Officials at a North Carolina university are being criticized after an incident in which a Sikh student was detained for wearing a kirpan, a curved dagger carried by some Sikhs as part of their ...

The new weapons policy, adopted on March 21, allows for Hopkinton Public Schools students initiated in the Sikh faith to carry a kirpan — a small, dull blade that Sikhs carry as part of their ...

Kirpan is one of the integral parts of five Sikh Kakars. In a shocking incident that occurred in the United States of America, a Sikh student at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte was ...

“I was told someone called 911 and reported me, and I got cuffed for ‘resisting’ because I refused to let the officer take my kirpan out of the miyaan.” The California Sikh Youth Alliance ...

A Sikh student at UNC Charlotte was handcuffed after an unidentified person called 911 on them. The caller had mistaken a religious item, a kirpan, for a knife, the university said in a statement.

The University of North Carolina at Charlotte announced this week that it would allow Sikh students to wear a kirpan on campus, a religious article. The change comes about two months after a video ...

The chancellor of the University of North Carolina Charlotte apologized for the student’s detainment over a kirpan, “an article of faith in Sikhism.” Former Senior Breaking News Editor A ...

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At issue is the small dagger, or “Kirpan” that Ruppenjot and other followers of the Sikh faith are required to carry on their person along with several other religious articles. “He just saw ...

A Sikh man is speaking out after he said he was denied entry to a Sacramento Kings game at Golden 1 Center for wearing his kirpan, a religious item. Mandeep Singh, a 37-year-old community ...

HOPKINTON - The Hopkinton school district may be the first in Massachusetts to allow students initiated in Sikh faith to carry kirpans, a small, dull blade worn as part of their religious identity.

The order, citing "security concerns," allows Sikh passengers to carry kirpans with blades under six inches on domestic flights but explicitly prohibits staff from wearing them. The Amritsar Vikas ...