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.

The University of North Carolina at Charlotte announced this week that it would allow Sikh students to wear a kirpan on campus, a religious article. The change comes about two months after a video was ...

A Sikh student at UNC Charlotte was handcuffed after an unidentified person called 911 on them. The caller had mistaken a religious item, a kirpan, for a knife, the university said in a statement. The ...

University of North Carolina Charlotte Chancellor Sharon Gaber apologized Friday after a video showed a campus police officer handcuffing a follower of the Sikh faith for having a knife in the ...

The entrance to UNC Charlotte on University City Boulevard is shown in this 2017 file photo. Chancellor Sharon Gaber apologized after police handcuffed a member of the Sikh religious community in the ...

On what seems to be a usual Thursday, a young man sits at his student union, wearing his article of faith. Little does he know, students around him have already made a judgment about a small sword ...

HOPKINTON — Reflecting a changing student population, a school weapons policy now allows for blade-like objects to be worn for religious reasons. The new weapons policy, adopted on March 21, allows ...

The Delhi HC in its May 3, 2018 order had said that there was no law which per se bans the entry of karas or kirpans or such like objects or articles of faith ...

SACRAMENTO, CA (IANS) – A Sikh man has claimed that he was denied entry to a basketball match because he was carrying a ‘kirpan‘ — a small dagger, which practicing Sikhs are required to carry at all ...

A Sikh student being handcuffed at the University of North Carolina’s Charlotte campus for carrying a Kirpan put a spotlight on weapons laws and religious protections. Despite instances like what ...