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Anti-Sikh riots: Court allows examination of Tytler CD

New Delhi, Oct 31 (IANS) A city court Saturday allowed the counsel of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots victims to examine the CD in which Congress leader Jagdish Tytler has been shown standing next to the body of former prime minister Indira Gandhi.

Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Rakesh Pandit asked the counsel for the victims’ association to [...]

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The moment that scarred India (25 years after Mrs Gandhi’s assassination)

New Delhi, Oct 29 (IANS) It was a moment in time; it shook India and stunned the world. As prime minister Indira Gandhi walked briskly up to the picket gate dividing her home from her office that fateful Wednesday morning 25 years ago, a hail of gunfire from two of her Sikh bodyguards sent [...]

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When 31 bullets felled Indira – R.K. Dhawan remembers (25 years after Indira Gandhi’s assassination)

New Delhi, Oct 28 (IANS) It was Oct 31, 1984, a day like any other with R.K. Dhawan, Indira Gandhi’s special assistant, arriving at 1, Safdarjung Road at 8 a.m. to find the prime minister getting her famous tresses – with the distinctive streak of white rising from the centre – trimmed for a television [...]

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