Captain Tejdeep Singh Rattan has been accepted as an Army dentist and allowed to wear a turban and not shave his hair as a condition of joining the military. Confirming the drafting of Rattan, the community's advocacy group, Sikh Coalition, hailing the Army action, said these enrolments should not be treated as isolated cases and that doors should be opened for large-scale recruitment of Sikhs in the US Army.
It is the Eden Gardens pitch that seems to be giving the Indian team more headaches than their team line-up or the opposition.
The Supreme Court today issued a fresh notice to a convent school in Madhya Pradesh on a Muslim student's right to sport a beard.
The government was able to initiate crucial steps in the ministries of rural development, human resource development, home, finance and commerce, thanks to energetic ministers, but did not exactly win laurels on other fronts.
The Bollywood actor lit up the ramp for fashion designer Masaba Gupta at the Lakme Fashion Week Summer/Resort 2016.
The latest updates from the Malayalam film industry.
The direction and remarks by the bench assume significance, as this is the third time the issue has cropped up before the apex court and an earlier bench had dismissed the student's plea with the controversial observation by Justice Markandeya Katju that the country cannot be 'Talibanised'.
As soon as he entered his barrack, Rahul noticed a group of seven inmates seated on their mattresses under the television set. They must be the terrorists, Rahul thought to himself. He knew that such accused are usually housed in murder barracks, far from jingoistic gangsters, who tend to abuse and attack them. A fascinating excerpt from Gangster On The Run: The True Story Of A Reformed Criminal.
Out of the total potential loss, the share of state-run banks will be Rs 24,800 crore in FY18, while that of the private sector banks will be Rs 5,700 crore
Nathan Coulter-Nile slammed 92 from 60 deliveries to register the highest score by a No 8 batsman in a World Cup.
Croatia came back after conceding in the opening minute to defeat Denmark 3-2 in the penalty shoot-out and earn a World Cup quarter-final berth, after the two sides drew 1-1 in the Round of 16 match on Sunday.
Products and services targeted at socio-economic categories A and B may sell well during a boom; but for all-weather sales you must have products that sell in large numbers in small towns and villages.
Mo Farah ended his indoor career with a new European record, winning the 5,000 metres at the Birmingham Indoor Grand Prix on Saturday in a time of 13 minutes 09.16 seconds.
Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni praised Sachin Tendulkar for his "amazing" display of shots but lamented that his team could not shave off the New Zealand tail, which wagged in the third one-dayer in Christchurch on Sunday.
It's time once again for fans and well-wishers all over to wish our most beloved superstar Amitabh Bachchan a speedy recovery
Eliud Kipchoge's story is unusual because when he came into competitive running it was not in the marathon. Fortunately for himself and the rest of us, he then turned to the marathon. Aakar Patel salutes the great runner's incomparable spirit.
That was only the 12th time that a driver had started that low and won.
Star of the upcoming film, Roy, Arjun Rampal fields rapid-fire questions!
'Searching for the target with bare eyes was like searching for the needle in the haystack, but due to the technology, we had a clear picture of the seven tents perched against the rocky background on our scopes.'
The Mahindra BAJA SAE India recently held its annual challenge for undergraduate engineers.
A Texas company has been sued for religious discrimination by the United States government after it did not hire a Sikh who refused to shave his beard and take off his turban. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is seeking punitive damages for Sukhdev Singh Brar, a certified security officer in the Dallas area, apart from back pay and compensation for pain and suffering caused to him.
A look at the top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
The Bush administration had originally requested 300 million dollars in military aid to Islamabad, but lawmakers cut 50 million dollars until the time secretary of state Condoleezza Rice can certify that Pakistan is restoring democratic rights, including an independent judiciary.
For decades, only the largest givers made extensive use of networking, highly targeted giving and specialized volunteer efforts. Now, those three tools are in the hands of almost everyone with altruistic leanings, thanks to proliferating Web sites like Donorschoose.org and Network for Good.
Canada beat USA to enter quarters, Argentina overpower Chile in opening tie
Padma Viswanathan discusses her semi-biographical novel The Toss of a Lemon with rediff India Abroad's Arthur J Pais.
Michael Johnson lost his 200 metres world record to an extraordinary run by new Olympic double sprint champion Usain Bolt on Wednesday and predicted the big Jamaican could now take his 400 mark too. Johnson, who won the 200m and 400m double at the 1996 Atlanta Games, was as impressed as anyone in the 91,000 capacity Bird's Nest crowd when Bolt shaved two hundredths of a second off his previous 200m world best to win gold again.
The farmers, who have been staging a protest for the past 41 days demanding a Rs-40,000 crore drought relief package, farm loan waiver and setting up of the Cauvery Management Board by the Centre
Aamir Khan's almost bald for his next film. What do you think of the look, dear reader? Have your say!
Domestic airlines will save around Rs 2,500 crore annually if they import aviation turbine fuel directly rather than buy it from state-owned oil marketing companies. This would help them shave off around 14 per cent of their burgeoning fuel bill and cut the industry's projected loss of Rs 8,000 crore for the current financial year by a little less than a third.
The 30-share BSE Sensitive index or Sensex slipped below 13,000-mark. At 1450 hrs, Sensex was down 526 points at 12,936. a loss of almost 4 per cent compared to Thutsday's close.
Market research company, AC Nielsen, in its monthly retail sales audit of consumer goods, has identified 24 categories in the personal grooming space that are growing at an average rate of 13 per cent.
The Top Chef star wrote a lengthy post about her childhood and her family's journey to the United States.
The fast moving consumer goods index was the lone survivor -- gaining 3.24 per cent. Tobacco-to-hotels major ITC rose on account of its better-than-expected quarterly results.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Sunday
The Tamil actor has worked even harder and got himself six-pack abs for Gowtham Menon's new film Vaaranam Aaiyiram, where his character ages from his teenage days until his 70s.
Gillette signed Roger Federer, Thierry Henry and Tiger Woods to endorse their shaving product.
While Jamir, also the former chief minister of Nagaland, escaped unhurt, a security personal accompanying him received injuries as the attackers fired mortars from a distance while the Governor was returning from Mokokchung to Dimapur, the sources said.
'I don't watch my films more than once, otherwise I will fall in love with myself.'
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