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British gurdwara ready to turn into temporary hospital
Guru Maneyo Granth Gurdwara, Slough – Photo: Gurdwara Facebook page By Asia Samachar Team | BRITAIN | How can a gurdwara serve the wider public in the face of a looming medical crisis with the spread...
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Sikh volunteers feed the hungry in Delhi
These volunteers feed the hungry in Delhi – Sikh News Express video photograb By Sikh News Express | INDIA | SOME 7,000 to 8,000 people partake meals from this open kitchen just outside Gurdwara Sis...
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Malaysian gurdwaras provide dry ration, cash assistance
By Asia Samachar Team | MALAYSIA | At least two Malaysian gurdwaras have launched some form of assistance to families impact by the partial lockdown due to the novel coronavirus. Tatt Khalsa Diwan...
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Timing the Singapore general elections
By Asia Samachar Team | SINGAPORE | A good time to mull on the when Singaporeans should go to the polls would be sometime in June, says former parliamentarian Inderjit Singh. Why then? In a lengthy...
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SIWEC, more Singapore gurdwaras offering Covid-19 support
By Asia Samachar Team | SINGAPORE | The Central Sikh Gurdwara Board (CSGB) and Sikh Welfare Council Singapore (SIWEC) are offering assistance to those affected by the novel coronavirus Covid-19. The...
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Malaysian woman first coronavirus positive in Jharkhand
A videograb from Al-Jazeera report By Asia Samachar Team | INDIA | Jharkhand reported its first case of Covid-19 after a Malaysian woman tested positive for the virus. A Malaysian woman, who is among...
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Medical frontliner in New York
Dr Neelkamal Kaur Randhawa By Asia Samachar Team | UNITED STATES | Dr Neelkamal Kaur Randhawa, a hospitalist working with Covid-19 patients on ground zero in New York. She is affiliated with Montefiore...
View ArticleJust release: ‘Satnaam Jaap’ by Amrita Kaur & Yadvinder Singh
KIRTAN | NEWLY RELEASED: New-Zealand based daughter and father duo of Amrita Kaur and Yadvinder Singh has just released the ‘Satnaam Jaap’. The 28-minute track was inspired upon hearing the distinct...
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Coronavirus and human suffering
By Manjit Kaur (UK) | OPINION | When we see conflict, be it between countries, peoples, religions, organisations or families, we often call for ‘ekta’ or unity. At the moment it seems like all of the...
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Renown ragi Nirmal Singh dies after testing positive for Covid-19
Ragi Nirmal Singh By Asia Samachar Team | INDIA | Bhai Nirmal Singh Khalsa, a former hazoori ragi (resident kirtani) at Harmandir Sahib, passed away early this morning (2 April), a day after he was...
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A social enterprise team produces face shields in 5 days
Inspecting the finished protective face shields – Photo: Asia Tatler / Biji-Biji Initiative By Tania Jayatilaka | MALAYSIA | What we’ve witnessed in the past 2 weeks under the Movement Control Order...
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London: 7 Afghan Sikhs die from coronavirus
Southall – Photograb from Afghan Sikh documentary ‘Hindu Kush to Thames’ By Asia Samachar Team | U.K.| Reeling from the devastating attack on a gurdwara in Kabul, Sikhs from Afghanistan in London were...
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Gurmat Sanggeet has lost an illustrious son
Ragi Bhai Nirmal Singh (1952-2020) By Gurmukh Singh | OPINION | The death of Bhai Nirmal Singh Khalsa, Hazoori Ragi, Sri Darbar Sahib Harmandhir Sahib, has shocked the Sikh Panth. Perhaps more so...
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Fauja Singh turns 109!
Fauja Singh personifies the indomitable spirit of the human. The oldest marathon runner turned 109 years-old on Wednesday (1 April). Contemporary artists The Singh Twins shared on their Facebok page a...
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Driven by fear
By Hb Singh | OPINION | A respected kirtani is denied cremation in a village near the hospital in Punjab, India, where he passed away due to the novel coronavirus. Surprised? Well, probably not. We...
View ArticleNew Release: Shri Harkrishan by Shivpreet Singh
KIRTAN | NEW RELEASE: An ongoing attempt to heal through music….Music and Oneness abounds despite the spreading pandemic related to Covid-19. I am recording some simple tracks while we are quarantined...
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Panjab can become a Desert State in 20 Years
Punjab underground water – Photo: Videograb from Punjabi documentary ‘Final Assault’ (Akhri Hamlaa) By Gurmukh Singh | OPINION | A recent government report warns that at the current rate of groundwater...
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It will be a feather in their cap if they can chase Sikhs out of Afghanisatan
Afghan Sikhs and military service: A 1973 photo capturing the first ever Sikh doctor from Jalalabad. Prof Dr Bhagat Singh Hakimzada (left hand side) and Prof Dr Saran Singh Motizada (slightly on the...
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Coventry specialist laboratory wins new contracts
From the left, Justine Chadwick (CWLEP Growth Hub), Taran Kaur and Daya Singh (Exeter Analytical) and Cllr Jim O’Boyle (Coventry City Council) – Photo: BDaily By Matt Joyce | BRITAIN | A specialist...
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Century-old KL crematorium will accept Covid-19 victims
FILE PHOTO: Traditional fire wood crematorium in Jalan Loke Yew, Kuala Lumpur. A cremation in progress in early 2016 – PHOTO / ASIA SAMACHAR By Asia Samachar Team | MALAYSIA | A century-old crematorium...
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