Affairs Peshawar,Pakistan: UNITED SIKHS volunteer and an eminent member of the Sikh community Dr Suran Singh has been shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Pakistan. According to various sources, he was assassinated in…
Picture courtesy: BBC Brussels, Belgium – Three terrorist blasts rocked the Belgian capital earlier today, two at the Brussels Zaventem international airport and one at Maelbeek metro station and striking fear in the heart of the European Union just days after…
European Refugee Camps: For Mustafa Bazara, the evening was nothing more than a routine weeknight in Aleppo: He and his family were watching television around eight p.m. with the sound of bombs blasting in the distance. But this time he saw…
Spokane’s Gurudwara vandalized, Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji desecrated SPOKANE, WASHINGTON – On March 3, a man broke into a Gurudwara in Washington State’s Sikh Temple of Spokane, and using ceremonial swords within the precints of the Gurudwara, inflicted over $30,000…
Fighting Power with Poetry: Sikh Rights Activist Sukhjit Kaur Wins Hearts Across Australia Melbourne, Australia: Recently, Sukhjit Kaur who was UNITED SIKHS director, Australia made it big on media on “Australia’s Got Talent”. She won the hearts of audience and…