A Gurdwara in the US state of California has organized an open house and welcomed hundreds of people in a bid to spread awareness about the religion, weeks after it was defaced with a swastika graffiti in an apparent hate crime.
According to the Federal Bureau of Justice Statistics, Americans experience an average of 250,000 hate crimes per year; this latest FBI data, by contrast, only managed to document 7,120 incidents, with less than 13 per cent of law enforcement affirmatively providing reports of hate crimes, it said.
Petitioner Ojha alleged that the 49 signatories to the letter had, by their actions, "tarnished the image of the country and undermining the impressive performance of the Prime Minister" and also charged them with "supporting secessionist tendencies".
The priest, Amarjit Singh, told local Fresno Bee newspaper that an intruder, who broke open the window to enter his home inside the gurdwara campus, punched him, asked him to go back to his country and yelled obscenities at him.
The letter intends to draw PM Modi's attention to "a number of tragic events" recently, including the alleged weaponisation of the slogan "Jai Shri Ram" into a "war cry".
More than $600,000 has been raised for the treatment of a 13-year-old Indian-American hate crime victim who remains in coma after being struck down intentionally in April by a motorist who thought she was a Muslim.
The man, identified as John Crain, threw the hot coffee at the clerk then punched him in the face before fleeing just before 2 a.m. on Wednesday in Marysville, the Sacramento Bee reported.
Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas also extended their support to the actor.
It was on Monday when Harwinder Singh Dodd, who was working at a convenience store in the US State of Oregon, was racially targeted by a 24-year-old Andrew Ramsey.
Allasheed Allah from Manhattan's East Harlem neighbourhood was arrested on Thursday and charged with assault as a hate crime and aggravated harassment against 20-year-old Avneet Kaur during the November 30 attack in New York City's Queens borough, the police said.
CCTV images from the area reportedly show a group of four-five youths, dressed in hoodies, attempting to start a fire on the hedges outside the Karlekars' home.
Singh and his family were earlier on Monday attacked allegedly by Khalistan sympathisers at a TV studio in New York, making Saturday’s incident a second of such attack.
The investigators are trying to determine if the attack was a hate crime. Police arrested 18-year-old Tyrone McAllister and a 16-year-old male juvenile yesterday for the attack on Sahib Singh Natt on the side of a road early morning on August 6 in Manteca.
The man was attacked on his head with a road. He however, escaped major injury because of his turban.
The man was identified by Indian authorities as Sharath Koppu, who was shot by unidenitified persons at J’s Fish and Chicken Market on Prospect Avenue on Friday evening.
The Sikh community in the UK has often been the mistaken target of hate crimes against Muslims that surged after the 9/11 attack in the US.
Sunayana Dumala, the widow of an Indian engineer who was shot dead in a hate crime, will be among White House guests during Trump's first State of the Union address tomorrow.
The accused Regar has reportedly told Rajasthan police that Ashraful was killed by mistake and that his real target was someone else.
The Chief Minister also sent a team of Ministers and party MPs to visit the family in Malda district.
“We have also detained his minor nephew as it was he who shot the videos, including that of the murder,” Inspector General of Police, Udaipur range, Anand Shrivastava, said.
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