NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - Tuesday is Vaisakhi, the Sikh New Year festival. It's marked around the world, including here at home. CBS2's Kiran Dhillon has more on how the community here is celebrating.

“Vaisakhi celebrates the culmination of a centuries-long journey, from the foundation of the faith in 1469, to ensure equality of all people — regardless of race, gender, faith, nationality ...

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Valley Sikhs have been celebrating Vaisakhi in Caruthers for more than 20 years. It's a time to celebrate religion, culture, the Sikh New Year, and to pass the traditions on to their children.

Here we are, just one month shy of one of the biggest Sikh holidays, Vaisakhi. Just as Sikhs are unknown to many people in Frederick, so too are their holidays.

Thousands of Sikhs are in Pakistan to celebrate Vaisakhi, a harvest festival that marks the start of the Sikh New Year and is mostly observed in Punjab and northern India.

Vaisakhi celebrates the Festival of Harvesting in the St. Louis area on Saturday afternoon. The people of Punjab in northern India, which is the wheat bowl of the country, will also celebrate.

On Vaisakhi, the Sikh Center of Delaware will provide langar, the free vegetarian meal fed to Sikh and non-Sikhs alike, at 1:30 p.m., followed by the dance performances at 3 p.m. This celebration ...

LISLE, Ill. (WLS) -- Benedictine University students celebrated one of the most important dates in Sikh culture known as Vaisakhi, a harvest festival, Thursday, while learning more about Sikh culture.

During Vaisakhi, Guru Gobind Singh asked the Sikh community members to abandon their last names and to adopt shared surnames that signify equality and royalty. This is why so many members of the ...

WASHINGTON (Army News Service, May 4, 2015) -- With music, prayers, and words of faith, Sikhs celebrated Vaisakhi and their new year Friday at the Pentagon. "Today we are truly blessed," said the ...

Another Vaisakhi celebration is set for June 2 in Red Bluff. That event is presented by the Punjabi American Sikh Society and will be at 1500 S. Jackson St. from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m.