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...phones that a Sikh preacher of a lower-caste sect, 57-year-old Sant Rama Nand, had been shot dead in a clash in a temple in Austria. Thousands of lower-caste Sikhs took to Punjab's streets armed with swords and batons, burning buses and blocking trains. A curfew was imposed in five Punjab towns, and military and paramilitary forces have been called into the state. The situation remains tense today as the authorities try to arrange to have the slain preacher's body flown directly to his village for cremation...
...shuttles means that those remaining will be even more crowded, presenting significant accessibility concerns for students with wheelchairs. Given the lack of convenient travel options, Quad students with disabilities have considerably diminished access to River facilities, to the extent that the dearth of late-night transportation practically imposes a curfew on their leaving the Quad...
...ensued as they sought to push back the attackers. In scenes reminiscent of the three-day siege of Mumbai's luxury hotels, there was a relentless exchange of gunfire, with ammunition crackling loudly in the background. The local area, Manawan, near the Wagah border with India, was placed under curfew as local residents fled the area...
Cambridge Center for Adult Education’s executive director Jim Smith said that the Center has not violated any city ordinances. He also stressed the responsibility of individual event organizers to adhere to city policies on alcohol and curfew...
...girls allowed” sign on the door. In 1957, when Radcliffe women took the same classes as the Harvard men, they received a different degree. All ’Cliffies lived in the Quad, and there was no shuttle for transportation to the Yard. There were complex curfew rules, to which the men were not similarly subject. Absurdly, they were not allowed to wear pants unless the temperature was officially below freezing. It was “separate and unequal...