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She was gangraped 'coz the mob thought she
was a Christian
8 October 2008
NEW DELHI/BHUBANESHWAR:
The Indian Nationa State and its saffron-hued terrorists who shout /Bharat
Mata KI Jai' as they burn houses and churches... |
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India takes weeks to admit nun was gangraped
8 October 2008
Bhubaneswar/New
Delhi: Yet another shameful chapter in sectarian strife was added
when the Orissa government confirmed that a 29-year-old Catholic
nun... |
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147 dead in stampede at Hindu temple in
Jodhpur
1 October 2008
JODHPUR: Tragedy struck
the Sun City of Rajasthan on the first day of the nine-day navaratra
festivities on Tuesday when 147 pilgrims were killed in an early... |
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Nuclear India story continues
1 October 2008
KANDHAMAL/NEW DELHI: At
Ground Zero of Indian Hindutva terror groups' violence against poor
dalit Christians, there is no stopping bloodshed... |
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Zee TV pulls down hoarding after Sikhs object
to TV ad
1 October 2008
MUMBAI: Immediately after Sikhs protested against a Zee TV hoarding
in Mumbai, the channel reacted and pulled... |
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Blasts, encounter & lesson
24 September 2008
NEW
DELHI/BANGALORE: See the photograph alongside this story for a
complete meta-narrative of what the Indian nation state and its
agencies do to stereotype... |
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Indian workers kill CEO of Italian
firm after tiff
24 September 2008
NOIDA: In a
shocking incident, angry workers of a Rs 360-crore Italian concern
in India lynched to death the CEO of the company near the national
capital right... |
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High Court against High Court, so
Supreme Court stops judicial
24 September 2008
New Delhi: Shorn
of all frills, this is a fight within the High Court. The
administrative side of the Punjab and Haryana High Court is fighting
it out with the judicial... |
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Salwa Judam under fire in Supreme
Court, may have to go
24 September 2008
New Delhi: Salwa
Judum may have to go. The strategy to make the poor fight against
the organised poor in the name of countering what India calls... |
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RSS-BJP carry on anti-Christian hate
violence
17 September 2008
BANGALORE:
Hindutva's terror campaign against minorities in India
is on. The WSN recently carried detailed Special Report... |
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It’s easy to delay trials in India,
says Chief Justice
17 September 2008
NEW DELHI: The
Sikhs, of course, know this too well. The guilty of 1984 massacre of
Sikhs roam free, and one even became a minister in India, but the
trials in courts... |
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Delhi blasts kill scores, but here's
a story for you
17 September 2008
NEW DELHI: It was a happy Sunday when blasts in Delhi rocked India,
they jolted our conscience and brought us once again face to face
with the question... |
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Plight of Sikligar Sikhs needs attention
3 September 2008
HYDERABAD: No
ration cards. No voter identity cards. No dedicated water, power and
sewer lines. No health clinic and government school in the vicinity.... |
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Hyderabad conclave shames India’s re
27 August, 2008
HYDERABAD: “If
you can do something, please get my son back. He is in jail for the
last seven years. No trial, no justice. Just jail. They tell me
that it is some case under POTA... |
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India meets Azadi cries with force but
Kashmir is slipping
27 August, 2008
SRINAGAR: Indian
response to Kashmir’s cries of Azadi continued to be only use of
force. Force to stop rallies, force to arrest leaders, bullets to
keep people... |
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'Court should tell CBI to use video
conference facility'
27 August, 2008
New Delhi:
Jasbir Singh, the US-based witness in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case
involving Congress leader Jagdish Tytler, has filed a rejoinder
through advocate... |
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Sikhs extend helping hand to migrant Gujjars
27 August, 2008
JAMMU:
Various Sikh organizations have been distributing ration and other
essential commodities among the migrant Gujjar families at Mata
Gujri Teacher... |
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Sonia
says MMA will 'certainly' be candidate for top job again
20 August, 2008
New
Delhi: In what could help Congress possibly get a lot of Sikh votes,
and is likely to once again start a debate within the community
about whether to back... |
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Finally, Bhagat Singh statue unveiled in
Parliament House
20 August, 2008
NEW
DELHI: Seventy-nine years after Bhagat Singh, along with
fellow-revolutionary, threw a bomb on the floor of the Legislative Assembly
"to make the deaf... |
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Tributes to Surjeet had stuff between the lines
13 August, 2008
BUNDALA: Some of the tributes seemed too dubious for any dedicated
Marxist. General secretary of the CPI (M) Prakash Karat said all
that had recently... |
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Kashmir rises against India, troops shooting it down
13 August, 2008
SRINAGAR: The Muslim Street is rising against India, courting death
to get out of it.
