New York, USA: A 55-year-old man has been arrested here on the charges of calling a Sikh man a ‘terrorist’ and mowing him down with his pick-up truck, in an apparent hate crime. The police in Queens arrested Joseph Caleca of Setauket in Suffolk County and charged him with attempted murder and hate crime, ABC 7 News reported. Caleca had attacked ...

Amritsar, Punjab: The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbhandhak Committee (SPGC) today strongly condemned the racist attack on a Sikh man and his mother in the US. SGPC chief Avtar Singh Makkar said it was a matter of grave concern that a Sikh man had been targeted in New York while another member of the community was stabbed to death in Auckland, New Zealand. ...

Peshawar, Pak:  Members of the Sikh community in Peshawar came under attack on Wednesday, with one killed and two injured in a firing incident. Following the attack, protestors took to the streets and burnt tyres blocking roads including the grand Trunk (GT) road in Peshawar. The demonstrators chanted slogans against what they said was the government’s failure to protect members ...

Ludhiana, Punjab: With an aim to promote meaningful cinema and to highlight the tenets of Sikhism, an exclusive premier of ‘Proud to be a Sikh’, a Punjabi film by Shane Khalsa Productions, was held at a local multiplex on Friday. Directed by Satdeep Singh and shot mainly in Ludhiana, it took about a year and a half for the team to ...

London, UK: A British court has cleared a 60-year-old Sikh man of charges of allegedly attacking a drinker with a kirpan or ceremonial sword. Snaresbrook Crown Court Tuesday found Bagicha Singh not guilty of assaulting Pritpal Singh, 30, with the kirpan, the Ilford Recorder reported Thursday. Both the defendant and the victim are from Ilford in the Greater London region. The ...