LONDON: The large Sikh community in the west Midlands town of Coventry is outraged after a memorial in honour of Sikh soldiers was desecrated by miscreants who tied a pig's head to the structure.

The war memorial was put up near a central roundabout by the community in 2005 to honour the 83,000 Sikh soldiers who fought in the British army during the two World Wars.

Mumbai, June 21
Three bodyguards of Baba Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, chief of the Dera Sacha Sauda sect, who were arrested yesterday for shooting a man to death at a Mumbai mall, have been remanded in police custody till July 2. The names of the bodyguards are Jagdev Singh, Satnam Arora and Rajguru Taneja.

Washington June 20, : President Bush has greeted the Sikhs across America and worldwide on the 300th anniversary of the Sikh Scripture, Guru Granth Sahib as the community will commemorate this event in October.

Sikhs will be celebrating this auspicious occasion in their respective congregations all over the world.

"I send greetings to those celebrating the 300th anniversary of the Sikh Scriptures", said President Bush in a message released today from the White House.

A Sikh relief worker yesterday asked Myanmar Prime Minister Thein Sein to cut through his regime’s red-tape and allow international relief workers to send aid to the worst cyclone-devastated areas of his country, a news release said.

Blindsided last week when a premiere American university invited a 1984 perpetrator as its keynote speaker, Sikh organizations are looking into ways to “expose” Indian officials accused of abuses in the 1984 anti-Sikh pogroms when they try to attend speaking engagements in the United States.

Models wearing turbans and sporting beards walked the ramp in trendy clothes as

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