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Hurriyat leader Shabbir Shah lashes out at India after being booked for treason

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Gunfight intensifies between India and Pakistan at LoC Kashmir

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Gunfight intensifies between India and Pakistan at LoC Kashmir

August 24, 2014
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Punjab police re-opens a 2011 Mansa case against Baba Baljit Singh Daduwal

August 24, 2014
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Memorial demanded to honor the services of Baba Jiwan Singh Ji

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Baba Daduwal sent to Faridkot jail on Judicial custody; Mansa police told to make plea at local court

August 24, 2014
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A reader’s comments about ban on Punjabi Movie Kaum De Heere

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Tensions mounting in Muzaffarnagar (UP) as the anniversary of 2013 violence approaches

August 24, 2014
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Tensions mounting in Muzaffarnagar (UP) as the anniversary of 2013 violence approaches

August 24, 2014
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INDIA: Derogatory punishment at school made 12 years old girl to kill herself

August 24, 2014

Hurriyat leader Shabbir Shah lashes out at India after being booked for treason

August 24, 2014

Srinagar, Kashmir (August 24, 2014): As per media reports, senior Hurriyet leader and the Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party (DFP), Shabbir Ahmad Shah has termed the registration of a treason case against him and the Pakistani High Commissioner in New Delhi, Abdul Basit, as frustration of the Indian government.

Gunfight intensifies between India and Pakistan at LoC Kashmir

August 24, 2014

Srinagar, Kashmir (August 24, 2014): Recent media reports are suggesting that armed forces of India and Pakistan are engaged in an ongoing exchange of fires across line of control in Karshmir. India has been accusing Pakistan for repeated ceasefire violations at Line of Control at various sectors of Kashmir.

Gunfight intensifies between India and Pakistan at LoC Kashmir

August 24, 2014

Punjab police re-opens a 2011 Mansa case against Baba Baljit Singh Daduwal

August 24, 2014

Faridkot, Punjab (August 24, 2014): Punjab police seems be have turns all guns towards recently arrested Sikh preacher Baljit Singh Daduwal. Cases against him that were laying buried under below the dust have started to pop up after this arrest.

Memorial demanded to honor the services of Baba Jiwan Singh Ji

August 24, 2014

Amritsar, Punjab (August 24, 2014): According to media reprots the descendants of Baba Jivan Singh have demanded a memorial for him at Gurdwara Sisganj Sahib in Delhi. "We have been urging Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Management Committee for the past 15 years to erect a memorial or construct a gate in memory of Baba Jivan Singh, but nobody has heard us so far," chairman, Shaheed Baba Jivan Singh Nishkam Sewa Society, Amrik Singh Shergill, reportedly told media at Amritsar on August 23.

Baba Daduwal sent to Faridkot jail on Judicial custody; Mansa police told to make plea at local court

August 24, 2014

Faridkot, Punjab (August 24, 2014): According to information available with the Sikh Siyasat News (SSN), the arrested Sikh preacher Baba Baljit Singh Daduwal was presented before a local magistrate at Faridkot today after his one day police remand was over. The magistrate commanded Baba Daduwal to judicial custody till September 06.

A reader’s comments about ban on Punjabi Movie Kaum De Heere

August 24, 2014

Recently the Govt. of India banned Punjabi movie Kaum De Heere. It was a big news in Indian newspapers. I'll like to share some of the comments I wrote on Times of India website and some of my counter comments in reply to some of the other people making comments. I hope you'll find them interesting.

Tensions mounting in Muzaffarnagar (UP) as the anniversary of 2013 violence approaches

August 24, 2014

Muzaffarnagar, UP (August 24, 2014): There seems to be no end to reports of “communal tensions” in Uttar Pradesh, that has maximum number of Lok Sabha seats in a single state and that has witnessed more than 600 incidents of communal violence since the formation of Narendra Modi led BJP government in India. BJP had secured a sweeping victory in Uttar Pradesh during last Lok Sabha elections.

Tensions mounting in Muzaffarnagar (UP) as the anniversary of 2013 violence approaches

August 24, 2014

INDIA: Derogatory punishment at school made 12 years old girl to kill herself

August 24, 2014

Kanpur, India (August 24, 2014): In yet another disturbing incident, a 12 years old school girl killed herself in India after she was made to remove her cloths in schools as punishment. According to police the girl was made to remove her cloths as punishment for bringing a mobile phone to school.