Delhi's gurdwara management committee president Manjeet Singh GK and other members of a Sikh delegation were asked to remove their turbans during a security check at Rome airport last Tuesday.
Yesterday’s hukamnama touched on temporal love. Guru said that man drowns in it. When do we know that our love is divine rather than temporal? Certainly a marriage ceremony alone is not enough.
The UN Human Rights Committee has ruled that France's ban on the wearing of "conspicuous" religious symbols in schools - introduced in a law adopted in March 2004 - violated a Sikh student's right to manifest his religion, protected by the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).
Like every year, on November 11 on the Armistice Day, about 300 Sikhs throughout Europe paid a visit to Ieper - Belgium and laid flowers at the Menen Gate the National Monument of Belgium and later at Hollebeke where Sikhs fought for the first time against Germany in October 1914.
Should a boy scout walking around with a Swiss-army knife be considered dangerous? Should Swiss-army knives be banned altogether? Well, for the Italian interior minister, if the small knife is carried for religious reasons, then the answer is yes.
Joined action by UK and Netherlands based individuals and organisations has resulted in a Dutch judge putting the extradition of an Afghan Sikh family, a mother 2 daughters and a son on hold.
BJP MP Navjot Singh Sidhu on Sunday claimed Sikhs were still becoming victims of mistaken identity across the globe and asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to do something for the dignity of the Turban, the headgear worn by members of the community.
A unique Court case is taking place in Poland of a Sikh taking the Polish Airport Security to Court for disgracing Sikh travelers passing through Poland.
Sikh Council UK led a joint meeting with Italian Sikh representatives, Indian Embassy and the Italian government departments to discuss the issues of Dastaar searching and the wider respect for the 5K's, Sikh articles of faith.
In recent months, there have been increasing problems at Italian airports for Sikhs travelling from the UK being asked in very impolite and often belligerent terms to remove their turbans, after having successfully passed through security scanners.
Sikhs leaving Italian airports will no longer be asked to take off their turbans or taken for checking in toilets if they protest, according to sources close to Minister for External Affairs S. M. Krishna who held bilateral talks on the issue with his Italian counterpart Franco Frattini in Rome on Friday.
The strength and vibrancy of our Sikh community in the UK gives us a special interest in the issue, an insight we can usefully share with our European partners, so we will be doing our best to lead the debate not only with the Commission but with other member states. Achieving the change we need will take time.
"There seems to be intolerance especially in the EU for the turban worn by Sikh... a strong message should go out to EU as wearing turban is a cultural and religious issue with Punjabi people," Congress spokesperson Manish Tewari told reporters here.
Sikhs settled in some of the European countries especially Holland, Belgium and Italy are now facing a new problem with regard to the naming of their children.
For the first time, a female Sikh youngster did the final Ardaas and another did Sukh Asan of Guru Granth Sahib Ji in the largest Gurdwara in Germany. All this took place during the "Sikhi Camp 2009".
In an unprecedented judgment European Court of Human Rights has justified the ban imposed by French Government to bear turbans in Schools; the controversial judgment was delivered on Thursday.
We met in a region that just a few years ago was overwhelmed by an unthinkable religious war. While there is no strong Sikh presence in the area, given the Sikhs' history, it seemed like an important place to contribute in prayer.
These letters of Sikh soldiers project their courage, loyalty, will to win the war or die like Sikh heroes. They have followed the great Sikh tradition of saving mankind from any type of oppression.
An airline with potentially the best airplane food (for those with Punjabi palates) has just launched. Akal Air has just started bi-weekly flights (Wednesdays and Saturdays) from Birmingham, UK to Amritsar
In a first of its kind, a turbaned Indian American Sikh named Sonny Caberwal who is in India these days, has become the international face of the prestigious German men's magazine GQ.
On Wednesday, the government in the northern Sikh-dominated state of Punjab passed a resolution in the state assembly, demanding France lift the ban there.
