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Senior U.S. officials met with Sikh advocates on Thursday to discuss threats facing Sikhs in the United States, including a foiled murder plot against a prominent activist last year, several ...
Born on July 6, 1949, in Jalandhar, Punjab, India, Balbir Singh Sodhi was a member of the Sikh religion. He was also a husband, and father to three sons and two daughters. [5] [6] He immigrated to the United States in 1989 and initially resided in Los Angeles, where he worked as a computer engineer and analyst at HP.
The first member of Congress to be killed or wounded in office was Henry Wharton Conway who was killed in a duel in 1827. The most recent death occurred in 1983 when Korean Air Lines Flight 007, carrying Larry McDonald, was shot down over the Pacific Ocean. The most recent Congress member to be injured was Angie Craig who was assaulted in 2023.
A shooting in Houston, Texas late Saturday evening left a pair of teenagers dead and three others wounded, according to police. Houston Police responded at about 11:20 p.m. Saturday night to a ...
A drive-by shooting near Vacaville on Aug. 11 targeting Sikh American advocate Satinder Pal Singh Raju sent shock waves through the Sikh American community, underscoring the ongoing threats we ...
Indian National Congress: Sikh militants [51] Tarlochan Singh Riyasti Ludhiana, Punjab: Former State Minister and Party leader [52] [53] Jagat Ram Punjab: State Party Vice-President and State Labor Minister Gurjant Singh Budhsinghwala (Khalistan Liberation Force) (Sikh militants) Vilayati Ram Kaytal: Kanpur, UP: MLA: Sikh militants [54] [55 ...
Meanwhile, four Indian nationals are facing charges of murder and conspiracy in Canada for the June 2023 fatal shooting of Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar outside his gurdwara, a Sikh place ...
The Stockton gurdwara, the oldest in the U.S., opened on October 24, 1912. [23]Sikhs have lived in the United States for more than 130 years. The first Sikh immigrants to the United States started to arrive in the second half of the 19th century, when poor economic conditions in British India drove many Indians to emigrate elsewhere.