Browsing Tag: Money

He’s intrigued by a new service that will enable him to send the money by cellphone to his family.

Niehaus says for him, the most interesting results from the new research were the improvements in mental health. Getting money made people happier, less stressed out.

Suddenly a minivan came to a halt in front of them, three men jumped off the vehicle, overpowered Mr. Chottelal and Mr. Gujjar, and drove away with their loot.

As humans we are constantly testing our limits. You don’t have to look far or turn many channels to see the constant drive for challenging all types of limitations.

"There are many other ways of showing one's displeasure. As a Sikh, it is his communal duty to bear in mind the sensitivity of all Sikhs and their religion," Pritpal said.

And every morning, Guru Amar Das started back at zero.

Sikhs are thus encouraged to have an intrinsic sensitivity to the natural world, and a belief that the fate of the planet and humanity are intertwined; destruction of one will lead to the destruction of the other.

HOW much money do you need to be happy? Think about it. What’s your number?

Today the massive too-big-to-fail banks are hardly doing George Bailey-style loans at all. They are not interested in community lending. They are doing their own proprietary trading—trading for their own accounts—which generally means speculating against local interests.

My brother, Onkardeep Singh Khalsa, wrote about the idea of money being a vote in 2009. Money is a more powerful vote than the votes we give to elect governments and local councillors. Business and the private sector is arguably a more powerful force than the public sector.

When secrecy is used to protect a higher order of knowledge, it can make the keepers of the secrets think of themselves as a higher order of humans. Corruptio optimi pessima, goes the old saying. Blight at the top is the deepest blight. It is the sin of taking God’s name in vain.

Max Arthur Macauliffe, a noted Sikh historian commented: "I am not without hope that when enlightened nations become acquainted with the merits of the Sikh religion they will not willingly let it perish in the great abyss in which so many creeds have been engulfed."

A velvet-bound album of wedding photographs and two unused train tickets for her honeymoon are the only remnants of Amanjyot Kaur’s marriage and the dream of a new life in Canada.

I cannot comprehend how prayers recited by someone else can benefit a devotee who paid for them.

Under a new plan backed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the mobile industry will be given a kickstart to give those in the developing regions their first bank account - on their mobiles.

Is there such a thing as Sikh banking?