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11 August 1960-The Manchester corporation transport committee refuses to let turbaned Sikhs operate as bus conductors

On 14th June 2020, Guru Simran Kaur was honoured with the Clara Barton Award from the American Red Cross for her voluntary work during natural disasters and times of crisis.

Suhailjeet Singh, a 20-year-old Indian-New Zealander, is the first baptized Sikh to join the Royal New Zealand Air Force as an aviation technician.

The Sikh Federation UK (SFUK) celebrated the victory of its campaign to get a Sikh ethnic tick-box added to the 2021 UK census. The Scottish government agreed to include a Sikh prompt in the "other" section of the ethnicity response options.

Ranjit Singh, who was expelled from Government College in 2004 for wearing a turban, has been elected the first Sikh deputy mayor of Bobigny, France.

During the pandemic, two brothers initiated Project Smile AZ and delivered more than 1300 homemade cards to coronavirus patients.

A fighting princess, a falsified will, and an inheritance worth Rs 20,000 crore: this is the story of Rajkumari Amrit Kaur of Faridkot, who prevailed in a battle royale that lasted for twenty-eight years.

Khalra’s investigation into extrajudicial murders attracted the attention of the United Nations.