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US talk show host Jay Leno has been sued by an Indian-American in California for racist comments on Golden Temple and ridiculing the Sikh community by portraying the holy shrine as a vacation home.
According to court papers filed in Los Angeles Superior Court,Randeep Dhillon claims that Leno hurt the sentiments of all Sikh people in addition to those of the plaintiff with his joke that the Golden Temple could be a possible summer home of Mitt Romney,a Republican presidential hopeful.
The celebrity website TMZ said Dhillon has filed a libel suit and is seeking unspecified damages.
Previously,in 2007 he called Sikhs diaper heads. Clearly,Jay Lenos racist comments need to be stopped right here, the suit added.
Will continue using Nairs services
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on Wednesday said the state would continue to avail the utilise the servicesS of former ISRO chief G Madhavan Nair. Nairs service had benefited the state in the past and hence we want to utilise his service in future also, he said. But by evening,Chandys office informed that he did not exactly mean to defend Nair.
