1.  Little emerged from the talks, and in February five Sikh militant groups issued a statement denouncing Mann and rejecting dialogue with the government.

2.  A Sikh separatist group was suspected of the attack.

3.  Gill, the Punjab police commander, named two banned Sikh militant groups, the Khalistan Liberation Front and the Babbar Khalsa, as suspects in the bombing.

4.  Parmar was the Canadian leader of Babbar Khalsa, a Sikh fundamentalist group committed to the formation of Khalistan.

5.  Parmar was leader of the militant Sikh separatist group Babbar Khalsa, dedicated to the creation of a separate state called Khalistan in Punjab.

6.  A Sikh militant group fighting for an independent Sikh homeland in northern Punjab state claimed responsibility for the three explosions in New Delhi, PTI said.

7.  A Sikh separatist group claimed responsibility and warned of more such attacks in other Indian cities.

8.  A Sikh separatist group, Babbar Khalsa International, claimed responsibility for the killing, though it did not specify how it carried out the attack.

9.  Another Sikh separatist group claimed responsibility and warned of more such attacks in other Indian cities.

10.  Bagri joined the Babbar Khalsa International, a separatist Sikh group, he said.