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Johal
Johal () is an Indian surname and clan of the Jat caste found in the states of Punjab and Haryana. Notable persons with that name include: * Balinder Johal, Indo-Canadian actress * Bindy Johal (1971–1998), Indian-Canadian gangster * Hardial Singh Johal ( 1947–2002), Indian-Canadian Engineer * Herbinder Singh Johl, Indo-Canadian Olympic wrestler * Jagbir Johal, renowned British-Indian professor * Jas Johal, Indo-Canadian Politician * Kuldesh Johal Kuldesh Johal (born 25 September 1980) is an English former professional snooker player. He competed on the main tour during the 2008/2009 and 2010/2011 seasons. Career Born in 1980, Johal played in Challenge Tour qualifying events in the ea ... (born 1980), English snooker player * Nachhatar Singh Johal (born 1979), Indian sailor * Sardara Singh Johl (born 1928), Indian agriculture economist References {{Reflist Indian surnames Hindu surnames Punjabi tribes Punjabi-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bindy Johal
Bhupinder "Bindy" Singh Johal (January 14, 1971 – December 20, 1998) was a Canadian gangster from British Columbia, Canada. A self-confessed drug trafficker, he was known for his outspoken nature, blatant disregard for authority and his longtime rivalry with former mentors Ranjit Cheema and rival Punjabi Mafia faction led by the Dosanjh brothers and Robbie Kandola. On December 20, 1998, Johal was fatally shot in the back of the head at a crowded nightclub in Vancouver, British Columbia. Early life Born in Punjab, India to a Sikh family, Johal immigrated to Vancouver, British Columbia with his parents at the age of four. He was increasingly temperamental, resented discipline, and had a lack of respect and remorse for others. He suffered from severe depression when his parents cut his hair after an armed assault in Canada in the aftermath of the Assassination of Indira Gandhi, which happened miles away in Delhi, his mother said, "That was the only time I saw another expression of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jas Johal
Jas Johal is a Canadian politician and media personality. He served as Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) of British Columbia for the electoral district of Richmond-Queensborough in the 41st Parliament of British Columbia (2017-2020), as part of the British Columbia Liberal Party caucus. Early life and career Born in Jalandhar, Punjab, India, Johal moved to British Columbia at the age of two with his family, growing up in the interior city of Williams Lake before resettling in Greater Vancouver. After graduating from the British Columbia Institute of Technology with a diploma in communications, he began his broadcasting career at Vancouver radio station CKNW AM980 in 1991, then joined BCTV (now Global BC) in 1994, eventually becoming a senior reporter with the station. He moved over to Global's national news division in 2005 as its BC correspondent, then became the network's Asia bureau chief in 2008, based in Beijing and New Delhi. After leaving Global in 2014, he serv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jagbir Jhutti Johal
Jagbir Jhutti Johal OBE (Punjabi: ਜਗਬੀਰ ਝੂਟੀ ਜੌਹਲ) is a British professor of religion, author and media commentator. Career Jagbir Jhutti Johal is professor of Sikh Studies in the department of theology and religion at the University of Birmingham. She is a co-author of The changing nature of Sikh activism research paper looking at second generation Sikh activism published by the UK government in 2019 and also has been a contributor to the UKs ‘New Settlement’ for Religion and Belief which produced the Living with Difference report. Jagbir is also regularly featured on the BBC Radio 4 Thought for the Day sharing views on Sikhism and contemporary issues. In 2022, she was appointed to the Race Equality Foundation Board. Awards She was awarded an OBE in the 2019 Queen's New Honours List for services to Higher Education, Faith Communities and to the Voluntary Sector References {{reflist British women academics Living people Academics of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kuldesh Johal
Kuldesh Johal (born 25 September 1980) is an English former professional snooker player. He competed on the main tour during the 2008/2009 and 2010/2011 seasons. Career Born in 1980, Johal played in Challenge Tour qualifying events in the early 2000s, without any success. He won two Pontin's International Open Series events during the 2007/2008 season, defeating James Leadbetter, Matthew Couch, Jeff Cundy, Stuart Carrington and Andrew Pagett in Event 2 and Gary Wilson, Jamie Jones, Liam Highfield, Stephen Craigie and Simon Bedford in Event 6, winning a place on the main tour for the 2008/2009 season. Johal's first season as a professional brought runs to the last 64 at two ranking tournaments - the 2008 UK Championship, where he beat Aditya Mehta and Paul Davies, both 9–5, before losing by the same scoreline to Michael Holt, and the 2009 China Open, where he overcame Michael Georgiou and Barry Pinches but lost 3–5 to Judd Trump. He lost his first-round qualifying match ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hardial Singh Johal
A chief engineer for the Vancouver School Board, Hardial Singh Johal was an avid follower of Talwinder Singh Parmar, and thus closely eyed in the investigation following the bombing of Air India Flight 182. He was alleged to have stored the suitcase explosives in the basement of a Vancouver school, and to have purchased the tickets for the flights on which the bombs were placed. Moments after a wiretapped phonecall with Parmar on June 20, 1985, a man phoned Canadian Pacific Airlines where he spoke to ticket agent Martine Donahue, and purchased two tickets - one for a "Mohinderbel Singh" for Air India Flight 301 to Tokyo, and another under the name of "Jaswand Singh" for CP Air Flight 086, which was connecting to the Air India flight. The contact phone number left with the ticket agent became one of the first leads tracked by investigators, and was owned by Johal.The Globe and MailAir India: Evidence from the trial/ref> The initial phone conversation, as translated, included the foll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nachhatar Singh Johal
