Three airlines have cancelled or changed flights to Sri Lanka a day after Tamil Tiger rebels carried out an air raid on the capital, Colombo. Hong Kong airline Cathay Pacific and Dubai-based Emirates have suspended flights, while Singapore Airlines will only fly into Colombo during the day. Two fuel facilities and a gas storage depot were bombed in Sunday’s attacks.
Meanwhile, 12 people were killed in two clashes between Sri Lankan forces and the Tigers on Sunday, officials said. A statement by the defence ministry said six people, including five rebels, died when troops stormed a Hindu temple on a small island off the northern Jaffna peninsula. The custodian of the Amman temple was the sixth person killed in the raid. In a separate clash, six rebels were killed by government troops in the north-eastern Weli Oya region, the government said.

Chicago authorities say they have a suspect in custody in the killing of two boys and the stabbing of a 13-year-old girl.

The Punjab government on Wednesday announced that an officer of the rank of an additional director general of police will probe all cases pertaining to illegal immigration and sham marriages of non-resident Indians (NRIs).

Sikh Community of Midwest, Sikh Religious Society of Chicago and Punjabi Heritage Organization invite everyone to join hands and spread the message of Bhagat Puran Singh Ji across the world to help needy and poor. We encourage you to bring your family to this once in a lifetime tribute to Bhagat Puran Singh on June 9th and 10th at Gurdwara Sahib Palatine, 1280 Winnetka St., Palatine IL. 60067.

BJP MP Babubhai Katara, who was on Thursday remanded to ten days in police custody, had taken a woman abroad on his wife’s diplomatic passport once earlier out of his two visits to foreign countries, police said.

Actor Richard Gere and Bollywood beauty Shilpa Shetty are facing legal action in India after being accused of committing “an obscene act” last weekend. Entertainment website IMDb reported the stars could face the wrath of India’s strict laws governing public displays of affection after the Chicago star swept the popular Bollywood actress into his arms and kissed her several times during an AIDS-awareness event last weekend.

Mr. Kuldip Singh Nag, a Sikh American who was awarded the Bronze Star for his service in the U.S. Navy during the first Gulf War, was at his home in Joliet, IL when a local police officer noticed that a van parked on Mr. Nag’s private property had expired registration tags. Upon being confronted with this, Mr. Nag’s wife, Vera Kaur Nag, informed the officer that the van is parked on their driveway and was inoperable.

New York,– NRIs will now have the opportunity to see one of their old-time favorite stars and now Bollywood living legend, Asha Parekh at the Bollywood Movie Awards, to be held at Nassau Coliseum in New York on May 26, 2007.

An Indian American head mistress at an exclusive Manhattan Montessori school, accused of having sex with a young student, has been convicted of sodomizing one of them when he was 13 years old.