‘Sikh Michael O’Leary’ offering cut-price flights to India

British-Asian businessman who calls himself ‘the Sikh Michael O’Leary’ to launch Ryanair-style airline offering cut-price flights to India as soon as July By Harriet Dennys, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:50 GMT, 20 March 2021 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 20 March 2021 A British-Asian businessman who calls himself ‘the Sikh Michael O’Leary’ will launch a … Read more

Thug who attacked Gary McAllister and a Sikh temple is jailed

Damien Swan, pictured, was jailed for five months for the unprovoked attack on Gary McAllister in Leeds on March 24, 2019. He received a further 27 months for an attack on volunteers at a Seikh temple the following day A thug who admitted hitting football legend Gary McAllister so hard he knocked a tooth out … Read more

Keir Starmer blocks bid to make leading Sikh independence supporter a peer in ‘extremism row’

Keir Starmer blocks bid to make leading Sikh independence supporter a peer in ‘extremism row’ Senior public official Dabinderjit Singh Sidhu is denied peerage by Labour leader Mr Singh is a long-standing campaigner for a sovereign Sikh state in the Punjab On the day of the announcement he was told Sir Keir withdrew his nomination  By … Read more

Sikh charity delivers Dominor’s pizzas and curries to stranded lorry drivers

A group of Sikh volunteers have tried to the raise the spirits of lorry drivers stranded in Kent with a delivery of 1,000 Domino’s pizzas amid the ongoing border chaos. Thousands of foreign drivers are likely to spend Christmas stuck in the UK as the Government has indicated queues will not move for at least … Read more

Police launch race hate probe into video showing boys attacking Sikh pupil 

Taunted for his turban: Police launch race hate probe into video showing boys attacking Sikh pupil Footage shows Sikh schoolboy being set upon by two others of a similar age Charlton School, Telford, Shropshire, confirmed incident happened after school West Mercia Police said they are treating the distressing incident as a hate crime  By Andy … Read more

Facebook and Instagram apologize after ‘mistakenly’ blocking the hashtag ‘Sikh’ for three months

Facebook and Instagram apologize after ‘mistakenly’ blocking out the hashtag ‘Sikh’ for three months The platforms say the block was instituted ‘mistakenly’ by its teams It did not offer any details on how or why the term was blocked Instagram says ‘Sikh’ has been blocked on the platform since March 7  By James Pero For … Read more

UK´s first Sikh A&E consultant dies after contracting…

A ‘widely respected’ doctor who became the first Sikh to work as an A&E consultant in Britain has died after contracting Covid-19. Manjeet Riyat, 52, was known described by colleagues at the Royal Derby Hospital as  the ‘father of the emergency department.’ The married father-of-two, who previously worked at Leicester Royal Infirmary and Lincoln County … Read more