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What to know about the Sikh independence movement following US accusation that activist was targeted
Read full article: What to know about the Sikh independence movement following US accusation that activist was targetedThe U.S. has charged an Indian national in what prosecutors allege was a failed plot to assassinate a Sikh separatist at the behest of an unnamed Indian government official.
What to know about the Sikh movement at the center of the tensions between India and Canada
Read full article: What to know about the Sikh movement at the center of the tensions between India and CanadaTensions between Canada and India have reached new heights with dueling diplomatic expulsions and an allegation of Indian government involvement in the killing of a Sikh activist on Canadian soil.
Indian opposition party seeks to shed dynastic rule image
Read full article: Indian opposition party seeks to shed dynastic rule imageIndia’s main opposition party, the Indian National Congress, is set to choose a person who is not a member of its dominant Nehru-Gandhi family as its next president as it struggles to recover before key upcoming elections.
History on screen: East Germany through its filmmakers' eyes
Read full article: History on screen: East Germany through its filmmakers' eyesIn this Wednesday, June 17, 2020 photo Gunnar Dedio, German film producer and managing director of PROGRESS Film GmbH poses for a photo between rolls of film in the archive of PROGRESS Film, in Leipzig, Germany. A new project is underway to digitize thousands of East German newsreels, documentaries and feature films 30 years after Germanys reunification. The East German Augenzeuge, or Eyewitness, newsreel on the Kennedy visit trumpeted the prank as a triumph, scoffing that the American president got an “unexpected surprise instead of the great view into the East German capital promised by his Secret Service” and allegedly had to cut his visit from “20 minutes to five." Germany was divided into four occupation zones after World War II, the Soviet-influenced East Germany and West Germany's American, British and French sectors. In 1950, the year after East Germany was established as a country, the authorities formed another company, Progress, as a state monopoly to distribute DEFA films and to import foreign productions.
Former Indian President Pranab Mukherjee dies at age 84
Read full article: Former Indian President Pranab Mukherjee dies at age 84Former President Pranab Mukherjee, who was a key troubleshooter in managing fractious coalitions as a member of India's long-governing Congress party died Monday evening. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)NEW DELHI Former President Pranab Mukherjee, a senior leader of India's Congress party who served in multiple Cabinets during five decades in politics, has died. Mukherjee was president from 2012 to 2017, at the end of a long period when the Congress party held power. He lost his position as finance minister after Indira Gandhi was assassinated in 1984 and her son Rajiv Gandhi became prime minister. Mukherjee formed his own party but later reconciled with Rajiv Gandhi and returned to the Congress party in 1989.