Nachhatar Singh Johal (born 1979) is an Indian sailor. He was born in Jalandhar, Punjab. He competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he placed 23rd in the ''Finn class The Finn dinghy is a single-handed, cat-rigged sailboat, and a former Olympic class for men's sailing. Since its debut at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, the Finn has featured in every summer Olympics, making it the longest serving dinghy ...''. References External links * 1979 births Living people Sportspeople from Jalandhar Indian male sailors (sport) Olympic sailors of India Sailors at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Finn {{India-yachtracing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balinder Johal
Balinder Johal is an Indo-Canadian actress."Monster-in-law, India style; Vancouver's Balinder Johal finds a well of astonishing villainy as a controlling matriarch in Deepa Mehta's Heaven on Earth". ''Vancouver Sun'', October 31, 2008. She is best known for her roles in the films of Deepa Mehta, including '' Heaven on Earth'', for which she was a Leo Award nominee for Best Supporting Actress in 2009, and ''Beeba Boys'', for which she garnered a Canadian Screen Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards in 2016. Originally from Punjab, Johal was educated in India before moving to Canada to pursue a master's degree in education at the University of British Columbia. As a stage actress, her most noted performances included ''Here and Now'', a forum theatre play about urban gang violence in Vancouver, and Anosh Irani's play ''My Granny the Goldfish''."Gaggle of giggles keeps new comedy afloat". ''Vancouver Sun'', April 23, 2010. She has also performed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sikhism
Sikhism (), also known as Sikhi ( pa, ਸਿੱਖੀ ', , from pa, ਸਿੱਖ, lit=disciple', 'seeker', or 'learner, translit=Sikh, label=none),''Sikhism'' (commonly known as ''Sikhī'') originated from the word ''Sikh'', which comes from the Sanskrit root ' meaning "disciple", or ' meaning "instruction". Singh, Khushwant. 2006. ''The Illustrated History of the Sikhs''. Oxford University Press. . p. 15.Kosh, Gur Shabad Ratnakar Mahan. https://web.archive.org/web/20050318143533/http://www.ik13.com/online_library.htm is an Indian religion that originated in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent,"Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikh originated in India." around the end of the 15th century CE. It is the most recently founded major organized faith and stands at fifth-largest worldwide, with about 25–30 million adherents (known as Sikhs) .McLeod, William Hewat. 2019 998 Sikhism developed from the spiritual teachings of Guru Nanak (1469–1539), the faith's first gu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hinduism
Hinduism () is an Indian religion or '' dharma'', a religious and universal order or way of life by which followers abide. As a religion, it is the world's third-largest, with over 1.2–1.35 billion followers, or 15–16% of the global population, known as Hindus. The word ''Hindu'' is an exonym, and while Hinduism has been called the oldest religion in the world, many practitioners refer to their religion as '' Sanātana Dharma'' ( sa, सनातन धर्म, lit='the Eternal Dharma'), a modern usage, which refers to the idea that its origins lie beyond human history, as revealed in the Hindu texts. Another endonym is ''Vaidika dharma'', the dharma related to the Vedas. Hinduism is a diverse system of thought marked by a range of philosophies and shared concepts, rituals, cosmological systems, pilgrimage sites, and shared textual sources that discuss theology, metaphysics, mythology, Vedic yajna, yoga, agamic rituals, and temple building, among other to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hindu Surnames
Hindus (; ) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism.Jeffery D. Long (2007), A Vision for Hinduism, IB Tauris, , pages 35–37 Historically, the term has also been used as a geographical, cultural, and later religious identifier for people living in the Indian subcontinent. The term ''"Hindu"'' traces back to Old Persian which derived these names from the Sanskrit name ''Sindhu'' (सिन्धु ), referring to the river Indus. The Greek cognates of the same terms are "''Indus''" (for the river) and "''India''" (for the land of the river). The term "''Hindu''" also implied a geographic, ethnic or cultural identifier for people living in the Indian subcontinent around or beyond the Sindhu (Indus) River. By the 16th century CE, the term began to refer to residents of the subcontinent who were not Turkic or Muslims. Hindoo is an archaic spelling variant, whose use today is considered derogatory. The historical development of Hindu self-identity within the local In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian Surnames
Indian names are based on a variety of systems and naming conventions, which vary from region to region. Names are also influenced by religion and caste and may come from epics. India's population speaks a wide variety of languages and nearly every major religion in the world has a following in India. This variety makes for subtle, often confusing, differences in names and naming styles. Due to historical Indian cultural influences, several names across South and Southeast Asia are influenced by or adapted from Indian names or words. In some cases, Indian birth name is different from their official name; the birth name starts with a randomly selected name from the person's horoscope (based on the ''nakshatra'' or lunar mansion corresponding to the person's birth). Many children are given three names, sometimes as a part of religious teaching. Pronunciation When written in Latin script, Indian names may use the vowel characters to denote sounds different from conventional ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sardara Singh Johl
Sardara Singh Johl (born 1928) is an Indian agriculture economist, writer, politician and the chancellor of the Central University of Punjab. A former National Professor of Agricultural Economics of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, he served as the vice chancellor of the Punjabi University and Punjab Agricultural University during different tenures and chaired the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices set up by the Government of India. He is a former director of the Central Board of Governors of the Reserve Bank of India and a former consultant to international bodies such as Food and Agriculture Organization, World Bank and United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia. The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan, in 2004, for his contributions to Agriculture and agriculture education. Biography Sardara Singh Johl was born in a farmers' family on 8 February 1928 in Lyalpur (present-day Faisa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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