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The entire storm brewing around Sandeep Singh's fitness has finally been put to rest. Hockey India on Saturday issued a statement ruling out the drag-flicker from the Champions Challenge hockey tournament to be held in Argentina. Diwakar Ram has been named as Sandeep's replacement for the tournament.  

On the eve of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's arrival in the U.S., different advocacy, human rights groups, networks and Sikh organisations, have put up a coordinated campaign across North America and Europe to expose the denial of justice to the thousands of victims of the November 1984 anti-Sikh carnage. According to a release on Saturday, these groups have appealed to President Barack Obama, members of the U.S. Congress, human rights organisations, the media and the people of the U.S., to ask Dr. Sing  

Navjeet Singh Dhillon, aka Bob Dhillon, was in his teens when his family migrated to Canada from Liberia, where they had suffered business losses. It was the mid-seventies and the future was uncertain. Today, Dhillon is a billionaire, probably the only Sikh billionaire in the world, a real estate tycoon who's frequently referred to in the Canadian media as the 'biggest Asian landlord'.  

Model code of conduct should be imposed on Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC) as its term has already expired, a prominent Sikh leader demanded today. "SGPC is largely known as mini parliament of Sikhs and as the term of its elected representatives has already expired, the present committee has no right to take any policy decision," president of Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) Simaranjit Singh Maan told reporters here. He said the Sikh Gurudwara Judicial Commission (SGJC) should immediatel  

A FAITH trail has been launched in Huddersfield to give locals the chance to explore main religious sites. The one-and-a-half mile pedestrian-friendly route offers an exploration of five local cultural treasures. These are Huddersfield Parish Church on Byram Street, the Methodist Mission on Lord Street, Guru Nanak Gurdwara on Prospect Street, Jamia Usman Masjid mosque on Upper George Street and St Patrick's Church on New North Road. The trail runs on the first Saturday of every month, starting this  

On the surface, the line of two-room dwellings on a dusty street in west Delhi appears little different from thousands of other roads in India's crowded capital. The paint flakes off buildings' walls and the grass grows in parks that haven't been mowed in months. Kids play cricket in the street, fruit and vegetable sellers push their wooden carts through narrow lanes and women busy themselves with housework and cooking.  

There's nothing democratic about a state dinner, no way to throw open the doors and turn the guest list into a Facebook free-for-all. (Although one wonders, in this age of share-every-detail-as-fast-as-humanly-possible, will there be Twittering between the courses?) A state dinner dazzles -- at least in theory, if not in fact -- because of its exclusivity, its location and its relative rarity.  

In what could be a push to the "Kartarpur corriodor movement", the US-based Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy (IMTD) is busy preparing a blueprint for the "peace corridor" between India and Pakistan to link Gurdwara Kartarpur Sahib in Narowal district of Pakistan with Indian territory. The IMTD, an NGO set up by John W McDonalid and Dr Louise Diamond, is busy enrolling engineers, architects and businessmen from India, Pakistan and the US for the project. The corridor, if set up as demanded, will prove  

The foundation stone of the 56th Akal Academy was laid at Kamalpura village in Rupnagar district today. These academies are known for promoting education in rural areas. The aim is to provide scientific educations, blended with rich moral and spiritual values to the people in North India, says Attar Singh Maharaj of Mastuana Sahib.