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Pakistan refuses visa to 58 Sikhs for pilgrimage
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Amritsar (Punjab) [India], June 26 (ANI): Pakistan on Wednesday refused visas to 58 Sikh pilgrims who wanted to go there to observe the death anniversary of Maharaja Ranjit Singh.
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Twitter suspends pro-Khalistan activist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun's account
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 18 (ANI): Micro-blogging site Twitter has suspended pro-Khalistan activist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun's account following a complaint by the Indian government.
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Make public all govt record on Operation Blue Star: DSGMC
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 3 (ANI): Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Management Committee (DSGMC) President Manjinder Singh Sirsa on Monday asked the Central government to tender "unqualified apology" to the Sikhs for 'Operation Blue Star' carried out by the government headed by Indira Gandhi in 1984.
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Hundreds of Sikhs killed and they say "hua so hua": PM tears into Congress
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Rohtak (Haryana) [India], May 10 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi tore into the Congress on Friday over Sam Pitroda's "so what" remark on 1984 anti-Sikh riots. The Congress attaches no value to human lives lost in riots, Modi said with regard to the Overseas Congress chief's comment. Read More
BJP twisting my words on anti-Sikh riots to hide their failures: Pitroda
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 10 (ANI): Indian Overseas Congress chief Sam Pitroda hit out at the BJP for "twisting his words and distorting facts" to "hide their failures", while reaffirming that he had acknowledged the pain of Sikhs during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
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Why would Rajiv Gandhi get Sikhs killed, asks Sheila Dikshit
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 9 (ANI): Senior Congress leader Sheila Dikshit on Thursday expressed disappointment over BJP's allegation of Rajiv Gandhi's 'involvement' in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
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PMO directly gave instructions to kill Sikhs in 1984: H S Phoolka
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 9 (ANI): Senior advocate H S Phoolka on Thursday claimed that instructions to "kill" during the anti-Sikh riots that took place in Delhi in 1984 had come directly from the Prime Minister's Office.
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PM Modi rightly said Rajiv Gandhiji supported the 1984 riots: Prakash Java
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 5 (ANI): Union Minister Prakash Javadekar on Sunday justified Prime Minister Narendra Modi's statement on former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi by stating that the late PM had supported the killing of Sikhs in the 1984 riots.
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Refugees from Bangladesh will get citizenship here as promised in manifest
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], Apr 22 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national president Amit Shah on Monday said that the refugees who migrated from Bangladesh, be it Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, Jains, or Christians, will get citizenship as promised in BJP's 'Sankalp Patra'.
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Amit Shah should apologise for NRC remark: Kerala Christian Forum
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], Apr 12 (ANI): The Kerala Christian Forum on Friday demanded an apology from Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah for his statement on the implementation of National Register of Citizens (NRC), saying that "it was a direct attack on the identity a
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HPSC bans Sikhs from wearing symbols of faith in exams; SAD seeks withdraw
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab), March 30 (ANI): SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Saturday requested Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar to ask the Haryana Public Service Commission (HPSC) to "immediately rescind a notification banning Sikh candidates from wearing the symbols of their fait
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Pakistan openly facilitating Khalistani separatists
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Ottawa [Canada], Mar 29 (ANI): Pakistan has openly started facilitating Khalistan separatists by pumping in millions of dollars to revive the anti-India movement following their futile attempts at propagating anti-India sentiments in the West.
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