11.   Kaur was the first woman to head the important Sikh Gurudwara Prabhandhak Committee, which oversees the administration of Sikh temples.

12.   Last month, Tohra was ousted after more than two decades as leader of the powerful committee governing all Sikh temples.

13.   On Wednesday, Blackwill visited a Sikh temple to offer condolences to community leaders after a Sikh was killed Saturday outside a gas station in Mesa, Arizona.

14.   Over the weekend, a Sikh temple in New Delhi held a turban-tying competition as part of an effort to revive the practice among youngsters.

15.   Relatives of Malik remember him as a young devout who regularly made donations to Sikh temples or gurudwaras, and later became a supporter of the separatist movement.

16.   The house where the slayings occurred belongs to a prominent family who helped found the local Sikh temple.

17.   Three teen-agers were arrested Friday and charged with setting a fire that destroyed a Sikh temple.

18.   As fighting between rival factions tore the city apart and plunged the population into despair, five Sikh temples in the old city were destroyed.

19.   New Zealand has four other Sikh temples.

20.   PTI said he would carry out the punishment in India on Monday and Tuesday, and at a Sikh temple in Detroit on five consecutive Sundays.