Afghanistan's hated Sikhs yearn for India
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - Forced to wear yellow patches in the days of the Taliban, the homesick Sikhs of Afghanistan still hide in back alleys and yearn for India.
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Sikh officials in northern India condemn the stoning by students of an important shrine in Pakistan.
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Furious with a &quot;biased&quot; and interventionist report by a European parliamentary delegation, whose leader called Jammu and Kashmir &quot;the world&#39;s most beautiful prison,&quot; India has withdrawn official patronage to such visits.
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Several hundred Indian Sikhs staged a protest in the Himalayan region of Kashmir against a ban imposed by the French government on the wearing of religious symbols, including turbans, in schools.
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BOBIGNY, France, Sep 10 (IPS) - Jasvir Singh touches his turban like it was his  most precious property. âI will never take it off,â he says  sitting in the yard of the Sikh temple in Bobigny, 10 km from  Paris.
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Doctors in India's oldest semen bank say that a growing number of couples from Afghanistan are visiting them.
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Barely 48-hours after burning the tricolour, the Meiteis of Manipur cheered lustily after Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore won India&#39;s first individual Olympic silver medal for double trap shooting. Many in Imphal were glued to the television set as Rathore ...
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Given the extreme passion cricket evokes in India, it would be tempting to condemn the entire Indian team and ask for the sacking of a majority of the players.
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[World News]: London, Dec 25 : Leaders of the British Sikh community have appealed to protestors to withdraw death threats against Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti, writer of the controversial Punjabi play &quot;Behzti&quot;.
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President Karzai's rival gains ground by appealing to Afghanistan's former anti-Soviet resistance fighters.
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KABUL, Afghanistan  -- Western pop videos, India's Bollywood movies and even Charlton Heston's &quot;The Ten Commandments&quot; have Afghanistan's fledgling cable TV stations in hot water.
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MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan - At first glance the election commissionâs map of Afghanistan appears to be a colour-coded layout of the countryâs patchwork ethnic groups.
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Human Rights Watch urged the Indian government to launch a fresh probe into the mass killing of Sikhs following the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi 20 years ago, and make a public commitment to prosecute those behind the violence.
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia  - Nearly two decades  after Air India Flight 182 exploded over the Atlantic Ocean  killing 329 people, the fate of the two Sikh extremists charged  with the bombing is finally in hands of a judge.
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From the blood-thirsty to the  philosophical, the militant Taliban movement is cast in many  roles in a new Bollywood film about war-ravaged Afghanistan.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- The beat-up video camera was delivered to Afghanistan in a box and picked up by two clean-shaven Arabs posing as journalists. They met with Osama bin Laden before leaving on their mission: to kill mujahideen hero Ahmad Shah Massood.
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It is that time of the year when their hearts yearn for Durga Puja festivities back home