For months militant Sikhs had been gathering in the complex of their holiest shrine, the 17th-century Golden Temple at Amritsar in India's northwest, as their campaign for greater autonomy for their Punjab homeland intensified.

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According to the AFP news agency, McDonald's will open the outlet in the middle of next year, near the Golden Temple in the Sikh holy city of Amritsar in northern India.

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