Officials at a North Carolina university are being criticized after an incident in which a Sikh student was detained for wearing a kirpan, a curved dagger carried by some Sikhs as part of their faith.

In Sikhism, the kirpan is an article of faith Sikhs maintain as part of a religious identity. U.S. Census: Hopkinton's population surges nearly 26% from 2010 to 2020.

Kirpan is one of the integral parts of five Sikh Kakars. In a shocking incident that occurred in the United States of America, a Sikh student at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte was ...

Harpreet Singh, co-founder of the Sikh Coalition, a New York-based group that works to protect Sikhs who practice their faith, said the kirpan has symbolic meaning. "It symbolizes a fight against ...

New York: A prominent US university has announced that it would allow Sikh students to wear a kirpan on campus, a religious article in Sikhism. The change comes about two months after a video was ...

Baptized Sikhs are required to carry or maintain the five articles of the Sikh faith: kesh (unshorn hair), kara (steel bracelet), kanga (small wooden comb), kachera (undershorts) and a kirpan ...

A Sikh student at University of North Carolina at Charlotte was detained and handcuffed after someone called 911 to report that he was in possession of a knife, which was actually a religious objec… ...

Others posted a fact sheet about Sikhs compiled by the Sikh Coalition. Another wrote : "I must admit I was unaware of kirpan, the significance, or that it has legal exemptions.

NC Sikh: A Sikh student at UNCC was handcuffed because someone mistook his kirpan for a knife. Increasing religious literacy would help prevent such incidents.

But in Sikhism, the day honors a pivotal moment in the evolution of the religion more than 300 years ago, ... Kirpan, a small sword worn as reminder to stand up for those in need; ...

NC Sikh: A Sikh student at UNCC was handcuffed because someone mistook his kirpan for a knife. Increasing religious literacy would help prevent such incidents.