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• Akali Dal approaches Human Rights Commission on 1984 anti-Sikh riots cases

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  New Delhi, Nov 5 (ANI): A delegation of the Shiromani Akali Dal led by Punjab Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal met Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) here, urging their intervention in the prolonged 1984 anti-Sikh riots cases. Talking to reporters, Badal said that the Congress-led government has ...
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• Shoe-throwing scribe to release book on anti-Sikh riots

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  New Delhi, Nov 5 (IANS) Jarnail Singh, the Sikh journalist who created headlines for throwing a shoe at Home Minister P. Chidambaram for the injustice committed towards the victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, has written a book on the riots.The book — to be released here Friday — is titled “I Accuse…” in ...
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• Punjab shutdown against riots hits normal life (Roundup)

  
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  Chandigarh/Amritsar, Nov 3 (IANS) Trains were stopped, road traffic was hit while schools and colleges were closed in many Punjab towns as radical groups called for a shutdown Tuesday to protest the denial of justice to families of the thousands killed in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.The strike, however, passed off ...
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• Protesters stop Shatabdi trains in Haryana, Punjab

  
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  New Delhi, Nov 3 (IANS) A Shatabdi Express from Amritsar to the national capital was prevented from leaving Tuesday by activists of a Sikh outfit, while another Shatabdi was stopped in Haryana by villagers after it ran over six people.The Amritsar-New Delhi Shatabdi was stopped at the Amritsar railway station by ...
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• Radical Sikhs disrupt train service in Punjab

  
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  Amritsar (Punjab), Nov 3 (ANI): Activists of the radical Sikh outfit Dal Khalsa today blocked trains and buses in Amritsar to enforce the Punjab bandh called by them to protest the alleged inaction against the 1984 riots accused. The activists blocked the tracks, delaying the movement of many trains including the ...
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• 1984 Sikh Massacre Remembered

  
  South Asia Investor Review — Authority: 118
  Indiras Sikh assassins met swift justice, but the murderers of 3,870 innocent Sikhs still roam free a quarter of a century later. In addition to the Sikh pogrom, the year 1984 also saw a deadly gas leak in a factory owned by Union Carbide in Bhopal that killed over 2,000 people and left permanent injuries for many ...
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• Sikhs celebrate Guru Purab in Kashmir with devotion

  
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  Srinagar, Nov.2 (ANI): Sikhs in Kashmir celebrated ‘Guru Purab’, the birth anniversary of their first guru Guru Nanak Dev here on Monday with full devotion and prayed for the world peace.On the occasion, celebrated at Gurudwaras (Sikh shrines), they All of them prayed for peace to prevail throughout the ...
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• Tens of thousands of Sikhs attend community parade in Yuba City

  
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  By Ravinder Singh Robin Yuba City (United States), Nov. 2(ANI): Tens of thousands of people from different parts of the United States of America, Canada, United Kingdom, and India attended the 30th Annual Sikh Parade here on Sunday. The nearly five mile religious procession was taken out to mark the tercentenary ...
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• ‘21 male family members were killed within hours’ (25 years after Indira Gandhi’s assassination)

  
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  By Mayank AggarwalNew Delhi, Nov 2 (IANS) She was 20 then, happily married for two years. But Manjeet Kaur’s world came to be covered in blood the night of Nov 1, 1984 when her husband along with 20 other men in the family were butchered right outside their homes in the mindless anti-Sikh violence.Twentyone lives, ...
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• Guru Nanak Jayanti being celebrated today

  
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  New Delhi, Nov 2 (ANI): ‘Guru Nanak Jayanti’, the birthday of Guru Nanak Devji, is being celebrated today with religious zeal and gaiety across the country.Vice President Hamid Ansari and Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh greeted the nation on the occasion.Ansari said that Guru Nanak Devji, the founder of Sikhism, ...
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• Sikh students group marches against 1984 ‘genocide’

  
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  New Delhi, Nov 1 (IANS) Holding placards and tyres slung around their necks as a mark of protest, members of the All India Sikh Students Federation (AISSF) took out a march in the capital Sunday, demanding justice for the victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.The AISSF activists and some victims’ families, who marched ...
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• Block 32 Trilokpuri now: Painted walls, scars within ((25 years after Indira Gandhi’s assassination)

  
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  By Mayank AggarwalNew Delhi, Nov 1 (IANS) On the face of it, there are no vestiges of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in Trilokpuri. Congested lanes, poor roads and open drains mark the working class neighbourhood in east Delhi.But the gashes are there, just underneath the surface.Trilokpuri’s Block 32 is one of the areas ...
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• Block 32 Trilokpuri then: Hair, blood and absolutely no sound (25 years after Indira Gandhi’s assassination)

  
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  By Rahul BediNew Delhi, Nov 1 (IANS) It was a sight I will never forget in my life. Two alleyways in Trilokpuri, Block-32, littered with bodies, body parts, hair and blood.It was around 7 p.m. Nov 1, 1984, and there was no light. The only illumination was from the headlights of my car. Nobody was [...]
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• Indian Sikh devotees reach Nankana Sahib amid massive confusion

  
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  Lahore, Nov.1 (ANI): Hundreds of Sikh devotees, who were waiting at the Attari railway station for hours to leave for Wagah border in order to reach Nankana Sahib in Pakistan to celebrate the 541st Birth anniversary of Guru Nanak, finally heaved a sigh of relief when two trains from Pakistan arrived at Attari on ...
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• PM greets nation ahead of Guru Nanak Jayanti

  
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  New Delhi, Nov 1 (ANI): Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh today greeted the nation on the occasion of Guru Nanak Jayanti, which will be celebrated on Monday.In his message, Dr. Singh said that the teachings of Guru Nanak Dev, of peace and unity are very relevant in today’s world. “A Society without discrimination ...
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• 1984 Anti Sikh Pogrom (Riots) and Twitter

  
  Simarprit's Weblog — Authority: 115
  Twitter is a medium which shows everyone naked, instinctive statements taught a lesson to a host of thought leaders on eating crow. Shashi Tharoor, Barkha Dutt, Vikram Chandra, Pritish Nandy, Rajdeep Sardesai were all stopped in their tracks and requested/asked/ pushed to clarify their statements and use of ...
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• 1,500 devotees leave for Pakistan for Gurpurab

  
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  Amritsar, Oct 31 (IANS) Despite the recent advice by the union home ministry asking Indian nationals to avoid travelling to Pakistan in view of the security situation there, a contingent of nearly 1,500 devotees Saturday crossed over into Pakistan to be part of Gurpurab - birth anniversary celebrations of Sikhism ...
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• Punjab political party protests against lack of justice for 1984 riot victims

  
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  New Delhi, Oct.31 (ANI): Activists of Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar), a regional political party in Punjab, staged a protest in the national capital against the lack of justice to the families of those who were killed after the assassination of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, 25 years ago.Gurinder Pal Singh ...
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• Families of Sikh riot victims protest outside court

  
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  New Delhi, Oct 31 (IANS) Demanding justice, some families of the victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots Saturday protested outside the Karkardooma court here, which was hearing a case related to the savagery in the capital 25 years ago.“It has been 25 years since the riots took place. If the government wants, we can ...
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• A nowhere trail of commissions and blatant omissions (25 years after Indira Gandhi’s assassination)

  
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  By Murali KrishnanNew Delhi, Oct 31 (IANS) Two commissions, eight committees and 25 years later, the truth behind the 1984 riots, when over 3,000 Sikhs in the national capital were massacred by organised mobs that trawled the streets for almost four days, has been wilfully buried by the political machinery.The guilty ...
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