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Just tears, dejection for abandoned NRI brides

Ludhiana, Punjab: Their prime is slipping away and they are forced to make rounds of courts but the law fails to give them any immediate relief. This is the plight of abandoned NRI brides awaiting justice. Most of them are ...

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Shekhar Kapur remembers 1984 massacre

New Delhi, India: Moved by renowned journalist Rahul Bedi’s recent recollection of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, internationally acclaimed Indian filmmaker Shekhar Kapur has come out with his own memories of the ’savagery’. ‘How does a city descend into savagery? A ...

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Sikh artist creating life out of wood

Amritsar, Punjab: A painter-turned-sculptor has a story to tell. Narinder Singh, an eminent artiste, had the urge to do something different and a challenge thrown by a woman made him manifest his inner dream and created a life out a ...

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1984 Sikh Genocide: Victims block rail traffic

Chandigarh, Punjab: While victims of 1984 riots disrupted rail traffic at several places, including Ambala and Jalandhar, to protest against denial of justice to them, their lawyer HS Phoolka has appealed to them to shun such actions. “Our fight is not against the public. Why inconvenience the general public? Our fight is against the Union Government as well as the Delhi government for getting the culprits of the worst-ever carnage in the history of Independent India punished,” says Phoolka.

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