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Missing NY resident Rajwinder Kaur found in TX

July 13, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Rajwinder Kaur, a resident of Queens, New York who was reported missing earlier this week, was located in Dallas, Texas: Rajwinder Kaur, 26, was located in Dallas after a friend went to police and informed them of her location, a law enforcement official said. The friend had purchased a bus ticket to Dallas for Kaur. It wasn’t clear why Kaur was in Texas. During the week, the news of her disappearance spread quickly through social media and across the South […]

Categories: News Bits • Tags: Dallas, New York, Queens, Rajwinder Kaur, Texas

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NY police searching for missing Rajwinder Kaur

July 10, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

The New York Police Department is looking for Rajwinder Kaur, 26, who is a resident of Queens and who has been missing since Sunday: HOLLIS (WABC) — Police and family members are asking for help locating a missing woman in Queens. Rajwinder Kaur, 26, has not been seen or heard from since leaving her home on 198 Street Sunday night, according to investigators. “She always comes home. She always lets us know where she is,” Gurpreet Kaur, her sister, said. […]

Categories: News Bits • Tags: Crime Stoppers, New York, Queens, Rajwinder Kaur

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New York’s South Asian taxi drivers

June 22, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

South Asian cabbies have told me that they’ve been spat upon, cursed at, hit, punched and, in one case, even stabbed. One Sikh driver once joked to me that he was called “Arab,” “Muslim” and “terrorist” so often that he was considering converting! Of course, he was kidding, but his comment underscored the absurdity of someone mistaking a Sikh for a Muslim, as these two groups have historically been bitter enemies in Northern India. …However, on the other side of […]

Categories: News Bits • Tags: International Business Times, New York, Palash R. Ghosh, taxi, taxicab

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The Sikhs and the TSA, with a twist

June 13, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and their issues around apparent racial profiling of Sikhs has been a recurring topic on this blog, however, an interesting twist in the news came out recently where the TSA was found to be discriminating against a Sikh employee: Kulwinder Singh called it a violation of his religious rights, and took his case to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The EEOC determined that the Transportation Security Administration was wrong to have Singh hide his […]

Categories: Civil Rights, News Bits • Tags: Discrimination, EEOC, Employment Discrimination, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Transportation Security Administration, TSA

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MTA officially settles with Sikhs and Muslims on ‘brand or segregate’ policy

May 30, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Earlier this month and as a result of a seven-year long legal challenge, New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA), which oversees public transit in the city, agreed in principle to eliminate the requirement that Sikhs or Muslims who wear religious head-coverings to affix a corporate logo on the head-covering, or be segregated out of public view.  This policy was coined as “brand or segregate”. The settlement was officially filed in federal court today, and includes: Transit Authority employees will no […]

Categories: Civil Rights, News Bits • Tags: brand or segregate, Metropolitan Transit Authority, MTA, Muslim, New York, Sikh, Turban, United States Department of Justice

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Indianapolis, IN Sikh students talk about their experiences

May 24, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Sunny recalled a troubling incident when he was in middle school. “One person actually went so far to insult one of the five K’s by actually taking it off of me. But I confronted the principal about it, and he told me that as soon as he found out who it was, he’d do something about it. But the guy ended up getting kicked out for some other reason, so it didn’t matter.” — Sandeep “Sunny” Atwal, 18, comments in […]

Categories: News Bits • Tags: bullying, Indiana, Indianapolis, Sandeep "Sunny" Atwal

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Lawsuit against Jay Leno over Golden Temple remark to be dismissed

May 24, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

You may recall the news of a Sikh physician in Bakersfield, California who initiated a lawsuit against Jay Leno over the comedian’s use of a picture of Darbar Sahib (also known as the Golden Temple, Sikhism’s central shrine in Amritsar, India) as part of a joke on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.  The plaintiff has now requested that the lawsuit be dismissed: The joke, which was broadcast on January 9, shows the homes of the GOP candidates including Newt […]

Categories: News Bits • Tags: Amritsar, Bakersfield, California, Darbar Sahib, Harmandir Sahib, Jay Leno, Mitt Romney, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

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Reward increased to $35,000 in Balbir Singh Dhami murder case

May 22, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Last year, Balbir Singh Dhami was shot and killed at his home in Sacramento, California. To date, no one has been arrested for the murder. It was announced today that the reward for tips that lead to the arrest of the suspect has been increased to $35,000 : Friends and family of a man killed inside his Sacramento home last year said they are adding $10,000 to the $25,000 reward they had already offered. Sacramento police said Balbir Dhami was […]

Categories: News Bits • Tags: Balbir Singh Dhami, California, murder, Sacramento, Sacramento Police Department

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Is Washington, D.C.’s Fojol Bros. food-truck racist?

May 22, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

The Washington Post discusses the Fojol Bros. food-trucks in Washington, D.C.: As of Friday, more than 950 people had signed the petition, many expressing outrage over the cultural insensitivity of Fojol employees, who wear turbans and fake bushy mustaches and assume mythical personas from the lands of “Merlindia” and “Benethiopia” — all while peddling dishes inspired by the cuisines of India, Ethiopia and Thailand. Despite the criticism, the founder of the business, Justin Vitarello, seems unapologetic about the use of […]

Categories: News Bits • Tags: "Washington, D.C.", Fojol Bros, Food truck, Washington Post

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