India is responding, by shooting to kill. Blocked from even passing
through the... |
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Alfred Nobel’s grandson plans peace university in
India
13 August, 2008
NEW DELHI: The HRD ministry is considering a proposal to set up a
United Earth Peace University by United Earth, an international NGO
headed by Claes... |
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India Wins
Gold, and Loses
13 August, 2008
India is celebrating Abhinav Bindra's
Gold and state after state government is announcing rewards for him, but a
very important aspect is being missed... |
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Hindutva snub: Tribunal lifts
India's ban on SIMI
6 August, 2008
NEW DELHI: After much brouhaha and persistent
ultra-nationalist propaganda aimed largely against Muslim community,
Indian establishment got the snub... |
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Like father, like son
6 August, 2008
HEMALKASA: Following
the footsteps of their father, Prakash and Mandakini Amte have won
the Ramon Magsaysay award for their selfless work with the
aboriginal... |
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Kashmir simmers, Jammu on boil
6 August, 2008
JAMMU: Over a dozen policemen were injured, a
police post and government buildings were set ablaze and a railway track was
uprooted as violence escalated... |
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India wins N-trust vote at IAEA, two hurdles ahead
6 August, 2008
New Delhi: India on Friday took a big stride
forward to take its place at the nuclear high table. The India-specific
safeguards agreement sailed... |
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5 Days, 55 bombs, 3 cities, 53 Dead,
Life Is On Edge
29 July, 2008
AHMEDABAD/SURAT: India is terror struck, and being bombed. With
terrorizing frequency. Swanky IT capital Bangalore had serial blasts
on July 26... |
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Fresh spiral of violence in Jammu over Amarnath shrine land
29
July, 2008
JAMMU: The troubled Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir exploded with
fresh violence as scores have been injured during continuing clashes
between Hindu... |
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Sikh community expresses solidarity with Kashmiris
29
July, 2008
Srinagar: In
Kashmir, a delegation of Sikh community comprising prominent
political and social personalities on Thursday, called on the All
Parties Hurriyat Conference... |
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Dalit: The Error of Usage
29
July, 2008
Dalit”,
“Scheduled Caste”, “Ex-Untouchable” and “Harijan”. These are only
some of the many words used to refer to the most oppressed sections
of Indian society... |
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Tension in Rampur over scuffle with Sikh student
29
July, 2008
Rampur
(UP): The alleged attempts by some students of a higher secondary
school here to forcibly remove the turban of a Sikh classmate and a
subsequent scuffle... |
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Trade talks collapse after US, China,
India reject compromise
29
July, 2008
GENEVA: Trade
officials said Tuesday that a high-level summit to salvage a global
trade pact collapsed, after the United States, China and India
failed to compromise... |
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Singh is King
23
July, 2008
NEW DELHI: On a day Indian
Political System plunged to record depths of morality and Parliament
watched the ugly spectacle of currency wads appearing minutes... |
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In Vienna, Pak pushes for a vote on India’s
safeguards pact
23
July, 2008
NEW DELHI: While
New Delhi debated the survival of the Manmohan Singh government over
the Indo-US nuclear deal, Pakistan stepped up diplomatic efforts... |
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MMS’ attack on Advani was bristling,
personal, and it hurt
23
July, 2008
NEW DELHI: Personal
attacks on L K Advani, references to Godhra, attack on Parliament
and other black marks from BJP regime, defence of his... |
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First Sikh PM's Govt Is Set For Final Nuclear
Test on July 22
16 July
2008
New Delhi:
India’s Left parties vowed all of past week that they will bring down
Manmohan Singh’s Congress-led government before it can finalize the nuclear
deal... |
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Karnataka CM says Sikh pilgrims will get all facilities
16 July 2008
BIDAR: Karnataka Chief Minister B.S.
