Sikh body offers Rs 5 lakh for shoe

NEW DELHI: The shoe hurled by journalist Jarnail Singh at home minister P Chidambaram today has become a valued symbol for Sikh organisations who are ready to cough up Rs.5 lakh for it. “In the land of Mahatma Gandhi which hails non-violence, we expected justice in favour of the 1984 anti-Sikh riot victims. But after waiting for 25 years the decision comes out in favour of the main accused in the riots. So we think that the ‘shoe incident’ is justified,” said Babu Singh Dukhiya, president of National 1984 Victims Justice Association. “We are ready to buy the shoe for Rs.5 lakh,” he added. “Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar, the main accused of the 1984 riots, should be banned from contesting the Lok Sabha elections. Otherwise, the entire Sikh community will surely stage protests during the elections,” said a riot victim, Amar Singh. “I was only 22 when the riots happened in which my father and brother were killed and the whole responsibility of my family came on my shoulders so I could not continue my studies. Now I am in 46 but the rage against the accused of the riots is still there,” said Sukh Chain Singh. “A Congress government was in power when the riots took place and now again under a Congress government the accused are poised to contest the Lok Sabha election on tickets of Congress,” said Puchka Singh, another victim. According to sources, Akali Dal (Man) has offered Singh a ticket to contest the upcoming general election from Punjab.

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India's swine flu death rate is increasing

Friday, August 14, 2009 MUMBAI: A 26-year-old woman died Thursday of H1N1 swine flu in the southern city of Bangalore, raising India's death toll from the virus to 20, authorities said.The death was the first reported in India's information technology capital, the Press Trust of India reported.Meanwhile in Pune, the worst-affected in India, two more victims of the virus died Thursday, raising the death toll in that western city near Mumbai to 12, the report said. The victims were an 11-month-old boy and a 75-year-old old woman.US media reported movie halls, schools and colleges were ordered closed Thursday for three days to a week in Mumbai, the commercial and financial capital of the country, as fear of the pandemic spread.Prajakata Lavangare, a spokeswoman for the government of Maharashtra state of which Mumbai is the capital, said similar orders were issued in Pune, which is also located in the state.The woman who died in Bangalore was identified only as Roopa, a teacher in

Cuba's world-famous cigar festival closes in Havana

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Cyprus lace to be declared UNESCO cultural heritage

Tuesday, September 08, 2009 NICOSIA: Traditional hand-made lace produced in the Larnaca district village of Lefkara in Cyprus known as lefkaritiko includeded in UNESCO’s list of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH). Soseilos said that the relevant UNESCO committee has already decided to include lefkaritiko in its list of the world’s ICH, a more recent addition to UNESCO’s long-standing list of World Heritage sites, and the decision will be formally announced at the UNESCO General Assembly next month. The tradition of needlework and lace embroidery in Lefkara goes back centuries.

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