Category: India
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Akali Dal did little to get justice for 1984 riots because victims were not Jat Sikhs, says journalist Sanjay Suri
News East West NEW DELHI: Former Indian Express reporter Sanjay Suri, who was an eyewitness to the anti-Sikh riots in Delhi in 1984, says Punjab and the Akali Dal didn’t do anything for the victims of the anti-Sikh riots of 1984. But he says the guilty can still be punished as there is enough evidence…
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My memories of telegram as it says goodbye to India after 163 years
By Gurmukh Singh TORONTO: So the 163-year-old telegram has finally said goodbye to India on Sunday (July 14). Alas and alack! As I read people in India rushing to post offices to send their one last telegram, the news brought back my memories of the good old telegram. Introduced in 1850 by the East India…
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Daring plunge by Punjab Police DSP to save woman from drowning
News East West NEW DELHI: In this shocking incident reported in the media, Punjab Police DSP Gurmeet Singh Kingra is seen jumping into the Bathinda branch of Sirhind Canal near Ludhiana in Punjab to save a drowning woman teacher on Sunday. The woman teacher was among her four colleagues who jumped into the canal after…
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Emergency can be imposed again in India: Advani
News East West NEW DELHI: Veteran BJP leader L.K. Advani, who went to jail during the Emergency imposed by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1975, feras that civil liberties are safe in India even today – 40 years after the event. “If the Emergency could happen with so many of us being there (who…