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'Religion does not come into it'

Muslim and Sikh recruits training in the British Army say their faith is not an issue, but at times it can present them with a few dilemmas. Lieutenant Colonel Neil Unsworth, the chief of staff at the army’s Vimy Barracks ...

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BNP poppy wreath was laid among Sikh tributes at a Birmingham Remembrance ceremony

Birmingham, UK: The BNP laurel appeared to have been deliberately placed in the middle of those left by members of the city’s Sikh community inside the Hall of Memory in Centenary Square. Guru Ram Dass Singh Gurdwara, in Balsall Heath, ...

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French Bank Apologises For Refusing Entry To Turbaned Sikh

Paris, France: A major French bank in Paris, which last month refused entry to a young Sikh customer because he wore a turban, has apologised for its “manifestly excessive and improper security instructions.” Ranjit Singh, 22, a business entrepreneur and ...

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UK Sikhs remember war veterans

Birmingham, UK: Hundreds of people, young and old, gathered at Birmingham’s Centenary Square to honour Birmingham’s soldiers from the present and the past. A two minute nationwide silence took place with a rifle fire form 37 Signal Regiment, which was ...

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