''The Sikh Times'' is a Handsworth-based dual-language weekly

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primarily targeting

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in the

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area in

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. It is written in both

Punjabi Punjabi, or Panjabi, most often refers to: * Something of, from, or related to Punjab, a region in India and Pakistan * Punjabi language * Punjabi people * Punjabi dialects and languages Punjabi may also refer to: * Punjabi (horse), a British Th ...

and

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, with English covering most of the paper's content. The newspaper was launched on the Soho Road in the Handsworth area of Birmingham in 2001 by Gurjeet Bains, who is the editor, and Jaspal Singh, who is the publisher. The newspaper firm has now grown to a size that it relocated to Alexandra Road in the Business Village. Gurjeet, as editor of ''The Sikh Times'', received the Media, Sports & Arts Award at the

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Asian Jewel Central Awards in 2006. In July 2006, the newspaper announced they were to launch an online subscription service. ''The Sikh Times'' had the honour of having prominent Sikh historian Dr Harjinder Singh Dilgeer as Editor of the Punjabi section for one year, December 2001 to December 2002. During this period the Punjabi section of the ''Sikh Times'' was better than all other Punjabi newspapers of England as it provided latest news with the best information.

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