Girls protest as man enters hostel

Saturday 24 October '09

An unidentified man entered into a room in D-Block of Mata Nanki Girls' Hostel in the wee hours of Friday by scaling the boundary wall.

Diwali a day away, many in hospital with eye injuries caused by crackers

Thursday 15 October '09

The Dr Om Prakash Eye Institute here has received 36 patients since Dussehra, majority of them children, who received serious eye injuries due to bursting of crackers.

Demanding action against accused, agriculture department continues agitation

Wednesday 14 October '09

Alleging police inaction against a shopkeeper in Ajnala, who had illegally detained officials of the Agriculture Department...

Let there be no borders: India, Pak students

Saturday 10 October '09

Eleven-year-old Nain Tara is like any girl of her age. She speaks, dresses up and plays the same games as kids around her.

Advani praises SAD for lasting ties

Tuesday 12 May '09

Leader of Opposition and NDA’s prime ministerial candidate L K Advani on Monday showered praise on ally Shiromani Akali Dal and recalled contributions of the Akalis in the rise of the BJP.

‘BJP is responsible for communal violence’

Saturday 2 May '09

Blaming the BJP for the Kandhamal attacks and communal violence, former chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh held the Badal family responsible for taking undue advantage of the power.

Soni lashes out at Sidhu and Majithia

Thursday 9 April '09

Congress candidate for Amritsar OP Soni today held a rally in the bastion of former Cabinet minister Bikram Singh Majithia, where he lambasted the SAD for unleashing terror on his party’s workers.

NRIs from nine countries come in search of roots

Friday 3 April '09

With the stories told by their parents and grandparents still echoing in their hearts, a group of 23 young NRIs from nine countries, between the age group of 19 to 27 years, arrived here today in search of their roots.

Firing on brick kiln labourers: 3 held

Wednesday 1 April '09

Three persons, two of them brick kiln owners, were arrested today in connection with the incident of firing on labourers during a protest held by them last evening in Beas.

NRI remarries, booked on plaint of first wife

Wednesday 25 March '09

An NRI from Greece who had ditched his wife to remarry a Batala girl, was booked along with 13 others on the complaint of his first wife and her relatives.

Kiran Bedi: Not keen to join politics

Tuesday 17 March '09

Asserting that she had no intention of joining politics at present, India’s first woman IPS officer and Magsaysay award winner Kiran Bedi today said she was more interested in social work and public service than politics.

SGPC wants ‘largest’ blood donation camp in Guinness Book

Saturday 14 March '09

Claiming to have held the largest blood donation camp in the world at Anandpur Sahib on March 10, the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee now wants the feat listed in the Guinness Book of World Records.

Sugarcane farmers bitter with Ajnala mill authorities

Friday 13 March '09

Angered by the delay in payments, sugarcane farmers here are up in arms against the government and Ajnala Cooperative Sugar Mill for holding back their pending payments...

Rampant copying on first day of Punjab Board exams

Saturday 7 March '09

Rampant copying took place today on the first day of the Class X exam of Punjab School Education Board during the mathematics paper in the border areas of Amritsar, Tarn Taran and Gurdaspur.

BSF guns down Pak national

Thursday 5 March '09

The 65th Battalion of Border Security Force today gunned down a Pakistani drug smuggler, who was trying to smuggle heroin into India by throwing packets of the contraband across the fencing.

Sidhu stages ‘rail roko’ on freight corridor issue

Tuesday 10 February '09

Charging the UPA government with discriminating against Amritsar by not extending the freight corridor till the Holy City...

Encroachments flourish as Amritsar MC cares less

Monday 9 February '09

With Amritsar Municipal Corporation failing to comply with the directions of the Punjab and Haryana High Court to remove encroachments, the streets of the city are becoming narrower by the day.

India prey to unsafe GM foods: Expert

Saturday 7 February '09

Charging the Indian government with allowing itself to be swayed by foreign manufacturers of potentially unsafe genetically modified foods...

Chicken pox cases on rise, Amritsar officials unaware

Friday 6 February '09

Amritsar health officials are yet to check spread of chicken pox in the city, despite the disease afflicting a number of residents.

One dies, many in grip of hepatitis

Wednesday 4 February '09

Fifty-year-old Kabul Singh of Bhuchar Kalan village in Tarn Taran died due to hepatitis-c, and scores of others are reportedly suffering from the disease.

Amritsar gets solid waste disposal plant

Tuesday 3 February '09

With an eye on the Lok Sabha polls, MP Navjot Singh Sidhu today staged a show of strength on the occasion of the inauguration of the Solid Waste Management Project for Amritsar...

Accused alleges harassment, dowry case probe shifted

Monday 2 February '09

The inquiry of a dowry harassment case filed by one Pooja has been shifted from Amritsar SSP to Amritsar (Rural) SSP by IG (Border Range) Rajpal Meena.

Amritsar residents march for cancer awareness

Saturday 31 January '09

A march to create awareness about breast cancer and resultant female mortality was organised in Amritsar today.

Dowry case: Husband, kin held

Monday 26 January '09

In a dowry harassment case, the district police have arrested the husband and brother-in-law of a 26-year-old woman.

Govt uses its ‘magic wand’ to eradicate TB

Thursday 22 January '09

Worried over the failure of its schemes, the government has resorted to holding magic shows to eradicate TB, which has also taken many children in its spate.