Sardar Singh is Flag Bearer of the Indian Contingent at the 17th Asian Games 2014

Sardar Singh, Captain of Indian Men’s Hockey team, will be the flag bearer for the country during the opening ceremony of the 17th Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea, on Friday.

The 28-year-old midfielder was also a part of the torch lighting ceremony for the 17th Asian Games which started its journey last month from Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium in New Delhi, the venue for 1st Asian Games. Sardar Singh will be representing the Indian Men’s Hockey team for the second time at the Asian Games and it comes as a well deserved recognition for him.

~ by Vignesh Ananthasubramanian
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BRADFORD’S former Irish Club will be turned into a Sikh Temple after Bradford Council approved plans for a large redevelopment of the building.

The club, on Rebecca Street, closed earlier this year, and over the summer the Shri Guru Ravidass Bhawan applied for permission to change the use of the building, extend it and build a number of decorative domes. They would also refurbish the building’s car park to provide 30 parking spaces.

The Sikh group, registered as a charity, have been based in a building on Brearton Street since the 1980s, but their application said they had outgrown the space in that property and were hoping to re-locate to this new site.

A planning officer’s report said: “Considering the poor quality of the existing building, the proposed development would significantly improve the appearance of this building and the street scene in general.”

~ Source: http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/

Sringar: Fifteen-year-old Abdul Rahman has been staying in a Gurudwara along with his family ever since he was rescued from his house in marooned Wazir Bagh locality after the floods ravaged Jammu and Kashmir.

With temporary shelters being set up at gurudwaras and mosques for the victims, the calamity has bound people together cutting across religious lines.

“We have been staying at Shaheed Bunga Gurudwara since Tuesday after some volunteers saved us from our house. We eat food at the ‘langar’ (community kitchen) hall and sleep in the main hall of the gurudwara,” Rahman said.

About 2,000 rescued families of Sikhs, Muslims and Hindus have been staying at the gurudwara since past seven days.

A few meters away from the gurudwara, a relief camp has been set up at a local mosque where around 500 families including, a large number of migrant laborers from various parts of the country, have been staying.

“We adopted the concept of langar from our Sikh brothers and instead of giving dry ration we are serving pre-cooked food to the flood-affected people staying in the mosque,” said Ghulam Qadir, a volunteer at the mosque.

Many tourists, who got stuck in the Valley due the floods and are now staying in the mosque, say they are overwhelmed with the love and care shown by the people of Kashmir.

“Without enquiring about our identity or religion, people of Kashmir saved us. We are Hindu and are staying in a mosque where the local Muslims are taking our care. We now understand what Kashmir and Kashmiriyat is,” Anil Kumar, a resident of Uttar Pradesh, said.

Mehboob Ahmed, a volunteer at a local mosque at Barzulla Bagat area where several flood-hit victims have found shelter, said, “When the flood hit the Srinagar city, it did not distinguish between a Sikh family, a Muslim family or a Hindu family. We all have been affected. Now we all are fighting this calamity as Kashmiris.”

Gurudwara committees from across the country have been sending relief material for the flood-affected people.

The Amritsar-based Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC) too has been dispatching relief material, including cooked food, for the flood-affected people.

“The SGPC has started sending pre-cooked food and the packets are being either distributed to the flood affected people in the relief camps or are being dropped from air by the Air Force” said Daljeet Singh Bedi, Secretary, SGPC.

~ Source: http://www.timesofoman.com/

After facing a lot of disappointment in Britain’s Coventry schools, members of the Indian-origin Sikh community have set up their own school for their new generation.

Opened in Coventry, a city and metropolitan borough in the county of West Midlands, the newly opened Seva School presently offers education to 130 pupils (aged four to seven) for free, the Coventry Telegraph reported Monday.

Most of the students are of Sikh faith but a handful are from other faiths as well.

The school uses the maths curriculum based on schools in Singapore, where pupils are ahead of those in other countries.

Like many primary schools in Coventry the school follows the International Primary Curriculum, and teachers are using Kagan strategies, a method where pupils work closely together in groups and help each other.

“The trustees are born and bred in Foleshill suburb in Coventry and want to give something back to the community,” said Deputy head Suneta Bagri.

“They left school with low aspirations in life. They achieved anyway and became professionals but they want better for the next generation of children. The Seva School ethos is that every child can and will achieve.”

The school day begins at 8.30 a.m. and finishes at 4.15 p.m. The last hour of the day is spent in assembly, doing homework under supervision and after school sport and art clubs.

It is temporarily housed in a former special school in Tiverton Road, Wyken suburb, ahead of a move to a permanent home on a site yet to be announced.

The school is one of three newly opened schools in the city, alongside free school the Muslim Eden Girls School, in Foleshill, and University Technical College the WMG Academy for Young Engineers in Mitchell Avenue, Canley.

~ Source: http://www.business-standard.com/

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