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Lahore, Pakistan: Indian authorities urged the faithful to shun the annual pilgrimage to the neighbouring country, fearing for their safety as deadly attacks by Islamist extremists have risen sharply in Pakistan, killing more than 340 people since October. Tensions between ...

London, UK: UNITED SIKHS complained to  the Chairman of the BBC Trust for the misuse of the Khanda, a Sikh religious insignia, in BBC’s news reports last week on the sentencing of three men for heinous rape crimes. The Sikh ...

North London, UK: A 14-year-old Sikh boy was told by his North London school that he would no longer be allowed to wear his Kirpan because it posed a health and safety risk. On the first day of school last ...

UK: An important 19 th Century emerald and seed-pearl Necklace from the Lahore Treasury, worn by Maharani Jindan Kaur wife of Ranjit Singh, the Sikh Lion of the Punjab (1780–1839), is for sale in Bonhams next Indian and Islamic sale ...