and began to march the 25 kilometres to Amritsar. Helicopter patrols spotted them and sprayed them with bullets without warning. Within minutes hundreds were dead or wounded. "It was a virtual ...

it received extensive press coverage and its circulation was banned in India. The aftershocks of what became known as ‘the Amritsar Massacre’ were acutely felt a year later. They rumble on ...

The Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 1919 is often remembered as one of the most pivotal moments in India’s struggle against ...

The Amritsar Massacre On 13 April 1919 ... Reports of the massacre spread across the world, and calls to give India its independence began to grow. Gandhi was determined to achieve independence ...

Then Wood takes us on to the First War, the Amritsar Massacre of 1919, the move to Independence and the fateful Partition of 1947, one of the most crucial events in the history of modern India.

This and more in our weekly news segment from India. Jallianwala Bagh, the site of the Amritsar massacre of 1919, was reopened on 28 August after going through one and a half years of renovation.

DAVID CAMERON attempted yesterday to play down suggestions that the Thatcher government colluded in a massacre by Indian security forces ... to remove dissident Sikhs from the Golden Temple at ...

Seventy eight years later, the massacre at Jallianwala Bagh has been converted, thanks to the desire of a handful of politicians both in India and ... for her to visit Amritsar, then she should ...

Amritsar, Punjab, is a beautiful, culturally, historically and food-oriented city. Though most people know it by the Golden Temple, the city's unique street food culture and sightseeing will not ...

Also known as Amritsar massacre, as many as 1100 peaceful protesters ... severe questions about the British intentions to rule India in a humane way. Today, the park has been converted into ...