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Friday, June 20, 2025
TopicHS Phoolka

Topic: HS Phoolka

A new documentary restarts the old debate on 1984 violence. Genocide, riots, pogrom?

The Foreign Correspondents Club of South Asia hosted about 50 people, many of them from the Sikh community, in Delhi. The audience members not only related to the documentary but also recalled the events as they happened.

Punjab leader Khaira slams ‘dictator’ Arvind Kejriwal on his way out of Aam Aadmi Party

Khaira, who had been suspended from the AAP last year, accused Arvind Kejriwal of superseding the constitution of the party to remain convenor.

Senior Punjab leader HS Phoolka quits Aam Aadmi Party

HS Phoolka had earlier resigned from the post of leader of Opposition in Punjab assembly to continue his legal battle for the victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.

The 4 who never gave up the fight, and succeeded in putting Sajjan Kumar in jail

Lawyers H.S. Phoolka & R.S. Cheema, and 1984 victims Jagdish Kaur & Nirpreet Kaur were key in the legal battle that sent Sajjan Kumar to jail for life.

Punjab AAP leader HS Phoolka resigns from assembly, likely to quit party too

Punjab MLA H.S. Phoolka joins a host of senior leaders who have left AAP amid reports of disenchantment over Arvind Kejriwal’s leadership.

Ex-SC judges to re-examine 1984 riot cases

The 241 cases were closed by an SIT set up in 2015 and the CBI  for lack of evidence.

On Camera

Don’t just blame Yunus for Tagore house destruction. Bangladesh radicalism goes way back

Yunus has been complicit in giving a free rein to the radical elements within Bangladesh since Sheikh Hasina’s exit. But it was Hasina’s nod to Hefazat-e-Islam that led to the spread of radicalism across Bangladesh.

More salaried than self-employed Indians earning less than Rs 25k a month face borrower stress—study

Think360.ai, a firm that helps banks & financial institutions make credit decisions, based its analysis on 20k borrowers. 

What are US ‘bunker buster’ bombs & stealth bombers than can strike Iran’s nuclear mountain

Both GBU-57 munition & B-2 stealth fighter is with America. Moreover, Israel does not have any aircraft in its inventory to carry out such a challenging mission.

India-Pakistan terms of engagement: H-word, M-word & the Trump hyphenation

Return to hyphenation is dreaded because our successive govts have laboured for three decades to rid us of what we see as the equivalence big powers used to draw between us and Pakistan. Three things follow.