Sikh police officers want special bulletproof turbans to be developed so they can serve in firearms units, according to the new British Police Sikh Association.

The Sikh religion requires its male followers to wear the turban, but existing police safety helmets do not fit on top of them.

Insp Gian Singh Chahal, vice-chairman of the British Police Sikh Association, said the Home Office needed to make provision for Sikhs and recognise that they had a role to play.

Two breathtaking pieces will be the Sikh highlights of the Christie’s “Art of the Islamic and Indian World” sale on 7 October 2008 in London. The stunning court scene depicting Ranjit Singh and the principle figures of the Lahore Durbar is one of the most stunning Sikh paintings that has been offered for sale in recent years.

If the police and social workers had only listened to 12-year-old Ruksana when she told them her father had threatened to send her to Pakistan to be married against her will, then she says life might have been very different.

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LONDON • Officials in Britain are examining the background of a nine-year-old boy found abandoned at London bus stop in a bid to substantiate claims by a couple in India that he is their kidnapped son.

LONDON: Leading NRI industrialist and philanthropist, Prof Nathu Puri has been honoured with a doctorate degree in engineering by the London South Bank University.

"It is a great honour for me. Coming here in 1966 with very few resources, I could have never dreamt of this day," Puri said after receiving the degree.

Prof Deian Hopkin, Vice Chancellor of the University described Puri as "a successful industrialist and entrepreneur, renowned philanthropist and devoted supporter of education - not to mention Indian cricket".