Yeddyurappa has announced the release of Rs. 15 crore to Bidar for providing
basic amenities... |
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India wakes up to problems of jilted NRI brides
9
July, 2008
NEW DELHI: India now
plans to come to the aid of women who’ve been deserted by their NRI
husbands in foreign countries with legal and financial assistance in
order... |
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India moves into US embrace as Cong strikes power deal to save N-deal
9
July, 2008
NEW DELHI: After
tearing itself apart for months over the Nuclear Deal with the
United States, the Congress-led alliance government in India finally
came close... |
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Indian govt’s new coalition partner
9
July, 2008
The regional Samajwadi Party now holds the balance of power in
Indian politics after the withdrawal of the communist parties from
supporting the government... |
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Kashmir Valley explodes over land-for-mandir
2
July, 2008
SRI NAGAR:
BLATANT imposition of Hindutva agenda in Kashmir has
triggered a groundswell of protests, violence, police firing, lathi
charges, street... |
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Scolded, teen reality show star paralysed
2
July, 2008
KOLKATA: As the
Indian telivision space gets clamoured with more and more reality
shows, some comic, some real tragic but most of them rediculous... |
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Ghising tears down GJM flag at his residence
2
July, 2008
SILIGURI: Former
undisputed leader of the Gorkhaland movement in Darjeeling
hills Subash Ghising has torn down a flag of the Gorkha Janmukti
Morcha (GJM)... |
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DU Sikh colleges challenge quota
2
July, 2008
NEW DELHI: A group
of minority colleges under Delhi University (DU) have approached the
High Court seeking exemption from giving reservation... |
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Pakistan, India OK Iran Gas Pipe
2
July, 2008
NEW DELHI:
Pakistan and India have solved all the bilateral and commercial
differences that prevented them from moving ahead in building a gas
pipeline... |
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Indian Air travel comes full circle
25
June, 2008
The increase in India's air fares following the hike in ATF
prices by oil companies evokes memories of a time not so long ago
when air fares were so cheap... |
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Hindutva league leader RSS plans to hijack
Guru'ta Gaddi celebrations
25
June, 2008
NEW DELHI: The saffron band is always on the look out for occasions
to stress assimilation and the very formation of the Rashtriya Sikh
Sangat... |
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India's top
Hindu leader falls back on terror language
25
June, 2008
MUMBAI:
Imagine a Sikh leader merely mentioning that continuous
marginalization of the Sikhs or attempts to denigrate Sikh Gurus or
Sikh maryada... |
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Indian govt tears itself apart on N-deal with US
25
June, 2008
New Delhi: Just as this WSN edition was
going to the press, India's coalition government and its Left allies
were meeting on Wednesday over a civilian... |
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7 Hemkunt Sahib pilgrims buried under glacier
25
June, 2008
Dehra Dun: Seven
pilgrims on way to Hemkund Sahib shrine in Garhwal Himalayas were
killed and a dozen others injured when a glacier moved from its
place... |
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Sikh scholar addresses Principals of Convent Schools
18
June,
2008
DALHOUSIE:
With a view to have proper appreciation of the Sikhs and Sikhism, a
special learning session was arranged by Rev. Fr. Joseph Puthenpura... |
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Indian sand sculptor wins top honours
18
June,
2008
NEW DELHI: By
choosing ‘global warming’ — the hottest topic in the world today —
as the theme of his sand sculpture at the Berlin International
sand... |
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India’s Supreme Court heaps shame on
Hindu Marriage Act
18
June,
2008
NEW DELHI: For years, saner sections across the country, and the
Sikh community in a very shrill voice, has been pointing out the
many problems... |
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BJP Govt finally tames Gujjars, pact sealed
18
June,
2008
JAIPUR:
When
Gujjar leader Colonel Kirori Singh Bainsla alighted in Jaipur from
the "Indiabulls" helicopter on Monday, one thing was clear: the
Gujjar ... |
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Hemkund Yatra: Six pilgrims hurt in clash
18
June,
2008
Dehra Dun: The Uttarakhand government today deployed heavy police
force at Nagrasu in Rudraprayag district as tension prevailed on the
Hemkund yatra... |
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A refugee from Pakistan, he bought this asset for Rs
2.5 lakh
18
June,
2008
Mumbai:
Of course he did make money for himself, but in the process the
image of a Sikh entrepreneur that Malvinder Mohan Singh has
propagated... |
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Delhi cops beat Sikh to death because of bounced
cheque
18
June,
2008
New Delhi: A member
of the national minorities commission has sought a Central Bureau of
Investigation (CBI) probe into the alleged killing of a Sikh, Nirmal
Singh... |
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BJP National Executive reveals Hindutva
agenda’s resurgence
18
June,
2008
India's right
wing Hindu ultra-nationalist party, the BJP, that is seen largely
responsible for the demolition of the Babri Mosque and inducing... |
