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 ...

Elderly Sikh Man Detained in Abu Dhabi, Forced to Remove Turban and Kirpan An elderly Sikh individual from Kaithal, Haryana, ...

His son, Manpreet, appealed to the Indian government to take up the matter with its counterpart in UAE to ensure such ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

22, 2022. John D. Simmons FILE PHOTO A Sikh student being handcuffed at the University of North Carolina’s Charlotte campus for carrying a Kirpan put a spotlight on weapons laws and religious ...

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 ...

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 ...

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