A nationwide protest organised by the Sikh Federation (UK) has brought a halt to Department of Transport (DfT) plans to implement hand searches of turban-wearing passengers at British airports…

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A year after a blaze that destroyed three-quarters of the Gurdwara Sikh Sangat in Bow, east London, the temple committee plans to launch an international appeal for the £2.5million needed to rebuild the temple.

It intends asking English Heritage to grant aid because the temple was set up in a Grade 11 listed building.

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Two teenagers have been arrested in connection with the London murder of a courageous young father who has since been declared a martyr of the Sikh community…

Caste discrimination, under which millions in India are regarded as ‘untouchable’, has spread to the UK virtually unnoticed, according to Keith Porteous Wood, executive director of Britain’s National Secular Society.
He was commenting on the passage through parliament’s revising chamber, the House of Lords, of the Equalities Bill, which could pave the way for such discrimination [...]

A 50 year history of Sikh immigrants’ contribution to life in the Gravesham area of Kent is to be described in an exhibition funded by a £36,900 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
The Fund’s regional head Stuart McLeod says it will fill a gap in the social history of a community that has settled and [...]

A woman accused of poisoning her former lover after secretly putting an ancient herbal poison into food stored in a fridge has been given a life sentence for his murder…

On February 23 the Oregon State Senate voted 21-9 in favor of Oregon House Bill 3686, which when enacted will allow public school teachers to wear religious dress, including the Sikh dastaar (turban)…

Is the BBC using its Asian Network and 6Music stations as opening pawns in a cunning game of chess with critics who would like to see the corporation slashed to a size that would, among other things, minimise its alleged encroachment into commercial broadcasting areas?

A man who claimed a gun found in his possession by police was just “a toy” has been sentenced to five years in jail at Kingston Crown Court…