Europe

London, UK: A teenaged girl, who was captured on camera severely assaulting an elderly Sikh man in August this year, has pleaded guilty in a British court. Coral Millerchip,19, pleaded guilty at the Warwick Crown Court to assaulting the 80-year-old ...

London, UK: Four World War-II veterans from the Sikh Regiment have been presented with the ‘Jewel of Punjab’ (Punjab Ratan) award at the World Punjabi Organisation’s annual event at the Park Lane Hotel here. Britain’s Secretary of State for Community Welfare ...

Montreal, Canada:  Quebec’s PartiQuebecois government proposes to ban symbols of religious faith such as Jewish skullcaps, Sikh turbans, Muslim head scarves and large crucifixes from public work places. The proposed ban is part of what the Quebec government calls its “charter ...

Paris, France: The UN Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) concluded that France has violated the religious freedom of 57 year old Shingara Mann Singh when he was asked to remove his turban for his passport photograph. Shingara Singh, a French national ...