Operation Blue Star: How an Indian army raid on the Golden Temple ended in disaster Thirty years ago this week, in June 1984, a tense stand-off erupted into violence at the heart of the Sikh religion.

Operation Blue Star was conceived after the Khalistan movement in India. The movement was political Sikh nationalist movement that focussed at creating an independent state for Sikhs in the ...

Community members eat lunch together at the Palatine gurdwara on June 12, 2022, where images hang remembering Operation Blue Star, which attacked Sikh temples across Punjab, India, in 1984.

Community members eat lunch together at the Palatine gurdwara on June 12, 2022, where images hang remembering Operation Blue Star, which attacked Sikh temples across Punjab, India, in 1984.

The Indian Army launched Operation Blue Star six months later to flush out the terrorists. "We were in a built-up area that extended from the basement to the 2nd-3rd floor.

This year, 6th June 2024 marked the 40th anniversary of the Blue Star Operation, 1984, a tragic chapter etched in the Sikh community's collective memory as the Third Sikh Ghallughara, Panjabi word ...

India’s brutal ‘Operation Blue Star’ was the military operation which occurred between 3–8 June 1984, ordered by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi to get control over the Golden Temple ...

Tremors of Operation Blue Star, the Army action executed on the orders of PM Indira Gandhi in June 1984, continue to torment the Sikh community and the national conscience. The operation was ...

Speaking on the occasion, Satnam Singh Gambhir, East India President of the Federation, demanded that the Indian government officially release documents related to Operation Blue Star, similar to ...

For the first time during the anniversary of Operation Blue Star, the acting Jathedar of Akal Takht, the highest temporal body of Sikhs, Kuldeep Singh Gargaj, did not deliver the customary message ...