QUEENS, NEW YORK(TIP): In what apparently is a hate crime, a previous life was lost in Queens. Nazma Khanam, a businesswoman died after she was attacked in Jamaica Hills. Mayor Bill de Blasio condoling her […]
Lal K Motwani And the name brings up the picture of a multidimensional personality. The name brings to mind a list of prestigious organizations with which Motwani has strong involvement. One starts wondering how come one man can […]
NEW YORK: The iconic Times Square was seeped in the colours of the Sikh culture as thousands of community members gathered in New York to celebrate Turban Day, an annual Vaisakhi celebration and a day […]
NEW YORK: A 68-year-old Sikh man was attacked Saturday, December 26, morning west of Highway 99 in what Fresno police are investigating as a hate crime – the latest such attack on a Sikh resident in […]
Shah Noor, a recent transplant to California from Maryland, was driving through a nearby community one evening with his wife and stopped at a 7-Eleven to get some milk. A police car pulled up with […]
In another hate crime, an armed robber shot a store clerk of Indian origin (sikh) in the face after accusing him of being an “ISIS terrorist.” Following the terror attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, […]
The police in California and the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Sunday, December 13, opened a hate crimes investigation after two mosques were vandalized overnight. One mosque had “Jesus is the Way” spray-painted across the front. Another […]
WASHINGTON: US Attorney General Eric Holder has been honoured by the Sikh community in America for his “exemplary service” to them during the “challenging times”, especially after the 2012 attack on a Gurdwara in Wisconsin. […]
CHICAGO (TIP): A recent video showing classmates taunting a Sikh student on a Georgia school bus – one of them calling the student a “terrorist” – and the 2012 shooting at a Sikh temple in […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Six US lawmakers along with leading advocacy groups have welcomed the inclusion of Sikh, Hindu, and Arab American communities in the Department of Justice’s hate crimes tracking effort. This is the final step […]
WASHINGTON, D.C., March 25, 2015 —The Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund (SALDEF) commented today on the release of the updated FBI Hate Crime Data Collection Guidelines and Training Manual, considered the single most important and inclusive […]
Dear Mr. Arnab Goswami, We, the undersigned, who have on many occasions participated in the 9:00 p.m. News Hour programme on Times Now, anchored by you, wish to raise concerns about the shrinking space in […]
A Hindu temple has been vandalised with hate speech in the US state of Washington, the incident happened when unidentified miscreants sprayed swastika and painted “Get Out” on one of the walls of the temple in […]
A Pacific Northwest Hindu temple finds itself on the receiving end of hate. Words of anger are written on a place of worship, just a day before big event planned at the Hindu Temple Cultural Center in Bothell. Leaders from the temple discovered the graffiti on the side of their building Sunday morning. […]
NEW YORK (TIP): After nearly three weeks of sustained Sikh community activism, the New York Police Department (NYPD) arrested 55-year-old Joseph Caleca for hitting, dragging, and seriously injuring Sandeep Singh with a truck in Queens […]
New York Sikhs feel “under siege” in wake of multiple brutal attacks NEW YORK (TIP): Rep. Joe Crowley (DQueens, the Bronx), a leader on Sikh- American issues that spearheaded the effort to encourage the Department […]
QUEENS, NY (TIP): Rep. Joe Crowley (D-Queens, the Bronx), a leader on Sikh- American issues who spearheaded the effort to encourage the Department of Justice and FBI to begin tracking and quantifying hate crimes against […]
WASHINGTON, DC (TIP): The bipartisan American Sikh Congressional Caucus announced, May 22, the appointment of Congressman John Garamendi (D-CA- 03) and Patrick Meehan (R-PA-07) as co-chairs of the Caucus. They will serve as leaders of […]
Jackson Heights Indian Merchants’ Association, Queens community members laud Crowley’s leadership, policy victories on Indian American, Sikh issues NEW YORK (TIP): Rep. Joe Crowley (DQueens, the Bronx), Vice Chair of the Democratic Caucus, was honored […]
EDISON, NJ (TIP): Indian-Americans living in the township of Edison in New Jersey had a rude shock when they say the election sign boards of Dr Sudhanshu Prasad running for office as Edison Mayor defaced […]
It is unfortunate that a city of immigrants has to face the scourge of hate crimes. In a diverse and multicultural society, one expects to see greater tolerance and accommodation. But in New York, it […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The newly formed American Sikh Congressional Caucus, which is under a cloud over alleged backing from some pro- Khalistan elements, got a shot in the arm as Ami Bera, the only Indian American […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): A federal grand jury in Seattle has indicted a man in Washington state on a federal hate crime charge relating to a racially motivated assault of a 50-year-old Sikh man. Jamie W Larson […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Joe Crowley, the cochairman of Congressional group on India and Indian-Americans, the India Caucus, has come up with an initiative to track the hate crimes against Sikhs, Hindus and Arab Americans. He […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Expressing shock at the death of Sunande Sen, an Indian man, who was shoved to his death in front of an oncoming subway train in New York last week, Indian Americans have asked […]
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