British Sikh Community

British Sikh lawyers have come together to set up a new court as a dispute resolution forum for the community caught up in family and civil disputes, a UK media report said on Thursday.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Monday referenced his Punjabi Indian heritage in a message from 10 Downing Street on the occasion of Guru Nanak Jayanti.

A British Sikh woman police officer has been sentenced to a 12-month community order after pleading guilty to assault for slapping a 12-year-old schoolboy in the face during an altercation while she was off duty in Birmingham last year.

Several people belonging to the Sikh community gathered outside the British High Commission in Chanakyapuri here today to protest pro-Khalistan separatists pulling down the Indian flag at the Indian High Commission in London a day earlier.

A 28-year-old man has been sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to the "horrific" assault of an elderly British Sikh community leader walking home in Manchester.

Burberry released its new Children's Autumn-Winter 2022 campaign and it's been met with immense praise from the Indian community as it stars four-year-old Sahib Singh - the brand's first-ever Sikh model to feature in a children's campaign.

Sikh volunteers from a Surrey Gurudwara worked day and night to deliver 3,000 meals to those stranded in floods in British Columbia, Canada.

The British Sikh community stepped forward to help out stranded truck drivers at the UK-France border.

The High Court in London has dismissed a judicial review application brought by a British Sikh group for a separate Sikh ethnicity tick box in the next UK census in 2021.

Branded as a "terrorist" at a London playground, a 10-year-old British Sikh schoolgirl has hit back with a social media message saying greater "exposure and knowledge" should be promoted about the community to "handle racism".

A group of British lawmakers have launched a year-long campaign to lobby for Sikhism to be added as a separate ethnicity tick-box in the next UK census in 2021 after the country's statistical authority concluded it was not required.

The UK government has confirmed an amendment to a new weapons bill going through the Parliament to ensure that it does not impact the right of the British Sikh community to possess and supply kirpans, or religious swords.

British Sikhs have expressed concerns that the UK government's updated strategy to combat hate crime may be failing to fully acknowledge the problem of "Islamophobia on Sikhs", or attacks on the community members for being mistaken as Muslims.

A Gurdwara in the British city of Leith has been severely damaged in a suspected arson attack following which the police today arrested a 49-year-old man for the "deliberate" act probed as a hate crime.

Britain's strong Sikh community is all set to be listed in the 2021 census as a distinct ethnicity rather than only as a religion, the UK Statistics Authority has said, which is a major step that will give the community fair access to all public services in the country.

British Sikh lawyers have come together to set up a new court as a dispute resolution forum for the community caught up in family and civil disputes, a UK media report said on Thursday.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Monday referenced his Punjabi Indian heritage in a message from 10 Downing Street on the occasion of Guru Nanak Jayanti.

A British Sikh woman police officer has been sentenced to a 12-month community order after pleading guilty to assault for slapping a 12-year-old schoolboy in the face during an altercation while she was off duty in Birmingham last year.

Several people belonging to the Sikh community gathered outside the British High Commission in Chanakyapuri here today to protest pro-Khalistan separatists pulling down the Indian flag at the Indian High Commission in London a day earlier.

A 28-year-old man has been sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to the "horrific" assault of an elderly British Sikh community leader walking home in Manchester.

Burberry released its new Children's Autumn-Winter 2022 campaign and it's been met with immense praise from the Indian community as it stars four-year-old Sahib Singh - the brand's first-ever Sikh model to feature in a children's campaign.

Sikh volunteers from a Surrey Gurudwara worked day and night to deliver 3,000 meals to those stranded in floods in British Columbia, Canada.

The British Sikh community stepped forward to help out stranded truck drivers at the UK-France border.

The High Court in London has dismissed a judicial review application brought by a British Sikh group for a separate Sikh ethnicity tick box in the next UK census in 2021.

Branded as a "terrorist" at a London playground, a 10-year-old British Sikh schoolgirl has hit back with a social media message saying greater "exposure and knowledge" should be promoted about the community to "handle racism".

A group of British lawmakers have launched a year-long campaign to lobby for Sikhism to be added as a separate ethnicity tick-box in the next UK census in 2021 after the country's statistical authority concluded it was not required.

The UK government has confirmed an amendment to a new weapons bill going through the Parliament to ensure that it does not impact the right of the British Sikh community to possess and supply kirpans, or religious swords.

British Sikhs have expressed concerns that the UK government's updated strategy to combat hate crime may be failing to fully acknowledge the problem of "Islamophobia on Sikhs", or attacks on the community members for being mistaken as Muslims.

A Gurdwara in the British city of Leith has been severely damaged in a suspected arson attack following which the police today arrested a 49-year-old man for the "deliberate" act probed as a hate crime.

Britain's strong Sikh community is all set to be listed in the 2021 census as a distinct ethnicity rather than only as a religion, the UK Statistics Authority has said, which is a major step that will give the community fair access to all public services in the country.