British army scraps Sikh regiment idea: report
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The British army considered setting up a regiment for British Sikhs but dropped the idea because it did not want to segregate them from other soldiers, the Sunday Telegraph reported.
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A theater on Monday abandoned further performances of a play that caused a riot by Sikhs who said it demeaned their religion. Executive director Stuart Rogers said the Birmingham Repertory Theatre had been left with no alternative but to end its run of "Behzti," a play by Sikh playwright Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti that depicts sexual abuse and murder in a Sikh temple.
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LONDON, Nov 4  - The Black Watch, three of whose soldiers have been killed in an ambush in Iraq just days after beginning a new mission near Baghdad, is one of the most famous regiments in the British army, billing itself &quot;Scotland&#39;s finest&quot;.
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The British Army, fighting in Iraq and  Afghanistan, is losing the equivalent resources of more than  one battalion (500-600 soldiers) a year as a result of illegal  drug use, researchers said on Friday.
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Geoff Hoon is to announce a major restructure of the Army, which will see four battalions cut and some regiments merged.
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[World News]: London, Dec 26 : Author Salman Rushdie has said he was horrified by the British government&#39;s response to Sikh protests that forced a play in Birmingham to be cancelled.
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Five hundred British troops began withdrawing Sunday from their base in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, the Ministry of Defense said.
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Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has announced that the number of troops in insurgency-hit Kashmir will be reduced this winter in view of an &quot;improvement&quot; there, a statement said.
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London (IANS) British Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon has announced a review of the rights of Gurkhas serving in the British armed forces.
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Two British soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan, the BBC has learned.
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Two British soldiers have died in an ambush on a British military convoy in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, Britain&#39;s Ministry of Defence says.
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Britain will withdraw its remaining 600 troops from Bosnia after a 15-year peacekeeping mission in the region, Defense Minister Adam Ingram said Thursday.
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India is to cut its troop deployments in the disputed territory of Kashmir this winter, Prime Minister Singh announces.
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Some 250 British soldiers will be withdrawn from Iraq over the next four weeks as part of a plan to reduce troop levels by 500 to 5,000, the defence ministry said Saturday.
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Britain&#39;s 850-strong Black Watch battle group has pulled out of Camp Dogwood in Iraq and returned to its base in Basra, the BBC reported Saturday.
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Geoff Hoon announces a major restructuring of the Army, which will see four battalions cut and regiments merged.
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British troops began withdrawing Sunday from their base inside the southern Iraqi city of Basra &#151; their final position in the country's second-largest city, the British Broadcasting Corp. reported.