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Some God's men are very rich, here is one
18
June,
2008
KERALA:
At a time when the Kerala government, students, NGOs, and youth
bodies have been acting as self-styled vigilantes, carrying out a
drive... |
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Sikh volunteers bring respite to many sun-hit passers
by
18
June,
2008
VISAKHAPATNAM: In a
loving written report from Vizag city, journalist Nivedita Ganguly
wrote in India's leading English daily 'The Hindu' how scores of
weary... |
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Shameless BJP wants death for Afzal Guru
11
June, 2008
MUMBAI: India's
death row convict Afzal Guru sought to put the right wing Hindutva
brand Bharatiya Janata Party to shame by saying that it will be
better if L K Advani... |
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Now, Indians can read foreign news, current
affairs magazines
11
June, 2008
New Delhi: At a time
when internet editions are easily available, the Indian Government
has decided to allow foreign news and current affairs magazines... |
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New theory on Aarushi twin murder case talks of two killers
11
June, 2008
New Delhi: Even as
the Aarushi twin murder case keeps India glued to TV for any new
theory, the federal investigative agency CBI that has taken over the
case... |
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Gujjar protests continue, trains, road traffic hit
badly
4
June,
2008
New
Delhi: Gujjars in India continue with the protests, uprooting
railway tracks, blockading roads. Northern Railways was forced to cancel a
large number... |
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Hurriyat chief Geelani under house arrest
4
June,
2008
SRINAGAR: Adamant on
its policy of not even allowing the ethnic minorities to listen to each
other, the Indian nation state exposed itself once more by putting... |
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Kerala goes godmen hunting to end over the counter
spirituality
4
June,
2008
KERALA: Deravad is
an all India problem, not just Punjabwide. India's Communist-ruled
high literacy southern state of Kerala is often termed in tourism
literature... |
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Gujjars want tribal status, get
bullets
28
May,
2008
RAJASTHAN/NEW
DELHI: Caste is casting its crooked eye on India, and corpses of men
fighting for a miserably thin slice of the reservation cake... |
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The BJP's 18 worthies
28
May,
2008
This is one aspect
that the Indian media did not deem fit to cover though the
information is in the public domain. The WSN brings to you the real
face... |
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BJP touches South Pole; Cong should
read straws in the wind
28
May,
2008
BANGALORE/NEW DELHI: Any election in the poll year is keenly watched
to see any straws in the wind and Karnataka was no different... |
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When 25,000 landed up to bless 22 Sikh
couples
21
May,
2008
HYDERABAD:
Some of them were poor, some needed only a little bit of help,
and then there were some who were simply happy to be part of such... |
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Menu card offends Sikh
21
May,
2008
Sikh community
staged a dharna in front of a restaurant on Museum Road on Sunday,
taking serious objection to jokes and pictures displayed... |
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Round up “Bangladeshis”, put them in Guantanamo Bay style camp: India tells
Rajasthan
21
May,
2008
AT a time when
the war on terror is arguably the top priority agenda item of the United
States, and by a stretch of harsh truth of geopolitics, India too... |
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85 killed in Jaipur blasts
14
May,
2008
Once again jolting
the nation with the force of terror, at least 85 people were killed and over
150... |
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One year of Dr Binayak Sen in jail
14
May,
2008
It has been exactly one year India courted shame by putting behind
bars public health specialist and human rights activist Dr Binayak Sen who
has... |
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SC refuses to interfere with French law
14
May,
2008
NEW DELHI:
A
Sikh forum on Tuesday presented an impossible task before the Supreme
Court... |
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Indian print industry on a roll
14
May,
2008
MUMBAI:
At a time
when it has been predicted that the newspaper would die in another
three decades, the print media in India is showing a great
resurgence... |
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Sangh doctors drop Red Cross for Swastika
30
April 2008
AHMEDABAD:
Gujarat doctors leaning towards the Sangh parivar are promoting
the use of the swastika instead of the Red Cross... |
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Yes, India fakes encounters, says Supreme Court
30
April 2008
NEW DELHI:
Fake encounters are happening throughout the country, and they
are worse than cold-blooded murders... |
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BJP govt orders case shut against VHP goons
30
April 2008
JAIPUR:
The Hindu
right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party-led government in Rajasthan has
refused sanction to prosecute 14 Vishwa Hindu Parishad... |
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Mass Graves issue: Soz to meet Defence Minister
23 April 2008
SRINAGAR: Indian Water Resources Minister Saif-ud-Din Soz
has again brought the spotlight on the issue of mass graves in
Kashmir, saying he would take up... |
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From Chandigarh to Delhi in 50 minutes!
