LONDON: A Sikh family in central London pocketed millions of pounds by helping to run a decade-long operation to defraud the Royal Mail of 70 million pounds, a court has heard.

MELBOURNE: The Supreme Court in Australia's Queensland state has overturned a law banning Sikh religious dagger (Kirpan) on school grounds calling it "unconstitutional".

NEW DELHI: Braving heavy rain, the Indian community in Frankfurt held a peaceful protest urging Prime Minister Narendra Modi to save a two-year-old Indian child who has been living in foster care in Berlin for over 20 months.

NEW YORK: World Bank President Ajay Banga has been named to this year's "Great Immigrants" list by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, which honours contributions by immigrants to American life.

INDIANAPOLIS: Punjabi Virsa 2023, presented by Five River Entertainment and Rajvir Entertainment, turned out to be a roaring show, coupled with dazzling individual as well as team performances, at Garfield Park here today.

LONDON: An Indian-origin Sikh councillor has made history after being appointed as the new Lord Mayor of Coventry, a city in the West Midlands, England.

TORONTO: A Canadian-Sikh poet, whose Twitter account was withheld in India last month over the Khalistan issue, now has her debut work among the 11 most banned books in the US classrooms for the first half of the 2022-23 school year.

DAYTON (USA): Vaisakhi, a harvest festival with special significance for the Sikhs is one of the most important occasions in the Sikh calendar. The Sikh students, faculty and alumni of Wright State University along with the Sikh community of Dayton and Cincinnati came together to host a Sikh exhibition to commemorate Vaisakhi. They were supported by Asian Student Association (ASA), University Center for International Education (UCIE) and the Sikh Society of Dayton.

LONDON: A British-Indian businessman has been sentenced to six months in prison, suspended for 18 months, after admitting abuse of an interest-free loan offered by the UK government to businesses to cope with the Covid-19 lockdown.

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH: Today another great news for Sikhs around the world came from America when the Utah State Senate and Assembly passed a joint resolution recognizing April 14 as Sikh Day every year. Similarly Utah Governor Spencer J. Cox issued a declaration establishing Vaisakhi as Sikh Day.