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Can’t compare 1984 killings, Godhra genocide: CM

Muktsar, Punjab: Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today said it was wrong to draw any parallel between the killing of Sikhs in 1984 and Gujarat’s Godhra genocide. “Whereas Godhra saw spontaneous genocide, the Sikhs were butchered in 1984 at the behest ...

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Sikh leaders divided on SIT probe

Amritsar, Punjab: Sikh leaders are divided over the Kejriwal-led Delhi Government’s decision to set up a special investigating team (SIT) to probe the 1984 Sikh genocide. Some maintain it will serve no purpose. But others like senior Supreme Court lawyer HS ...

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President Giani Zail Singh’s press secretary alleged that the Anti-Sikh massacres were ‘orchestrated and sponsored’.

New Delhi: Contradicting Rahul Gandhi’s assertion that the Congress government did everything it could to stop the Anti-Sikh massacres in Delhi in 1984, the then President Giani Zail Singh’s press secretary Wednesday alleged that the riots were “orchestrated and sponsored” ...

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Punjabi losing out to Internet a cause of worry for language exponents

Ludhiana, Punjab: It is said that the survival and growth of a language directly depends on the literature produced in that language. However, the Internet has hindered the growth of Punjabi even as literature in the language is being churned out. ...

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