The BBC Asian Network was in both Leicester and Nottingham on Sunday, for a bumper day of Mela madness. Breakfast host Tommy Sandhu hosted by the Main Stage in Leicester’s City Centre…

Canada’s scandalous refusal of entry to a shipload of South Asians in 1914 is a story that is never far from the headlines as the Sikh community presses the Canadian government for adequate…

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…

Three Records, the label run by Asian pop hit-makers RDB, announces the UK launch of a talented new singer who is already topping charts in the US and Canada…

Playwright Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti, who hit the headlines in December 2004 when Sikh protesters forced the cancellation of her play Behzti at the Birmingham Rep, is exploring the themes contributing to that decision in a new work.
Behud (Beyond Belief), which opened in Coventry, is a satirical response to a closure that sparked a vigorous national [...]

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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.

The [...]

It was a night to remember, for an exuberant audience, for those who performed live, for award winning artists – but above all for R&B singer Jay Sean, who added four awards to his recent achievement in topping the US charts…

Brit Asia Music Awards 2010

TELEVISION channel Brit Asia TV is to stage its first glittering music awards ceremony at Symphony Hall in May.
Entertainment on the night will include exclusive performances from the best of British and international Asian Artists.
Launched in April 2008, Brit Asia TV on Sky Channel 833 is the only entertainment television channel [...]

A Sikh teacher has in the past week become a member of the far right British National Party after making headlines earlier this year by saying the BNP was the only political party ready to stem what he sees as the expansion of Islamic fundamentalism in the UK.
Rajinder Singh, 78, is shown here minus his [...]