India    12-Aug-2015

Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal dispatched a communiqué to Union home minister for an increase in deployment of Border Security Force (BSF) personnel on the International Border (IB) with Pakistan along the Punjab border to prevent cross border infiltration and avert any kind of terror strike. Badal visited some forward posts of BSF adjoining the border and realized the need for more personnel on the border to keep watch. He Said that the IB adjoining territory of Punjab should have the same strength of forces on the pattern of Jammu and Kashmir borders.

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United States    18-Aug-2015

A former Sikh separatist leader - Satwinder Singh Bhola (52), the owner of Griswold Grocery& Liquor in Peoria, was stabbed to death by unidentified assailants outside his apartment in the U.S. city of Illinois. Bhola was parking his car in the parking lot of his apartment complex on August 16 when some unidentified persons attacked him with a knife. Bhola was nominated as Spokesperson of All India Sikh Student Federation at the peak of militancy in Punjab. Following operation Blue Star in Amritsar, he served a two-year jail sentence.

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