April 18, 2021 |
Jalandhar: An Indian-origin youth has been arrested for a series of attacks on Sikhs which are suspected to be hate crimes. Asutalian media has identified the man as 24-year-old Vishal Jood.
NSW police, in a statement, said Jood was arrested on Friday morning, from a house on Dixon Street in Parramatta, a major commercial hub outside Sydney. He has been charged with “three counts of affray, three counts of armed with intent commit indictable offence, two counts of destroy or damage property » $5000 and =$15,000 (DV), and assault occasioning actual bodily harm in company of other(s)”, said police.
The 24-year-old was refused bail and he was produced in a Parramatta court on Saturday. “Since September last year, officers attached to Parramatta Police Area Command have been investigating a number of incidents in Harris Park. About 8.30pm, September 16, 2020, a man walking along Brisbane Street was assaulted by a group of up to five men. The man was
April 17, 2021 |
New York: At least four Sikhs have been killed in a mass shooting at a FedEx company facility in Indianapolis by a 19-year-old former employee, according to the Sikh Coalition.
Officials, who said that a “significant” number of employees at the parcel and courier service company are Sikhs, reported that the gunman killed himself after murdering eight people Thursday night and wounding at least seven, five of whom were hospitalised.
Those killed have been identified as Amarjeet Kaur Johal (66), Jaswinder Kaur (64), Amarjit Singh Sekhon (48), Jaswinder Singh (68), Karli Smith (19), Samaria Blackwell (19), Matthew R. Alexander (32) and John Weisert (74).
The Sikh Coalition added, “We are in touch with sangat leaders, government and law enforcement officials” and “we expect that the authorities will conduct a full investigation including the possibility of a bias factor.”
April 17, 2021 |
New Delhi: Actor turned activist Deep Sidhu was granted bail by a Delhi court today. He was arrested by Delhi police special cell in a case registered in relation to an incident at Red Fort during Kisan Parade of 26 January.
Deep Sidhu was granted bail in FIR number 96/21, PS Kotwali Delhi.
But he was re-arrested in another case by Delhi police few hours after bail. He is re-arrested by Delhi police crime branch in FIR number 98/21 PS Kotwali Delhi.
April 10, 2021 |
Connecticut, USA: US Congressman Joe Courtney has said that “excessive response” to farmers protest in India by the government of India was “worth of condemnation”. While responding to concerns raised by Swaranjit Singh Khalsa, directory of Sikh Art Gallery, Joe Courteny said: “protests by many within India’s agricultural community have drawn worldwide attention after India’s Parliament enacted major legislation last November that sought to bring structural change to the country’s agricultural sector. In the time since, mass protests have ensued out of concern that the new law allows for an exploitation of farmers within the industry by larger firms, and that there was an overall lack of consensus built before the new law was enacted”.
April 7, 2021 |
Chandigarh: The Punjab Government has notified the Policy for the empanelment of News Web Channels namely ‘The Punjab News Web Channel Policy, 2021’.
Disclosing this here today a spokesperson of the Punjab Government said that it was the need of the hour to optimally utilize these platforms of the modern era to publicize and promote the policies of the Punjab Government. The spokesperson said that news channels which were being run on the social media platforms of Facebook and Youtube would be covered under this policy.
‘Mainly Punjab specific news channels having 70% of the news from the State of Punjab would be considered for empanelment apart from other terms and conditions of the Policy’ added the spokesperson.