23 April 2008
NEW DELHI: The
Indian Railways has started work to give shape to an ambitious
high-speed train project that would cut journey time from Delhi to
Chandigarh... |
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RSS starts new round of attack on Ram Sethu issue
23 April 2008
New Delhi: Funny
how completely obscurantist stances of certain groups and parties in
India do not lead to popular jokes, and totally ridiculous
stances... |
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Pak says Sikhs welcome without visa
16
April 2008
New Delhi: Pakistan
has said it was open to a visa-free regime as far as Sikh pilgrims
to Pakistan are concerned but it is not known how the Indian
Government... |
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Sarabjit’s sister assured by Pakistan
minister
2
April
2008
AMRITSAR:
Indian death row prisoner in Pakistan Sarabjit Singh's sister Dalbir Kaur
has put off her visit to the Pakistan High Commission in Delhi... |
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Advani gets bouncers after claims in book about hijack saga
2
April
2008
NEW
DELHI: India's Leader of the Opposition L.K. Advani's memoirs My
Country, My Life has run into fresh controversy with former minister
and Advani's colleague... |
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SC wants post-Godhra riots re-investigated
26
March 2008
NEW DELHI: The
Supreme Court of India has agreed to constitute a five-member
special investigation team (SIT) to reinvestigate the post-Godhra... |
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I will
quit if violence continues: Dalai Lama
26
March 2008
NEW DELHI: Upset
over the continuing violent protests by the Tibetans, their spiritual
leaders Dalai Lama said he would step down if it continued. “I have... |
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Now, Indian govt plans to amend land
acquisition law
26
March 2008
NEW DELHI:
Rather late in the day, the Indian government is now contemplating
amending the land acquisition law to ensure adequate compensation... |
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Subcontinental
peace hangs by a rope, but Pakistan says it won’t pull lever till
April 30
19
March 2008
NEW
DELHI/ISLAMABAD: For more than two decades, this Sikh man has been
languishing in Pakistan prisons, confined in a solitary cell, waiting
on the death row... |
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Top Sikh officer in Indian Army shunted out
because he was exposing corruption
19
March 2008
One of the highest ranking Sikh army officers in the Indian Army,
widely celebrated for his sense of integrity and a no-nonsense attitude
towards... |
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Govt plans Rs 50 cr kabaddi
extravaganza for NRIs
19
March 2008
CHANDIGARH: If there is a possibility of big money, be sure that the
Punjab Government will be interested in it. And if the big money
involves dollars... |
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India keeps many Sikh refugees from Afghanistan
hanging
19
March 2008
Nearly 4,000 Sikh and Hindu refugees from Afghanistan, who are back
due to civil war, are peeved at the lopsided citizenship norms of the Indian
Ministry... |
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Supreme Court to examine Terminator Act next
month
12
March 2008
NEW DELHI: Punjab
will continue to have to remain on high alert to protect its waters.
The Supreme Court of India has assured the Haryana government... |
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A postcard from the bloody battle ground
12
March 2008
THALASSERY (KANNUR,
KERALA): The Thalassery Government Hospital has often witnessed such
patients as Suresh who received 120 stab wounds... |
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48 Pakistanis in Indian Punjab jails: Prison terms
completed
12
March 2008
NEW DELHI: Forty-eight Pakistanis are languishing in jails across
Indian Punjab even after completing their prison terms. Many of them
have not even been... |
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Sikhs not minority but Centre out to give sop
to other minority varsities
12
March 2008
New Delhi: Even as
the Punjab and Haryana High Court recently ruled that the Sikhs are
not a minority in Punjab, thus taking away SGPC's right to run... |
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Sikhs can use Wakf land, Muslims tell
community
12
March 2008
YAMUNANAGAR:
Displaying not only generosity but the spirit of Sarbat Da Bhala,
the Muslim community in a village in this district said it will open
up... |
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RSS raids Red nerve center
12
March 2008
NEW
DELHI: Thalassery has echoed with political violence so often and so
regularly that the Indian media had long stopped even mentioning it,
but on... |
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India
writes $15 billion cheque to save Sonia’s UPA from committing suicide
5
March 2008
NEW DELHI/CHANDIGARH: For four
years, the image of India spun out
by the Sonia Gandhi-Manmohan Singh led, Leftnudged and SEZ-business-industry... |
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PM says Black List will remain
5
March 2008
AMRITSAR: For
decades the Indian government has been claiming normalcy in Punjab,
but the functioning of the establishment and its psyche refuses to
change... |
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Islam defines and decrees terror
27
February 2008
Facing flak from
the media and tired of regular and rigorous stereotyping of Muslims
in the media by the police and the state machinery... |
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