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	Human Rights activists tear apart India's shameful record WSN Bureau At a major symposium on Human Rights, organized by by the Hong Kong-based South Asia Forum for Human Rights (SAFHR) and the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), top scholars said many police officers could have been in jail if documentation about violation of Rights had been better.


	TIME honours Baba Seechewal WSN Bureau Recognition as one out of thirty world leaders in environment likely to boostseco work in Punjab


	Sikhs protest prison inmate's hair cutting WSN Network Advocacy groups and American Civil Liberties Union fight for religious rights in prison


	Unholy Smoke WSN Network The determination of health minister Dr. Ramadoss and anti-tobacco campaigners makes India ban smoking in public places from 2 October.


	sHindutva Terror WSN Bureau Bajrang Dal and VHP are on a rape and killing spree as the general masses ignore the Christians' fate.

3000 Sikh Students honoured
at Akal Takht
Know thy Guru Lehar reaches zenith
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SUKRIT successfully completes first lap of Sehaj Path Lehar
as part of Gurta Gaddi celebrations.

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Intolerant India
from Sikhophobia to Islamophobia and now Christophobia
Jagmohan Singh

4	The Christian world is in a state of shock. In an Open Letter to the United States Commission for International Religious Freedom, the author urges categorising India in the Watch List of countries which violate religious freedoms.

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	Award winning (3rd) film at Sikhnet Youth Film Festival

Award winning (2nd) film at Sikhnet Youth Film Festival
Award winning (1st) film at the Sikhnet Youth Film Festival
Poetic tribute to Ishmeet Singh by H.S. Bawa
Panj Kahaniyan-from SikhNet Online Film Festival
Jathedar Kulwant Singh of Takht Huzur Sahib
invites Sikhs to Tercentenary celebrations
Sikh shot in Sacramento during Sports festival
Jinhe Naaz Hai Hind Par Woh Kahan Hain
Ishmeet Singh's last live performance

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	Eight Indian-Canadians become MPs as Canada re-elects ruling party WSN Bureau VANCOUVER/TORONTO: Though Canadian PM Stephen Harper’s gameplan of going in for polls a third time in four years did not give him a firm control over Parliament, his Conservative Party did improve the tally while falling short of a majority in the House of Commons.

	STOP PRESS NEWS
	ACLU Asks Florida Governor to Stop Haircut of Sikh Inmate <> Amritsar Cong united over PM’s candidature <> 22 SGPC officials found guilty of theft, drug addiction <> Hindu funeral pyres a legal issue in UK <> Jet-Kingfisher invites Air India to join alliance <> Normal life paralysed in Manipur due to strike <> Markets down on recession fears <> North Korea allows UN monitors to main nuclear site

	Main News Sacramento Sikhs to hold Interfaith Peace March Official Probe confirms fake encounters Malaysia Sikhs to hold Shabad Guru Leadership meet Jatha to Pak for Guru Ram Dass birth anniversary Sikh taxi driver's attacker jailed Hindu girl gangraped, mistaken for being Christian India takes weeks to admit nun was gangraped Veteran Weightlifter Harbans Singh passes away Enka singer Sarbjit Singh’s music king in Japan And now maybe a Sikh MP in Kiwi land too

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	Huzur Sahib Jathedar Kulwant Singh ji rides to Baba Banda Ghat

	Deccan Sikhs offer Kalgi at Takht Huzur Sahib

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	Sonia Gandhi participates in Gurta Gaddhi celebrations \| SUKRIT's Know Thy Guru Lehar reaches zenith \| California Sikhs protest Pashaura Singh appointment \| Surleen Kaur's artistic tribute to late Ishmeet Singh \| Glimpses of Jatinderpal Singh's talent Sikh Hockey Players on Postage Stamps \| The Nanded Pictorial Tour Jasbir Singh Tatla in Canadian Air Force Sikhi and Gatka Camp, Rotterdam, July 2008 \| The Last journey of Ishmeet Singh \|

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Eighteen Gurdwaras of
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Editorial	Op-Ed	Opinion
Zen & the Art of Terrorising People 82 year Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hahn prepares compassion as an antidote to anger, violence, fear and hate, saying that "terrorists are also victims, who create other victims of misunderstanding."	Creative Racism Jagmohan Singh Jagmohan Singh writes a scathing Open Letter to Warner Brothers rebuking their insistence on not changing the name of new movie Towelhead, despite protests from Sikh and Muslim advocacy groups.	Punjab, Subsidies and the Wall St Wisdom Kalam Nishan Singh Elitist-sounding arguments for ending subsidy and curtailing welfare expenditure for Dalits, may sound good but is far from ground realities.

Sikh Religion		Sports		Entertainment		Books
Pictorial book on Guru Granth Sahib released WSN Network National Institute of Punjab Studies celebrates Tercentenary with a rare book and exhibition of rare "birs" and photographs.		Hockey Philately Diljit Singh (Dil) Bahra Hockey in India is at the lowest today. The ubiquitous handkerchief-wearing Sikh players were missing at the Beijing Olympics, but for our author, hockey is in his veins.		Sikh Film Festival showcases Heritage WSN Bureau A New York gets a taste of Sikh culture as films and events take centre stage amidst plethora of stalwarts.		King was Singh This portrait of Duleep Singh as the last maharaja of Punjab in the novel Exile, is as much about the 11 year old king, his exile within as it is about his estrangement from his homeland.

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