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Cops help radicals occupy Nihang headquarters

Chandigarh: Violence is apprehended, as radical Sikhs continue to drive out Nihangs from gurdwaras. Damdami Taksal chief Harnam Singh Bhindranwale’s dispossessing Shiromani Panth Akali Tarna Dal of Mehta Chowk in Amritsar from the land of Gurdwara Hargobind Sahib in the holy ...

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Notice to Sajjan on plea against acquittal

New Delhi: The Delhi high court on Monday issued a notice to Congress leader Sajjan Kumar on an appeal of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), challenging his acquittal in a 1984 Sikh genocide case relating to the killing of ...

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The general of sparrows about the life of Banda Bahadur

India: In the recent past a senior administrator and many times vice-chancellor in Punjab, as well as the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee have banned anyone other than a Sikh from writing on the religious aspects of Sikh history. Under the ...

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1,000 trees to be axed for four-laning project

Ferozepur, Punjab: The four-laning of the 10 km Hussainiwal a – Ferozepur road as part of ‘Destination Ferozepur’, a tourism development plan, would lead to axing of nearly 1,000 full grown trees, the permission regarding which had been granted by the ...

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